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MTG: Arena player and Twitter user @Hareeb_AlSaq made waves on social media over the weekend by publishing a long and extremely detailed report about how they used multiple Arena accounts in an attempt to reverse engineer the game’s ranking system-…

The Insight Esports Tier 1 Invitational tournament took place yesterday on Saturday May 22, with players battling it out for the $5,000 total prize pool. Four rounds each were played in Historic and Standard, with the top 8 playoffs being…

Wizards of the Coast gave us a sneak peak today at a few brand new cards in the upcoming set Adventures in the Forgotten Realm, the much anticipated crossover with the Dungeons and Dragons universe. Check out the details below,…

Hello everyone! The Magic Community has been abuzz since the Organized Play announcement so I figured what better to do than ask a current Pro player their feelings on the announcement! I asked Chris Kvartek (former Magic Pro League member,…

This weekend, we got to watch some of the best Magic players in the world battle it out for standings and a shot at clinching their place in the upcoming World Championship XXVII at the May Strixhaven League Weekend. As…

This month’s Strixhaven League Weekend takes place this weekend, featuring the best players in the world battling to secure their place at the World Championship XXVII. As with last month, the format is both Standard and Historic. This is the…

This month’s Strixhaven League Weekend takes place this weekend, featuring the best players in the world battling to secure their place at the World Championship XXVII. As with last month, the format is both Standard and Historic. This is the…

This month’s Strixhaven League Weekend takes place this weekend, featuring the best players in the world battling to secure their place at the World Championship XXVII. As with last month, the format is both Standard and Historic. This is the…

This month’s Strixhaven League Weekend takes place this weekend, featuring the best players in the world battling to secure their place at the World Championship XXVII. As with last month, the format is both Standard and Historic. This is the…

The MTG Arena team keeps it coming with today’s daily deals- all five of the card styles being offered are quite relevant in Standard this time around, and you can grab a pack of Ikoria for 10% off. The featured…

On Thursday morning, Wizards of the Coast posted an article via Magic.gg about the upcoming 2021-2022 competitive season, including an announcement that has become a major discussion point in the Magic community: the end of the Magic Pro League (MPL)…

The Daily Deals for today in MTG Arena feature a mix of card styles from various archetypes, and most of the cards this time see some amount of play in Standard. and are of course staples of the mono red…

Wizards of the Coast has broadly outlined their vision for competitive play in a post COVID-19 world. Essentially, WotC will be doing some significant reworks of competitive play systems and structures, with the 2021-2022 system serving as a transitional period…

Today’s Daily Deals are a variety of Historic legal card styles offered at 75% off, along with which is the only card among today’s offers currently still legal in Standard. A number of these cards see play in Historic, or…

Today’s Daily Deals offers a free Gold boost (STONKS!!), given you have enough currency to purchase it. Using gold is going to give you more value as Gems are harder to come by, but you also have the option of…

Last week saw the popularity of the much anticipated Historic Brawl and the Arena Open events marred by technical issues and overall delays. Players ran into “Waiting for the Server” messages and sometimes even just a black screen while logging…

SCG satellites and Championship qualifiers continued this weekend with a total of eight satellites taking place over Friday and Saturday, culminating with the $5k Championship Qualifier on Sunday. A complete list of decks and more event information can be found…

This week’s $5,000 Historic Open hosted by Insight Esports had 116 players enter for their place in the invitational on May 22nd. The format double elimination Historic, which is still developing fast under the influence of the Strixhaven Mystical Archive…

79 players have registered to play some Historic for the Historic Hooglandia Open! The tournament format was best-of-three Historic under a double elimination structure, hosted by Jeff Hoogland. Below we have the metagame breakdown and the top 10 decklists from…

This weekend saw the launch of several highly anticipated events on MTG Arena, but many players have reported issues with server overload. The Historic Brawl Fest event launched on Friday, and was immediately popular enough that players on Reddit reported…

This weekend we saw eight flights of SCG Tour Online Satellites culminate in 247 players qualified to compete in the $5K Strixhaven Championship Qualifier today. Check out the full information on MTG Melee: $5K Strixhaven Championship Qualifier Play in SCG…

MTG Arena’s May 2021 Ranked Season runs from April 30, 12:05 p.m. PT (19:05 UTC) to May 31 at 12:00 p.m. PT (19:00 UTC) and Tthe card style rewards are and for reaching Gold and Platinum rank, respectively. See below…

Another week has passed in the wild world of Historic, where Mystical Archive cards are making decks super powerful and rendering many other cards obsolete in the process! Even singleton decks are making the rounds and gaining traction, and combo…

It’s the last day of the April 2021 ranked season, and the Standard metagame looks very hard to move away from the already-powerful shells that exist due to Throne of Eldraine. Strixhaven cards have made barely any impact, though a…

ChannelFireball held their first monthly tournament for their subscribers since the release of Strixhaven, with Magic Pro League member William “Huey” Jensen serving as the final boss to double the winner’s prize. 165 players entered to compete in this single…

This week’s $5,000 Historic Open hosted by Insight Esports had 187 players enter for their place in the invitational on May 22nd. Below we have the metagame breakdown and the top 8 decklists from the tournament. Here we saw a…

Hello everyone! Every set release puts the meta in a state of extreme flux, new tech being unearthed every day, decks being discovered and discarded, it’s an exciting time to be playing Magic. Even with the chaos, there will always…

Wizards of the Coast has announced the format the next Arena Open. Following from the previous success of Kaldheim Sealed, we will be continuing on with Strixhaven Sealed. To summarize: The Arena Open will be held on the weekend starting…

Mystical Archive cards have definitely made a huge impact on Historic since its release one week ago with Strixhaven, and along with it a lot the attention from content creators are also drawn here as well. Brainstorm, Memory Lapse, Lightning…

It has been one full week since the release of Strixhaven: School of Mages, but the impact of the expansion on (competitive) Standard looks to be minimal so far. We think the issue is threefold: It goes without saying that…