Wizards of the Coast's new Digital Games Studio is creating a Magic experience with the full rules and ongoing content support for new card sets, just like the original card game. The game is designed and built for digital gamers without compromising Magic's core gameplay. Every element of the game design is focused on an engaging and dynamic experience, true to authentic Magic, to provide players and viewers fast-paced, exciting, and easy-to-follow matches.

In Magic: The Gathering Arena players can jump right into Quick and Competitive Play using one of the five carefully crafted pre-built decks earned in the tutorial and can customize their own decks from an expansive library of current Magic cards. The game is free to download and lets players battle for rewards including in-game currency, cards, and booster packs. Players can also earn an additional five pre-built decks by completing daily quests.

Wizards of the Coast is pleased to launch the 2020 Mythic Invitational this evening.

From today until Sunday the 13th of September, 161 of the best Magic: The Gathering players in the world will play against one another in Magic: The Gathering Arena for the chance to compete for a prize pool of $250,000, with the champion winning a grand prize of $10,000. 

All matches will be played in Magic: The Gathering Arena and will be played in a Best-Of-Three Historic Constructed Format. 

• Day One will require players to gain twelve points to advance to Day Two. Each match will be a best-of-three game.
• In Day Two, 7 Swiss Rounds will be played, leading to a Top 8 cut. Each match will be a best-of-three game. 

Days Three and Four: Top 8 Double-Elimination Playoff

The Top 8 plays out through a double-elimination bracket to determine the Mythic Invitational champion. Unlike previous events, this Top 8 will take place over two days: Saturday features the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals, Upper Semifinals, and Upper Finals, followed on Sunday by all Lower Bracket matches and the Championship match.

• Top 8 is seeded into the bracket based on final standings.
• All matches are a best two-out-of-three games, except the Championship match which will be a best two-out-of-three matches.
• The player with the higher seed chooses the play/draw order for players at the beginning of each match, except in the Championship match in which case the upper bracket player may choose the play/draw order for all matches in the final series of the tournament. 

Broadcast Schedule

• Thursday, September 10: 5PM BST/6PM CEST
  • Broadcast ends after Round 7.
• Friday, September 11:  5PM BST / 6 p.m. CEST 
  • Broadcast ends after Round 14 and the Top 8 is announced.
• Saturday, September 12:  5PM BST / 6 p.m. CEST 
  • Broadcast ends after the Top 8 Upper Bracket is complete.
• Sunday, September 13:  5PM BST / 6 p.m. CEST 
  • Broadcast ends after the 2020 Mythic Invitational Top 8 playoff is complete.

Viewers can watch the 2020 Mythic Invitational, including every match of the Top 8 playoff, live on twitch.tv/magic.