Wizards of the Coast is bringing custom streamer events to its free-to-play digital collectible card game “Magic: The Gathering Arena,” it announced on Thursday.
Each month, the developer will select a few creators in the community and hold an event based around their personality and play style. Those events will then be available in-game for a weekend.
“Since the launch of Open Beta less than a month ago, 100 million games have been played!” Wizards of the Coast said in a blog post. “During that time, an incredible amount of creator content has been made by the ‘Magic: The Gathering Arena’ community. ‘Magic’ players have been teaching, competing, entertaining, deckbuilding, and sharing these experiences online. ‘The Magic: The Gathering Arena’ team wants to continue to encourage these talented creators to make and enjoy great content in a way that is unique to ‘Magic.’”
In other “Magic: The Gathering Arena” news, Wizards of the Coast said it’s still working on features that will allow people to play with their friends, including a new game mode called Direct Challenge, where players can type in each other’s usernames and start a match. Direct Challenge will launch in the next November update.
“Magic: The Gathering Arena” is currently in open beta and is expected to fully launch sometime in 2019.
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