Magic Online Weekly Announcements, April 22, 2025

Posted on Apr 22, 2025

THE LEAD

MTGO’s Modern Madness This Week

One of the best lessons we learned from last year’s Creator Season is that our community likes events that are easy to qualify for and have good prizes. Now that we’ve gotten past the technical issues that caused this series to be postponed back in January, it’s time for some Modern Madness!

Do one of the following before the start of Sunday’s Finals tournament to earn a Modern Point:

• 5-0 a Modern League course
• 4-0 or 3-1 a Modern Preliminary
• Top 8 a Modern Challenge 32 event
• Top 16 a Modern Challenge 64 event

It all culminates in the Modern Madness Finals this Sunday, April 27^th at 7 a.m. PT. It’ll be like a normal Super Qualifier without Leaderboard Points or RC invitations, except that only players with at least 1 Modern Point can participate..

Like normal events, you can only play on a single account that you own in any given Scheduled Event (including the Finals), and unused/extra Modern Points will be flushed from the system following the Finals.

Vintage Cube Returns!

It’s time for a new round of MTGO’s favorite – the Magic Online Vintage Cube!

Learn about the latest changes to the Cube from Cube Curator Chris Wolf in this article.

Want to see the full card list? Here’s your page.

Vintage Cube Free Preview League – 1 Day Left!

It's been so popular in its first two runs that the Free Preview League is now a regular feature of our big Cubes. Until tomorrow at 5 a.m. PT (12:00 UTC), you’ll be able to play single-game matches of the new Cube for free!

Try out some wacky strategies and learn how to find your draft lane – all in preparation for the real League starting tomorrow. The Free Vintage Cube Preview League runs until tomorrow, April 23 at 5 a.m. PT.

If you haven’t yet done so, you’ll need to get yourself Draft Points. How do you acquire those? Enter the code 2025APRIL into the box in the MTGO Store, just as shown below.

You can only redeem the code once on your account, but you will receive 2 Draft Points. Spend one of them to enter the draft queue, then play up to three single games with your Phantom draft deck. Then repeat this process once.

Win just one of those six total games and you’ll receive this event’s only prize - a special tradeable avatar featuring Scythecat Cub!

We’ll clear out any leftover Draft Points once the League ends. Enjoy the Preview!

We’ll clear out any leftover Draft Points once the League ends.

Vintage Cube "Holiday” Bundle Returns

Another feature that’s proven to be a hit is the Vintage Cube Holiday Bundle which returns with the same value!

For $27 USD, you get the following:

• 3 Vintage Cube Draft Tokens – each Token is an entry option into either a League course or an 8-player single-elimination draft starting tomorrow, April 23 – a savings of $1 per draft!
• A Loot, the Pathfinder avatar - the same one we offered in last month’s Bundle.

The Draft Bundle itself is not tradeable nor are its contents. The Tokens expire when the Cube League ends on May 21, so be sure to use them all up (we’ll remove them at that time and they are non-refundable)!

Important: These Tokens are valid for a 4-week period this time, one week longer than the last Cube run but one week less than during the Holidays.

64-Player Vintage Cube Events Back Tomorrow

Our Vintage Cube 64-Player Single-Elimination tournaments are back tomorrow starting at 10:30 a.m. PT (17:30 UTC). The schedule remains the same as last Cube season – new events fire every four hours between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. PT (13:30 same day and 01:30 next day UTC).

For full details including the prize table, visit the MTGO Limited Events page.

PREMIER PLAY

Congratulations MOCS Season 1 Showcase Qualified Players!

The season is complete, and we have our eight competitors who will contest the next MOCS Showcase broadcast the weekend of May 9^th:

MTGO BROADCASTS

MTGO Twitch Streams Four Nights a Week

MeatMTG Wednesdays & YungDingo Fridays

Magic Online is pleased to bring you weekly streams from some of our top creators. We’ve teamed up with YungDingo and MeatMTG to show off MTGO at a regular time each week.

MeatMTG is streaming Wednesdays at 5:30 PM PT (00:30 Thursday UTC), while YungDingo takes the reins Friday nights at 6 pm PT (01:00 Saturday UTC) – both at twitch.tv/magiconline.

There will be giveaways galore, including Play Point codes and their own unique in-game avatars!

Visit their streams to earn and collect starting Wednesday and Friday this week

Oblivion Sorrow’s MTGO University How-To Series Tuesdays & Thursdays

We have launched an exciting new How-To series featuring one of our favorite content creators, OblivionSorrow from The Grim Tutors! Join her as she embarks on a journey through Magic: The Gathering Online, guiding both new and returning players through the ins and outs of the game. From streams to YouTube videos, shorts, and more—there’s something for everyone.

Look for streams on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET) with YouTube postings of the episodes soon afterward. Be sure to tune in to the stream starting this week to get OblivionSorrow’s exclusive in-game avatar!

Use Code "Oblivion" Today

ALTERNATE PLAY

Alternate Play Schedule

Here’s a look at the schedule of events coming up between now and Magic: The Gathering®–FINAL FANTASY™. Each description mentions if the Draft is Phantom – cards won’t be added to players’ collections in Phantom events. All transitions take place at 10:00 a.m. PT (17:00 UTC) unless otherwise noted.

• April 23-May 21 – The Vintage Cube will be back with another refresh for a four-week run to support the next MOCS Showcase premiering on May 11. (Phantom)
• May 21-June 5 – We’ve got something very special up our sleeve, but we’re not ready to talk about it just yet ... soon, though!
• June 5-11 – We’re still considering our options for this final week before the year’s first Universes Beyond set.

When Do Vintage Cube Leagues Return?

• April 23-May 21 – Update to support MOCS
• July 2-23 – Summer Refresh

AROUND THE WEB

MTGO’s Web Event Calendar is Now Downloadable!

Magic Online’s Web-based Event Calendar is up and running again! Capture all of the important dates in a weekly or monthly layout and filter down to the types and formats of game play you care about most. Cruicially, all of the start times are listed local to your time zone!

Want to see all of your upcoming chances to play competitive Pauper/Legacy/whatever? The calendar’s got you covered.

Looking for all of the mid-range events to build your experience towards the Premier level? We’ve got a filter for that too!

Those filters will come in handy using our new feature – a downloadable iCalendar format that can be added in to your Google Calendar, Outlook, or just about any other calendar program that accepts the universal .ics format.

A couple tips with this:

• Except for Premier Play, the calendar only displays events that are currently loaded into the MTGO Client. Any events past downtime won’t appear until after downtime.
• If an event time is changed after you download, it will not update on your local version.
• Be very sure to filter to the events you want before downloading and be extra careful when linking to a calendar displaying on your mobile device. Notifications are on by default.

MTGO University – MTGO Fundamentals How-To Short-Form Video Series

We’ve introduced a brand-new landing spot for everything related to getting your new-to-MTGO friends up to speed on playing our game – MTGO University! Whether you’re new to a specific format, new to Magic Online, or are just curious about what this version of MTG is all about, check out MTGO University.

New to MTGO University – the MTGO Fundamentals playlist: short-form videos showing off a bunch of tips and tricks. Check it out on YouTube today!

WEEKLY UPDATES

Read All About It - Tarkir: Dragonstorm Available Now!

We're back in the land of dragons and clans! Tarkir: Dragonstorm is now available on the digital shelves of the MTGO Store. Click this link to learn more about:

• The Draft Bundle returns - $32 USD for 3 League Drafts and an exclusive avatar!
  • The Tokens are usable for the first three weeks this time – one more than Aetherdrift.
• Each clan has its own Commander Deck - $29.99 USD each.
• The Premium Booster is back as well for $6.99 USD each.
• Our premium card effect for this set, the Dragon Eye lands, will be given away primarily via our Player Rewards grant at the start of May covering April’s paid event play and Store spending!

Redemption Corner

We’ve updated our Redemption page with new quantity percentages.

Aetherdrift redemptions are now on sale in the MTGO Store! Tarkir: Dragonstorm redemptions are planned to begin on Wednesday, May 7.

As a reminder, we announced changes to the Redemption Program starting with Bloomburrow – read all about it in this article.

TOMORROW’S PATCH NOTES – April 23, 2025

Quality-of-Life

• All card-size sliders will be adjusted to move incrementally, resulting in faster and smoother re-sizing

Card Fixes

• Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Precognition will give more complete information on where the card looked at was placed in the library.
• If multiple Mardu Siegebreakers attack, the game will correctly exile all tokens created this way at end of turn.
• Satoru, the Infiltrator will correctly trigger itself if it enters the battlefield for no mana cost.
• Skyfisher Spider will correctly exile itself if its controller gains life with its trigger.
• Tormod, the Descerator will correctly not trigger itself when it leaves the graveyard.

Duel Scene

• Abilities granted to Vehicles whenever certain creatures crew them (Canyon Vaulter, etc) will function as expected.
• Another performance improvement will allow even more simultaneous triggers to join the stack without the game being reset.
• The TDM Dragon Eye lands will have their premium effect function correctly in hand and in all public zones of the Duel Scene.
• Harmonize ability will correctly be unusable with creatures that have negative power.
• If a Damping Sphere in play, bouncelands will correctly be destroyed by Break the Ice.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – June 4, 9 a.m.-Noon PT

After tomorrow, the next scheduled maintenance is set for Wednesday, June 4 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY.