2025–26 Premier Play Season
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| Player of the Year | TBA | |||
| World Champion | TBA | |||
| Hall of Fame inductions | TBA | |||
| PTs | 3 | |||
| Magic Spotlights | 12 | |||
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The 2025–26 Premier Play season is the thirty-first Pro Tour season for Magic: The Gathering. The season opens with Regional Championships in October 2025 and ends with the 2026 World Championship in November, 2026.[1]
Tournaments
Regional Championships 10
The Regional Championships between October 11 to November 23, 2025 awarded invites to Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed and the 2026 World Championship. The format was Modern Constructed.[2] For South America and Brazil, Devir BR assumed the Regional Championship partnerships from Magicsur and City Class Games respectively.[3] Going forward, there will be one Regional Championship event covering the combined Brazil and South America regions, with a total $40,000 prize pool, ten Pro Tour invitations, and two World Championship invitations per each event.
Date: October 10–12, 2025
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1. Vinicio Sanchez Delgado
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Date: October 17–19, 2025
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Date: October 18–19, 2025
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1. Se̍k-un Khó
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Date: October 24–26, 2025
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1. James Drake
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Date: October 31–November 2, 2025
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Date: November 1–2, 2025
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Date: November 7–9, 2025
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Date: November 21–23, 2025
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Date: November 21–23, 2025
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Date: November 21–23, 2025
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Date: November 21–23, 2025
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Arena Championship 10
Arena Championship 10 took place on December 20–21, 2025.[4] The format was Timeless Constructed. 112 players participated in the tournament, the largest for an Arena Championship since the series began.[5] Many high-profile players qualified, such as World Champions Nathan Steuer and Jun'ya Iyanaga and Pro Tour Champions Ondřej Stráský, Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer, Matt Nass and Arne Huschenbeth.
Timeless was a uniquely unexplored format for a high-level tournament, given the number of power level outliers and little resemblance to its closest analogue of Vintage. Strip Mine was legal at four copies, the only format in which this has been true in nearly three decades. The most played deck was a superpowered version of the Modern Boros Energy deck, here a Mardu build with Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a Companion, another card banned out of many formats. Vintage-restricted Necropotence and its descendant Necrodominance powered by Dark Ritual was second-most popular, backed with Entomb-Reanimate. Legacy staples of Mono-Red Prison and Dimir Reanimator have their cores intact, rounding out the top four archetypes.[6]
The Mono-Black Necro decks overpowered most of the field with multiple one-turn combos, taking up half of the Top 16 when the Orzhov variant was taken into account. Pro Tour champions Stráský and DeBenedetto-Plummer faced off in the finals, with DeBenedetto-Plummer exploiting the inherent instability of the Necro deck giving him the accolade of "The Necro-Slayer" and the championship title.
| Place | Player | Prize | Points | Timeless Deck |
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| 1 |  Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer
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$30,000 | Mono-Red Prison | |
| 2 |  Ondrej Strasky
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$20,000 | Mono-Black Necro | |
| 3 |  Piotr Szyiński
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$15,000 | Mono-Black Necro | |
| 4 | Alex Friedrichsen
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$15,000 | Mono-Black Necro | |
| 5 |  Hongbin Sun
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$10,000 | Mardu Energy | |
| 6 | Greg Dyer
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$10,000 | Mono-Black Necro | |
| 7 | Phillip Mahr
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$10,000 | Mono-Red Prison | |
| 8 | Matt Nass
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$10,000 | Mono-Black Necro |
Spotlight: The Avatar
The first two Spotlights of this season simultaneously take place on January 9-11, 2026, in Atlanta, USA and Lyon, France.[7] The format is Standard Constructed.
Date: January 9-11, 2026
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Date: January 9-11, 2026
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Regional Championships 11
The Regional Championships between January 24 and March 22, 2026 award invites to Pro Tour Secrets of Strixhaven and the 2026 World Championship.[8][9]
Date: January 23-25, 2026
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Date: February 14-15, 2026
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Date: February 20-22, 2026
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Date: February 20-22, 2026
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Date: March 6-8, 2026
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Date: March 6-8, 2026
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Date: March 13–15, 2026
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Date: March 13–15, 2026
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Date: March 14–15, 2026
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Date: TBA
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Date: March 13–15, 2026
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Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed
The first Pro Tour of 2026 takes place on January 30 – February 1, 2026, at Richmond, Virginia, USA. This Pro Tour will not be held at a MagicCon. This will be a closed event for participants and won't be open to the public.[10] The format is Lorwyn Eclipsed Booster Draft and Standard Constructed.
| Place | Player | Deck | Prize | Points | Comment |
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Spotlight: Eclipsed
Spotlight: Eclipsed takes place on February 6–8, 2026, in Toronto, Canada. The format is Lorwyn Eclipsed Limited.
Date: February 6–8, 2026
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Arena Championship 11
Arena Championship 11 takes place on February 21–22, 2026. The format is Standard Constructed.[11]
Spotlight: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spotlight: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles takes place on March 6–8, 2026, in Richmond, USA. The format is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Standard Constructed.
Pro Tour Secrets of Strixhaven
The second Pro Tour of 2026 takes place on May 1–3, 2026, at MagicCon Las Vegas, USA. The format is Secrets of Strixhaven Booster Draft and Standard Constructed.[10]
Arena Championship 12
Arena Championship 12 takes place on May 23–24, 2026. The format is Historic Constructed.[11]
Spotlight: Secrets
Two Spotlights with the same theme take place in London, England on May 8–10, 2026 and in Chiba, Japan on May 29–31, 2026. The format is Secrets of Strixhaven Standard Constructed.
Spotlight: Marvel Super Heroes
A further two Spotlights with the same theme take place in Las Vegas, USA on June 26–28, 2026 and in Brussels, Belgium on July 24–26, 2026 . The format is Marvel Super Heroes Team Limited.
Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes
The third Pro Tour of 2026 takes place on July 17–19, 2026, at MagicCon Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The format is Marvel Super Heroes Booster Draft and Modern Constructed. The Top 8 playoff for this event will feature Booster Draft.[10]
Spotlight: The Hobbit
Two Spotlights with the same theme take place in Brisbane, Australia on August 28–30, 2026 and in Dallas, USA on September 4–6, 2026. The format is The Hobbit Modern Constructed.
Spotlight: Fracture
The final two Spotlights with the same theme take place in Hartford, USA on October 23–25, 2026 and in Bejing, China on November 6–8, 2026. The format is Reality Fracture Standard Constructed.
Magic World Championship
World Championship 32 takes place on November 13–15, 2026 at MagicCon Atlanta, USA. The format is TBA
References
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 26, 2025). "The Pro Tour and Magic Spotlight Series in 2026". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (February 11, 2025). "RCQ Promos for Spring and Magic Spotlight 2025 News". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (January 15, 2025). "Regional Championship Updates for the 2025–2026 Season". Magic.gg.
- ↑ John Schork (December 8, 2025). "MTG Arena Announcements – December 8, 2025". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (December 3, 2025). "Arena Championship 10 Viewer's Guide". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Frank Karsten (December 19, 2025). "Arena Championship 10 Timeless Metagame Breakdown". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (August 13, 2025). "Announcing Magic Spotlight: The Avatar in Atlanta, Georgia, and Lyon, France". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (June 3, 2025). "Announcing Upcoming RCQs, Spotlight Events, Eternal Weekends, and More!". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 30, 2025). "Announcing the 2025–26 Round 3 RCQs and Regional Championship Promos". Magic.gg.
- ↑ a b c Wizards of the Coast (October 15, 2024). "Announcing the 2026 MagicCon Schedule and Beyond". Magic.gg.
- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (December 8, 2925). "Qualifier Play-Ins and Qualifier Weekend Information". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.