MTGO Socials: Daybreak has set up forums for MTGO, which you can find here. In addition to the Forums, Daybreak has set up a Discord for MTGO.  You can get the invite here. MTGO has a Twitter account, and can now add an account for Facebook and Instagram. 

Two-Factor Authentication:  This is in Account Settings.  To turn it on you will be asked for your account password and a 6-digit code sent to the email associated with your account.  You can use either an email or authenticator based system.  This will help keep your accounts secure, you can read about the system here.

Redemption:  Redemption is up and running!  Remember that redemption runs now until supply is gone. Currently being redeemed is The Brothers' War (About Half-Gone) Phyrexia: All Will Be One, and March of the Machine.  As of May 23, 2023, Redemption Tokens are non-refundable!  Phyrexia:  All Will Be One foil sets are sold out. 

Challenge Schedule Changing:  Two Prelims on Friday nights are now becoming small Challenge events.This helps players in the Asia-Pacific region.  Saturday is also getting another Modern Challenge. Both of these are 32 player events. The Saturday 6 a.m. Standard Event is going back to a small event prize structure.   

MOCS Season 2:  Meet the players in the event this season, playing Vintage Cube and Legacy!  Backoff, Phill_Hellmuth, Beenew, Qua4tre, Deemagth, sebastianpozzo, N01, and slaxx are the eight players that will battle it out on August 26th. 

Magic 30 Cube:  Carmen Handy has given the updates to the Magic 30 Cube, and all of the Planeswalkers have been removed from the cube!  17 cards have been added!  You can see them here!

Patch Notes: You can check out the notes for this update here.

Standard:

Golgari Midrange

 

2 Obstinate Baloth 4 Go for the Throat 4 Forest 4 Llanowar Wastes 5 Swamp 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 3 Cut Down 4 Deathcap Glade 1 Dig Up 3 Glissa Sunslayer 2 Mirrex 4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Sorin the Mirthless 3 Storm the Festival 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 4 Tenacious Underdog

1 The Celestus 4 Topiary Stomper 2 Workshop Warchief 2 Wrenn and Seven 4 Ziatora's Proving Ground

Sideboard: 2 Obstinate Baloth 2 Liliana of the Veil 4 Duress 1 Cut Down 2 Gix's Command 2 Glistening Deluge 1 Invasion of Innistrad 1 Tear Asunder

Legacy:

Rakdos Painter Stone

 

4 Goblin Engineer 4 Goblin Welder 4 Painter's Servant 1 Simian Spirit Guide 2 Lightning Bolt 3 Pyroblast 3 Red Elemental Blast 2 Grindstone 3 Lotus Petal 1 Mox Opal 1 Nihil Spellbomb 4 Ancient Tomb 2 Arid Mesa 2 Badlands 1 City of Traitors 2 Great Furnace 2 Scalding Tarn

4 Snow-Covered Mountain 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker 2 Fury 4 Orcish Bowmasters 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine 4 Urza's Saga

Sideboard: 4 Faerie Macabre 1 Magus of the Moon 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Surgical Extraction 2 Blood Moon 1 Pithing Needle 2 Fury 2 Sheoldred's Edict

Modern:

Food Factory

 

3 Cauldron Familiar 4 Gilded Goose 1 Viscera Seer 4 Chord of Calling 4 Collected Company 2 Witch's Oven 1 Breeding Pool 1 Dryad Arbor 2 Forest 1 Gingerbread Cabin 2 Misty Rainforest 2 Overgrown Tomb 1 Temple Garden 4 Verdant Catacombs 2 Windswept Heath 1 Wooded Foothills 4 Academy Manufactor 1 Boseiju, Who Endures

4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 4 Delighted Halfling 1 Haywire Mite 3 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 1 Peregrin Took 4 Samwise Gamgee 2 Urza's Saga 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sideboard: 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade 2 Fatal Push 2 Force of Vigor 2 Chalice of the Void 1 Pithing Needle 2 Soul-Guide Lantern 4 Endurance 1 Haywire Mite

Pauper:

Goblin Combo

 

1 Dark-Dweller Oracle 4 Goblin Matron 4 Putrid Goblin 4 Skirk Prospector 1 Shred Memory 2 Duress 4 Exhume 2 Faithless Looting 2 Unearth 1 Makeshift Munitions 4 Ichor Wellspring 2 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Great Furnace 5 Mountain 3 Swamp

2 Vault of Whispers 4 Deadly Dispute 2 Drossforge Bridge 4 First Day of Class 4 Geothermal Bog 4 Troll of Khazad-dam

Sideboard: 3 Lightning Bolt 4 Red Elemental Blast 1 Chainer's Edict 2 Duress 1 Makeshift Munitions 2 Cast into the Fire 2 Introduction to Prophecy

Pioneer:

Dimir Undoing

 

2 Notion Thief 4 Narset, Parter of Veils 4 Censor 2 Dig Through Time 4 Fatal Push 2 Spell Pierce 4 Day's Undoing 2 Ritual of Soot 1 Shark Typhoon 2 Darkslick Shores 2 Drowned Catacomb 2 Fabled Passage 2 Fetid Pools 2 Geier Reach Sanitarium 2 Island 2 Swamp 4 Watery Grave 3 Baleful Mastery

4 Clearwater Pathway 4 Consider 2 Hall of Storm Giants 3 Rona's Vortex 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Sideboard: 2 Disdainful Stroke 2 Mystical Dispute 1 Negate 1 Extinction Event 1 Ritual of Soot 1 Shark Typhoon 1 Path of Peril 1 Ray of Enfeeblement 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Siphon Insight 1 The Meathook Massacre

 

The Winner's Circle is where I will recognize winners of the past events on MTGO. 

Challenge Winners

Friday Modern - toothymtg - Rakdos Scam

Saturday Legacy - Sol-e22hh8 - Abzan Depths
Saturday Modern - Beenew - Rakdos Scam
Saturday Modern - BLJ - 4 Color Elementals
Saturday Pauper - Foresterf - Izzet Monarch
Saturday Pioneer - remf - Azorius Spirits
Saturday Standard - beraldi - Mono Black Aggro
Saturday Vintage - duke12

Sunday Legacy - HJ_Kaiser - Grixis Murktide
Sunday Modern - Tezzey - Food Factory
Sunday Pauper - twister66 - Azorius CawGate
Sunday Pioneer - Kazuga - Rakdos Sac
Sunday Standard - O_danielakos - Domain Ramp
Sunday Vintage - musasabi

Other Event Winners

MOCS Showcase Open
MOCS Showcase Open

Standard Staples: Titania, Voice of Gaea and Stormcarved Coast came off the list this week. 
 

Standard Cards	Price	Last Week	Change	% Change
Cityscape Leveler	$14.22	$18.70	-$4.48	-24%
The Stone Brain	$7.80	$8.94	-$1.14	-13%
Brotherhood's End	$6.08	$7.10	-$1.02	-14%
Leyline Binding	$12.96	$11.20	$1.76	16%
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse	$17.59	$16.06	$1.53	10%
Nissa, Resurgent Animist	$27.72	$30.79	-$3.07	-10%
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival	$12.74	$9.05	$3.69	41%
Memory Deluge	$19.26	$19.03	$0.23	1%
Sheoldred	$5.39	$5.75	-$0.36	-6%
Invasion of Tarkir	$6.87	$6.53	$0.34	5%
Urabrask	$11.08	$12.03	-$0.95	-8%
Invasion of Gobakhan	$10.66	$9.28	$1.38	15%
Elesh Norn	$8.41	$8.24	$0.17	2%
Jin-Gitaxias	$5.55	$6.61	-$1.06	-16%
Vorinclex	$11.33	$10.82	$0.51	5%
Boseiju, Who Endures	$15.80	$17.36	-$1.56	-9%
Otawara, Soaring City	$6.66	$8.82	-$2.16	-24%
The Wandering Emperor	$8.19	$7.93	$0.26	3%
Atraxa, Grand Unifier	$7.39	$10.51	-$3.12	-30%
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines	$7.26	$9.30	-$2.04	-22%
Jace, the Perfected Mind	$5.54	$6.69	-$1.15	-17%
Ledger Shredder	$6.36	$8.71	-$2.35	-27%
Unlicensed Hearse	$4.68	$5.07	-$0.39	-8%
Wedding Announcement	$14.95	$16.11	-$1.16	-7%

Modern Staples:
 

Modern Cards	Price	Last Week	Change	% Change
Engineered Explosives	$6.83	$6.44	$0.39	6%
Orvar, the All-Form	$12.60	$15.75	-$3.15	-20%
Polluted Delta	$10.46	$14.48	-$4.02	-28%
Wooded Foothills	$6.35	$6.07	$0.28	5%
Flooded Strand	$6.76	$10.99	-$4.23	-38%
Bloodstained Mire	$5.12	$6.88	-$1.76	-26%
Windswept Heath	$4.51	$4.77	-$0.26	-5%
Thoughtseize	$5.44	$6.49	-$1.05	-16%
The One Ring	$112.84	$111.08	$1.76	2%
Orcish Bowmasters	$43.50	$44.47	-$0.97	-2%
Force of Negation	$21.20	$15.80	$5.40	34%
Wrenn and Six	$9.60	$9.19	$0.41	4%
Sunbaked Canyon	$10.45	$11.64	-$1.19	-10%
Seasoned Pyromancer	$10.58	$9.81	$0.77	8%
Force of Vigor	$18.42	$13.02	$5.40	41%
Flusterstorm	$5.23	$5.60	-$0.37	-7%
Archon of Cruelty	$5.94	$7.17	-$1.23	-17%
Grist, the Hunger Tide	$11.15	$10.31	$0.84	8%
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer	$21.83	$19.39	$2.44	13%
Urza's Saga	$28.07	$19.88	$8.19	41%
Solitude	$14.71	$13.05	$1.66	13%
Endurance	$26.44	$20.13	$6.31	31%
Grief	$28.36	$23.66	$4.70	20%
Murktide Regent	$17.95	$11.87	$6.08	51%
Fury	$26.20	$29.39	-$3.19	-11%
Esper Sentinel	$5.01	$5.94	-$0.93	-16%
Subtlety	$28.67	$32.35	-$3.68	-11%
Chalice of the Void	$13.78	$13.46	$0.32	2%
Teferi, Time Raveler	$10.18	$6.96	$3.22	46%
Scalding Tarn	$5.36	$5.98	-$0.62	-10%
Verdant Catacombs	$2.78	$2.79	-$0.01	0%
Misty Rainforest	$4.79	$4.92	-$0.13	-3%
Arid Mesa	$2.21	$2.25	-$0.04	-2%
Marsh Flats	$1.16	$1.36	-$0.20	-15%

Eternal Staples:  Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow with a reprint coming, is off of the list.  Mox Opal has fallen off again.

Eternal Format Cards	Price	Last Time	Change	% Change
Avenging Hunter	$8.84	$8.00	$0.84	11%
Kenku Artificer	$11.09	$13.04	($1.95)	-15%
Goliath Paladin	$7.71	$5.89	$1.82	31%
Displacer Kitten	$6.66	$6.04	$0.62	10%
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes	$8.89	$7.81	$1.08	14%
Seasoned Dungeoneer	$6.09	$5.53	$0.56	10%
Caves of Chaos Adventurer	$7.28	$10.00	($2.72)	-27%
Hullbreacher	$5.73	$4.32	$1.41	33%
Opposition Agent	$9.01	$11.15	($2.14)	-19%
Jeweled Lotus	$5.12	$6.08	($0.96)	-16%
City of Traitors	$13.93	$16.22	($2.29)	-14%
Muxus, Goblin Grandee	$15.00	$12.59	$2.41	19%
Helm of Obedience	$11.49	$14.45	($2.96)	-20%
Force of Will	$32.04	$33.59	($1.55)	-5%
Urza's Bauble	$9.84	$13.44	($3.60)	-27%
Hydroblast	$5.80	$5.65	$0.15	3%
Pyroblast	$5.20	$5.31	($0.11)	-2%
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale	$10.86	$9.06	$1.80	20%
Phyrexian Dreadnought	$8.63	$8.24	$0.39	5%
Unmask	$13.96	$15.09	($1.13)	-7%
Misdirection	$10.39	$10.86	($0.47)	-4%
Snuff Out	$18.00	$16.03	$1.97	12%
Entomb	$4.70	$5.05	($0.35)	-7%
Retrofitter Foundry	$5.97	$4.72	$1.25	26%
Stifle	$4.45	$5.55	($1.10)	-20%
Mox Diamond	$39.43	$40.36	($0.93)	-2%
Wasteland	$11.24	$9.18	$2.06	22%
Ancient Tomb	$11.06	$10.53	$0.53	5%
Lotus Petal	$10.06	$11.67	($1.61)	-14%
Grindstone	$15.15	$15.68	($0.53)	-3%
Powder Keg	$13.87	$16.62	($2.75)	-17%
Grim Monolith	$18.42	$18.61	($0.19)	-1%
Gaea's Cradle	$32.95	$27.28	$5.67	21%
Gilded Drake	$10.97	$11.79	($0.82)	-7%
Show and Tell	$18.79	$20.93	($2.14)	-10%
Natural Order	$4.59	$5.11	($0.52)	-10%
Black Lotus	$11.46	$13.00	($1.54)	-12%
Volcanic Island	$13.76	$12.72	$1.04	8%
Underground Sea	$12.22	$11.85	$0.37	3%
Null Rod	$19.50	$17.20	$2.30	13%
Doomsday	$11.80	$14.06	($2.26)	-16%
Paradigm Shift	$12.10	$12.94	($0.84)	-6%

Pioneer Staples:  Hall of Storm Giants has come off the list.  Hengegate Pathway is as well. Cavalier of Thorns still provides great devotion, but cheaper now.  Agadeem's Awakening is asleep again.  At least I think it is. 

Pioneer Cards	Price	Last Time	Change	% Change
Den of the Bugbear	$7.55	$7.81	-$0.26	-3.33%
Brazen Borrower	$8.72	$10.45	-$1.73	-16.56%
Shark Typhoon	$10.56	$8.32	$2.24	26.92%
Mana Confluence	$7.47	$6.90	$0.57	8.26%
Blightstep Pathway	$9.31	$7.61	$1.70	22.34%
Spirebluff Canal	$5.98	$4.17	$1.81	43.41%
Inspiring Vantage	$5.05	$3.77	$1.28	33.95%
Lotus Field	$14.60	$13.50	$1.10	8.15%
The Meathook Massacre	$14.94	$14.86	$0.08	0.54%
Fable of the Mirror-Breaker	$18.12	$21.77	-$3.65	-16.77%
Magma Opus	$6.77	$6.77	$0.00	0.00%
Karn, the Great Creator	$14.20	$10.60	$3.60	33.96%
Emeria's Call	$15.17	$14.11	$1.06	7.51%
Omnath, Locus of Creation	$5.39	$5.14	$0.25	4.86%
Skyclave Apparition	$6.96	$5.93	$1.03	17.37%
Sea Gate Restoration	$12.65	$12.36	$0.29	2.35%
Roiling Vortex	$13.88	$13.40	$0.48	3.58%

Standard Legal Sets: This table tracks the cost of a single copy of every card in each Standard legal set, plus Treasure Chests and the current booster pack. I’ll keep tracking these because they are interesting (at least to me).  This is being kept as a small tribute to Pete!

Complete Set	Price	Last Time	Change	% Change
The Brothers' War	$76.31	$85.67	($9.36)	-11%
Dominaria United	$61.18	$56.70	$4.48	8%
Innistrad: Crimson Vow	$51.45	$53.67	($2.22)	-4%
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt	$74.86	$78.00	($3.14)	-4%
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	$74.01	$77.18	($3.17)	-4%
March of the Machine	$160.12	$160.00	$0.12	0%
March of the Machine Booster	$2.15	$2.20	($0.05)	-2%
Phyrexia: All Will Be One	$146.74	$159.62	($12.88)	-8%
Streets of New Capenna	$35.51	$37.55	($2.04)	-5%
Treasure Chest Booster	$2.32	$2.39	($0.07)	-3%

The Good Stuff

The following is a list of all the non-foil, non-promo cards on MTGO that retail for more than $25 per card. These are the big ticket items in the world of MTGO.  The list is interesting, at the least. This is interesting to me because a lot of these cards have been reprinted more than once, and they are still commanding a high price. 

Black Lotus	1E	Rare	260.1
Mox Jet	1E	Rare	118.63
The One Ring	LTR	Mythic	110
The One Ring	LTR	Mythic	108.88
The One Ring	LTR	Mythic	104.86
Ancestral Recall	1E	Rare	101.38
Time Walk	1E	Rare	74.65
Mox Emerald	1E	Rare	72.42
Mox Sapphire	1E	Rare	71.87
Mox Pearl	1E	Rare	60.26
Liliana of the Veil	UBT	Mythic	55.91
Mox Ruby	1E	Rare	53.77
Mox Diamond	TPR	Mythic	49.1
Orcish Bowmasters	LTR	Rare	46.08
Cavern of Souls	UBT	Mythic	43.68
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth	UBT	Mythic	43.39
Karakas	UBT	Mythic	42.29
Dark Depths	UBT	Mythic	40.3
Timetwister	1E	Rare	39.56
Demonic Tutor	UBT	Mythic	39.49
Mox Diamond	ST	Rare	39.43
Mox Diamond	V10	Mythic	38.99
Orcish Bowmasters	LTR	Rare	37.83
Gaea's Cradle	UZ	Rare	32.95
Force of Will	MED	Rare	32.04
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth	UBT	Mythic	31.43
Snapcaster Mage	UBT	Mythic	29.84
Wasteland	ZNE	Mythic	29.59
Subtlety	MH2	Mythic	28.51
Breath of Fire	PZ2	Common	27.9
Nissa, Resurgent Animist	MAT	Mythic	27.72
Flooded Strand	ZNE	Mythic	26.33
Reanimate	UBT	Mythic	26.03
Grief	MH2	Mythic	25.74

 

In Closing

Prices were done Wednesday morning. 

This series is an ongoing tribute to Erik “Hamtastic” Friborg.