2024 MOCS Season 3 Showcase Viewers Guide
Posted on Jan 13, 2025
The third and final Magic Online Champions Showcase of the 2024 season is here, featuring eight skilled players battling for their share of $50,000 in cash prizes, invitations to the 2025 Magic World Championship, and the title of the 2024 Season 3 Showcase Champion!
What Are the Formats?
The Season 3 Showcase event leads off with a Magic Online Vintage Cube Draft followed by a three-round Modern Constructed format event—both using Swiss pairings. If the same player wins both events, that player is the Season 3 Showcase Champion. Otherwise, the winner of each event will square off in a single Best-of-Three playoff match in Modern to determine the Showcase Champion.
How Much Money Is on the Line?
The 2024 Magic Online Season 3 Champions Showcase features a $50,000 prize pool. Here's how it breaks down:
|
Pod |
Participation |
1st Win |
2nd Win |
3rd Win |
Championship Round |
|
Vintage Cube |
$500 |
$1,000 |
$2,000 |
$4,000 + 2025 World Championship Invite |
$4,000 |
|
Modern |
$500 |
$1,000 |
$2,000 |
$4,000 + 2025 World Championship Invite |
Prizes are cumulative - for example, a pod winner earns $7,500 for that pod.
Should one player win both pods, that player earns the Championship Round award without needing to play the match. The second World Championship invitation would then be awarded via pre-announced tiebreak procedures (usually via a playoff match).
Who Is Playing?
The participants for this event are eight competitors from a variety of qualifying events, as well as the 2024 Season 3 Leaderboard of MTGO Premier Play. Four of them are first-time participants, and the other four have been here before.
|
Account |
Name |
Qualification |
|
johnmtg |
John Ramos |
Modern Champion |
|
FreeEducation |
Karl Sarap |
Pioneer Champion |
|
Mogged |
Charalampos Kikidis |
Standard Champion |
|
mcwright_ |
Matthew Wright |
Legacy Champion |
|
FerMTG |
Fernando Palmero Garcia |
Open #1 Champion |
|
Tangrams |
David Inglis |
Open #2 Champion |
|
336767332971 |
Andrei Klepatch |
Leaderboard |
|
kanister |
Piotr Gloglowski |
Leaderboard |
How Can I Follow the Event?
The 2024 Magic Online Champions Showcase Season 3 will be broadcast beginning at 11 a.m. PT (19:00 UTC) on Sunday, January 19 on the Magic Online YouTube channel.
This is a tape-delayed broadcast – matches will be played on Friday, January 17.
You will find decklists for the event at the 2024 Magic Online Champions Showcase Season 3 event page after the broadcast goes live.
If you miss this event, VODs will be available on our YouTube page and also on our Twitch page. We also plan on having additional videos created for future broadcast.
Who Are the Casters?
Here's the broadcast team for this Magic Online Showcase:
- Corey Baumeister – Host
- Anuraag Das – Co-Host
How Can I Become the Next Showcase Champion?
Want to play along while watching the Showcase? Excited to try your hand at qualifying for a future Magic Online Showcase and earn your share of cash prizes and more? Leagues for Modern, Pioneer, and more are up right now, in addition to the Challenge events on Magic Online. Whether you become a Showcase Qualifier Champion or rise to the top of the Leaderboard, play the way you want and secure your invitation to a future Champions Showcase.
Check out the schedule of upcoming events, get all the details about the Magic Online Premier Play program, then get started today!
Can I Co-Stream the Event?
Following Twitch's Content Sharing Guidelines, you can co-stream the Magic Online Champions Showcase broadcast from our YouTube channel . This allows anyone on Twitch to cover in their voice and with their community. To be clear, co-streamed content is not endorsed by Daybreak Games or Wizards of the Coast, and we expect anyone who participates in co-streaming to follow Daybreak Games’ Content Policy (within Terms of Service).