Magic Online Announcements, February 9, 2021

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Kaldheim Season Alternate Play Calendar

Spotlight Cube Series: Live the Dream

Triple Khans Flashback Ends Tomorrow

Qualifier Weekends

Magic Online Format Challenges Every Weekend

2020 Magic Online Champions Showcase Seasons 2 & 3

Downtime January 27

KALDHEIM SEASON ALTERNATIVE PLAY CALENDAR

For Kaldheim season's alternative play, we have quite the variety for you. Please note that events change over from one week to the next on Wednesday mornings and last for one week unless specified otherwise.

• February 17: Modern Horizons Encore. The set everyone loves, and back for one week only. This is an Encore Draft, not a Flashback, which means you'll keep the cards you draft!
• February 24: Ultimate Masters Flashback. One of the most underplayed yet incredibly fun Draft environments returns for a week.
• March 3: Vintage Cube. We've got a three-week run of this classic experience from March 3 until March 24. March is a little unusual for this cube, but . . . well, we live in unusual times and the Showcase events on March 13 and 14 are worth celebrating. Life's too short not to have a little more Vintage Cube.
• March 24: Time Spiral Remastered Supreme Draft. Time Spiral Remastered comes out on March 19. Before everyone has mastered this remaster, let's draft some truly absurd decks.
• March 31: A new Spotlight Cube. As usual, we'll have more to share when we get closer.
• April 7: Another new Spotlight Cube. Again, details will come as the event approaches.

SPOTLIGHT CUBE SERIES: LIVE THE DREAM

David McDarby, product manager for MTG Arena, brings us a second iteration of his Live the Dream Cube from MTGO's Spotlight Cube Series. Here, cards cost more mana, have more versatility, and are more . . . mythic. If you haven't yet, check out David's article, which covers all eleven archetypes from the cube and includes a full card list.

Live the Dream runs from tomorrow through February 17, and entry options are 10 Event Tickets or 100 Play Points. Both a League and a single-elimination queue will be provided—information on prizes can be found here.

TRIPLE KHANS FLASHBACK ENDS TOMORROW

Tarkir at its best: five clans of three colors, powerful creatures hidden face down as morphs, and infinite possibilities. The Triple Khans Flashback event ends tomorrow, so act fast!

For more info about MTGO Limited events, click here.

QUALIFIER WEEKENDS

Qualifiers are the most common way for players to use their QPs. Each event costs 40 QPs and the winner of each of these Swiss-style Top 8 events will earn an invitation to the Kaldheim Split Championship event on MTG Arena.

The last Magic Online Qualifiers for the Kaldheim season are scheduled as follows:

Learn more about Qualifier events here.

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. To learn more about Premier Play qualification, click here.

Magic Online's Format Challenges now run once on Saturdays and once on Sundays for each Constructed format! On weekends featuring Showcase Challenge events, the Format Challenge that starts at either 6 a.m., 8 a.m., or 10 a.m. Pacific time is pre-empted by the Showcase Challenge—Format Challenges scheduled at other times remain in place. NOTE: The Pauper Challenge is never pre-empted.

Check out this page for further event details.

2020 MAGIC ONLINE CHAMPIONS SHOWCASE SEASONS 2 & 3

March 13–14 is going to be an exciting weekend of Magic Online, featuring both of the remaining 2020 Champions Showcase events! Interested in playing in a Showcase event yourself? There's still time to qualify for 2021's upcoming Champions Showcase events.

Featuring Vintage Cube Draft, Modern, your favorite Magic casters, and a $70,000 prize pool for each Showcase, the full weekend of Magic Online action streams live on twitch.tv/magic. More information about the competitors and broadcast details will be shared soon on Magic.gg.

Relive the battles from Season 1 of the 2020 Magic Online Champions Showcase to see what the excitement is all about.

DOWNTIME FEBRUARY 24

The next downtime will be February 24, beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until noon. This is for standard server maintenance. All times listed are Pacific time (UTC-8).