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Interesting 4 Player Shards/Shards/Shadowmoor Draft
December 19, 2008
Yesterday, I went to my local card shop. Actually, it wasn’t so local. I had to drive for about an hour and a half. It’s not too bad though since I work at home. I don’t have a work commute so I don’t mind occasionally driving a long ways to play live Magic The Gathering. Plus, I was getting tired of Magic Online. I wanted to play real cards against real people.
No MTG States for Me
October 24, 2008
Sadly, I won’t be going to States this year. I think I’ll be too unprepared.
I haven’t had time to test the Standard format and I don’t have the cards for a good deck. I could try to get caught up with the format by doing a lot of testing in the next two weeks. However, my time is limited because of work. I think my time would be better spent testing Shards of Alara sealed and draft. There is a PTQ in eight days and I can do a lot of testing on Magic Online now that Shards of Alara has been released online.
The Biggest Magic The Gathering Tournament Ever
October 21, 2008
Grand Prix Paris had 1839 players!
There were probably more judges in this tournament than the 71 person PTQ I went to last weekend. This picture shows only one half of the players.
Even the Best MTG Players Make Dumb Mistakes
September 24, 2008
From the Japanese Nationals, widely considered to be one of the toughest Magic The Gathering national tournaments:
Wanting to keep the pressure on Takahashi, Masashi was forced to use a Pact of Negation on a Cryptic Command from his opponent targeting an un-suspending Riftwing Cloudskate. Conspicuously he failed to put a marker on the top of his deck to remind him to pay the requisite 3UU during his following upkeep.
Yuuta’s turn went long after a series of plays and, sure enough, by the time Masashi got the turn back he had completely forgotten about his Pact. With an audible gasp Oiso drew for the turn as the audience could only watch in horror. Immediately realizing what he had done Oiso shuffled up his cards and conceded to Takahashi.
Masashi Oiso is one of the best players to ever play Magic The Gathering. He is eligible to be voted in the Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the class of 2012.
Amazingly, even with his bonehead play, he still won the whole tournament!
5 Reasons to Try Out Magic The Gathering This Fall
September 20, 2008
Magic the Gathering, or Magic for short, has always been a great game to play. But this fall there are even more incentives to learn this awesome collectible card game.
Here are 5 great reasons to try out Magic The Gathering.
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