MagicCon Atlanta, Day 1: What Is on Today

The show opens, the World Championship starts and the Star Trek set comes out.

By Pyrias Published November 13, 2026 Updated November 10, 2026

Welcome to Day 1

MagicCon Atlanta opens today at the Georgia World Congress Center. The show floor is open 10am to 7pm Eastern.

The World Championship

Magic World Championship 32 starts around 9am with a Star Trek . In a , players open packs and build a deck from what they get. Friday and Saturday each have three draft rounds, then four rounds of , a that uses only recent sets. Wizards lists these start times as approximate.

New Today

The Star Trek set comes out today. Every badge comes with a Wayfarer's Bauble , which is a special version of a card you can only get a certain way. Family Spark runs a cosplay workshop for families today.

Still To Come

The Mana Stage shows, including Game Knights Live, have no posted times yet. Check the show schedule when you get there.

Booster DraftThe most common kind of draft. Each player opens a booster pack, keeps one card and passes the rest to the player next to them, and this repeats until every pack is used up. Everyone then builds a deck from the cards they kept and plays against the others at the table.Open the full glossaryDraftA way to play where you build your deck during the event. Players take turns picking cards, one at a time, from packs that get passed around the table, then build a deck from only the cards they picked.Open the full glossaryStandardA Magic format that only allows cards from the most recent sets, so older cards leave it as new sets come out. It is a different format from Commander.Open the full glossaryFormatA set of rules for a kind of Magic game: which cards you may use, how big the deck is and how the game is set up. Commander and Standard are two formats.Open the full glossary

Part of the MagicCon Atlanta Series. Going in person? Meet the Artists lists who will be there and their booth numbers.

Every Card in This Article

Wayfarer's Bauble

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printingThe same card can be printed in many sets. Each one is a printing, with its own art and price.CombosTwo or more cards that, put together, do something far bigger than either of them does alone, often ending the game on the spot. Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood are a well-known pair: together they drain every opponent to zero.Open the full glossaryLand FetchSearches your deck for a land. That handles color fixing (making sure you can produce the specific colors of mana your cards ask for), and because it puts a real land onto the battlefield, it also switches on landfall. Cultivate, Farseek, Evolving WildsOpen the Land Fetch pageMana SinkGives you somewhere useful to spend spare mana, usually through an ability you can activate again and again. Rogue's Passage, Mind StoneOpen the Mana Sink pageRampAn effect that accelerates your mana, giving you a reusable mana source beyond the usual one land per turn. Cultivate Rampant GrowthOpen the Ramp pageSelf-SacrificeSacrifices itself as part of its own ability, trading the permanent away for what it does. Evolving Wilds, Mind StoneOpen the Self-Sacrifice pageTutors / ToolboxCards that search your deck for another card, each one called a tutor, so you can find the exact answer you need.Open the Tutors / Toolbox page

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