WeeklyMTG Announces Limited Championship and Commander Bracket Updates

This week's WeeklyMTG stream was packed to the gills with tons of incredible news updates for both competitive and casual play!

Just announced on WeeklyMTG: Coming in 2027, we're holding the Magic Limited Championship!

Players can qualify for this all-Limited event in 2026, with a $500,000 prize pool and Top 8 players getting invites to Worlds!

Read more: magic.gg/news/announc...

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— Play Magic (@playmagic.com) October 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM

First up, William "Huey" Jensen joined on the call with host Blake Rasmussen to announce a new play series: the Magic Limited Championship! This event will begin in 2027 with qualifying events happening throughout 2026. Qualification methods include top 16 drafters from the year's premier play season, the world champion, hall of famers who wish to use their annual invites, or others who attend Limited Championship Qualifiers at a variety of events. You can check out all the details here. Roman Fusco will have an article here on CoolStuffInc discussing the matter soon if you want another look at the topic!

No major changes to the Brackets this time, but we've been working on clarifying some of the ~*vibes~* around each Bracket, including adding "safe turns" and delineating expectations for decks, win conditions, and gameplay.

We've also removed tutor restriction from 1 & 2.

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— Rachel Weeks (@wachelreeks.com) October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM

The real meat and potatoes of the stream came in the form of the Commander Brackets Beta update. Once more, the brackets were individually overhauled to provide a better sense of clarity to players. Additionally, ten Game Changer cards were removed from that list, with many being determined to have been overshoots as WotC and the Commander Format Panel seek to find the sweet spot for the list. Finally, several topics were floated with the goal of getting player feedback, such as potential bannings, a possible 6th bracket, and a change to hybrid mana color identity rules.

You can read all the details in the full official write-up by Gavin Verhey here. Alternatively, I have written my own article breaking down many of these elements in a more simplified manner, which you can check out here.

Powered Arena Cube Comes Next Week

Get ready to play with some VERY powerful Magic cards (say hi to Power Nine) in our new limited-time event, Arena Powered Cube! The drafting fun begins 10/28.

Learn more: magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-...

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— MTG Arena (@mtgarena.com) October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM

Powered Cube - perhaps better known as Vintage Cube to many - has become a staple of Magic diehards for years. For a long time, it's largely been relegated to only being available on Magic Online which has the deepest pool of cards a digital Magic client can offer. That is, until now. Powered Cube is making its way onto MTG Arena for a few weeks starting on October 8th! It's a fairly standard Vintage Cube-style experience and should be an excellent opportunity to check it out if you've never had the chance to play it before.

Be sure to check out these official resources for more details on this fantastic Limited event:

• Announcing the Arena Powered Cube! (Core event info)
• Arena Powered Cube Design and Card List
• Dev Diary: Creating Arena Powered Cube

Avatar: the Last Airbender Teaser Released

As has become customary over the past few years, Mark Rosewater released his teaser for the upcoming Avatar: the Last Airbender set. This includes several tidbits that have many curious about their related cards, such as a "Red card with a Blood Moon effect." Others like the various card names, as well as creature types, have many excitedly trying to match them to events or characters throughout the series. You can check it out here and get in on the fun yourself!

Avatar: the Last Airbender is an exciting release and the debut is right around the corner. Preview season kicks off this Tuesday when the debut stream begins on WeeklyMTG, so be sure to tune into the official Twitch page to get all the details about the set!

Decklist of the Week

Jeskai Blink | Modern | Vinnie Fino, 1st Place SCG CON Houston US Regional Championship

• Creatures (19)
• 3 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
• 4 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
• 4 Quantum Riddler
• 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 4 Solitude

• Planeswalkers (3)
• 3 Teferi, Time Raveler

• Instants (8)
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 March of Otherworldly Light
• 2 Ephemerate
• 4 Consign to Memory

• Sorceries (4)
• 1 Wrath of the Skies
• 3 Prismatic Ending

• Enchantments (2)
• 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

• Lands (24)
• 1 Island
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Plains
• 1 Elegant Parlor
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 2 Arena of Glory
• 2 Sacred Foundry
• 3 Scalding Tarn
• 4 Arid Mesa
• 4 Flooded Strand

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Celestial Purge
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Ghost Vacuum
• 1 Surgical Extraction
• 2 Subtlety
• 2 Wrath of the Skies
• 3 Mystical Dispute
• 4 Obsidian Charmaw

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Huge congratulations to Vinnie Fino for his dominant 16-1-1 performance at the Magic Regional Championship! ?

He showed the world how powerful Jeskai Blink is on his unstoppable run! ???

We'll be cheering you on at Worlds and the Pro Tour! ?

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— Star City Games (@starcitygames.bsky.social) October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM

This past weekend saw the first US Regional Championship for the Modern round of RCs! The event was taken down by Jeskai Blink, the newest hotness in the format, piloted in the hands of Vinnie Fino. This deck utilizes blink effects like Ephemerate and Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd to generate ridiculous amounts of value amounts of value with cards like Solitude and Quantum Riddler. The latter of the two in particular has been making waves in multiple decks across several formats, so it's hardly a surprise to see it taking Modern by storm in decks like this.

Congratulations Vinnie on your victory!

Paige Smith

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