Paul Cheon seems to have been included in the layoffs 😞 Huge bummer for all of the laid off employees given how well MTG itself seems to be doing.

We have three MagicCon events taking place in 2024, and each will feature a Premier Play event:

• February 23-25, 2024 – MagicCon: Chicago featuring Pro Tour Murders at Karlov Manor
• June 28-30, 2024 – MagicCon: Amsterdam featuring Pro Tour Modern Horizons 3
• October 25-27, 2024 – MagicCon: Las Vegas featuring Magic World Championship 30

cross-posted from: https://mtgzone.com/post/176303

Wizards announced new efforts to promote Standard play that start next year. Some highlights:

• Special promos for new weekly Standard events at LGSs
• $75k Standard Open at MagicCon Chicago, which is “the first large, open field Standard tournament in quite some time”
• Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction (second PT in 2024) will be Standard

cross-posted from: https://mtgzone.com/post/152841

Magic World Championship XXIX will be streamed from MagicCon: Las Vegas all three days of the event, September 22–24, at twitch.tv/magic.

On Friday and Saturday—September 22 and 23—broadcast begins at 2 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CEST // 3 a.m. JST 9/22–23) with three rounds of Wilds of Eldraine draft followed by four rounds of Standard constructed.

On Sunday, September 24 for the Top 8 playoff, broadcast begins at 1 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CEST // 1 a.m. JST 9/25) with all four quarterfinal matches played concurrently, followed by semifinals matches then the finals.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/mtg@mtgzone.com/t/314841

Preordain is unbanned in modern. Mind’s Desire is unbanned in legacy.

Wizards’ announced the Summer Superdrop 2023 titled “Shredding a Wave of Everything.” In this drop are:

More Adventures in Middle-earth™: 4 cards with art from legendary artist Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated classic, The Lord of the Rings.

• Slip on the Ring
• Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
• Mirror of Galadriel
• Shire Terrace

Featuring: the Mountain Goats: John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats loves Magic! He set these cards on Lorwyn, created the art descriptions, hand selected the artists, and reviewed the art as it was being produced. On top of all that, he penned the epic prophecy featured in the flavor text across these 10 cards.

• 10x Mountain with different art

Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever: 5 cards drawn by Mark Riddick in a scratchy black-and-white:

• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Underworld Dreams
• Waste Not
• Wheel of Misfortune
• Nekusar, the Mindraze

Goblin & Squabblin’: 5 classic goblins drawn by Wizard of Barge:

• Goblin Lackey
• Goblin Matron
• Goblin Recruiter
• Muxus, Goblin Grandee
• Shattergang Brothers

Bad to the Bones: 5 skeleton-themed cards drawn by Ryan Quickfall:

• Bottomless Pit
• Necrogen Mists
• Reassembling Skeleton
• Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• Geier Reach Sanitarium

Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee: inspired by the liner notes in an old heavy metal album, these cards show a hero charged by the gods to do battle with a colossus in the shadowlands beyond the known world.

• Nemesis of Reason
• Gaea’s Blessing
• Twilight Prophet
• Worldspine Wurm
• Wurm Token

The Stars Gaze Back: Art by Yu Maeda in a very celestial style.

• Flamekin Harbinger
• Omnath, Locus of Rage
• Risen Reef
• Voice of Resurgence