State of the Program for March 8th, 2023
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.
Redemption: Redemption is up and running! Remember that redemption runs now until supply is gone. Currently being redeemed are Dominaria United (10% of non foil sets are left, 15% of foil sets are left) and The Brothers' War (About Half-Gone). Phyrexia: All Will Be One's redemption period starts today, March 8.
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.
Legacy Banned Announcement: Expressive Iteration
and White Plume Adventurer
have been banned from the Legacy format, effective March 6, 2023. Izzet Delver and Mono White Initiative were nearing 30% of the field in some circles of competitive play, so WotC banned a card from each of the decks. All other formats were discussed but ultimately, nothing changed. You can read about it here!
Treasure Chest Update: Borderless Praetors are in treasure chests now. In addition Undermountain Adventurer
and Ravenloft Adventurer
are being added to the prize packs.
Standard Challenges: These events are currently using the 64 player prize structure on Saturday.
This is a list of things we have been promised, or we just want to see coming back. Another good source for dates and times is the
calendar and the weekly blog, while the best source for known bugs is the bug blog which appears sporadically on MTGO.com. Not listed, but important: Wizards offers either one or two online MCQs each weekend, with qualifiers for limited MCQs running the days immediately prior to the MCQ.
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Upcoming Events
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Dates
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Scheduled Downtimes
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April 5, 2023 |
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Constructed Leagues End
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April 18, 2023
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Sealed Leagues End
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April 18, 2023 |
Magic Online Championship Series and other events
Complete details, including schedule, rules, and which online events qualify you for which online or paper events is
here. In addition, Wizards will be offering these special formats:
Ongoing - Modern Horizons
March 11 - Modern Showcase Challenge
March 12 - Pioneer Showcase Challenge
March 22 - Modern Horizons 2
April 5 - Dominaria Remastered
April 12 - March of the Machine Release
May 3 - Magic 30 Cube
May 10 - Vintage Cube
Magic Online Format ChallengesThese are high stakes events that happen every weekend. They cost 30 Tix / 300 play points, and last a number of rounds based on participation (assume 5-8), plus a single elimination Top 8. Details, including prize payouts, are
here. Start times are:
Standard: Standard, for years, since FIRE could have been called a toxic format, filled with toxic decks. This toxic deck is different. It kills with poison and not with taking a ton of turns, or turning your opponent's creatures in to 3/3 elks or giving them the Meathook.
Also gosh, Standard is in a really good place right now. It's not as good as it was before War of the Spark, but right now, is the best Standard has been since the pandemic started.
Legacy: The Curse deck won a prelim this past week, and I am so curious about it. This looks like a blast to play!
Modern:
The Mycosynth Gardens
really made a home for itself here in AmuLIT, huh?
Pauper:
Pioneer: It's nice to see other creature types in Pioneer do well. It's been a long time since Vampires or Zombies did anything in format and it was basically Spirits and Humans since then. Pioneer can be a format for creature lovers too!
The Winner's Circle is where I will recognize winners of the past events on MTGO.
Challenge Winners
Friday Modern - Azja - Izzet Murktide
Saturday Legacy - CrusherBotBG - HammerTime
Saturday Modern 32 - christiano7 - Rakdos Scam
Saturday Modern - Bowman2 - Rakdos Aggro
Saturday Pauper - Mogged - Mono Red Aggro
Saturday Pioneer - _lluks_ - Rakdos Midrange
Saturday Standard - sebastianpozzo - Esper Legends
Saturday Vintage - yPrincipe
Sunday Legacy - duke12 - Reanimator
Sunday Modern - Willioufouf - Atraxa's Vengeance
Sunday Pauper - hockeybro26 - Gruul Initiative
Sunday Pioneer - KeepAny7vsYou - Mono Green Devotion
Sunday Standard - Ignotus97 - Jeskai Control
Sunday Vintage - Sommertroll
Other Event Winners
Limited Super Qualifier
Limited Super Qualifier
Modern Super Qualifier
Note: all my prices come from the fine folks at
MTGOTraders.com. These are retail prices, and generally the price of the lowest priced, actively traded version. (Prices for some rare promo versions are not updated when not in stock, so I skip those.) You can get these cards at
MTGOTraders.com web store, or from their bots: MTGOTradersBot(#) (they have bots 1-10), CardCaddy and CardWareHouse, or sell cards to MTGOTradersBuyBot(#) (they have buybots 1-4). I have bought cards from MTGOTraders for a decade and a half now, and have never been overcharged or disappointed.
Standard Staples:
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
,
Deserted Beach
,
Hidetsugu Consumes All
,
March of Otherworldly Light
,
Capricious Hellraiser
,
Mercurial Spelldancer
,
The Mycosynth Gardens,
Venerated Rotpriest
have all been removed from the list.
Modern Staples:
Lord of Atlantis
,
Sigarda's Aid
,
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
,
Grist, the Hunger Tide
are off the list.
Eternal Staples:
Entomb
is in the graveyard.
Pioneer Staples:
Hive of the Eye Tyrant
,
Werewolf Pack Leader
,
Bonecrusher Giant
,
Castle Locthwain
,
Arclight Phoenix
,
Eidolon of the Great Revel
,
Elder Gargaroth
,
Finale of Devastation
and are off the list.
Necromentia
is new to the list.
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 |
$135.98 |
$123.01 |
$12.97 |
11% |
| Dominaria United |
$144.32 |
$123.76 |
$20.56 |
17% |
| Innistrad: Crimson Vow |
$81.45 |
$75.78 |
$5.67 |
7% |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt |
$116.79 |
$110.94 |
$5.85 |
5% |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty |
$163.66 |
$158.92 |
$4.74 |
3% |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One |
$398.38 |
$406.12 |
($7.74) |
-2% |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster |
$3.14 |
$3.26 |
($0.12) |
-4% |
| Streets of New Capenna |
$69.98 |
$64.48 |
$5.50 |
9% |
| Treasure Chest |
$2.48 |
$2.49 |
($0.01) |
0% |
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 |
241.73 |
| Mox Jet |
1E |
Rare |
114.92 |
| Ancestral Recall |
1E |
Rare |
101.14 |
| Mox Sapphire |
1E |
Rare |
78.14 |
| Time Walk |
1E |
Rare |
76.42 |
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier |
ONE |
Mythic |
75.35 |
| Liliana of the Veil |
UBT |
Mythic |
71.18 |
| Marisi, Breaker of the Coil |
C19 |
Mythic |
70.73 |
| Cavern of Souls |
UBT |
Mythic |
67.99 |
| Karakas |
UBT |
Mythic |
67.7 |
| Mox Emerald |
1E |
Rare |
65.33 |
| Boseiju, Who Endures |
NEO |
Rare |
62.91 |
| Sheoldred, the Apocalypse |
DMU |
Mythic |
61.35 |
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier |
ONE |
Promo |
59.76 |
| Mox Pearl |
1E |
Rare |
59.5 |
| Fable of the Mirror-Breaker |
NEO |
Rare |
56.89 |
| Mox Ruby |
1E |
Rare |
56.68 |
| Earthshaking Si |
PZ2 |
Common |
54.96 |
| Heavenly Qilin |
PZ2 |
Common |
53.78 |
| Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth |
UBT |
Mythic |
52.97 |
| Aether Gale |
C14 |
Rare |
50.71 |
| Sheoldred, the Apocalypse |
ONE |
Promo |
50.57 |
| Demonic Tutor |
UBT |
Mythic |
49.12 |
| Purple-Crystal Crab |
PZ2 |
Common |
47.94 |
| Dark Depths |
UBT |
Mythic |
46.05 |
| Kozilek, Butcher of Truth |
UBT |
Mythic |
44.7 |
| Urza's Saga |
MH2 |
Rare |
43.75 |
| Liliana, the Last Hope |
MS4 |
Mythic |
43.11 |
| Snapcaster Mage |
UBT |
Mythic |
42.7 |
| Jace, the Mind Sculptor |
MS4 |
Mythic |
42.51 |
| Mana Vault |
UBT |
Mythic |
41.08 |
| Wasteland |
ZNE |
Mythic |
39.54 |
| Teferi, Hero of Dominaria |
MS4 |
Mythic |
37.05 |
| Force of Will |
MED |
Rare |
36.04 |
| Cleansing Screech |
PZ2 |
Common |
36.01 |
| Gaea's Cradle |
UZ |
Rare |
35.87 |
| Fury |
MH2 |
Mythic |
35.1 |
| Reanimate |
UBT |
Mythic |
34.59 |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer |
MH2 |
Mythic |
34.26 |
| Timetwister |
1E |
Rare |
34.19 |
| Pramikon, Sky Rampart |
C19 |
Mythic |
33.23 |
| Flooded Strand |
ZNE |
Mythic |
32.4 |
| Life from the Loam |
UBT |
Mythic |
30.96 |
| Creeping Tar Pit |
UBT |
Mythic |
28.64 |
| Ugin, the Spirit Dragon |
MS4 |
Mythic |
28.59 |
| Noble Hierarch |
UBT |
Mythic |
27.94 |
| Solitude |
MH2 |
Mythic |
27.4 |
| Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre |
UBT |
Mythic |
26.23 |
| Fulminator Mage |
UBT |
Mythic |
25.84 |
| Engineered Explosives |
UBT |
Mythic |
25.1 |
| Polluted Delta |
EXP |
Mythic |
25 |
The big number is the retail price of a playset (4 copies) of every card available on MTGO. Assuming you bought the least expensive versions available, the cost of owning a playset of every card on MTGO is approximately a number that I cannot figure out still. I have actually asked Pete to do this for me, because Open Office is weird, and I have no idea what I am doing, and I am pretty close to just being a dog in a labcoat.
Prices were done on Tuesday night, while watching Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur on Disney +. Show is adorable and a really fun thing to watch. Not every episode is a punch to the guy like The Last of Us is.
We had a windstorm go through the state last week. We had recordbreaking low pressure and the wind was at a constant 40-50 miles per hour with gusts in my area into the 70s. Thankfully my neighborhood was spared major damage, a fence broke, a panel came off an outbuilding, a tree limb twisted and broke off of a tree. My house took some minor siding and roof damage, but through it all we had power. There are some people in the state without it still, almost a week later.
This series is an ongoing tribute to Erik “Hamtastic” Friborg.
