Gavin Verhey confirms that Ultimate Masters was previously Immortal Masters, a graveyard-based set. Arena will have Discord integration very soon. WotC hires Ben Drago, formerly of Hearthstone's HCT, to run Competitive Gaming. As for WotC's PR trainwrecks of the week the MagicProTour Twitter account changed to MagicEsports...but they didn't park the old account name, which was immediately snatched up.
WotC also announced that MagicFest London will be on Prerelease weekend, prompting ChannelFireball to announce that the GP for that event will be a massive prerelease. Sorry to LGS's in and around London.
Oh, and there were tournaments. Finding the coverage was a large pain, but we tracked it down.
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NEWS
State of Magic Product Design - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/state-product-design-2018-2019-02-05
Arena update - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-beta-february-2019-02-11
MagicEsports Twitter account - https://twitter.com/MagicEsports/status/1093912460380139520
Next "innovation" set will apparently impact Modern somehow - http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/182721632583/hi-mark-this-years-innovation-set-will-impact
Ben Drago now at WotC - https://twitter.com/bdrago/status/1092822525908738054
MagicFest London is prerelease weekend - https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1095034737813532672
CFB follows up with "GP Prerelease" - https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/apl2k3/announcing_prerelease_grand_prix_at_magicfest/
Hasbro earnings - https://investor.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-full-year-and-fourth-quarter-2018-financial
MagicFest Toronto - http://coverage.channelfireball.com/event/1
SCG Dallas - http://www.starcitygames.com/events/090219_dallas.html
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