We're continuing our Crazy World series with an entry by Tiffanie Higgins!
Presenting...
Tiff's Un-Wound Tournament!
Rules are pretty simple:
1) Tiff will split up her Unglued and Unhinged collection into the 5 colors.
2) We'll randomly get 1 pile of cards, all of 1 color with artifacts mixed in.
3) Each person builds a deck with the cards they've got plus any basic lands they'll need. Minimum deck size TBD.
4) This will be a multiplayer Archenemy AND Planechase format!
5) Extra surprise(s) the day of the tournament.
Pretty simple! Just bring $2 for the entry fee this Saturday, 9/4, and you'll play, and you don't even need to bring any pre-made decks or anything!
Surviving, though, that's the hard part... >:-D
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret Spoiled!
Here's the moment some of us have been waiting for.
We've seen that we'll get the lovely Elspeth, Knight-Errant (with new Emblem wording) and the superficial artificial Tezzereet the Seeker. Both will be the highlighted foil, new-art Mythic Rares of this Duel Decks set, already making it worth more than the $20 MSRP.
(pics from the WotC message boards)
(EDIT 8/26: See the VERY bottom of this post for the other new art cards, courtesy of the Magic Arcana posted today on dailymtg.com . I also added the Scars of Mirrodin preview cards in the deck lists)
But we all know 2 cards cannot a good deck set make. Even with Planeswalkers that themselves could sell quite easily as a package for $20 total, the deck they're in need to be decent with some good cards to really make these a joy for casual players.
And deliver did Wizards of the Coast!
See what all you can get starting September 3rd and if it's a good value...after the jump!
We've seen that we'll get the lovely Elspeth, Knight-Errant (with new Emblem wording) and the superficial artificial Tezzereet the Seeker. Both will be the highlighted foil, new-art Mythic Rares of this Duel Decks set, already making it worth more than the $20 MSRP.
(pics from the WotC message boards)
(EDIT 8/26: See the VERY bottom of this post for the other new art cards, courtesy of the Magic Arcana posted today on dailymtg.com . I also added the Scars of Mirrodin preview cards in the deck lists)
But we all know 2 cards cannot a good deck set make. Even with Planeswalkers that themselves could sell quite easily as a package for $20 total, the deck they're in need to be decent with some good cards to really make these a joy for casual players.
And deliver did Wizards of the Coast!
See what all you can get starting September 3rd and if it's a good value...after the jump!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tournament Schedule Update
Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been busy as you-know-what the last few weeks. Between getting a driver's license, room cleaning, recovering from doing a Judo/Karate double dose when you're not used to it...doesn't leave a lot of time to go "Oh, I'll put up a nice little post here!" lol.
So here I am with a much-needed tournament schedule update.
Tomorrow, 8/14, is a casual day. No tournament, just nice play with nice friends. :)
Next week, 8/21, is also a casual day. We had a tournament from Tiff scheduled for this day, but with all she has going on it's been tough to find time for her to get ready for it, so I'd rather take pressure off her than hold us to the schedule.
So with the next two weeks out of the way, here's what our schedule's looking like for the next few..well, months!:
AUGUST
8/14: Casual Day
8/21: Casual Day
8/28: Casual Day
SEPTEMBER
9/4: Tiff's "Un-"Orthodox Tournament. Rules still TBD. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
9/11: *NEW* American Pride Day. Show up and play with a deck consisting of only Red, White, and Blue cards and get a free pack of M11!*
9/18: Tournament TBD
9/25: Casual Day
OCTOBER
10/2: Cube Draft 3, including a special set of additions for this round.**
10/9: Scars of Mirrodin "Release" Draft, details TBD
10/16: Casual Day
10/23: Tournament, Format TBD.
10/30: Casual Day, may do some kind of Halloween special deal but I'm not sure yet.
Hopefully we've got a decent line-up of stuff in the pipeline. We've got 2 tournament days we need ideas for, so feel free to post suggestions and get involved. It's always more fun when people come up with new ideas!
Until we see you next, take care!
* In acknowledgment of the 9th anniversary of 9/11, we'll do a bit of an American Pride theme to the day. Show up with a deck consisting of only Red, White, and Blue cards and get a free pack of M11 for your effort.
Clarifications for American Pride Day:
1) Colorless artifacts are fine as long as they...
a) Can provide Red and/or White and/or Blue mana (so artifacts that make "one mana of any color" are okay, as they can provide these 3 colors), or
b) Require Red and/or White and/or Blue activated costs.
2) Non-Basic lands that give you access to more than one color of mana are fine as long as they can provide at least 2 of the 3 colors (Reflecting Pool and Exotic Orchard are good since they'll only be referencing Red and/or White and/or Blue producers to see what they can make).
3) Of course multi-color cards are okay, as long as they contain only 2-3 of these 3 colors (example: Lightning Helix works, but not Woolly Thoctar)
I think you get the point of American Pride day: Red, White, and Blue will wave freely on 9/11 in Hixson! :)
**HINT: Who can deny the force of American Power? You've gotta have a lot of Moxy to stand up to it.
So here I am with a much-needed tournament schedule update.
Tomorrow, 8/14, is a casual day. No tournament, just nice play with nice friends. :)
Next week, 8/21, is also a casual day. We had a tournament from Tiff scheduled for this day, but with all she has going on it's been tough to find time for her to get ready for it, so I'd rather take pressure off her than hold us to the schedule.
So with the next two weeks out of the way, here's what our schedule's looking like for the next few..well, months!:
AUGUST
8/14: Casual Day
8/21: Casual Day
8/28: Casual Day
SEPTEMBER
9/4: Tiff's "Un-"Orthodox Tournament. Rules still TBD. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
9/11: *NEW* American Pride Day. Show up and play with a deck consisting of only Red, White, and Blue cards and get a free pack of M11!*
9/18: Tournament TBD
9/25: Casual Day
OCTOBER
10/2: Cube Draft 3, including a special set of additions for this round.**
10/9: Scars of Mirrodin "Release" Draft, details TBD
10/16: Casual Day
10/23: Tournament, Format TBD.
10/30: Casual Day, may do some kind of Halloween special deal but I'm not sure yet.
Hopefully we've got a decent line-up of stuff in the pipeline. We've got 2 tournament days we need ideas for, so feel free to post suggestions and get involved. It's always more fun when people come up with new ideas!
Until we see you next, take care!
* In acknowledgment of the 9th anniversary of 9/11, we'll do a bit of an American Pride theme to the day. Show up with a deck consisting of only Red, White, and Blue cards and get a free pack of M11 for your effort.
Clarifications for American Pride Day:
1) Colorless artifacts are fine as long as they...
a) Can provide Red and/or White and/or Blue mana (so artifacts that make "one mana of any color" are okay, as they can provide these 3 colors), or
b) Require Red and/or White and/or Blue activated costs.
2) Non-Basic lands that give you access to more than one color of mana are fine as long as they can provide at least 2 of the 3 colors (Reflecting Pool and Exotic Orchard are good since they'll only be referencing Red and/or White and/or Blue producers to see what they can make).
3) Of course multi-color cards are okay, as long as they contain only 2-3 of these 3 colors (example: Lightning Helix works, but not Woolly Thoctar)
I think you get the point of American Pride day: Red, White, and Blue will wave freely on 9/11 in Hixson! :)
**HINT: Who can deny the force of American Power? You've gotta have a lot of Moxy to stand up to it.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
From the Vault: Relics Preview
This week is GenCon, which means only one thing for the world of Magic: From the Vault full set previews!
Kelly Reid at QuietSpeculation.com won a pre-convention tournament and got a set of From the Vault: Relics to show off. And how off he did!
Here's the video of his showing all the cards in the set.
But seeing Masticore doesn't exactly do it for me for some of the awesomeness of this set, so let's look at a few other new-art cards.
(pictures from Star City Games' Facebook page, which were taken from Kelly Reid's video)
Ah...global destruction never looked so beautiful!
Now that looks like an artifact just spewing with sweet mana goodness. *drools*
And finally, the Scars of Mirrodin preview card...
If this preview is like Hellkite Overlord from From the Vault: Dragons just before Shards of Alara, this will be the art used. And again I say...daaaayyyyummm! Wizards of the Coast did a wonderful job on the artwork in this limited edition foil set. And the card itself? When you hit your opponent, you get a 2/2 green Wolf and 10 cards off the top of their deck. For doing nothing more than attacking and hitting successfully. Not...too...shabby... :)
That's all the time I have to quickly preview. I wanted to get previews up when the full list was known, but all you'd have gotten were older versions so you could see what they did. Hopefully having these scans was worth the wait. :)
Kelly Reid at QuietSpeculation.com won a pre-convention tournament and got a set of From the Vault: Relics to show off. And how off he did!
Here's the video of his showing all the cards in the set.
But seeing Masticore doesn't exactly do it for me for some of the awesomeness of this set, so let's look at a few other new-art cards.
(pictures from Star City Games' Facebook page, which were taken from Kelly Reid's video)
Ah...global destruction never looked so beautiful!
Now that looks like an artifact just spewing with sweet mana goodness. *drools*
And finally, the Scars of Mirrodin preview card...
If this preview is like Hellkite Overlord from From the Vault: Dragons just before Shards of Alara, this will be the art used. And again I say...daaaayyyyummm! Wizards of the Coast did a wonderful job on the artwork in this limited edition foil set. And the card itself? When you hit your opponent, you get a 2/2 green Wolf and 10 cards off the top of their deck. For doing nothing more than attacking and hitting successfully. Not...too...shabby... :)
That's all the time I have to quickly preview. I wanted to get previews up when the full list was known, but all you'd have gotten were older versions so you could see what they did. Hopefully having these scans was worth the wait. :)
Monday, July 26, 2010
Wayne's Crazy World Tournament Rules!
Hey guys!
The M11 draft is behind us now. Thanks for all who showed up! I had 4 players, so everyone got one Sun Titan and one Ancient Hellkite promo. Congrats to Marcus for winning with an interesting W/B flying/aggro deck!
I'll get a report up during the week, but right now I'd like to get started in focusing on our next tournament! :)
Coming up August 7th is Wayne Eanes' "Crazy World" tournament! In this tournament, almost everything is a wild mixed bag of randomness! From random Planechase plane chasing to random Un- cards to even random turns, crazy world is expected to be, well, a crazy world!
I'm posting a direct copy-and-paste of an E-mail sent by Wayne. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here.
Again, any questions please feel free to ask.
We hope to see you there on the 7th!
The M11 draft is behind us now. Thanks for all who showed up! I had 4 players, so everyone got one Sun Titan and one Ancient Hellkite promo. Congrats to Marcus for winning with an interesting W/B flying/aggro deck!
I'll get a report up during the week, but right now I'd like to get started in focusing on our next tournament! :)
Coming up August 7th is Wayne Eanes' "Crazy World" tournament! In this tournament, almost everything is a wild mixed bag of randomness! From random Planechase plane chasing to random Un- cards to even random turns, crazy world is expected to be, well, a crazy world!
I'm posting a direct copy-and-paste of an E-mail sent by Wayne. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here.
* tournament will be a multi-player round table free-for-all (all entrants will play each other all at once) . .
* decks will be 60 card minimum singleton (each deck can only have one copy of each card , except for basic lands) . . . (NOTE: And Relentless Rats, since it specifically states so)
* using vintage restricted list with the addition of . . . can also use "unglued & unhinged" cards . . .
* will also be playing planechase format in addition to everything else (a "community" planechase pile will be provided , so you don't have to bring your own , unless you want to) . . .
* entry fee will be standard $2.00 per player (which will enable us to have 1 M11 booster pack per person to put into prize pool) with "prize points" being awarded as 0 - last place , 1 - next to last , 2- 2nd to last etc. & so on with player with highest total points getting first pick out of prize pool and then on down .
* will try our best to start tournament promptly at 11:00 and finish at least by 1:45 (so as to allow time for prize picks) and will play as many "rounds" as time permits . . .
* free music and snacks will be provided to enjoy (or not lol ) while we battle . . . including . . . (wait for it) . . . DONUTS ! . . .
* every player wearing a funny , weird , odd , strange or crazy HAT gets to start out each game with their choice of either - starting "life total" of 25 instead of 20 - or - opening "hand" of 8 cards instead of 7 (players must continue to wear hats entire match or forfeit 5 life or 1 card corresponding to which bonus they took) . . . and NO (for all you smart-alecks) , you don't recieve multiple bonuses for wearing multiple hats . . . limit one bonus per customer lol . . .
* special crazy world weirdness - we will be playing along with a random timer set to go off between 1 minute up to possibly 10 minutes (that will keep being reset randomly again) . . . whenever the timer goes off ! everyone "freezes" whatever they're doing instantly (this means mid-sentence , mid-spell play , mid-response , whatever . . .) and then randomly gets their seat exchanged with someone else and then play continues with each player assuming their new hand , field , deck , library , graveyard , life points etc ! . . . in other words , you take over control of everything from the player whose seat you just inherited until next timer goes off or end of game ! . . .
*CLARIFICATION: When everyone randomly changes places, the player whose turn it is picks up their turn with their new place. For example, if Wayne, Tiffanie, and I are the only three left and my turn starts and the timer goes off in my first Main Phase, I'll switch to one of their places and I'll pick up my turn still in Main Phase 1, just with the deck of whoever I got randomly assigned to.
* "house" banned list - no specific card is banned on top of the vintage restrictions BUT "instant-win , one-turn-win , can't lose combos" are banned (everyone pretty much knows these when they see them . . . but if you have questions about a specific combo just e-mail preston & ask) to allow for more fun game play for all involved . . .
Again, any questions please feel free to ask.
We hope to see you there on the 7th!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Top 5 New M11 Cards: Casual
Hello everyone!
Today I figured for a change of pace from the "news updates constantly" format you might like to see some opinions on a few new M11 cards.
So I present...Preston Hamill's Top 5 New M11 Cards for Casual Play!
A few hints first...
1) Red Damage or Blue Mill, this handy little helps make you Immortal against both.
2) So she's not the most impressive Turn 1 creature...in some formats.
3) Love taxes? The cold giant loves you, then!
4) Akroma's not the only one who can wield a sword.
5) Hate those pesky "Sacrifice" costs? You can pay them with just a skeleton crew working for you.
The results...after the Jump!
Today I figured for a change of pace from the "news updates constantly" format you might like to see some opinions on a few new M11 cards.
So I present...Preston Hamill's Top 5 New M11 Cards for Casual Play!
A few hints first...
1) Red Damage or Blue Mill, this handy little helps make you Immortal against both.
2) So she's not the most impressive Turn 1 creature...in some formats.
3) Love taxes? The cold giant loves you, then!
4) Akroma's not the only one who can wield a sword.
5) Hate those pesky "Sacrifice" costs? You can pay them with just a skeleton crew working for you.
The results...after the Jump!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Tournament Schedule Update
It's been a while since I've updated our schedule, so let me get a few dates down to give you a better idea of what's to come.
JULY
7/24: M11 "Release" Draft. $8 Entry. Sun Titan and Ancient Hellkite promos available; winner gets one of each. Prizes come from the Rares and Foils in the M11 packs opened for the draft and possibly 1-2 additional M11 prize pack splits.
7/31: Casual Day
AUGUST
8/7: Wayne's "Crazy World" Tournament. Rules will be posted the night after the M11 "Release" Draft. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
8/14: Casual Day
8/21: Tiff's "Un-"Orthodox Tournament. Rules still TBD. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
8/28: Casual Day
If we have any changes to this, I'll post a revised schedule when I know about the changes. But I'll also try to keep this updated every week with a new post.
Take care!
JULY
7/24: M11 "Release" Draft. $8 Entry. Sun Titan and Ancient Hellkite promos available; winner gets one of each. Prizes come from the Rares and Foils in the M11 packs opened for the draft and possibly 1-2 additional M11 prize pack splits.
7/31: Casual Day
AUGUST
8/7: Wayne's "Crazy World" Tournament. Rules will be posted the night after the M11 "Release" Draft. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
8/14: Casual Day
8/21: Tiff's "Un-"Orthodox Tournament. Rules still TBD. $2 Entry, prizes come from M11 prize pack splitting.
8/28: Casual Day
If we have any changes to this, I'll post a revised schedule when I know about the changes. But I'll also try to keep this updated every week with a new post.
Take care!
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