Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes — What to Watch This Weekend

MagicCon Amsterdam is here, and alongside the set previews and panel reveals, the main competitive event of the weekend is upon us: Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes. It is one of the biggest Magic tournaments of the year, and it starts this week. Here is everything you need to know before you tune in.

The Stakes

Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes brings together hundreds of Magic's highest-level competitors, all vying for a share of a $500,000 prize pool. Beyond the money, top finishers earn invitations to the Magic World Championship — the ultimate goal for any competitive player. The winner also takes home a trophy and the title of the newest Pro Tour champion.

The Format

The event runs a two-format structure. Players compete in Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Draft and Modern Constructed across the Swiss rounds, before the Top 8 returns to the draft table on Sunday for the deciding matches. Modern has been in a particularly interesting place heading into the tournament: a recent banned and restricted update removed Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury from the format, shaking up the established metagame and opening the door for fresh strategies built around cards from the new set.

One card to watch in particular is Hex Magic, an uncommon from Marvel Super Heroes that has been climbing in price as players discover its power in Modern's Ruby Storm archetype. Its Arcane typing allows Storm players to splice rituals like Desperate Ritual onto it, and it has also found homes in Legacy Storm and Commander spellslinger builds. With the Pro Tour spotlight now on Modern, cards like this could see significant movement depending on how they perform on the big stage.

Namor the Sub-Mariner is another Marvel Super Heroes card to keep an eye on — a card built around blue spells that generates 1/1 Merfolk tokens whenever you cast a non-creature spell with a blue mana symbol, with power that scales alongside your Merfolk count.

How to Watch

Coverage of all three days of Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes will be broadcast live on twitch.tv/magic and the Play MTG YouTube channel, complete with commentary and expert analysis from the broadcast team. Whether you are watching to scout Modern decklists, follow your favourite players, or simply enjoy high-level Magic, it is a great weekend to have a second screen on.

For those who want to get involved digitally, the second MTG Arena Direct event featuring Marvel Super Heroes Sealed runs from 17–26 July, giving players the chance to win physical Play Booster boxes for six or more wins.

The Bigger Picture

MagicCon Amsterdam is also serving as the venue for major set reveals for both The Hobbit (releasing 14 August) and Reality Fracture (October), so even if competitive Magic is not your primary interest, the weekend promises a steady stream of spoilers and announcements. Star Trek, the final set of 2026 launching on 13 November, has also just had its first proper card reveal via the Weekly MTG stream — so the content pipeline for the rest of the year is well and truly open.

This is shaping up to be one of the most stacked weekends on the Magic calendar. Set your alarms, load up the stream, and enjoy the action.