ELEAGUE SHOWDOWN: MTG Arena September 4 - December 18, 8pm ET ELEAGUE Discovers the Magic! New Weekly Magic: The Gathering Arena Competition Series Begins Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. ET on Twitch Watch on Twitch THE ELEAGUE SHOWDOWN: MTG Arena presented by Intel 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 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: 12/18 Rank Player Total Wins Money Earned Weekly Run 1 Seth Manfield Blue Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Simic-Midrange - Deck List 12 $6,250 10/16 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 Jeffrey Pyka Red Magic Deck Icon Blue Magic Deck Icon White Magic Deck Icon Jeskai Fires - Deck List 7 $3,500 12/04 Jeffrey is a semi typical magic grinder, that hit silver last year. He has a GP top 8 and a PT top 16. He'll travel to just about every event in a 6-8 hour radius to him. 3 Ian Ulman Blue Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Simic Food - Deck List 4 $4,250 10/23 Ian is an aspiring YouTube content creator, for Magic and other nerdy things. Ian's high point is top 8'ing an SCG team open, and perennially making top 8 of IQs and PPTQs. 4 William Jensen Blue Magic Deck Icon Black Magic Deck Icon Green Magic Deck Icon Sultai Midrange - Deck List 4 $2,500 11/06 He won Pro Tour Boston 2003, and has finished in the top 8 of four additional Pro Tours. He also has 24 Grand Prix top eights, including six wins. In 2013 he was voted into the Hall of Fame. He is the current record holder of most Grand Prix top eight finishes within a single season, with eight in 2013–14. 5 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. Schedule / Results Wed Dec 18th | Start Time 8PM/ET All Matches Best of Three Week 10 Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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 2 : 0 MTGNerdGirl Mono-red Aggro 2 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield 2 : 1 Metallix87 Simic-Mill 3 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield 2 : 1 Evan Whitehouse Bant-Golos 4 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield 2 : 0 Annajanemtg Temur Reclamation 5 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield 2 : 1 MSigrist Gruul-Midrange 6 Simic-Midrange Seth Manifield 2 : 0 Ali Eldrazi 5 Color Golos 1 Golos Adam Hernandez 2 : 0 Mike Greenbaum Mardu Knights 2 Golos Adam Hernandez 2 : 0 Lucas Buccafusca Golgari 3 Golos Adam Hernandez 0 : 2 Ian Ulman Simic Food 4 Golgari Jamie Rigatti 1 : 2 Ian Ulman Simic Food 5 Gruul-Midrange Vanessa 1 : 2 Ian Ulman Simic Food 1 Sultai Food Seth Manfield 1 : 2 Ian Ulman Sultai Food 2 Simic Food Chris Tran 2 : 1 Ian Ulman Sultai Food 3 Simic Food Chris Tran 2 : 0 Kasey Jarvis Esper Control 4 Simic Food Chris Tran 2 : 0 Breanna Lee Tan Golgari Adventure 5 Simic Food Chris Tran 0 : 2 William Jensen Sultai Food 6 Grixis Control Ryan Brooks 0 : 2 William Jensen Sultai Food 1 Sultai Midrange Will Jensen 2 : 1 Mark Gabriele Mono Red Aggro 2 Sultai Midrange Will Jensen 2 : 1 William Storey Sultai Midrange 3 Sultai Midrange Will Jensen 1 : 2 Shahar Shenhar Sultai Midrange 4 Golgari Adventures Christian Calcano 1 : 2 Shahar Shenhar Sultai Midrange 5 Sultai Midrange Austin Yost 2 : 0 Shahar Shenhar Sultai Midrange 5 Sultai Midrange Austin Yost 0 : 2 bobinchese Bant Midrange 1 Sultai Familiar bobinchese 1 : 2 Felix Sloo Sultai Food 2 Sultai Food Keizaron 0 : 2 Felix Sloo Sultai Food 3 UW Control Ronald Thoman 2 : 0 Felix Sloo Sultai Food 4 UW Control Ronald Thoman 1 : 2 Ray Atkinson Temur Reclamation 5 Jeskai Fires JimDavisMTG 2 : 0 Ray Atkinson Temur Reclamation 6 Jeskai Fires JimDavisMTG 0 : 2 Terrence Campo Sultai Familiar 1 Sultai Familiar Terrence Campo 0 : 2 Jeffrey Pyka Jeskai Fires 2 Temur Walkers Daniel Ling 1 : 2 Jeffrey Pyka Jeskai Fires 3 Temur Reclamation David Brown 0 : 2 Jeffrey Pyka Jeskai Fires 4 Gruul Aggro Nhi Pham 0 : 2 Jeffrey Pyka Jeskai Fires 5 4 Color Midrange Sidney Powell 0 : 2 Jeffrey Pyka Jeskai Fires 1 Jeskai Fires Jeffrey Pyka 2 : 0 Cory Speiser Orzhov Midrange 2 Jeskai Fires Jeffrey Pyka 2 : 1 Ray Park Temur Wilds 3 Jeskai Fires Jeffrey Pyka 1 : 2 Mike Mcginn Jund Food 4 Jund Food James White 2 : 1 Mike Mcginn Jund Food 5 Jund Food James White 2 : 0 William Blanton Jeskai Fires 6 Jund Food James White 2 : 0 Jaden Zepeda Mono-Red Aggro 1 Jund Food James White 0 : 2 Zan Syed Simic Ramp 2 Sultai Midrange Jamal Greenidge 2 : 1 Zan Syed Simic Ramp 3 Sultai Midrange Jamal Greenidge 0 : 2 Tania Russell Simic Ramp 4 Simic Ramp Harry Cheng 1 : 2 Tania Russell Simic Ramp 5 Simic Flash Zach Okorn 1 : 2 Tania Russell Simic Ramp 6 Temur Reclamation Danilo Silva 1 : 2 Tania Russell Simic Ramp Quarterfinals 1 Jeskai Fires Seth Manfield 2 : 0 Corey Baumeister Golgari Adventures 2 Simic Flash William Jensen 2 : 1 Wyatt Darby Jeskai Fires 3 Jeskai Fires Jeffery Pyka 2 : 0 Chris Tran Izzet Burn 4 Jund Sacrifice Ian Ulman 0 : 2 Tania Russell Simic Ramp Semifinals 5 Jeskai Fires Seth Manfield 2 : 0 William Jensen Simic Flash 6 Jeskai Fires Jeffery Pyka 2 : 0 Tania Russell Simic Ramp Finals 7 Jeskai Fires Seth Manfield 2 : 0 Jeffery Pyka Jeskai Fires 7 Jeskai Fires Seth Manfield 1 : 0 Jeffery Pyka Jeskai Fires