Casual Magic League

Our casual league is designed as a quarterly, persistent league for players who prefer a more laid-back style of play. Players build decks when they join and continuously refine and/or rebuild them over the course of the quarter. Players can earn points via weekly, monthly, and quarterly achievements, then win prizes for meeting certain criteria such as point thresholds or ranking.

Cost

The $60 entry fee includes:

10 booster packs
1 storage box for your cards
1 standard set of sleeves

Beginning in Week 6, additional packs may be purchased at a rate of one per week for use in the league.

League Play

Deck Construction

In Week 1, each player chooses 6 booster packs from the allowed sets (subject to availability). From those cards plus basic lands, each player constructs a minimum 40-card deck. Players can then play each other for points.

Each additional week, players may open 1 additional booster pack and the minimum deck size increases by 5 until it hits 60 cards, where it will remain for the rest of the season.

Storage

When not being played, decks and storage boxes are stored in the player’s home store and may not leave until the end-of-season invitational.

Trading

Trading cards is allowed (and encouraged) within the league, but NO OUTSIDE CARDS are allowed other than basic lands. All trades are final unless both players agree to trade back.

Duration

Each league is played for the duration of a quarter in parallel between all participating stores. At the end of each quarter, participating stores come together for a league championship. The league is active every quarter except Q4.

Key Rules

The player with fewer league points determines who plays first and who draws. In the case of a tie, determine first player randomly.
Each player gets 1 free mulligan (reshuffle and redraw) each match for any reason.
If a player draws 0,1,6, or 7 lands in their opening hand, they may take a mulligan. This does not count as their free mulligan.
No more than ⅓ of your packs may be play boosters.
Players are responsible for reporting their matches and achievements to staff.

This is a living format and will evolve over time. We will do our best to limit major changes to between seasons.

Allowed Sets

Draft Boosters

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Innistrad: Crimson Vow
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Streets of New Capenna
Dominaria United
The Brother’s War
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
March of the Machine
Wilds of Eldraine
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

Play Boosters

Murders at Karlov Manor
Outlaws of Thunder Junction

Achievements

All achievements are worth one league point unless otherwise noted.

Weekly

Play A Match
Win a Match

Monthly

Win with 50% more cards than necessary in your deck (2 points)
Trade a card
Play with a 1/2/3/4/5-color deck (1 point each)
Have 10 counters on your creatures
Have 6 tokens in play
Have a 20/20 or greater creature on the battlefield (2 points)
Have 4 or more creatures with flying
Have 6 or more non-token creatures
Have 10 cards in hand (2 points)
Have half your cards in your graveyard
Have over 50 life (2 points)
Cast 5 spells during the same turn
Cause yourself to lose 5 life over the course of the game
Have at least 12 lands
Have 5 different permanent types from among: creature, land, enchantment, artifact, battle, planeswalker. Each only counts once (2 points)
Select packs from at least 6 different sets for the month (out of 9, Month 1 only)
Select packs from all different sets for the month (Months 2 and 3 only)

Seasonal

Bring a friend
Decorate your box
Have a strategy discussion
Sign up for your home store's newsletter
Play a different format
Visit a partner store
Come to a non-league event
Make us make a new achievement