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Introducing the R&D Challenge!
Note: Players will be able to join starting at 2:00 PM to allow time for R&D members to join.

Magic Online R&D Team members from both past and present are throwing down the gauntlet. Will design experience outweigh the community's love for the game? Only time will tell. Space is limited so don't miss out! The Challenge will be available in the Scheduled Event room after the downtime on Wednesday, April 10. Learn More.

Magic Online Players Rewards for May
MOPR for May starts April 24, which means you still have two weeks to earn your promo cards for April. May is full of exciting events, including the release of Dragon's Maze, so earning your May promo cards should be easy!

The Event Participation

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Magic Online Trial for Grand Prix Portland This Weekend!
Magic Online Trial for Grand Prix Portland is Saturday at 10:00 AM. The format is Modern. The event will be available in the Scheduled Events room after the downtime tomorrow, make sure you reserve your spot early. Read all the event details in the Magic Online Program Updates article.

April Thursday Night Magic Online Promo Card
Earn your first TNMO promo card for April this Thursday at 4:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM, and 7:00 PM. The promo card in April is Call of the Conclave. The format for this week is Gatecrash Sealed. Find out all the formats for April here.

Pro Tour Theros Qualifiers
There are two Pro Tour Qualifiers this week, Saturday and Sunday at 7:00

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Magic Online Trial for Grand Prix Portland This Weekend!
Magic Online Trial for Grand Prix Portland is Saturday at 10:00 AM. The format is Modern. The event will be available in the Scheduled Events room after the downtime tomorrow, make sure you reserve your spot early. Read all the event details in the Magic Online Program Updates article.

April Thursday Night Magic Online Promo Card
Earn your first TNMO promo card for April this Thursday at 4:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM, and 7:00 PM. The promo card in April is Call of the Conclave. The format for this week is Gatecrash Sealed. Find out all the formats for April here.

Pro Tour Theros Qualifiers
There are two Pro Tour Qualifiers this week, Saturday and Sunday at 7:00

Additional Events have been added! Festival Of Old Limited Sealed will run today at: 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 6:00 PM, and 9:00 PM (all times PDT). Read the full announcement.

Festival Of Old Limited Sealed
START TIME: Monday, 04/01/2013, at 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 6:00 PM, and 9:00 PM (all times PDT).
LOCATION: Scheduled Events room.
ENTRY OPTION(S): 6 Event Tickets.
PRODUCT: Magic Online will provide 10 assorted Phantom booster packs for this event. Cards that players play with in a Phantom event are NOT added to those players' collections.
SIZE: 16-512 players.
DURATION: Deck building time plus four rounds, Swiss pairings.
PRIZES: Prizes for Swiss pairing events are based on the total match points at the end of the tournament. Each

On March 27 we increased the limit of digital objects a player can trade in one transaction from 75 digital objects to 400 digital objects. In the Wide Beta Client, however, there is a display that shows the number of objects you have selected and the maximum number of objects possible. Currently, this display shows x/75 instead of x/400. This display will be fixed with the next major Wide Beta update and does not affect your ability to trade up to 400 digital objects at a time.

Sorry for any confusion and thanks for your patience.

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Trade Limit Increase Effective Tomorrow
After tomorrow's downtime players will be able to trade up to 400 items in a single trade transaction. This change will be made on a trial basis so we can monitor the effect in Magic Online and make changes accordingly.

2012 MOCS Championship Coverage!
Coverage of the 2012 MOCS Championship that took place last weekend at PAX East is available for viewing on our MTG Twitch channel. The championship was held on our new Beta Client check out the coverage and give us feedback about the Beta Client before the end of March.

Pro Tour Theros Qualifiers
Pro Tour Theros has two qualifiers this week, make sure you check your schedules. Friday's PTQ is at 5:00 PM and Sunday's PTQ is at 11:00 AM both

Extension of MOCS Season 3- Earn Season 3 QP's until Friday!
Due to technical issues on Tuesday that may have impacted some players’ ability to qualify for the MOCS Season 3 Preliminaries, we have extended the time available to qualify for MOCS Season 3. Starting after the downtime today until 1:00 PM on Friday, March 22, certain 8-player queues will award both Season 3 and Season 4 qualifier points to the winner.

The following 8-player queues will have the updated qualifier point's prize structure:

• Standard
• Modern
• Legacy
• Block
• GTC 8-4 Draft
• GTC 4322 Draft
• GTC Swiss Draft
• GTC Sealed Queue
• GTC Phantom Sealed Queue

Good Luck!

Updated: Extended downtime tomorrow starts at 3:00 AM PDT. Full details below.

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Magic Online Wide Beta Feedback
With all the big changes that have recently come to the Magic Online Wide Beta we want our player's feedback. Follow this link and let us know what you think! If you missed Ryan Spain's article about these update, read it here. Don't have the Beta Client yet? Download it now!

Magic Online Championship 2012 Live at PAX East!
We will be holding the Magic Online Championship 2012 live at PAX East in Boston this Friday and Saturday! Coverage will be streamed live and will be available here. Make sure you tune in.

Pro Tour "Friends" Qualifiers Start this Week!
PTQ "Friends" season starts this Sunday with its first qualifier

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All times related to the extended downtime are estimated.

Unique Downtime Tomorrow starts at 7:00 AM!
Magic Online is deploying a major update tomorrow, that includes some infrastructure work which requires the downtime to be extended. In addition, as we return from downtime we will introduce features slowly until we are fully operational. Below is an estimated schedule:

• Magic Online logins disabled: 7:00 AM- 11:00 AM.
• Special Phantom queues (no entry requirement, no prizes): 11:30 AM- 1:30 PM.
• Trades, tournaments, and the Magic Online store: enabled sequentially between 1:30 PM and 3:00 PM.
• Magic Online fully functioning: 3:00 PM.

Home scene and system announcements will be posted in the client when each feature becomes