I never played on an MTGO league back when they existed but this is generally how they work.
You sign up for the league along with X number of other people. You purchase 6 packs and create a sealed deck. Throughout the a week or a month you can play anyone else in your league with your sealed deck and your wins/losses are recorded. At the end of the week/month you can purchase a new pack and add that to your sealed deck pool. This lasts over the course of a season, a few months or however long they set it out. At the end of the league prizes are given out depending on your standings within the league.
In short, it was a relatively cheap way to play competitively on MTGO as much as you wanted over a long period of time.
For not playing them, you got really close Leahcim!
Leagues had two flavors, release leagues and regular leagues.
Release leagues were only run during the release of a new set. They ran for one week, and no packs could be added. Essentially it's a sealed deck with no limit of playing for the week. Very nice.
Regular leagues ran one month and broke down like this:
You started with six packs, they run for four weeks. Each week you'd play five 'points' matches and as many 'tiebreaker' matches as you wanted to. Each week you could add one more pack of product, or not, depending on if you wanted to keep throwing money at your original pool. This would go on for four weeks.
As mentioned, they were a very economical way to handle sealed for players that just wanted to play a lot of sealed for a low price.
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You sign up for the league along with X number of other people. You purchase 6 packs and create a sealed deck. Throughout the a week or a month you can play anyone else in your league with your sealed deck and your wins/losses are recorded. At the end of the week/month you can purchase a new pack and add that to your sealed deck pool. This lasts over the course of a season, a few months or however long they set it out. At the end of the league prizes are given out depending on your standings within the league.
In short, it was a relatively cheap way to play competitively on MTGO as much as you wanted over a long period of time.
Leagues had two flavors, release leagues and regular leagues.
Release leagues were only run during the release of a new set. They ran for one week, and no packs could be added. Essentially it's a sealed deck with no limit of playing for the week. Very nice.
Regular leagues ran one month and broke down like this:
You started with six packs, they run for four weeks. Each week you'd play five 'points' matches and as many 'tiebreaker' matches as you wanted to. Each week you could add one more pack of product, or not, depending on if you wanted to keep throwing money at your original pool. This would go on for four weeks.
As mentioned, they were a very economical way to handle sealed for players that just wanted to play a lot of sealed for a low price.
MTGO Writer and Epic Time-Waster.
If you have questions about MTGO PM me, I'm all up ons, as it were.
Check out my articles on http://puremtgo.com/ I'm the nerd you see there... wait, not that one. Nope, not that one either... yeah. That one.
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