ELEAGUE SHOWDOWN: MTG Arena September 4 - December 18, 8pm ET Home ELEAGUE Discovers the Magic! New Weekly Magic: The Gathering Arena Competition Series Begins Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. ET on Twitch Want to become a challenger and compete at the highest level Magic for fans around the world for prize money on Battlefy. Are you the next Magic legend? Watch on Twitch Sign Up Now THE ELEAGUE SHOWDOWN: MTG Arena presented by Intel Gamer Days Will Highlight Popular Community Influencers & Emerging Star Players through Weekly “Survive & Advance” Battles ELEAGUE and Wizards of the Coast are teaming up to bring you the deep strategic gameplay of Magic: The Gathering Arena through a new weekly esports competition series. THE ELEAGUE SHOWDOWN: MTG Arena presented by Intel Gamer Days will launch with its first competition Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. ET, with exclusive coverage available on ELEAGUE's Twitch channel. The series will continue weekly with a new competition each Wednesday at 8 p.m. until December 18. Players will be selected through a combination of invitations and player applications. Players will compete in one single-elimination match at a time, with the winner advancing and the loser being eliminated. The last winner remaining at the end of each week will earn prize money and become the incumbent “player to defeat” during the next week’s competition. A full rulebook is available here. Magic: The Gathering Arena is the newest digital version of the popular tabletop trading card game Magic: The Gathering. In Magic: The Gathering Arena, players compete by strategically deploying a vast array of land, spell and creature cards to defeat their opponents. Magic: The Gathering Arena is currently in open beta on PC and is free to download. To learn more about the game and start playing today, visit mtgarena.com. Leaderboard As of: 10/9 Rank Player Total Wins Money Earned Weekly Run 1 Seth Manfield Blue Magic Deck Icon White Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Bant Golos - Deck List 6 $3,250 10/09 Seth Manfield is a Magic: The Gathering legend. In his 20 years of playing the game, he has won multiple Grand Prix, placed top 8 in many Pro Tours, and achieved the coveted title of World Champion in 2015. 2 Wyatt Darby Black Magic Deck Icon White Magic Deck Icon WB Vampires - Deck List 4 $2,000 09/04 Wyatt Darby is a fresh face in the competitive Magic scene, making his Pro Tour debut in 2017 with Pro Tour Amonkhet. Within a year of his debut, he became a Pro Tour Champion, winning the title at Pro Tour Dominaria. In an incredibly short time, Darby has proven to the world that the future of competitive Magic has him in the picture. 3 Brad Nelson Blue Magic Deck Icon Black Magic Deck Icon White Magic Deck Icon Esper Control - Deck List 3 $1,500 09/18 Pro Tour Player of the Year in 2010 Brad Nelson has quite an impressive history in Magic: The Gathering. With three top 8 Pro Tour placings and thirteen Grand Prix top 8s, including two wins, Brad Nelson has cemented himself as one of the very best to ever play the game. 4 Bloody Blue Magic Deck Icon Black Magic Deck Icon White Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Kethis Combo - Deck List 3 $1,500 09/25 With a background in Poker, Hearthstone, and Artifact it was only a matter of time before she made it to Magic. Having started playing Magic In February Bloody is already becoming a force in the MTG Community. 5 Corey Baumeister Blue Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Simic Midrange - Deck List 3 $1,500 10/2 Corey has been a professional magic player/content creator for around 10 years. He has 6 Grand Prix top 8s with one win. He likes long walks on the beach and getting caught in the rain. Schedule / Results Wed Oct 16th | Start Time 8PM/ET All Matches Best of Three Week 6 Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 Boids NumotTheNummy 1 : 2 vs Wyatt Darby WB Vampires 2 WB Vampires AliasV 0 : 2 vs Wyatt Darby WB Vampires 3 WB Afterlife Deejay Knight 0 : 2 vs Wyatt Darby WB Vampires 4 Kethis Midrange Em_TeeGee 1 : 2 vs Wyatt Darby WB Vampires 5 WB Vampire Ashlen Rose 2 : 1 vs Wyatt Darby WB Vampires 6 WB Vampires Ashlen Rose 1 : 2 vs Skybilz Jund Dinosaurs 1 RW Feather Lucas 'Lewk' Faley 2 : 0 vs KanyeBest BW Vampires 2 RW Feather Lucas 'Lewk' Faley 0 : 2 vs Eric Froehlich Kethis Combo 3 Naya Feather Amazonian 2 : 0 vs Eric Froehlich Kethis Combo 4 Naya Feather Amazonian 0 : 2 vs Brad Nelson Kethis Combo 5 Esper Control TheAsianAvenger 0 : 2 vs Brad Nelson Kethis Combo 1 Esper Control Brad Nelson 2 : 1 vs Skybilz BG Midrange 2 Esper Control Brad Nelson 0 : 2 vs jrolfMTG Esper Control 3 Kethis Combo Matt Nass 2 : 1 vs jrolfMTG Esper Control 4 Kethis Combo Matt Nass 1 : 2 vs Bloody Kethis Combo 5 Vampires Gaby Spartz 1 : 2 vs Bloody Kethis Combo 1 Kethis Combo Bloody 2 : 1 vs David Buskirk RW Feather 2 Kethis Combo Bloody 0 : 2 vs Eric Hawkins Kethis combo 3 Mono Red Aggro BenS 2 : 1 vs Eric Hawkins Kethis combo 4 Mono Red Aggro BenS 2 : 0 vs JasonFleurant RW Feather 5 Mono Red Aggro BenS 1 : 2 vs BBD Kethis Combo 1 Abzan Kethis BBD 0 : 2 vs CoreyB_MTG Simic Midrange 2 Gogari Midrange JeffHoogland 1 : 2 vs CoreyB_MTG Simic Midrange 3 Simic Flash MythicMikaela 0 : 2 vs CoreyB_MTG Simic Midrange 4 Simic Midrange Reid Duke 2 : 1 vs CoreyB_MTG Simic Midrange 5 Simic Midrange Reid Duke 1 : 2 vs CalebDMTG Bant Midrange 6 Gruul Midrange Brandon Downs 0 : 2 vs CalebDMTG Bant Midrange 1 Bant Food CalebMTG 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 2 Grixis Fires Chris Castro-Rappl 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 3 Bant Food Erik Peters 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 4 Mono Black Oven Keith Adams 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 5 GW Adventures Zack Brown 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 6 Mono Blue Control Todd Anderson 1 : 2 vs Seth Manfield Bant Golos 1 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield vs MTGNerdGirl Mono-red Aggro 2 Simic-Mill Metallix87 vs Winner of Match 1 3 Bant-Golos Evan Whitehouse vs Winner of Match 2 4 Temur Reclamation Annajanemtg vs Winner of Match 3 5 Gruul-Midrange MSigrist vs Winner of Match 4 6 5 Color Golos Ali Eldrazi vs Winner of Match 5 For week 8's match schedule, check back Mon Oct 21! 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