Like every week, the Arena announcements are here! This week we have Alchemy: Phyrexia launching tomorrow, preferred printing for cards finally implemented, and the Arena Open this weekend! Plenty to look at and play for this week which is always exciting!
Alchemy: Phyrexia Launches Tomorrow
The MTG Arena companion set to Phyrexia: All Will Be Onearrives tomorrow, bringing with it 30 cards and fun events—including an Alchemy: Phyrexia Premier Draft!
The long-awaited feature is here! Now it’s easy to see all the different printings of a card in your collection and set your preferred printing to be used by default in your decks. The ability to expand and collapse these multiple printings into a stack also reduces scrolling to find the version you want.
An easy way to see this in action is with your basic lands.
Select the Decks scene and then select Collection at the bottom of the screen.
Select Advanced Filters, choose Basic Lands, and select OK.
Select Expand located on the upper left of a basic land card with multiple printings.
Finally, select the Favorite heart icon of the printing you prefer.
Now, your decks will default to your preferred printing of that basic land you chose. You can do this with any card that you have multiple printings of in your collection.
Additional tips for using preferred printing of cards:
The glowing highlight around cards identifies them as part of a its printings.
If you don’t have a preferred printing of a card set, your decks will default to the latest printing available in your collection.
If you have fewer copies of a card’s preferred printing available than the number you use in a deck, the remaining copies in the deck will default to the most recent printing.
Limited game modes will use printings from their specific card set, but preferred printings of basic lands will be used. For example, if the Limited mode’s set includes Opt , you’ll see that set’s printing of Opt rather than your chosen preferred printing, while your basic land preferred printings will appear in your deck.
Arena Open Phyrexia: All Will Be One This Weekend
There are big prizes up for grabs this weekend, March 4–5, including Qualifier Weekend invitations and even $2,000, in the Arena Open Phyrexia All Will Be Onetwo-day event.
Bring your skills in Limited and compete on Day 1 in matches of Best-of-One and Best-of-Three Phyrexia: All Will Be One Sealed Deck. Everyone who enters will receive the Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines Phyrexian-language card style:
Perform well to earn an invitation to Arena Open’s Day 2, where you’ll face the top players from Day 1 and battle through two Phyrexia: All Will Be One Traditional Draft events where the big prizes await.
March is already here, and the monthly set of Premier Play events kicks off this weekend with the Best-of-One Qualifier Play-In happening on March 3. This Standard event is one way to catapult yourself into the fun and rewarding realm of competitive Magic with a path to the Arena Championship and even the Magic World Championship.
The following weekend, starting on March 10, is the Best-of-Three Qualifier Play-In, also Standard format. This is immediately followed by the big event, the March Qualifier Weekend, running March 11–12. The format for the Qualifier Weekend is Traditional Standard (Best-of-Three).
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered Previews Coming Soon!
The next set arriving in MTG Arena is on the horizon: Shadows over Innistrad Remastered! We have previews in the works, including an extra special Premier Draft and the full Card Image Gallery. Follow along with the latest on our socials!
Event Schedule
Events open on the starting date at 8 a.m. PT (excluding Midweek Magic) and close to new entries at 8 a.m. PT (UTC-08:00) on the ending date shown unless otherwise noted.
Daylight saving time begins in the US on March 12, 2023, when clocks move forward one hour in the Pacific time zone. UTC offset will change to -07:00 on this date. Please be aware of the shift when determining event times for other time zones.
Midweek Magic
NOTE: Now that MTG Arena‘s game updates occur on Tuesdays, we’ve shifted Midweek Magic to start at 2 p.m. PT on Tuesdays and end on Thursdays at 2 p.m. PT (UTC-08:00) so play time isn’t cut short.
Midweek Magic events open on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. PT and close to new entries on Thursdays at 2 p.m. PT (UTC-08:00).
February 28–March 2: Into the Future
March 7–9: On the Edge
March 14–16: Strixhaven: School of Mages Bot Draft
March 21–23: Historic Pauper
Quick Draft
February 17–March 2: Phyrexia: All Will Be One
March 3–17: Innistrad: Crimson Vow
March 17–31: Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Other Events
February 28–March 10: Alchemy: Phyrexia Premier Draft
March 10–21: Strixhaven: School of Mages Premier Draft
March 17–20: Historic Metagame Challenge
Premier Play Schedule
All times listed are Pacific time (UTC-08:00)*.
Qualifier Events
Qualifier Play-In events are single-day tournaments in which players compete to earn invitations to that month’s Qualifier Weekend events.
Qualifier Weekend events are two-day events in which eligible players compete for invitations to upcoming Arena Championship events.
Qualifier tokens will be delivered through the MTG Arena player inbox. Remember to claim them before the event starts!
The Arena Open Day One entry window begins at 6 a.m. PT and closes to new entries the following day at 3 a.m. PT (UTC-08:00)*. The Day Two entry window is 2 hours only, from 6 a.m. PT until 8 a.m. PT (UTC-08:00).
Robert "DoggertQBones" Lee is the content manager of MTGAZone and a high ranked Arena player. He has one GP Top 8 and pioneered popular archetypes like UB 8 Shark, UB Yorion, and GW Company in Historic. Beyond Magic, his passions are writing and coaching! Join our community on Twitch and Discord.
