Hey everyone. Just a little announcement about something super exciting that’s going on Thursday and Friday this week. It’s called the Magic: the Gathering Online Community Cup Challenge. The basics of it are: 4 press members and 4 online community leaders face off against 8 of the Wizards of the Coast staff members in 4 different online play formats. The formats are: 100 card singleton, a standard constructed, and two drafts, Zendikar and Invasion. It will be held at the Wizards of the Coast headquarters in Renton, WA. for almost the entire two days. If Wizards staff wins, the community will get a free promo card online, but if the Community wins, the community will get a special avatar and access to awesome events online.

And guess what? Yours truly is participating on the Community Team. All I can really say is that I’m so excited about this. I’ve been an avid Magic player in paper form for years… I think I’m nearing my 6th or 7th year (I’ve lost track). I’ve entered and ran tournaments, but this is something entirely different.

If you want to play with me on Magic Online anytime between now and tomorrow night, I should be on the server most of the time when I’m not at school. My username is CC_GamingAngelSam. If you want to just chat with all of us, there’s a room for you to come and meet us and even practice with any of the 8. Just type /join CCC in a chat window and enter; the chat will open straight up.

Here are some articles my teammates and the Wizards team have written that you might enjoy are below.

The official announcement made a couple weeks ago.
Pete’s “Playing Nice Together”. He even has the complete deck lists of what we’re playing. I love how my deck is literally called “Sam’s Mill”.

Meet the Wizards Team posted by Mike Gills of the team. Just a nice getting-to-know-you thing and here’s the one for the community members.
The image above was made by Thomas, another member of the team, as a badge for us on MyMTGO, the site he runs for all MTGO players.