For the second time in four appearances, Nathan Steuer won the Magic Online <\/em>Champions Showcase, expertly piloting Izzet Phoenix through the Pioneer rounds to secure his victory.<\/p>
The 2022 Magic Online <\/em>Champions Showcase Season 2 is a key part of the digital premier play system that leads into the Magic <\/em>World Championship, and preparations are already underway to determine the competitors for the 2023 World Championship. Last week featured the Arena Championship<\/em>, a tournament that awarded two invitations to next years World Championship. This week was Magic Online<\/em>‘s turn to take the spotlight.<\/p>
Players competed through six Swiss rounds. Three rounds of Modern Cube opened the event, followed by three rounds of Pioneer Constructed. Steuer earned his spot in the finals with a 3-0 performance in the Pioneer portion of the tournament.<\/p>
His opponent in the finals, Kiran Dhokia, earned his spot by going 3-0 in Modern Draft. Dhokia also received an invitation to the 2023 Magic <\/em>World Championship for his runner-up performance.<\/p>
Steuer was able to take advantage of Dhokia’s clunky Mono-Green Devotion hands. With the powerful tempo gameplan online, Steuer was able to lead Izzet Phoneix to a stellar finals win.<\/p>
Modern Cube Draft was a refreshing addition to MOCS, which typically includes three rounds of Limited at the start of the tournament. Typically it is Vintage Cube, a beloved format in Magic Online<\/em>. Modern Cube was exciting and ended up with Dhokia sweeping the bracket with a Rakdos Midrange deck that ran with the synergy of a Constructed list.<\/p>
The next competitive Magic <\/em>event is the big one: Magic <\/em>World Championship XXVIII. On Oct. 28 to 30, the tournament will be held at the Magic 30 <\/em>convention and will pit 32 players against each other to determine the next Magic <\/em>world champion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Steuer is on a roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":623508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":true,"_is_affiliated":false,"dotesports_deal_href":"","dotesports_featured_video":"","_notify_users":2,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-09T00:50:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"d40b0f4b-21c1-4315-8add-6aec6df89617","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-09T00:50:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1AsPSyHBQxWK3WrsbfiWFw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3318],"tags":[43952],"invoiceable_action":[],"internal-label":[],"article_type":[44125],"coauthors":[{"id":1838,"display_name":"Xavier Johnson","user_login":"xavierjohnson","user_nicename":"xavierjohnson"}],"class_list":["post-703901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mtg","tag-hide-from-homepage","article_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
