Eventlink runs your sanctioned FNM. MTGSL runs everything it was never built for: multi-week Commander leagues, sealed seasons, store championships, and the standings that give players a reason to be back next Thursday. Now with store analytics, so you can see whether it is working.
Standings that carry across weeks turn one good night into eight. Players who are sitting fourth with three weeks left do not skip a week. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the only one that reliably moves midweek attendance.
A season gives players something to build toward. Deck changes get tracked week over week, so the metagame in your store becomes visible to the people playing in it. Players who are iterating on a deck are players who are buying singles.
Your league gets a public page with live standings. Players share it. Your store shows up in the MTGSL directory with every event you are running. That is acquisition, not admin.
One branded hub for every event you run. FNM Commander, sealed leagues, draft nights, your store championship. Pick your scoring, set your season length, add your logo. Ten minutes.
Add judges and co-managers with their own permissions. They report results, moderate disputes, and handle fair play cases without you handing over your admin login. Then connect the Discord bot so standings, pairings, and reminders post straight into the server your players already sit in all day.
Attendance by event, repeat player rate, revenue, and who has gone quiet. Every week, without you counting heads or keeping a spreadsheet.
Most event tools give a store a scoreboard. MTGSL gives you the numbers you would actually run the business on.
Every event, over time, by event type. See which nights are growing and which are quietly dying before they die.
The single number that tells you whether your league is building a community or churning through one. New faces are easy. Faces that come back twelve weeks running are the business.
Entry fees collected, by event and by season, without reconciling anything by hand.
Who used to come every week and has not been in for a month. That is a list you can do something about.
None of that exists in Eventlink, and none of it exists in a spreadsheet unless someone in your store is willing to maintain one forever.
Attendance, repeat rate, revenue, and lapsed players. Included with every store account.
Group events under one season with cross-event standings. Cut to a championship at the end. Multi-phase major events supported if you want to run something bigger.
A branded public page for your store with every event, every standing, and every result. Listed in the MTGSL directory.
Standings, pairing pings, match reminders, role sync,
and /report for results. Your players never leave Discord.
Take money through Stripe with discount codes and automatic payouts. No cash box, no e-transfer chasing, no manual invoicing.
Judges and co-managers with scoped permissions, plus fair play case management with sealed pool verification and sanctions.
Eventlink is where your sanctioned events live, and it stays that way. MTGSL does not sanction anything, does not report to Wizards, and does not sit between you and the WPN. It runs the events Eventlink was never designed for: anything that spans more than one day.
In practice that means a store runs both. Eventlink for sanctioned FNM. MTGSL for the eight-week Commander league that ends in a sanctioned store championship, which is itself an Eventlink event with better attendance than it would have had otherwise.
Then you have been running events on Challonge, a whiteboard, or a group chat. MTGSL does not require WPN membership, a sanctioning number, or any relationship with Wizards. Set up a store profile, run your leagues, take entry fees, and get the same standings and analytics as anyone else.
For stores running weekly events, seasonal leagues, and championships.
Entry fees are collected through Stripe. MTGSL takes 2% of fees collected on top of Stripe's own processing. There is no charge on free events.
No contract, no per-player charge, no cap on events. Cancel any month.
The events are already happening in your store. The only question is whether they end at closing time or carry into next week with standings, a championship, and a set of numbers that tell you if it is working.
Set up your store