David works on the Magic community team as a content specialist. He spends his days writing about Magic Online and trying to play too many colors at once in Limited.

Magic Online Spooky Sealed If you've decided to do some ghost-hunting this Halloween, head over to the Spooky Sealed article to get details on where you might catch a glimpse of the Phantom Event, as well as everything else going bump in the night on Magic Online this October.

Magic Online Ratings Return As mentioned in Chris Kiritz's latest article, player ratings are making their return to Magic Online during the Wednesday, October 22 downtime. Check out the article, or refer to the player ratings resource page for all of the details.

Last Chance for Redemption Stock is running low for Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored Redemption Sets—all sets that are leaving the Magic Online store on Monday, November 3. Don't miss out if you've been planning to redeem! Please note, Dark Ascension is not currently available in the Magic Online store, but will return after the October 22 downtime.

Join the Magic Online Team The Magic: The Gathering Online Quality Engineering team is looking for a well versed Application Security SDET to be responsible for providing security assessments and static code analysis reviews on all Magic Online projects. If you are passionate about security and would like to join our team, then we would like to talk to you. Read more here.

Khans of Tarkir Events and Prize Rotations With Khans of Tarkir Release Events coming to a close on October 22, events and prizes will be updated on the schedule below.

Wednesday, October 22 Events Rotating Out Khans of Tarkir Release Events Events Rotating In With the conclusion of Release Events, the following Khans of Tarkir Events will rotate in: Khans of Tarkir Block Constructed 8-Player Queues

Khans of Tarkir Block Constructed 2-Player Queues

Khans of Tarkir Block Constructed Dailies

Khans of Tarkir 8-4 Draft Queues

Khans of Tarkir 4-3-2-2 Draft Queues

Khans of Tarkir Swiss Draft Queues

Khans of Tarkir 4-Booster Sealed Queues

Khans of Tarkir Sealed Dailies

Khans of Tarkir Phantom Sealed Queues

Extended Downtime for October 22, 2014 All tournaments will close Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 a.m. Pacific (7:00 UTC)

Store and trade activity will be suspended at approximately 2:45 a.m. Pacific(9:45 UTC)

The system will be down from 3:00 a.m. Pacific (10:00 UTC) until 12:00 p.m. Pacific (19:00 UTC) A download is required this week. General Fixed: Free server deck selection no longer gives a player a random deck when they choose to play the Dragon’s Hoard deck.

Fixed: Cards that were not printed at the common rarity on Magic Online are no longer allowed in Pauper. Previously, cards printed at the common or special Time Spiral rarity in Magic were being allowed into the Pauper format.

Fixed: Issue that could prevent client from loading correctly after log in.

Added: Players can now view their ratings in the client.

Fixed: Issue that allowed chat to bypass the profanity filter when reloading chat.

Fixed: Occasional crash in chat. Play Lobby, Duel Scene and Events Fixed: In specific situations where creatures have died on previous turns, Spirespine and other 'Must Block' creatures gives an illegal blocker error if it doesn't block.

Fixed: Sidisi, Brood Tyrant's trigger no longer creates multiple zombies instead of one.

Fixed: Activating mana abilities with exactly the right amount of mana in your mana pool should now automatically consume mana.

Fixed: Discarding Ugin's Nexus no longer gives an extra turn.

Fixed: Raid now triggers from creatures put onto the battlefield from the opponent's library.

Updated: Winterflame’s targets and choices are now made clear in the game log.

Updated: Incremental Growth targets and choices are now made clear in the game log.

Fixed: Ashcloud Phoenix now returns under the proper player's control when controlled by a player other than its owner.

Fixed: Clever Impersonator now triggers raid ability of opponent's creature it's copying.

Fixed: The text shown in the game log for Outlast abilities is no longer missing a parenthesis.

Fixed: Cannibalize and similar effects no longer cause a crash if attempting to target two creatures that two different opponents control.

Updated: Name and type frames of two and three color cards have been updated to better match the printed version of these cards.

Fixed: Still Life now becomes a creature when activated.

Fixed: Halcyon Glaze now turns into a creature when you cast a creature spell.

Fixed: If a planeswalker would take trample damage and is removed from the battlefield before damage, it no longer crashes the client.

Updated: Madness prompt box text now better instructs users to click on the card to cast it. [IN:087999]

Fixed: Commanders that exile cards no longer bring all exiled permanents in to play when soulbonded with a Deadeye Navagator after its ability is activated.

Fixed: Creature enchanted by Oppressive Rays can no longer block in all situations when its mana payment is canceled.

Fixed: Mindslaver now allows floating mana to pay for spells and abilities when controlling a player. You must use the mana symbols in the left-center prompt box to make these payments.

Fixed: Issue that caused players to lose connection to their event and time out after submitting a deck during sideboarding.

Added: Moved game zones and added ability for players to open zones in separate windows.

Fixed: Issue that can cause cards to be duplicated during sideboarding and prevent deck submission.

Fixed: Issue that could cause a crash in multiplayer when clicking "Restore Defaults" in the Options settings.

Fixed: Issue that prevented the game from progressing when creatures that changed controllers had triggered abilities still controlled by the creature's owner.

Fixed: Issue that prevented triggered abilities from appearing in some situations.

Fixed: Revealed hands no longer persist between rounds of a tournament.

Fixed: End of match dialogue now displays correct game winner and does not repeat match winner multiple times.

Fixed: The "Drop from Event" button no longer displays to players watching open play matches.

Fixed: Viewing event standings no longer displays "You have been eliminated" text.

Fixed: Closing open play match windows now prompts for concession or hiding match.

Updated: Closing a game window now differentiates between open play and tournaments.

Updated: Library window will have three basic sizes (single card, two to nine cards, and more than ten cards) that will be remembered separately.

Fixed: Library temporary windows now remember their previous size.

Fixed: Issue that could cause cards to appear stretched in various game zones. Collection and Trade Fixed: Issue that can cause cards in decks to register as not in collection.

Updated: Special rarity filter now works better when "Show Versions Separately" is selected. Other fixes to rarity filtering arrive with a future update but are not fixed in this update.

Fixed: When receiving a trade request while Magic Online is not in focus, players will now get an alert and the task bar icon will flash.

Fixed: When completing a trade where one player is not receiving items, the trade complete dialogue will now correctly show.

Added: Players can now apply Collection filter settings to binders, decks, and sideboards.

Fixed: Issue that prevented binders and decks from updating correctly after a card was removed.

Fixed: Collection quantity should now correctly show when cards are added to a sideboard.

Fixed: The "Add all but 4" options now works correctly when adding items to a binder.

Fixed: A crash that can occur when using the Wish List function in Trade.

Fixed: A crash that can occur when opening a product that makes a pre-constructed deck.

Fixed: A number of crashes and performance issues related to filters within Trade.

