Thursday Night Magic: Invitational Qualifier League
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Looking for a more competitive experience than FNM? Perhaps a challenging environment to test your deck and prepare for RCQs or PTs? Then our Thursday Night IQ League is for you!
Entry Fee: $12
$2 from every entry free goes into the prize pool for the Invitational Final.
Check-in begins: 6:30pm
Round 1 Start: 7pm
Round 1 starts at 7PM promptly. Late players will receive a round-one match loss.
Format:
- Constructed. Each season's legality format will match the current RCQ format.
- Regular Rules Enforcement Level
- Players will play 3 Swiss rounds.
- 2025 Season 1: January 9 - March 27 [Standard]
- Store Champs 1: March 29 [Standard]
- 2025 Season 2: April 17 - July 3 [Modern]
- Store Champs 2: May 24 [Modern]
- Store Champs 3: July 19 [Modern]
- 2025 Season 3: Dates TBD
- 2025 Invitational: Date TBD
Players will earn 1 point for each event they attend, 3 points per match win, and 1 point per draw. Season totals will be calculated by adding up all points and dropping the three lowest-scoring events, meaning you can miss up to three events without penalty.
You can keep track of your total on the online leaderboard.
Invites:
- The top 3 players from each season will earn an invite to the Atomic Empire Magic IQ League Finals for that year. (9 invites total)
- 4 of our WPN Store Championships will award an invite to the 1st place player.
- Additionally, there will be 3 at-large bids available throughout the 2025 IQ League.
- This means an invite will be awarded to the 3 overall league points leaders at the end of the 2025 League.
- You may only qualify once for the end of year tournament. If a player has already qualified and finished in the top four of another Season, the invitations will be given to the next highest accumulated points of that Season.
As the Final is invite-only, it will not have an admission fee. There, 16 players will compete for the prize pool that has accumulated across the course of all seasons.
Prizes for each tournament are in store credit based on record. Credit can be spent on future event registration, snacks and drinks, or any inventory, including Magic singles.
Prizes by Record (Wins-Losses-Draws):
- 3-0 gets $25
- 2-0-1 gets $20
- 2-1 gets $15
Additionally, when the format is Standard, Cowboy Bebop Standard Showdown promos will be awarded to the top players.
The winner of each Season will be awarded a one-of-a-kind custom Atomic Empire Season Champion playmat. Though a player may win an invite to that year's Invitational only once, they may win more than one playmat throughout the year.