Visions Release Events


Tuesday, March 28, 2006

On Monday, April 10th at 9:00 am PST, Visions goes on sale in the Magic Online store.

NOTE: Visions becomes legal in Mirage Block Constructed, as well as ALL Classic-based Constructed formats the day it goes on sale (April 10). Classic-based Constructed formats are: Classic, Classic with Vanguard, Prismatic, Singleton, Tribal Wars, and Freeform.

Visions Release events begin Thursday, April 13 and will have 4 components:

Release Leagues
Draft Queues
Premier Event Flights (2x and 4x Prizes)
Release Championship

Visions Release Leagues

SIGNUP: April 13, 9:00am (or immediately following the scheduled downtime) – April 19, 9:00am (the final 1 week, 2x league will start no later than 9AM on April 19). Release Leagues will have a maximum of 256 players each and will auto-spawn (as soon as a league reaches 256 players, another will begin registration).

LEAGUE DURATION: 1 week

PRODUCT: 1 Mirage Tournament Pack and 3 Visions Booster Packs.

ADMISSION: 2 Tix, Product

PRIZE SUPPORT: 2x prizes, Participation Avatar: Nekrataal; Records of 5-0 get Prize Avatar: Chronatog.

Avatars will be distributed Approx. 3 weeks after the last league concludes

Visions Draft Queues

QUEUES BEGIN: April 13, 1:00 pm.

FORMATS: Booster Draft

PRODUCT: 3 Visions Boosters, or 2 Mirage Boosters and 1 Visions Booster.

ADMISSION: 2 Tix, Product

PRIZE SUPPORT: 4-3-2-2 and 8-4

Visions Premier Events (2x Flights)

DURATION: April 14, 9:00 am – April 19 9:00 am (last starts at 9am). 2x Flights will have 32 players per flight and will start every hour, on the hour. Each flight will have a minimum of 24 players, maximum of 32 players.

PRODUCT: 1 Mirage Tournament Pack and 3 Visions Booster Packs, top 8 booster draft. The booster draft format will be 2 Mirage Boosters and 1 Visions Booster.

ADMISSION: 2 Tix, Product

PRIZE SUPPORT: 2x Prizes, Top 8

Place Boosters
1 24
2 18
3-4 12
5-8 4

All who participate in a 2x Prize Premier Event Flight will get the Nekrataal avatar. Top 2 will get the Chronatog avatar.

Note: 2x events will NOT Qualify for the Championship

Visions Premier Events (4x Flights)

DURATION: April 14, 9:00 am – April 19 9:00 am (last starts at 9am). 4x Flights start every 3 hours. Each flight will have a minimum of 24 players, maximum of 128 players.

PRODUCT: 1 Mirage Tournament Pack and 3 Visions Booster Packs, top 8 booster draft. The booster draft format will be 2 Mirage Boosters and 1 Visions Booster.

ADMISSION: 2 Tix, Product

PRIZE SUPPORT: 4x Prizes, Manual Pay to Top 16 (Prizes for 9-16 place will be paid out within 72 hours of event completion)

Place Boosters
1 48
2 36
3-4 24
5-8 12
9-16 6

All who participate in a 4x Prize Premier Event Flight will get the Nekrataal avatar. Top 8 will get a Chronatog avatar. In addition, the Top 8 finishers will qualify for the Visions Release Event Championship on Saturday, April 29 @ 9:00 am PST.

Visions Release Event Championship

START TIME: April 29, 9:00 am PST

PRODUCT: 1 Mirage Tournament Pack and 3 Visions Booster Packs, top 8 booster draft. The booster draft format will be 2 Mirage Boosters and 1 Visions Booster.

ADMISSION: FREE – (No Tix, No Product, Invitation only)

PRIZE SUPPORT: 6x, Manual pay to Top 64

Place Boosters
1 72
2 54
3-4 36
5-8 18
9-16 12
17-32 6
33-64 3

The winner of the Championship will also receive a complete set of Magic Online Premium Visions cards.

Second, Third, and Fourth Places will each receive a complete set of regular Magic Online Visions cards.

Although players may have multiple accounts qualified for the Championship event, players not permitted to have more than 1 of their accounts entered in the event. Players are not permitted to have secondary accounts played by another person. If a player is discovered to have more than 1 account playing in the Championship either before, during, or after the event, appropriate penalties will be applied (including disqualification from the event with no refund of product or event tickets).

Important information regarding system crashes and refunds for Premier Events

If during your event the system crashes, 1 of 3 things will happen:

  1. The system will come right back up. In this case:

    • Events will continue and additional time will be given to allow players to finish the event
    • No Compensation will be given

  2. The system cannot recover the event and "finishes" (prematurely ends) the event, or a WOTC Tournament Coordinator must "finish" (prematurely end) the event.

    • We will accept the prize payouts "as is" - This means that whatever prize payouts and invites the system awards, we will not change what the system does.
    • No changes will be made to these events from what the system automatically pays out as prizes or invitations

    If the event is in TOP 8:

    • No product or tickets will be refunded
    • All players keep the product used to enter the event as well as the drafted cards from the TOP 8 draft.

    If the event is still in Swiss Rounds:

  3. The event is cleared or cancelled by the system. If an event is cancelled this means the event can no longer be viewed in the premier event listings.