2021–22 Players Tour Season

2021–22 Players Tour Season
PTs	undetermined
Grand Prix	undetermined
Previous season: 2020-21 Next season: 2022-23

The 2021–22 Players Tour season is the twenty-seventh Players Tour season (formerly know as the Pro Tour). It starts in the fall of 2021.

Description

It is for now unclear if this Organized Play season will feature any tabletop events.

Esports

In May 2021, Magic Esports announced a return to in-person play post COVID-19 for the 2022–23 Players Tour Season. Although digital play was considered here to stay it is supposed to be only part of the equation going forward. As a result the 2021–22 Players Tour Season is going to be the last season featuring the MPL and the Rivals League. Players will not be competing for another League season. Instead, they'll be competing for a place in the World Championship.

Before this new vision for play can be implemented the 2021–22 Players Tour Season must be yet another transitional season. The 2021–2022 season's primary goals are to sunset the current system of play and aims to allow Wizards of the Coast the freedom and flexibility to create a new play system for the future. Along the way, the season will see a reduced total number of events for the Rivals and Magic Pro Leagues. All of this will culminate in post-season play and a World Championship. This structure is not meant to be a template for the future.

The 2021-2022 Esports season begins with the same size leagues as the beginning of 2020–2021 with 24 players in the MPL and 48 players in the Rivals League.

The existing Split Championship structure will remain in place, but Wizards of the Coast will be increasing the prize pool and updating the prize structure compared to the Strixhaven Championship. Set Championships will feature prize pools of $450,000 per event, over three events.

League Weekends and the Gauntlets will not be run in 2021–2022.

The World Championship will feature a prize pool of $250,000.