October Magic Events

October Magic Events

Zendikar Rising is here! And with it come new changes to our weekly events, including new ways to play with your friends, and new deck building challenges. So if you're getting back into the game and looking for friends to play with, or maybe just need some human interaction in your quarantine life, read on and find out the when's and how's of our event schedule this month!

Events Now Free to Play!

First things first - for the immediate future, we're gonna try a free to play model. Why? Because when we first rolled out events over discord and webcam, they came with a few bumps. We'd never done this before, so getting the hang of how things felt took a little work, and we don't feel like we aught to be charging folks for events that are being run while we're still getting our feet under us.

Once we have a bit of momentum, and once we have a bit more practice, we'll add the entry fees back in so that we can have prize support that feels better with larger numbers of people. But for now, the only events that we plan to charge entry fees for are webcam sealed events and prerelease events that have physical product tied to them.

The Return of Alternating Week Formats

One of the pieces of feedback that we repeatedly received over the last month was how eager people were to play Magic within the community again. Everyone had a different suggestion for which format to play. So rather than try to force all of our players into specific formats like Modern and Standard and Sealed, we're going to alternate which formats get played on specific days as well as which method we use to play them. 

We also decided to change the day we were hosting our second event each week from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, the Friday event was conflicting with FNM-At-Home as well as our Friday afternoon deliveries. (Sorry - Nick can deliver comics and games to folks and run magic events....just not at the same time).

To join these events, just input the code next to the event into your Magic Companion app, and that's all there is to it! Make sure you're in our discord and be ready to play when the start time rolls around.

Tuesday Night Magic October Schedule (7 PM)

  • October 6 - Webcam Modern (W7QR38)
  • October 13 - Arena Historic (346GV4)
  • October 20 - Webcam Modern (V5VRJ8
  • October 27 - Arena Historic (M8E42J)

Saturday Afternoon Magic October Schedule (1 PM)

  • October 10 - Arena Standard (GQYWGV)
  • October 17 - Webcam Sealed (use the link to sign up online)
  • October 24 - Arena Standard (8RYMW5)
  • October 31 - Webcam Sealed (use the link to sign up online)

Prize Structure Changes

Since we're not charging for these events anymore, our prize structure will change to a pool of Zendikar Rising promo packs based on the number of players in the event. For every 2 people that enter, one basic promo pack will be entered into the event, and for every 4 people that enter, the pack added will be a foil one, up to a maximum of 9 packs given away at each event! 

That's it for now! If this works as well as we hope it will, we anticipate keeping this schedule for through December in the same rotating setup. Want to join in? Please do!