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'''Planeswalker Points''' is a worldwide system introduced in  [[2012]] designed to reward you for playing ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' in [[DCI]]-sanctioned events (where an organizer schedules and reports the event to [[Wizards of the Coast]]). All sanctioned events, from [[casual]]-format sanctioned events to [[Worlds]] will carry points.
'''Planeswalker Points''' was a worldwide system introduced in  [[2012]] designed to reward you for playing ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' in [[DCI]]-sanctioned events (where an organizer scheduled and reported the event to [[Wizards of the Coast]]). All sanctioned events, from [[casual]]-format sanctioned events to [[Worlds]] carried points. The system was retired in 2020.<ref name="Sunsetting">{{WebRef|url=https://magic.gg/news/sunsetting-planeswalker-points|title=Sunsetting Planeswalker Points|author=[[Wizards of the Coast]]|date=April 27, 2020|publisher=[[Magic.gg]]}}</ref>


Unlike previous systems that rewarded only [[winning]], Planeswalker Points is based on [[play]]ing.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/twenty-things-were-going-kill-magic-2013-08-05|Twenty Things That Were Going To Kill Magic|[[Mark Rosewater]]|August 05, 2013}}</ref> Players earn points for every sanctioned event they join, and they earn even more for each victory.<ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/your-scorecard-2012-01-25|Your Scorecard|[[Monty Ashley]]|January 25, 2012}}</ref> The larger the tournament, the more participation points players receive, no matter where they finish. Special events carry a point multiplier.  
==Playing based==
Unlike previous systems that rewarded only [[winning]], Planeswalker Points was based on [[play]]ing.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/twenty-things-were-going-kill-magic-2013-08-05|Twenty Things That Were Going To Kill Magic|[[Mark Rosewater]]|August 05, 2013}}</ref> Players earned points for every sanctioned event they joined, and they earned even more for each victory.<ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/your-scorecard-2012-01-25|Your Scorecard|[[Monty Ashley]]|January 25, 2012}}</ref> The larger the tournament, the more participation points players received, no matter where they finished. Special events carried a point multiplier.  


==Categories==
==Categories==
There are three major categories:  
There were three major categories:  
#Lifetime: The total points obtained over all time.
#Lifetime: The total points obtained over all time.
#Competitive: The total points obtained during the span of a Pro Tour season, excluding [[casual]], [[Pro Tour]], [[Worlds]], and [[World Magic Cup]] events. It used to determine the number of [[byes]] granted to a player in [[Grand Prix]] and eligibility of invitation to [[Nationals]] and, formerly, [[World Magic Cup Qualifiers]].
#Competitive: The total points obtained during the span of a Pro Tour season, excluding [[casual]], [[Pro Tour]], [[Worlds]], and [[World Magic Cup]] events. It used to determine the number of [[byes]] granted to a player in [[Grand Prix]] and eligibility of invitation to [[Nationals]] and, formerly, [[World Magic Cup Qualifiers]].
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==Website==
==Website==
Players can keep track of their Planeswalker Points progress on the Wizards of the Coast website [http://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints planeswalkerpoints.com]. At certain point totals, players level up in the program and improve their rank. The ranks go from Prodigy (levels 1–5) all the way up to Archmage (levels 46–50).
Players could keep track of their Planeswalker Points progress on the Wizards of the Coast website [http://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints planeswalkerpoints.com]. At certain point totals, players leveled up in the program and improved their rank. The ranks went from Prodigy (levels 1–5) all the way up to Archmage (levels 46–50).


The points needed to advance to the next level are as follows:<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/introducing-planeswalker-points-2011-09-06|Introducing Planeswalker Points: ''What Level Are You?''|[[Mike Turian]]|September 06, 2011}}</ref>  
The points needed to advance to the next level were as follows:<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/introducing-planeswalker-points-2011-09-06|Introducing Planeswalker Points: ''What Level Are You?''|[[Mike Turian]]|September 06, 2011}}</ref>  
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! Rank !! Level !! Points needed
! Rank !! Level !! Points needed
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| Archmage || 46–49 || 6,000 points
| Archmage || 46–49 || 6,000 points
|}
|}
Level 50 is currently the highest-possible level players can reach, sitting at 50,000 points total. Advancing to level 50 requires 7,000 additional points past level 49. Although there is a maximum level, there is no upper limit for obtainable points; for example, all-time leader [[Shuhei Nakamura]] has obtained more than 100,000 points in his lifetime.
Level 50 was the highest-possible level players could reach, sitting at 50,000 points total. Advancing to level 50 required 7,000 additional points past level 49. Although there was a maximum level, there was no upper limit for obtainable points; for example, all-time leader [[Shuhei Nakamura]] obtained more than 100,000 points in his lifetime.


===Phasing out?===
===Phasing out===
As of 2020, the site still works and you can still win rewards and use it to see your match history, but logging in is a challenge sometimes. It hasn't been updated since about 2014, including the software used to hook into it and handle matchups. It is possible that when the when that software gets deprecated and things move to the [[companion app]] (which seems to be the intention), planeswalker points will break and either be replaced by something new or scrapped entirely.
As of 2020, the site still worked and you could still win rewards and use it to see your match history, but logging in was a challenge sometimes. It hadn't been updated since about 2014, including the software used to hook into it and handle matchups. On May 27, 2020 Planeswalker Points  and [[dci numbers|DCI numbers]] were sunsetted and access to the Planeswalker Points website was removed.<ref name="Sunsetting"/> Future in-store play and [[esports]] events, as well as other play opportunities, would require players to have a valid Wizards Account which works with the [[Magic: The Gathering Companion]] app and a new event tool for local game stores.  


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 03:41, 28 April 2020

Planeswalker Points was a worldwide system introduced in 2012 designed to reward you for playing Magic: The Gathering in DCI-sanctioned events (where an organizer scheduled and reported the event to Wizards of the Coast). All sanctioned events, from casual-format sanctioned events to Worlds carried points. The system was retired in 2020.[1]

Playing based

Unlike previous systems that rewarded only winning, Planeswalker Points was based on playing.[2] Players earned points for every sanctioned event they joined, and they earned even more for each victory.[3] The larger the tournament, the more participation points players received, no matter where they finished. Special events carried a point multiplier.

Categories

There were three major categories:

  1. Lifetime: The total points obtained over all time.
  2. Competitive: The total points obtained during the span of a Pro Tour season, excluding casual, Pro Tour, Worlds, and World Magic Cup events. It used to determine the number of byes granted to a player in Grand Prix and eligibility of invitation to Nationals and, formerly, World Magic Cup Qualifiers.
    • Until November 2014, there was also a Seasonal Award subcategory, which almost exclusively determined Grand Prix byes only.
  3. Professional: The Pro Points obtained over the span of a Pro Tour season.
    • At the start of the 2018–19 season, a subcategory, where inclusion is determined by calculating the Pro Points of the top 12 finishing players of the previous four Pro Tour cycles, was introduced accompanying the new Pro Players Club system.

Website

Players could keep track of their Planeswalker Points progress on the Wizards of the Coast website planeswalkerpoints.com. At certain point totals, players leveled up in the program and improved their rank. The ranks went from Prodigy (levels 1–5) all the way up to Archmage (levels 46–50).

The points needed to advance to the next level were as follows:[4]

Rank Level Points needed
Prodigy 1–5 5 points
Apprentice 6–10 5 points
Task Mage 11–15 10 points
Adept 16–20 30 points
Spellshaper 21–25 50 points
Guildmage 26–30 100 points
Invoker 31–35 400 points
Sorcerer 36–40 1,400 points
Battlemage 41–45 3,000 points
Archmage 46–49 6,000 points

Level 50 was the highest-possible level players could reach, sitting at 50,000 points total. Advancing to level 50 required 7,000 additional points past level 49. Although there was a maximum level, there was no upper limit for obtainable points; for example, all-time leader Shuhei Nakamura obtained more than 100,000 points in his lifetime.

Phasing out

As of 2020, the site still worked and you could still win rewards and use it to see your match history, but logging in was a challenge sometimes. It hadn't been updated since about 2014, including the software used to hook into it and handle matchups. On May 27, 2020 Planeswalker Points and DCI numbers were sunsetted and access to the Planeswalker Points website was removed.[1] Future in-store play and esports events, as well as other play opportunities, would require players to have a valid Wizards Account which works with the Magic: The Gathering Companion app and a new event tool for local game stores.

References

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