Hi, everyone, and welcome back to Daily Arena!

While I’m sitting in my cube waiting to get back to Dominaria Quick Draft, I thought I’d write up something on a suggested format for Magic Arena along similar lines to some of the suggestions I’ve seen discussed in the Magic Arena subreddit.

The issue that this format is meant to address is that you just don’t get that “Kitchen Table Magic” feel in constructed MTGA anymore…and a lot of people don’t really care to draft.

I basically stole this idea with minimal tweaking from Eternal, so it might need more adjustments.

The idea is to have a recurring Standard Sealed League that lasts for four weeks.

When you join the league, you open 8 packs and use the contents of those packs, plus basic lands, to build a 40-card deck.

Each week, you open additional packs and modify your deck.

The idea is that the packs would come from whatever is currently in standard, and would be the “draft packs”, containing 14 cards each and not contributing intrinsically to Vault progression.

For example, with the current sets, the boosters you get might look like this…

Week 1: 2x DOM, 2x RIX, 1x XLN, 2x HOU, 1x AKH

Week 2: 1x DOM, 1x XLN

Week 3: 1x DOM, 1x AKH

Week 4: 1x RIX, 1x HOU

So, in total, you open 4x DOM, 3x RIX, 2x XLN, 3x HOU, 2x AKH (14 packs total), which constitutes your entire pool for your Week 4 40-card deck.

For a format where you keep everything you open in the draft packs, a reasonable entry fee would be 15000 Gold or 3000 Gems.

For a phantom version where you don’t keep the cards you open in the draft packs, they could make it as low as a 1000 Gold or 200 Gem entry fee.

Additional details

If you join after Week 1, you’ll get the packs you missed, and your limit on games that count toward the Leaderboard will increase.

Your first 10 games each week count toward your Leaderboard standing. After that, you may play up to 20 additional games to improve your rank against people you are tied with from the Leaderboard standing games. If you can’t finish all of your games in a given week (except for Week 4), unfinished games will roll over to the following week.

You can resign and buy into the League multiple times, but only your most recent run will count toward the Leaderboard.

Rewards

The rewards below are listed based on where you end up on the Leaderboard standings, with 1 being the top player, 10 being the tenth best player, etc.

For the non-phantom version, the rewards could be relatively generous, something like:

1-10: 20 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

11-50: 17 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

51-100: 15 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

101-500: 13 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

501-1000: 12 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

1001-2500: 9 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

2501-5000: 8 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

5001-10000: 7 Packs and an Uncommon Wildcard

10001+: 4 Packs and an Uncommon Wildcard

For the Phantom version, they might want to make it a little less generous, maybe more like:

1-10: 10 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

11-50: 9 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

51-100: 8 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

101-500: 7 packs and a Mythic Wildcard

501-1000: 6 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

1001-2500: 5 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

2501-5000: 4 Packs and a Rare Wildcard

5001-10000: 3 Packs and an Uncommon Wildcard

10001+: 2 Packs and an Uncommon Wildcard

And, another piece stolen from Eternal: Anyone who joins the league could get some cosmetic that is unique to that league…like a new card back or something.

What do you think? Let me know here, on Reddit, on Twitter at @DailyArena or on Facebook via the @DailyArenaMTG page.

Peace.

Joseph Eddy is a Father, Husband, Son, Brother, Software Developer, and Gamer. Magic is his favorite hobby, and he’s looking forward to seeing you all on Arena. He streams Magic Arena on a weekly basis (or more), but currently is unable to keep to a set schedule.