Grand Contests are where the realm gathers. Players who have built communities at their local stores, who have contested Cornerstone Champions, or have felt the pull of something larger. This is where they converge.
Where Cornerstone Championships celebrate the communities that build them, Grand Contests widen the circle further. These regional gatherings bring players together from across multiple communities, where the creativity, mastery, and wonder that began at local tables meet on a larger stage.
The journey that started with a few players at a local store, which grew through Store Kit events and culminated in a Cornerstone Championship, does not end there. At Grand Contests, players who have never shared a table before find themselves contesting the realm together, recognising in each other the same passion that built their own communities back home.
A champion will be crowned, but the players who travel to a Grand Contest carry something back with them beyond a result. New stories, new friends, and a sense of just how wide this community has grown.
What’s Inside
Each Grand Contest Kit includes:
- 1x Foil alternate-art Silver Bullet promotional card for top finishers, featuring art by Marta Molina
- 4x Non-foil alternate-art Silver Bullet promotional card for participants
- 4x Foil alternate-art Cranky Overseer promotional card for judges, with art by Alan Pollack
- 4x Alternate-art Foil Swap promotional cards for community champions, illustrated by Drew Tucker
- 32x Alternate-art Croaking Swamp promotional cards for event participants, featuring the art of Caio Calazans
These kits are designed to scale with your event. Additional kits can be added so that every community is set up for a great experience.
Hand-painted Art
Marta Molina, Alan Pollack, Drew Tucker, Caio Calazans. These cards speak for themselves. Every promo features hand-painted art, a window into the realm you can hold in your hands. Artist Caio Calazans shares a peek into his process with a time-lapse of Croaking Swamp. Watch it come to life and find your copy at a Grand Contest near you.
How it Works
Grand Contests are a new tier in Sorcery Organized Play for 2026, replacing Crossroads. They are designed to bring players together from across a wider region, typically spanning several countries or states, for a celebration of Sorcery at a scale beyond the local.
These are curated events. Grand Contest status is extended by invitation to select groups with a proven track record of community support.
In the United States, every SCG CON this year will be a Grand Contest event, beginning with SCG CON Washington, D.C., on May 29th. Our partners at SCG CON are known for bringing together passionate players, and we could not be more excited to continue to bring Sorcery into that experience at scale.
In Europe, we are excited to announce that SorceryFest (July 3–5) will be a Grand Contest, bringing together players from across the continent for what promises to be a landmark event.
And SorceryFest is just the start. The team at White Rabbit, as well as Aquila Games and the Sorcerers at the Core, have been building some of Europe's strongest Sorcery communities, and we are looking forward to what is coming from that part of the realm.
The realm is wider than any one region. We are working to bring Grand Contests to Asia-Pacific as well, and more announcements are coming.
This is a global program, and it is just getting started!
That brings us to the final circle for 2026: the Avatar of the Realm.
More soon.
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