MTG Arena + Mythic Championship = $750,000 in prize money! Welcome to Mythic Championship III in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. A field of 32 MPL players and 36 Challengers are ready to test their mettle in a fight to win the first Mythic Championship on MTG Arena.

Where is the event?

Mandalay Bay Convention Center

3950 S Las Vegas Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89119

Mythic Championship III will be filmed on a closed set and is not open to the public.

Who is playing?

The tournament is made up of 32 members of the MPL and 36 Challengers. MPL Spark Split Division winners Brad Nelson, Rei Sato, Brian Braun-Duin, and Ken Yukuhiro earned automatic advancement to Day Two.

MPL

Arena Handle First Name Last Name Location bertu Lucas Esper Berthoud Brazil BBD Brian Braun-Duin United States AutumnLily Autumn Burchett England Kbol_ Márcio Carvalho Portugal Gainsay Andrew Cuneo United States PVDDR Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Brazil JiRock Jean-Emmanuel Depraz France Thalai Javier Dominguez Spain Reiderrabbit Reid Duke United States Jessica Jessica Estephan Australia Efro Eric Froehlich United States kanister Piotr Głogowski Poland chauckster Christian Hauck Germany Hayne Alexander Hayne Canada Huey William Jensen United States Juzam Martin Jůza Czech Republic Urlich Grzegorz Kowalski Poland egdirb Seth Manfield United States Mengu09 Andrea Mengucci Italy Savjz Janne Mikkonen Finland matthewlnass Matthew Nass United States Fffreak Brad Nelson United States JrolfMTG John Rolf United States CarlosRomao Carlos Romão Brazil LuisSalvatto Luis Salvatto Argentina Rei Sato Rei Sato Japan Shahar Shahar Shenhar Israel leearson Lee Shi Tian Hong Kong SAR Siggy Mike Sigrist United States BenS Ben Stark United States yaya3 Shota Yasooka Japan deathsnow Ken Yukuhiro Japan

Challengers

Arena Handle First Name Last Name Location sjow Jeffrey Brusi Sweden Kai Kai Budde Germany Magician15 Corey Burkhart United States FleshEatinGnome Nicholas Carlson United States amaz Jason Chan Hong Kong SAR wd40rocks Wyatt Darby United States Amazonian Amy Demicco United States Aje8 Andrew Elenbogen United States Muffinpie Ashley Espinoza United States patrick50 Patrick Fernandes Brazil hibananafish Montserrat Garcia Ayensa Mexico Divide Evan Gascoyne United States simongoertzen Simon Görtzen Germany Em_TeeGee Emma Handy United States NessaMeowMeow Vanessa Hinostroza United States Ibbin Ben Hull Canada tanaka Takashi Iwasaki Japan Bloody Giana Kaplan United States Yumajpn Yuma Koizumi Japan Levunga Matias Leveratto Argentina Hahamoud Raphaël Lévy France Rooney56 Yuki Matsuda Japan McLovin André Santos Portugal Citr Greg Orange United States ESO Eric Oresick United States Nhi Pham Nhi Pham United States Pho Teresa Pho United States LSV Luis Scott-Vargas United States crokodil Alexey Shashov Russian Federation FNMWorldChampion CJ Steele United States Honey Ondřej Stráský Czech Republic 265 Marcin Tokajuk Poland NoWa Noah Walker United States nalkpas Allen Wu United States ucad Kentaro Yamamoto Japan AnnaMae Audrey Zoschak United States

Who are the casters?

What is the format?

Traditional Best of Three Standard Constructed across all three days.

Day One – Modified Swiss

Players battle it out in up to eight rounds on Magic: The Gathering Arena. Players who earn six wins will automatically advance to Day Two. Players who lose four matches are eliminated.

Day Two – Top 16 Double-Elimination

The Top 12 from Day One join the four Magic Pro League divisional champions from the Spark Split in a 16-person, double-elimination showdown. Only four players will move on to Sunday.

Day Three – Top 4 Double-Elimination

Four players compete in a true double-elimination tournament. In the Grand Finals, the winners from the Upper Bracket and Lower Bracket will face off. The player in the Lower Bracket must win two matches to win the tournament.

Schedule

Friday, June 21: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC

Broadcast ends after the Top 16 announcement

Saturday, June 22: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC

Broadcast ends after the Top 4 announcement

Sunday, June 23: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC

Broadcast ends after the trophy ceremony

When will decklists be published?

We'll give you a tease of the metagame on June 17, and then post all 68 decks on June 19 with a full analysis of the metagame coming from Magic Hall of Famer Frank Karsten.

This is all cool, but how does the money break down?

Place Amount 1 $100,000 2 $50,000 3 $40,000 4 $20,000 5-16 $12,500 17-68 $7,500 Total $750,000

Wait, aren't Mythic Points a thing now?

Yep! And players get some in this event! Here is how they are given out:

Ranking Mythic Points 1 50 2 42 3-4 37 5-8 32 9-16 24 17-28 17 29-68 11

Where can I follow the event?

For match by match updates, be sure to check out the Magic Esports site regularly and follow @MagicEsports on Twitter and Wizards_Magic on Instagram. To stay in touch on social media, use the hashtag #MythicChampionshipIII. And, of course, we will be streaming all the sweet action on twitch.tv/magic.

Following Twitch's Content Sharing Guidelines, you can co-stream Mythic Championship III from twitch.tv/magic using OBS or XSplit. This allows anyone on Twitch to be able to cover the event in their voice and with their community. To be clear, co-streamed content is not endorsed by Wizards. And we expect anyone who participates in co-streaming to follow Wizards' Fan Content Policy.