MTG Arena + Mythic Championship = $750,000 in prize money! Welcome to Mythic Championship III in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. A field of 32 MPL players and 36 Challengers are ready to test their mettle in a fight to win the first Mythic Championship on MTG Arena.

Where is the event?

Mandalay Bay Convention Center
3950 S Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Mythic Championship III will be filmed on a closed set and is not open to the public.

Who is playing?

The tournament is made up of 32 members of the MPL and 36 Challengers. MPL Spark Split Division winners Brad Nelson, Rei Sato, Brian Braun-Duin, and Ken Yukuhiro earned automatic advancement to Day Two.

MPL

Challengers

Who are the casters?

• Sean "Day9" Plott: Host
• Maria Bartholdi: Desk Host
• Becca Scott: Reporter
• Marshall Sutcliffe: Play-By-Play
• AliasV: Play-By-Play
• Cedric Phillips: Analyst
• Paul Cheon: Analyst

What is the format?

Traditional Best of Three Standard Constructed across all three days.

Day One – Modified Swiss
Players battle it out in up to eight rounds on Magic: The Gathering Arena. Players who earn six wins will automatically advance to Day Two. Players who lose four matches are eliminated.

Day Two – Top 16 Double-Elimination
The Top 12 from Day One join the four Magic Pro League divisional champions from the Spark Split in a 16-person, double-elimination showdown. Only four players will move on to Sunday.

Day Three – Top 4 Double-Elimination
Four players compete in a true double-elimination tournament. In the Grand Finals, the winners from the Upper Bracket and Lower Bracket will face off. The player in the Lower Bracket must win two matches to win the tournament.

Schedule

Friday, June 21: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC
Broadcast ends after the Top 16 announcement

Saturday, June 22: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC
Broadcast ends after the Top 4 announcement

Sunday, June 23: 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. UTC
Broadcast ends after the trophy ceremony

When will decklists be published?

We'll give you a tease of the metagame on June 17, and then post all 68 decks on June 19 with a full analysis of the metagame coming from Magic Hall of Famer Frank Karsten.

This is all cool, but how does the money break down?

Wait, aren't Mythic Points a thing now?

Yep! And players get some in this event! Here is how they are given out:

Where can I follow the event?

For match by match updates, be sure to check out the Magic Esports site regularly and follow @MagicEsports on Twitter and Wizards_Magic on Instagram. To stay in touch on social media, use the hashtag #MythicChampionshipIII. And, of course, we will be streaming all the sweet action on twitch.tv/magic.

Following Twitch's Content Sharing Guidelines, you can co-stream Mythic Championship III from twitch.tv/magic using OBS or XSplit. This allows anyone on Twitch to be able to cover the event in their voice and with their community. To be clear, co-streamed content is not endorsed by Wizards. And we expect anyone who participates in co-streaming to follow Wizards' Fan Content Policy.