2011

The year 2011 was the nineteenth year of existence for Magic: The Gathering.

Events

Date	Event
January 10	Release of Masters Edition IV on Magic Online.
January 18	Release of Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, an online turn-based Magic strategy game.
February 4	Release of Mirrodin Besieged. Introducing Event decks. The prerelease featured faction packs and urged players to "Pick a Side". At the Game Day preview cards were revealed for both Mirrodin Pure and New Phyrexia.
February 10–13	Pro Tour Paris, France. Won by Ben Stark.
March 11	Release of the Deck Builder's Toolkit 2011. Second and last Toolkit to be sold as a separate product.
April 1	Release of Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons.
April 1	Announcement of Duet Decks: Liliana with Gideon. April Fools.
	Complete New Phyrexia set leaked when unauthorized players gained access to the set's "God Book"
May 13	Release of New Phyrexia. Introducing Phyrexian mana. Only 10% of the cards belonged to the Mirran faction.
May 19	Modern introduced as a non-sanctioned Magic Online format.
June 10–12	Pro Tour Nagoya, Japan. Won by David Sharfman.
June 17	Release of Commander. Based on the casual fan-made and maintained Elder Dragon Highlander format (EDH). EDH officially renamed Commander.
July 15	Release of Magic 2012. Introducing Booster Battle Packs; semi-random two-player game packs.
August 26	Release of From the Vault: Legends.
September 2	Release of Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas.
September 2–4	Pro Tour Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Won by Samuele Estratti. The Modern format made official.
September 30	Release of Innistrad. Top-down-designed with a gothic horror theme. Introducing double-faced cards and checklist cards.
November 17–20	2011 World Championships in San Francisco, California, United States. Won by Jun'ya Iyanaga. Team champions: Japan.
November 18	Release of Premium Deck Series: Graveborn. Last set in the Premium Deck Series.
	Player of the Year: Owen Turtenwald.
	Rookie of the Year: Matthias Hunt.
	Hall of Fame inductees: Shuhei Nakamura Anton Jonsson Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz

Publications

• Scars of Mirrodin: The Quest for Karn (April)
• Path of the Planeswalker II (June)

First involved

Wizards of the Coast

• Trick Jarrett
• Mike McArtor

R&D

• Ryan Dhuse
• Jenna Helland
• Joe Huber
• Adam Lee
• Peter Schaefer
• Lee Sharpe

Artists

Mirrodin Besieged

• Cos Koniotis

New Phyrexia

• Brad Rigney
• Clint Cearly
• Min Yum

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012

• Sam Burley

Commander

• Ironbrush
• Michael C. Hayes
• Peter Mohrbacher
• Slawowir Maniak
• Yeong-Hao Min

Magic 2012

• Cliff Childs

Innistrad

• Anthony Jones
• Cynthia Sheppard
• Eytan Zana
• Mark Evans
• Winona Nelson