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The Wizards Play Network (WPN) is the official sanctioning body for competitive play in Magic: The Gathering (Magic) and various other games produced by Wizards of the Coast and its subsidiaries, such as Avalon Hill. Originally, it was known as the DCI (formerly Duelists' Convocation International) but was rebranded in 2008.
Magic: The Gathering Organized Play is the worldwide program for all levels of tournaments for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Created in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, the Organized Play program has grown to host some of the largest trading card game tournaments ever, with hundreds of thousands of events each year. The vast majority ...
From the beginning of 2019, Grand Prix events became a part of a larger event, named MagicFests. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , Grand Prix events were cancelled in 2020. Due to, during the pandemic years, Wizards of the Coast deciding to move the marketing and focus of the game away from competitive play towards the much larger 'casual ...
This is a list of all Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour events. [1] [2] [3] Pro Tours are professional, invite-only tournaments featuring large cash prizes.The World Championships were considered a Pro Tour from 1996 to 2011, but were discontinued in 2012.
In 1996, the Pro Tour debuted as part of Wizards of the Coast's marketing strategy for Magic. People who participate in Friday Night Magic (FNM) "earn Planeswalker Points, which can help them gain free entry to the next two levels: Pro Tour Qualifiers (PTQ) and Grand Prix (GP)". [2] The first FNM promo card was released in 2000. [3]
The scheduling of Grand Prix events varied over time, with 20 to 30 events per year in the 1990s growing to 50-60 events per year towards the end of the Grand Prix structure. [5] Grand Prix main events are often quite large. The 2015 event in Las Vegas, Nevada, had over 7,500 contestants participate. The event had to be divided in two parts. [6]
It was a single-elimination 512-person Constructed event run over three days of competition. [2] The winner, Zak Dolan, received a trophy, a number of booster packs from expansions ranging from Arabian Nights to Ice Age, a deck of Magic: The Gathering poker cards, and a T-shirt. Another World Championship was organized in 1995.
The Magic: The Gathering national champions are the players who won National Championships (Nationals) that year. (with the exception of champions between 2012 and 2016, which were awarded to players with the most Pro Points at the end of a Pro Tour season [1]) Nationals took place around the world usually in summer or autumn.