A community organization's public MTGSL profile page
For schools, libraries, community centres, and clubs

Magic is for everyone. The software should be too.

If you run a Magic program at a school, a library, a community centre, or a campus club, you get the full MTGSL toolset at no cost. Unlimited leagues, series standings, an organization profile, and staff accounts. Not a trial, not a stripped-down version, and not a plan that expires when your program grows.

Apply for a Community account
Free, permanently. Applications are reviewed by hand, usually within three business days.
A community organization's public MTGSL profile page

Why this tier exists

The best thing about Magic is that it puts four people around a table who otherwise would not be in the same room. That happens in stores, and it also happens in school libraries at lunch, in community centre back rooms on Saturday mornings, and in campus clubs run by someone who volunteered and now cannot get out of it.

Those programs run on one person's free time. When that person gets busy, the spreadsheet stops getting updated, the standings go stale, and the group quietly stops meeting. That is not a software problem exactly, but software is one of the things making it harder than it needs to be.

So the Community tier is free, and it stays free. Not free-for-now, not free-until-you-hit-a-limit. MTGSL is a business and the stores and organizers who pay for it are what keeps it running. This part is not meant to make money. It is meant to make it easier for someone running Magic for kids or students or neighbours to keep doing it.

Applications are reviewed personally by Karim, who built MTGSL. That is a slower process than clicking a button, and it is deliberate.

What you get

Unlimited leagues and events

As many as you want, running simultaneously. No player caps.

Series with cross-event standings

Run a term or a semester as one season, with standings that carry across every event in it.

Organization profile

One page for your club, school, or centre, with every event and every result in one place. Share it with parents, staff, or the rest of the campus.

Staff accounts

Add teachers, librarians, volunteers, or student officers with their own logins and scoped permissions. The program does not live and die with one person's password.

Automated everything

Pairings, Commander pods, tiebreakers, ELO, and standings. The admin that eats a lunch break disappears.

Match scheduling

Propose times, players confirm by email, calendar invites go out. Useful when your players have timetables.

Who qualifies

This is for:
  • Schools and school clubs, elementary through secondary
  • Public libraries and library programs
  • Community centres and youth programs
  • University and college tabletop clubs and student societies
  • Registered non-profits and charities running play programs
  • Volunteer-run community groups with no revenue
This is not for:
  • Retail game stores, including stores running community events. The LGS plan is for you and it does what you need.
  • Independent organizers charging entry fees. That is the Pro plan at eight dollars a month.

If you are somewhere in between, apply anyway and say so in the form. Edge cases get read by a person, not a rule.

How to apply

1
Create your account

Five minutes. Tell us your community type, roughly how many players, and a short description of what you run.

2
It gets read

By Karim, personally. Usually within three business days. If something is unclear he will email and ask rather than decline.

3
Set up your first league

Once you are approved, the account is yours. There is nothing else to unlock and nothing to pay.

Apply for a Community account

FAQ

Yes, permanently, with no player or event limits. The paid plans exist for stores and for organizers charging entry fees. This one is not a trial of those.

Because the tier is meant for a specific set of people and the only way to keep it that way is for someone to read the applications. It is a person, not a filter, and it is usually done within three business days.

Then have a look at the Pro plan, which handles Stripe collection. If it is a one-time thing like a charity tournament, email and ask rather than switching plans.

Yes. Add as many staff accounts as you need, with permissions scoped so a student officer can report results without being able to change your league settings.

Yes, free ones, in a browser. No app to download.

Because staff accounts are separate, the organization profile and all its history stay put. Hand over the manager role and the club keeps going.

If you are running Magic for your community, this is yours.

No cost, no catch, no expiry. Just tell us who you are.

Apply for a Community account
Reviewed by hand, usually within three business days.