Magic Online Weekly Announcements, December 24, 2024

Posted on Dec 24, 2024

THE LEAD

Read All About It - Holidays 2024 Article

It’s that time of year again! Magic Online closes out the year in style with a bunch of different promotions. Check out this article now for details on:

• Holiday Bundle – 3 Cube Drafts plus an exclusive avatar for $27 USD!
• Mythic Event Token - $25 USD for All-Access until January 2!
• Week of Super Qs & Qualifiers – 5 events awarding RC invites now through December 30 – see below

VINTAGE CUBE

Read All About It – Vintage Cube Update for the Holidays: 5 Weeks of Fun On Now!

Our Cube curation team of Ryan Spain and Chris Wolf has put together another puzzle for Cube lovers to solve through the holidays and into January – it's the return of the main-line Vintage Cube for the holidays! With Fallout®, Duskmourn, and Foundations arriving since the last iteration, the Cube’s as shaken as a snow globe – 70 card swaps in all!

Check out their article now for details on what’s in, what’s out, and the full list, then ...

64-Player Elimination Drafts Every Two Hours This Week

We’ve looked back at our historical data on 64s over the past year-plus and found the sweet spot for participation and availability. So, 64-Player Elimination Drafts will continue running every two hours between 4:30 a.m. PT (12:30 UTC) and 8:30 p.m. PT (4:30 UTC next day) - that’s nine events per day!

We’ll keep that cadence up until we’re back in the office on January 2^nd, then course-correct if needed at that time.

PREMIER PLAY

Week of Super Qualifiers Continues

Our tradition of competitive play at the end of the calendar year is strong, and this year is no exception. Starting Thursday, there are an astounding 20 RC invitations up for grabs across five different Super Qualifiers!

These tournaments feed the April-May round of tabletop Regional Championships that lead to the Pro Tour in September at MagicCon: Atlanta.

As a reminder, Super Qualifiers can be joined using 40 Season 1 Qualifier Points, or the more open options of either 40 Event Tickets or 400 Play Points.

You can also enter one of those four Constructed Super Qualifiers by buying two Mythic Event Tokens and spending both as an alternative entry option. It’s a savings of $15 compared to buying one Mythic Token and 40 Event Tickets. Don’t worry, you’ll still have the access until January 2 even if the Token is no longer on your account in this case.

For more information on MTGO Premier Play, click the link at the top of the Blog.

ALTERNATE PLAY

Magic Online Judges Open – Holiday Edition

We’re once again supporting the tabletop Judge community with a free-play event over the holidays! The MOJO returns this Friday, December 27 and runs until Thursday, January 2. The star of this 4-round League is Modern Horizons 3 Phantom Sealed with prizes of 1 MH3 pack per match win.

Signups have closed for the Holiday MOJO, but we’re looking forward to putting these on again in 2025 – thank you to the Judge community for your efforts.

EVENT NOTES

You Meet in a Tavern Temporarily Banned

Due to a game-breaking bug, the CLB card You Meet in a Tavern remains temporarily banned from Commander and other Eternal formats (including Pauper). We expect the card to get out of jail in our next patch next Wednesday, January 8.

AROUND THE WEB

MTGO University – MTGO Fundamentals How-To Series Live

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

Holiday Break Until January 2

The Magic Online game team will be on vacation for Daybreak’s annual Christmas to New Year’s holiday break. Barring in-game emergencies, we’ll be back in action on Thursday, January 2. Please allow extra time for social media and Customer Support responses during this period, though monitoring will continue as normal.

Also, Premier Play invitations from December 20 onward will all be processed starting January 2.

Thank you for your patience during this upcoming week – we hope you have enjoyed playing MTGO in 2024 and look forward to continue serving you in 2025!

Magic: The Gathering Foundations On Sale Now

Click here for more details on the newest expansion, Foundations. Highlights include:

• FDN Premium Booster for $5.99 USD – includes five rare/mythic cards and eight foils (some are both!)
• Wall of Roots Fixed!
• Commander Corner, Treasure Chest Updates, and more

Redemption Corner

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

Bloomburrow redemption sets (both regular and foil-for-regular) are getting low. As a reminder, we announced changes to the Redemption Program starting with Bloomburrow – read all about it in this article.

Duskmourn: House of Horror redemption tokens are also now available in the Store. A limited number of Outlaws of Thunder Junction sets still remain available.

Please note: Shipment of redemption sets may be delayed up to a week due to our company’s holiday break next week – thank you for your patience.

Finally, Magic: The Gathering Foundations is not a redeemable set – redemptions will resume with Aetherdrift.

Magic Online Format Challenges Every Weekend

Format Challenges are the first step toward qualifying for Premier Play through your favorite Magic formats and provide excellent prizes for those looking to test their mettle in their favorite formats. Learn more about Premier Play qualification to get started today.

Magic Online's Format Challenges run as shown on the schedule on this page.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – January 22, 9 a.m.-Noon PT

After tomorrow, the next scheduled maintenance is set for Wednesday, January 22 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (17:00-20:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Innistrad Remastered.