State of the Program for November 18th, 2022
Brothers' War Event Release Patch Notes: You can see the notes for the patch that went live this week here. It appears that Opposition Agent
will not be able to mimic tabletop play here. You can read the full patch notes here.
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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January 25, 2023 |
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Constructed Leagues End
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Ends January 31, 2023
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Sealed Leagues End
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Ends January 31, 2023 |
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Next B&R
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Unknown
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Dominaria United Redemption
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November 29, 2022
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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 - The Brothers' War
November 19 - Modern Showcase Challenge
November 20 - Pioneer Showcase Challenge
December 7 - Supreme Pioneer Chaos Draft
December 14 - Ixalan Block Flashback
December 21 - Vintage Cube
January 25 - A draft format
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:
Looking at week zero Standard and Pioneer decks this week. Let's see how The Brothers' War has impacted these formats. Pioneer may have been impacted a bit by players wanting to keep tech secret before the Regional Championships this weekend.
Standard Mono Green:
Standard Soldiers:
Pioneer White Devotion: Green Devotion decks exist in Pioneer, as do Blue and Black ones. White is probably the second most popular and the only other one that really takes advantage of
Karn, the Great Creator
.
Kayla's Reconstruction
is the huge payoff in the Mono White deck. It's like
Storm the Festival
in that it can fill the board and find value. It's not as good. Another reason to play this version is
Lay Down Arms
a wonderful removal spell.
Pioneer Storm Herald: Okay you got me, this doesn't really have anything from The Brothers' War, however it's
Storm Herald
combo, and that's always worth looking at!
The Winner's Circle is where I will recognize winners of the past events on MTGO.
Challenge Winners
Saturday Legacy - Enrichetta - Doomsday
Saturday Modern - HappySandwich - HammerTime
Saturday Pauper - Beicodegeia - Burn
Saturday Pioneer - NobleInkblot - Mono White Aggro
Saturday Standard - Mogged - Esper Mid
Saturday Vintage - sneakymisato
Sunday Legacy - beware_the_water
Sunday Modern - NotCicero - AmuLit
Sunday Pauper - Mahers - Burn
Sunday Pioneer - Redviking1993 - Rakdos Aggro
Sunday Standard - Hamuda - Esper Creatures
Sunday Vintage - medvedev
Other Event Winners
Pauper Qualifier
Vintage 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: Prices from The Brothers' War are a bit to violatile to add to the list this week, but next they will be on. Hopeful Initiate
has fallen off the list.
Modern Staples:
Grinding Station
came off the list.
Eternal Staples: The new Baldur's Gate cards aren't showing up on the price reporting tool that I use, but hopefully they will soon!
Pioneer Staples:
Ox of Agonas
has escaped 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 |
$166.69 |
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| The Brothers's War Booster |
$3.25 |
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| Dominaria United |
$99.46 |
$112.60 |
($13.14) |
-12% |
| Dominaria United Booster |
$1.94 |
$2.37 |
($0.43) |
-18% |
| Innistrad: Crimson Vow |
$79.11 |
$81.45 |
($2.34) |
-3% |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt |
$161.61 |
$168.02 |
($6.41) |
-4% |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty |
$184.12 |
$195.51 |
($11.39) |
-6% |
| Streets of New Capenna |
$111.50 |
$120.78 |
($9.28) |
-8% |
| Treasure Chest |
$2.41 |
$2.38 |
$0.03 |
1% |
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.
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.
Nevermind, ignore all of that, Pete got it done for me, because he is just the dang best. The big number this week is
The Brothers' War release went pretty well, all things considered. Spellslingers recent update has taken a lot of time, and we're waiting on new stuff from Runeterra and Hearthstone. The new Pokemon TCG client went into global Beta. Busy time to card game!
This series is an ongoing tribute to Erik “Hamtastic” Friborg.
