Let’s take a look over all the happenings in the Magic Bracket this week!

If you don’t know us already, the Magic Bracket is a community-driven single-elimination contest to find the best Magic cards of all time.

This week’s top highlights include a set gone extinct, Mana Drain vs Jitte, two Power 9 cards, and Liliana of the Veil.

On the results side this week, we lost another set completely - Grim Tutor’s loss to Sword of Fire and Ice makes Starter 1999 the fourth set to be completely eliminated from the Magic Bracket, after Unglued, the holiday promos, and the book and event promos.

This week’s biggest winner was Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, who squashed Countersquall with 91.21% of the votes. On the other side, Merfolk Looter beat Stuffy Doll with just 50.08%.

Here are the current open batches:

Batch 5.18, featuring Time Walk, Demonic Tutor, Forest, Kird Ape, Balance vs Sneak Attack, Volcanic Island vs Dismember, and Shivan Dragon vs Phyrexian Dreadnought



Batch 5.17, featuring Thirst for Knowledge vs Stifle, Path to Exile vs Cabal Coffers, Pack Rat vs Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Cyclonic Rift vs Sphinx’s Revelation, Temple Garden vs Goblin Warchief, Kiki, Disk, and Wild Nacatl vs Simic Sky Swallower

Batch 5.16, featuring Trading Post vs Swamp, Mental Misstep vs Armadillo Cloak, Prophet of Kruphix vs Ral Zarek, Bitterblossom, Kitchen Finks, Remand, and Jace Beleren

Batch 5.15, featuring Liliana of the Veil vs Gush, Shardless Agent, Vedalken Shackles, Watchwolf, and Price of Progress

Batch 5.14, featuring Young Pyromancer vs Saheeli Rai, Myr Battlesphere vs Spellskite, Sun Titan vs Unburial Rites, and ironic matchup of Leonin Arbiter vs Sakura-Tribe Elder. Plus Brainstorm, Pernicious Deed, Scapeshift, and Edric

Batch 5.13, featuring Mox Emerald, Bazaar of Baghdad, Mishra’s Factory, Tarmogoyf, and Mulldrifter, plus Jace, the Mind Sculptor vs Dromoka’s Command, Skullclamp vs Sphinx of the Steel Wind, and Phyrexian Obliterator

Batch 5.12, featuring MASSIVE matchups Mana Drain vs Umezawa’s Jitte and Ponder vs Yawgmoth’s Will, plus Wrath of God, Niv-Mizzet, Rancor, and Phyrexian Revoker vs Simian Spirit Guide

See you next week!