Wizards of the Coast finally revealed the discretionary invites for the Magic: The Gathering Rivals League, a new talent-development league consisting of 32 players as part of its improved path in esports. The bottom 12 members of the Magic Pro League were moved down to Rivals and the top tabletop and digital players from the 2019 season were added.
Wizards also awarded four discretionary invites to the Rivals League. You can check out the 32 Rivals League MTG players for the 2020 partial season, organized based on how they earned their spots, as shared by a Redditor user:
Passed down from MPL to Rivals League
Lucas Esper Berthoud
Jessica Estephan
Eric Froehlich
Christian Hauck
Alexander Hayne
Grzegorz Kowalski
Matthew Nass
John Rolf
Luis Salvatto
Mike Sigrist
Ben Stark
Awarded Rivals seat based on digital point rankings
Kai Budde
Stanislav Cifka
Kenji Egashira
Simon Görtzen
Matias Leveratto
Théo Moutier
Greg Orange
Miguel da Cruz Simões
Awarded Rivals seat based on tabletop point rankings
Louis-Samuel Deltour
Eli Kassis
No Ah Ma
Sebastián Pozzo
Luis Scott-Vargas
Thoralf Severin
Matt Sperling
Yoshihiko Ikawa
Bernardo Santos
Discretionary invites to Rivals League
Beatriz Grancha (top-ranked in MTG Arena)
Emma Handy (Star City Games grinder)
Ally Warfield (Top-four finisher at Grand Prix Indianapolis 2019 and full-time streamer)
Eli Loveman (winner of Mythic Championship II)
That's a stacked Rivals League! I'm rooting for Stansilav Cifka to get the top spot, and I hope he makes it to the Magic Pro League next year.
Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen and Peter Yeh were originally invited into this year's MTG Rivals League, but they declined their invitations. Savjz recently said that he wanted to focus solely on creating content for his streaming channels.
The next two top-ranked tabletop point players, Bernado Santos and Yoshihiko Ikawa, were added to the league to replace their spots.
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