Proposed Event: MTGO Cube Tournament of Champions!

[ManaDrainThis]

Cube is one of the fastest growing and most popular ways to play MTG, and digitally, this format can only truly be leveraged on MTGO, where players can enjoy a card pool that reflects 30 years of Magic’s history.

What better way to celebrate this popularity than with a competitive online cube tournament!? Here’s a rough sketch of the idea:

Tournament Duration: 9 weeks

MTGO selects 8 carefully curated cubes for the competition, each reflecting a different aspect of the cube community, ranging from high powered, combo focused vintage & legacy cubes, to low powered, combat focused & pauper/peasant options.

Weeks 1-8: Each of the selected cubes is featured exclusively for 1 week on MTGO. Entry is 10 tickets or 100 play points. The top 8 trophy leaders for each of the 8 weekly cubes receive invites to the Week 9 Cube Tournament of Champions!

Week 9: The top 64 participants face off. Each player will be one of the top 8 trophy recipients from the prior 8 weeks. Each player is randomly assigned to a draft pod of one of the 8 featured cubes. The 8 pod winners then proceed to the final, championship cube draft.

Finals: An overall MTGO cube champion will be awarded to the winner of this Top 8 draft of the MTGO Vintage Cube.

Thoughts? I think this would be wildly popular with the community.

 

[theopolist26]

Saw this on discord. Great idea, I’d definitely play this. A big tournament like this would be a lot of fun, but even if wotc can’t pull this off, they should for sure have cubes running on mtgo 100% of the time. Cube is simply rhe best way to play magic.

 

[ManaDrainThis]

Yeah, previously admins have noted that it’s important to have a break from cube during set releases to drum up interest in the new set launches, which I think is totally reasonable, so 100% of the time might be a stretch.

That said, a 9 week long cube tournament of champions would fit very nicely between two set releases!