After seeing 02drop.com’s new “Type Zero” casual format, I thought I’d try out a variant on it that’s modeled after poker. The best part is, it’s very low-risk for everyone involved, and it’s a great use of the completely free packs that people pick up as draft or tournament winnings! What you need: * Two [...]
New Casual Formats for Magic: the Gathering: Deckbuilder’s Toolkit!
Since I got the Deck Builder’s Toolkits in today, I’ve been puzzling over some ways to use the Toolkit in a Sealed-esque format… and I stumbled upon two great new ways to use them! The Toolkit contains four booster packs and 125 other non-land cards, which total, is 185 cards. Now, six booster packs – [...]
Malifaux Gaming, All Day Sunday! – 4/16/10 – Now With Pictures!
EDIT: Here’s pictures of all the terrain and figures that Chris is bringing down Sunday – it’s going to be a great time! We’re going to have a full day of Malifaux gaming starting at 1 p.m. on Sunday! It’s being done by a local Wyrd Miniatures Henchman team that’s going to be bringing a [...]
In the Lab – Orzhov Beatdown
Just for fun, I thought I’d try something different than the usual ‘Hey, here’s this cool thing going on!’. So, here’s a Magic: the Gathering deck I’ve been brewing on for a bit that I might bring out for one of our Friday Night Magic or Wednesday Standard tournaments: Orzhov Beatdown, listed below the cut. [...]
Rise of the Eldrazi Pre-Release Plans! April 16-18
Here it is… the schedule for our Rise of the Eldrazi prerelease and launch parties! If you haven’t seen it before, the prerelease foil will be… the massive 15/15 Eldrazi called Emrakul, the Aeons Torn! Everyone participating in one of our TWO prerelease main events will receive one – and yes, if you attend both, [...]
Quick Poll – Move the Fetchland Tourney Date?
We’ve been hearing from several of our Magic players that they’d like the opportunity to play in Magic Game Day (which we’re not qualified for… yet!), which is on March 6, the same date as our Fetchland Tournament. So, I’m putting up a poll – which I’d like to close tomorrow – to see if [...]
