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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To anyone who saw this in the Arena Announcements article today and is curious, I've had it confirmed to me that Contender drafts now use a separate player pool for matchmaking. It still shares a pool of players with Premier for the actual drafts, however.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

With the final PT of 2026 in the books, here are the players who can still win the Kai Budde Award at Worlds. It's a little more complicated, but basically Larsen wins unless one of these players Top 8's. Larsen getting to 8-x starts eliminating players.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here are the 32 players currently leading the AMP race for at-large World Championship bids, as well as the 8 players tied just one AMP match win behind them. With one Pro Tour left this year, it's shaping up to be a tight race!

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

At the halfway point in the season, here is the Kai Budde POTY race Top 20. Full standings can be found here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A huge thank you to @magiconline.bsky.social and @heavyplayllc.bsky.social yLLC for the sweet package I got today full of Heavy Play goodies from the MTGO Gameshowdown!

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Across the 4 major Standard events today (Spotlight Series, RC Turin, RC Central America, RC MIT), this is the deck representation. 4 of the Landfall decks came from the Spotlight Series.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

North 100 Showdown is a perfect show.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My birthday is Thursday, so I'm doing a chaos mystery draft at my LGS on Wednesday night. This is the 3rd time I've bought a kit from them, and they've always been great. I highly recommend them. They don't sponsor me or anything, I just like supporting small companies I use.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It's open season. They have a little blurb about it on the bottom of every PT Viewer's Guide article.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Holy shit, I took almost the exact same screenshot yesterday.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

With Cube 4 Charity starting soon, here are some multi-stream links in case one stream at a time isn't enough for you! - Team Trevor Project - www.multitwitch.tv/d00mwake/yun... - Team AFSP - www.multitwitch.tv/yellowhat/me... - For The Sicko Watchers - www.multitwitch.tv/d00mwake/yun...

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It didn't do a lot right, but Spider-Man had my favorite flavor text of the year:

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Small spoilers for today's Lorwyn story... If Lilian is desparked, please please please have someone give her the choice to get her spark back ***or*** save her students, and let her choose her students. Please. But in the meantime, this exchange rules.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The @magiconline.bsky.social Creator Gameshowdown this Saturday, December 12th is hosted by the incredible @myhandsareblank.bsky.social. There's going to be 7 talented people playing, and also I'll be there.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Current PotY standings going into Day 2 of Worlds. Players, their current record, and their current POY points are listed in the first box. The other two boxes are how scoring works. "Worlds Points" is match points (3 per match win, 1 per match draw), and Worlds Finish is Top 8.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

An Arena Dev confirmed for me that the Bo3 Play-In will be on the 12th, and the ACQ weekend will be on the 13th and 14th as normal. My calendar shows them correctly. mtgscribe.com/events/

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I've lost to Koma two different times now, and it's starting to feel personal.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I think there's likely an error here...

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Carmen in the Top 8 of the Vegas Riftbound 10k. Just casual GOAT things.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I took the Riftbound L1 Judge test today. My only complaint is they don't tell you which question you got wrong. I'm 99% sure I know, and what the right answer was, but I'd love to be able to for sure learn from the mistake.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The wheel stud snapped off my car. This isn't important, right?

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

No additional details at this time, but William Jensen announced the Magic Limited Championship, coming in 2027!!!

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good news for Pizza Land haters, it looks like they're not going to appear in Play Boosters

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Don't Duskmourn distracted, or you too may end up a cautionary tale:

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Going into Worlds 2024, we had 8 players competing for the Kai Budde Award. In 2025? We've got 37.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

It looks like 49 AMPs ended up being the threshold. I'm going to double check to make sure I'm not missing someone who should have a Worlds invite, but this looks to be our at-large Worlds invites. #PTEOE mtgscribe.com/2025/09/26/m...

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Next year's Modern PT will feature a Top 8 Draft

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just a couple of neat pics I took at 1am or later while camping last weekend.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Taken at 1am, no lights, no flash.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I woke up today to the power being out. So that's fun.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

If you saw tomorrow's ACQ listed as Aetherdrift Sealed, I've had it confirmed to me that this was a mistake and is being fixed. The event will be Edge of Eternities, as expected.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

For me I think it's this version of Beyond the Quiet by @serenamalyon.bsky.social . I've been absolutely agog over it since I first saw it, and I just bought a canvas version from her Inprint store.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This was for my 7th win and in to Day 2. I accidentally clicked to move to the next step instead of "Attack All" when I had exactly lethal, and they had exactly lethal if I didn't kill them this turn. And I'm supposed to *sleep* now?

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

There's even a 4 mana tutor for it!

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I'm MTG_Scribe, and Virulent Silencer is my favorite Wingmantle Chaplain in the set.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In case anyone has seen this event on Arena, I'm currently working to get more information. As far as I'm aware, it was never announced anywhere.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

3-0 (6-0) today with this, which puts me at 8-1 for the weekend. I'm loving this set so far.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I love the commitment to making Eldrazi interact with rules in weird and unusual ways. Giving this thing a kind of reverse landfall in a landfall set (it cares about lands being played before it hits the field rather than while it's on the field) and a leaves the battlefield effect, is fun flavor.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Absolutely wild how they managed to stick Hidetsugu's Second Rite into this set as a meld card. I won my post-prerelease midnight draft because of this.

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A $30 draft is a lot more palatable when you P1P1 a $90 card. #SierkoFinance

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Mike Provencher @mtgscribe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Please note that both a Best of 1 and a Best of 3 Play-In are happening today for this weekend's Arena Championship Qualifier. They are both Historic, as is tomorrow's ACQ. This is to make up for the accidental Pioneer Play-In last weekend.

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