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Community Cup
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The Magic Online Community Cup as a yearly invitation-only tournament, first held in 2009, in which a group of [[Wizards of the Coast]] compete against a group of eight or twelve Magic players selected via a voting system in Magic Online. The tournament is held at the WOTC offices in Renton, Washington, but played by using the Magic Online software. The participants of the Community team are flown in. The tournament is held using a variety of differing and often strange formats such as [[Cube draft]], Unified Ravnica Constructed (allowing all cards from both [[Ravnica block]] and [[Return to Ravnica block]]).
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In lieu of physical prices, each user account on Magic Online which was active during the Community Cup will be gifted a special promo card after the tournament concludes. Should the Community team win, the card will be a very sought after and powerful card. Should the Wizards team, each active account will still be gifted a card, bit it will be a very low quality card such as <c>Sorrow's Path</c> or <c>Darksteel Relic</c>.
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Community teams often consist of Pro players as well as content creatures for Magic websites such as video streamers, podcast hosts and authors of strategy articles.
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Community Cup results
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{
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! scope="col" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;"|'''Year'''
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! scope="col" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;"|'''Community team'''
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! scope="col" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;"|'''Result'''
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! scope="col" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;"|'''Prize awarded'''
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| [https://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/mtgoccup09/welcome 2009]
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| [[Thomas Baird]], [[Alex Ullman]], [[Mike Linton]], [[Walter Kolcynski]], [[Pete Jahn]], [[Sam McCarl]], [[John Baichtal]], [[Erik Friborg]]
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| 398-341 for the Community Team
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| [https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/mtgoccup10/welcome 2010]
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| [[Brad Nelson]], [[Gavin Verhey]], [[Victor Bloodgood]], [[Joseph Hill]], [[Marin Baraba]], [[Callum Milne]], [[Evan Erwin]], [[Ed Grabianowski]], [[Bill Stark]]<br/>[[Joshua Claytor]] was unable to attend.
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| 398-341 for the Community Team
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| One [[Mirrodin block]] draft set
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| [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/mtgoccup11/welcome 2011]
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| [[Chris Kuehl]], [[Joe Dillard]], [[Michelle Roberson]], [[George Efelis]], [[Luis Scott-Vargas]], [[Josef Kronbichler]], [[Bing Luke]], [[Marshall Sutcliffe]], [[LoadingReadyRun|Graham Stark]]
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| 243-147 for the Community Team
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| Invitation to a special four round tournament with additional prizes (at least one [[Magic 2011]] booster for participation)
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| [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/mtgoccup12/welcome 2012]
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| [[Jonathan Loucks]], [[Jackie Lee]], [[Neale Talbot]], [[Jessie Smith]], [[Conley Woods]], [[Heath Newton]], [[Walter Kolcynski]], [[LoadingReadyRun|James Turner]]
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| 268-228 for the Wizards Team
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| <c>Sorrow's Path</c>
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| [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/mtgoccup13/welcome 2013]
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| [[Melissa DeTora]], [[Reid Duke]], [[Kenji Egashira]], [[Matthew Watkins]], [[Tom Delia]], [[Jan van der Vegt]], [[Michael Jacob]], [[Keya Saleh]]
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| 233-201 for the Community Team
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| <c>Sliver Queen</c> and <c>Rakdos Cackler</c>
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==Issues and controversies==
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===Invasion block
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As
[[Invasion block]]
was one of the first sets released on Magic Online,
cards
of the block are in short supply as the user base was very small at the time.
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===Judgment spoiler===
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Due to a mistake, the entirety of [[Judgment]] was spoiled via Magic Online when the set was released in the Software too early. This has led to the release of Sets on Magic Online to be set to several weeks after the release of the physical product.
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===Instability and removal of premier events===
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After suffering a tournament loss by experiencing technical issues on Magic Online, [[Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame]] member [[Brian Kibler]] aired his frustration in an article on [[StarCityGames]] entitled "The Magic Online Championship Series should not exist".<ref>[http://www.starcitygames.com/article/27314_The-Magic-Online-Championship-Series-Should-Not-Exist.html "The Magic Online Championship Series Should Not Exist"], [[Brian Kibler]], [[StarcityGames]], 2013-11-11, retrieved 2014-01-25</ref> As this server instability and the inability to restore Magic Online Tournaments to certain states have been a longstanding issue, this led to the suspension several types of high profile event types of events<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/feature/273|Changes to Magic Online Events|Worth Wollpert|Wednesday, November 13, 2013}}</ref> which have been slowly phased back in since.<ref>{{DailyRef| Magic Online Update|Worth Wollpert|Tuesday, November 26, 2013}}</ref>
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