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A game was just legally ended by flipping a coin. Thank Volatile Rig!

Throughout the five-year history of the Magic Online Community Cup, the event has served as an annual smorgasbord of agony and defeat for Wizards of the Coast.

In what can only be assumed to counteract the comparative void of Return to Ravnica Boosters on Magic Online, the prizes of Constructed 2-Player Events have switched to RTR Boosters.

All Academy_Buybot accounts are set up to buy Dragon's Maze mythics, rares, commons & uncommons! Our store, Academy_Sellbot & Academy_Standardbot accounts will be selling them as we get them!

With the Wide Beta Spotlight event postponed, we will be delivering and the bots will be running as usual.

Wizards has postponed the Wide Beta Spotlight event.

Due to bugs and missing functionality in the Wide Beta Client, all MTGO Academy bots will be offline and our store deliveries will be suspended during the Wide Beta Spotlight, May 8 & 9, 2013. They will all resume normal operations at 10:00 AM Pacific, May 10, 2013.

Cube drafts will be up and running from tomorrow, May 1st until May 8th. Prizes will include packs of Lorwyn and Morningtide.

Academy_Buybot, Academy_Buybot2, Academy_Buybot3, and Academy_Buybot4 will now buy up to 40 unique items and/or 400 Event Tickets of items (whichever limit is hit first) per trade.

We have increased the buying prices for many Magic Online Legacy format staples.

Wizards recently provided details regarding the time and location of upcoming Pro Tours, including Pro Tour "Huey" next year. They've also provided dates for Premier Play events and some changes.

Daily MTG has all the info on Dragon's Maze Prerelease events. The set will make it's way to MTGO on May 13th.

After downtime May 8, the Wide Beta Client will be the only way to access Magic Online until May 10, 10:00 AM Pacific.

The Modern format will be losing Second Sunrise, a staple of the Eggs combo deck. WOTC's announcement cited notably lengthy tournaments brought about by Second Sunrise as their motive. Additionally, Regrowth has been unrestricted in Vintage.

Our Academy_Sellbots have a limited supply of Shadowmoor and Eventide boosters for sale. Academy_Buybots have been configured to buying all cards from both Shadowmoor and Eventide.

DailyMTG has released its schedule for a number of online queues and events. Among them are Lorwyn Block Drafts on-demand (which will occur in two weeks), and Shadowmoor Block Drafts also on-demand (which fire next week).

DailyMTG has announced the next phase of You Make the Card 4: Rules Text submissions. In the last poll, Global Enchantment decimated Aura for preferred type.

DailyMTG has live coverage of Grand Prix Stasbourg this weekend. The format of choice is Legacy.

The color of You Make the Card 4's enchantment will be black, which narrowly beat out red by 4%. Voting has now begun for Aura vs. Global Enchantment.

The policy regarding invitations to major Magic events has been updated on DailyMTG. Policy regarding Pro Tours, PTQs, World Magic Cups etc. are included.