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Update: I got wrecked 1-3. I am getting old XD. Thanks for all your help!

Calling all planeswalkers across all planes - are you looking for an interesting Sealed Deck tournament with stakes, played out on Arena? Then let me tell you about the Arena Gauntlet League and our FOUNDATIONS tournament running November 15th - December 27th!

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The AGL runs a sealed-deck format we call Gauntlet, which has a unique twist where your deck grows and changes over the course of the tournament. You start by making a 60-card sealed deck from 6 packs, play five Bo3 matches a week against different players, and add a pack to your pool after each loss. These "Comeback Packs" increase deck overall power level as the weeks go on, continuously testing your deck building skill, helping to level the playing field against the leading players, and keeps things interesting over the course of the league.

You’ll play matches each week until you either reach 11 losses or survive to the end where the Top 8 play in a special MegaDraft elimination playoff! All matches are played out on Arena. We have nifty tools to help you find a match, generate packs for the loser, update your pool, with automated tracking of all the stats and standings of the league play. Note we cannot provide the cards on Arena, so you must have the cards you want to use for your deck or be willing to craft them!

Do you win anything? Yes! Each Gauntlet league has a $10 CAD registration fee collected by our partner store Magic Stronghold Games. Entry fees are then distributed out as prizes in store credit to the top finishers. We've given out over $24,000 CAD in credit over the years! Plus we badge all our winners for those sweet bragging rights, including Rookie of the League!

Interested? Great! Check out this league’s specific Rules page for all the details. Foundations is being heralded as a love letter to the game. A set that will represent what MTG really is. A set to lay the foundations of Magic for years to come, if you will. So what better way to write our own love letter to the Arena Gauntlet League than with a Planechase tournament! In this league, we'll visit a new plane each week, harkening back to our previous sets and league designs. We've got locations throughout the multiverse with rules to match - check out the rules document above to see some examples!

If this all sounds fun just fill out our registration form before, follow the link to pay the $10 CAN registration fee, and then come join the Discord! Registration closes at 5pm EST Wednesday November 13th. We've had so many new players join us recently and have an absolute blast! Don't believe me? Give this a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/jack-hudson-579468301/agl-testimonial

Pools are rolled soon after registration closes and league matches can start 5pm EST Friday, November 15th. If you have any questions feel free to hop into the Discord, check out our website, or fire away in the comments below. I hope to see you running the Gauntlet with us!

Registration: https://forms.gle/r7qHRQ3qyZAgtxr47
Website: https://f2fleague.wordpress.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/n28wpnaB6n

Too long;Won't read: With the Universes Beyond announcement made my WoTC, does the art or theme that is on the card matter to you or do you only care about how the format plays, not what you are playing?

After playing three drafts of Bloomburrow and quickly realizing it was not a fun format, I decided to take a break from Limited. I thought a summer off would be a nice reset, let me concentrate on my upcoming fantasy sports drafts, and hopefully, unlike Tyvar, regain my spark for MTG with Duskmourn. Well, it worked. The set has been overall solid, a definite 8/10. Gameplay is fun, cards actually seem like Magic the Gathering cards, and there are lots of viable archetypes to draft. For full disclosure, my W/L is abysmal, so no one can make the accusation that I am just a fair win rate fan. I will give credit where credit is due, the Limited team made a banger with this one.

As the weeks went on, my win rate plummeted, my credit card debt rose, and my Fantasy Hockey commissioner turned out to be the most evil "human being" ever created. I was once again dependent on MTG to get me through a tough time. I thought all the wack jobs who kept dismissing my criticisms of past Limited sets and Mark Rosewater's horrible leadership were actually right. Did MTG finally fix itself and find the right track? Well, I did not have to ponder that question for long, as we certainly have all heard the news they unleashed on us from the Magic the Gathering World Championships this past weekend. To say that was a gut punch to all of us who supported the game and made it as great as it is today, even after all their mistakes, would be a gross understatement. That was a straight-up, blindside throat punch to each and every one of us. The disaster of an announcement can be found here.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/aligning-the-universes-making-all-our-sets-legal-in-all-our-formats

Now, back when I was newer to the game and much more naïve, I was a listener of Lackluster Resources and would often have discussions on that subreddit with all the mindless drones who supported them. One of which was Why We Draft, which you can find here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast/s/9UFrM8kb2l

If hindsight offered time travel rides, I would be shoulder-checking my way to the front of the line. I had this discussion back when my abstraction was that the stupid, cuddly Bloomburrow critters would destroy MTG. Well, I was wrong, immensely and profoundly wrong. This Universes Beyond announcement has officially put MTG on the wrong side of its precipice.

This time, however, the majority of the community is finally raising the displeasure across multiple platforms. Twitter has been an absolute war zone, and multiple subreddits have droves of members denouncing this idea. Even the Commander players, whose format has caused a lot of Limited formats to fail, have also come to the right side of this fight.

But that leaves us, the only format that cannot proxy cards, the only format that directly supports WotC with our wallets every time we draft. Why do we draft? Does it matter to you what art is on that piece of cardboard you have been spending more and more on each set? Are you willing to spend more now that prices are set to skyrocket due to the fact they have to pay for other people's intellectual property instead of being able to create their own? Are you willing to spend your hard-earned money to be forced to draft Blue/White Squidward control?

Was thinking of getting one booster box to play limited in and these three blocks are my options.

What's your favorite limited environment from the 9 sets?

What's your favorite art from the 9 sets?

What's the best value from the 9 sets?

I’ve heard that you get more bomb rates and mythical and overall better cards drafting on arena than on MTGO. Is this considered true or just a rumour?I could see from my own personal experience that it could be, decks I draft on arena seem to consistently have better cards. Interested in what everyone has to say

To me, the main purpose of a format like limited is that it’s a completely level playing field. You can’t spend more money to do better. If arena has a ranking system for limited and then allows people with more money to resign drafts before losing with their shitty deck, they have ruined the playing field. I don’t know how common a behavior it is But I know for sure that people do it. why would forfeiting not be a loss?

Hey there, I see that the trick or treat event can contain mystery boosters. Which mystery booster is that? 1 or 2? I saw Wizards is sending out some mystery boosters but I wasn't sure which to expect

Hi everyone,

I'm looking at [[Vren, the Relentless]] and it doesn't seem like he plays into the Rats theme of Surveil / Threshold.

People who have played with him, how did he hold up?

New to draft and still pretty horrible at it. I’m practicing on quick draft on mtg arena but also like to play on mtgo. Was wondering if drafting works differently on the two at all and if there’s a better way to practice. Thanks for any advice.