Just under a week away! Hope to see lots of people there!

First, I must apologize for this being so late. I originally intended on posting this sooner, but we needed to finalize some of the details before we could post this. Better late than never though, and this is BY FAR the GREATEST thing to ever grace the Legacy format.

MTGTheSource.com is throwing a grand event in celebration of it's 5-year anniversary. Love The Source or hate The Source, this is THE premiere Legacy event to show up to. C/P from the thread on The Source, which is here.:


This is not a Source-exclusive tournament. Regardless of what feelings people harbor for the Source makes no difference to us. We are throwing what will go down as one of the greatest Legacy events in history, and have tremendous prize support to show for it. We are welcoming any and all Legacy players (and anyone else who'd like to play!) to come join us for an awesome time.

INFORMATION:

Date: October 18th, 2008 (A Saturday. The Gods smile down upon us.)
Time: Registration begins at 10am. The tournament will begin at 11am.
Entry Fee: $30 (See prizes below for justification)
Location: The Vestal American Legion's Info;
118 S Jensen Rd
Vestal NY
(607) 797-2290

Vestel, NY is located in the Binghamton, NY area (An hour south of Syracuse), home of Eli Kassis and Crazy Carl Winter. The store, Jupiter Games, is run by Eli Kassis, with help from Carl. Although the event is not being held in the store, the store's inventory will be available for everyone. The store's information is:

Jupiter Games
3701 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY 13850 US
Store Phone # is 607-729-5910

There is plenty of food options within walking distance (Wendy's, Applebee's, Chinese Buffet, and more). These are a list of hotels within walking distance of the shop; Courtyard Marriot (607)644-1000, Marriott (607)644-9093, Hampton Inn & Suites (607)797-5000, Holiday Inn Express (607)348-0088. I recommend reserving soon because Binghamton University which is also within walking distance has parent night and they tend to book alot of rooms.



Now...Prizes!

1st place: 40 DUAL LANDS

After the first place prize we have a prize draft composed of the HUGE list of cards we have, both given from us and a giant legion of Source members and outside contributors.

Second Place: $500 in card value

Third/Fourth Place: $200 in card value

5-8th Place: $100 in card value

We'll have the cards split into pools of value, and allow you choice from a massive selection of prizes! Prizes will also be going up to top16, and possibly top32. Top16 is almost guaranteed for prizes (looking at $50 worth in card value), and top32 prizes will depend on turnout.

What we've been offered so far, beyond the first place prize for the draft:

2 Tundra
4 Volcanic Island
6 Taiga
1 FBB Bayou
2 FBB Savannah
1 FBB Taiga
1 UL Savannah
1 UL Underground Sea
2 FWB Plateau
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire

5 Tarmogoyf
4 Imperial Recruiter

4 Japanese IA Brainstorm
4 German IA Brainstorm
4 Intuition
4 Arabian Nights City of Brass
4 City of Traitors

1 Entire Vial Goblins deck

2 Moat
4 Meddling Mage
4 Wasteland
4 Orim's Chant
4 Mox Diamond
3 UL Time Vault
4 Vindicate
4 UL Sinkhole

4 FTK altered
2 Goblin Lackey
10x German Limited, SPOD Altered, Basics - 2 of each
4x German Limited Dark Ritual
4x German Portent
4x German Ponder
4x German Serum Visions
4x German Brainstorm - Mercadian Masques Artwork
4x German Trinket Mage
4x German Simian Spirit Guide
2x German Empty the Warrens
3x German Oblivion Ring
3x German Dread Return
1x German Spike Feeder
4 FOIL JAPANESE Daze
4 FOIL PORTUGUESE Snap
4 FOIL FNM Juggernaut
4 FOIL Snuff Out
4 Jap Back to Basics
4 Jap Price of Progress
4 Jap Cloud of Faeries
4 Chinese River Boa
4 Chinese Cabal Ritual
4 Russian Mana Leak
4 Korean Ophidian
4 Signed Altered Ninja of the Deed Hours
4 Signed Goblin Grenade
4 Signed Triskelion (4th)
4 Signed Tainted Pact
4 Signed Spoils of the Vault
4 Signed Krovikian Horror
8 Signed Memory Lapse (4 ea of both versions)
4 Signed Stinkweed Imp
1 Signed Spanish (?) Rofellos
1 Signed Glacial Chasm
1 Signed Kiki-Jiki
1 Signed Karn
1 Altered Kavu Titan (looks like Juggernaut from X-Men)
4 Transmute Artifact
4 Teferi's Response
4 foil Stinkweed Imp
1 Maddox + IBA signed Pernicious Deed
2 Chrome Moxes
4 Foil Cabal Therapy
4 Signed Psychatog
2 Bardo-mod'd Mental Notes
1 Sea Drake

ANYTHING WE DO NOT GIVE OUT IN PRIZE SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN AWAY AS DOOR PRIZES! We aren't keeping any of this stuff for ourselves, so come on out, you're sure to walk away with something! Remember, this list is only going to continue to grow! I will edit the thread when additional prizes or information is given.


If anyone has any questions or anything, or if I forgot to add some information, please feel free to talk to either myself or Nightmare. The best way to get a hold of either of us is through PM'ing us on The Source, but you can also talk to me on AIM if you like. My AIM screenname is melancauly.

With all that said, we hope to see you all on October, 18th. You won't want to miss it!

-Di

Let's make it a 2/2. I liek bears.

Yeah, let's have posts with some content in them please.  The rules aren't there for our health (except maybe to keep our blood pressure down).
-Klep

Welcome to September 1st, 2004. Only Vintage. It's a pretty reasonable comparison, given how warped Legacy became after that. That was a completely new, open format. God only knows what's going to happen to Vintage now, aside the more obvious decks in Ichorid, Workshop, and Long. Given how Legacy's changed so much since then, It'll be interesting to follow Vintage over the next few months.

That said, I'm still rather upset about this. I was really starting to get back into Type 1, and then they go rape the format.

Never actually answered this before. Oh well.

Back on the original TMD, I was Diablos8, part of Team Evolution. Now Team Evolution is gone, and Team Sexy rises. That team is better, because we are sexier.

I sat on TMD a lot, and reached up towards 2000 posts. Unfortunately, only around 20 of them were in T1, because Syracuse is a bad city that decides to hold 1.5, and only 1.5. So naturally, around 1600 posts went into 1.5. Blah at that. Too bad the 1.5 forum on the website ending up going into a downward spiral and made the website look like something from Brainburst. Disgusted with that, a good handful of us left the retarded, and the Source ended up being created, and all was well when the TMD 1.5 was removed.

Now I sit around all day, and work as an Admin on the Source. Quite a few of you "big boy" TMD'ers sit on there, and it's nice that you guys come over to the retarded little brother format.

I see it being tough for me to get a full membership on these forums, but with a renewed interest in T1, I'll see what I can do to obtain full member status.

That's about it for me. Not the usual "welcome me" post, eh?

1. Dr. Sylvan. Come on, he isn't even human anymore.

2. Smmenen, Grand Inquisitor

3. Rian

4. Bryce

5. 2-land Belcher.

6. ?

7. Ben Bleiweiss. Bad person, and his picture reminds me of Goatse.

8. Although I didn't attend from what I heard, the big Waterbury was insane.

9. "", but Stok.

10. Anything in relation to Arrg.

11. My own, (on Meddling Mage) "LoA can't be named...it's a creature."

12. wtf?

13. Samite Healer

14. Samite Healer

15. Chimpanzee edit. Although from what I can remember, I believe it was MolotDET who edited it.

16. None. I hate all their manabases.

17. Zherbus, Sylvan, Cr4l

18. Cr4l

19. Syracuse. The entire city.

20. Was ABM mentioned this year? If so, gets my vote.

I'm not quite understanding why Entomb would be run in the first place. I mean, in my own testing sing the deck, I've never really run into problems drawing the junk I need, between Thirst for Knowledge, Brainstorm, and friends etc. Thirst already does your job, and is a 4-of in the deck, and just discards whatever.

In addition to that, Entomb needs a Welder to do something. Welder can easily be stopped by an array of effects, ranging from Damping Matrix to StP to Fire to whatever, all which see decent play in the format.

It's just a pointless addition to me, unless I, and the rest of the people commenting are missing something obvious.

I tried out the Chromatic Spheres, but the results were crappy. The extra mana that eggs gave you really made a difference when you were going off. It's different in this format though because you have Moxen to do what you like.

Actually, I think it could be very good. Not like, Consultation good, but good. The odds of it fizzling aren't too high, because there's a high count of 1 of's and not too many "playsets" of cards. That, and the remove from the game part can also be some fun with Death Wish .

O...k...you're only running 1 copy of Verdant Force, and it's not even in the maindeck. It's without a doubt the best fatty ever printed, and you're just giving Welder Mud an auto-win for game 1? It's just much easier to play him maindeck, and get around any nasty effects like that. Sure, he can be StoPed, but that's what Slagwurm is still there for.

How DARE you all call my beast terrible in 1.5! Yes, it was somewhat inconsistant, but that doesn't mean it was "terrible". I mean, if a miz0r like myself could T8 with it, then it has to be some good. You should be ashamed of yourselves.



Um..Helm...have you look at the decklist at all? Personally, I dislike the Workshop builds, because the fact that it doesn't use it's mana to fuel an Egg engine is rather discouraging. As for Future Sight, it was in the original design of the deck(in 1.5, around September/October), and it was great, until we all realized that we just didn't need it. It was either being too slow, or it was overkill, as the deck would already be drawing insane from the cards already, and Vault. Even though the speed greatly changes from T1.5 to T1, the same idea still implies.

Oh, and to the guy who put in Thoughtcast- good idea. Mini-Ancestral's on turn 1 and 2 are some good.

Yes, keywords: "Some of you". I'll admit that I'm not a very big type 1 player(which isn't really my fault, we just don't have it in Syracuse very often), but I'm still here. Why is this? Becuase I like the community, and I'm sure that's how a lot of others feel.

While a lot of T1 would go away if TMD went down, I can't entirely agree with you. From what I see, a huge amount of T1 strategy and such comes from the articles that are written on StarCity. A good portion of information on the boards comes from those articles, so I think losing StarCity could be just as big, if not a bigger loss to the T1 community.

But back to the community part. I feel, as a former "member" of TMD, that it was one of the most important aspects of the forum. As I said I couldn't give much towards Type 1, where else did I have to go there? 1.5? Sure, I did a ton of that, but that got ugly when it was un-moderated. So I went to community, and to an extent, the humor forum. I thought those were the places that binded T1, because it didn't give the playing and strategic part of the format, it was where it gained it's respect, and it was where it gained anything that had to do with fixing the format(ie the B/r list). It's also where most of the people got to know each other, so they could become more comfortable in posting in the actual playing/startegy forums. I find it awkward to add in any new members(as in, just let people come in the "serious" T1 forums) now, because they are newer to this "community", thus therefor it could be tough for the actual "members" to adjust to the new members, and dismiss them.

If this post doesn't make sense, I blame myself. I'm rather tired, so it could come out wierd. But the basic point I'm trying to make is that the Type 1 format might not be the reason we're all here, at least it isn't for me.

Yes, it does have open membership, and yes members are allowed to post where they please. I, as an Administrator on the website realize what can happen, but it doesn't. You know why? Becuase we as moderators do our jobs. We are also very strict enforcing rules on the website. In addition to that, we have our own "Newbie Forum", which we call the "Developmental Forum". It's where anyone can go to post their crappy ideas, or ideas that they have, but aren't strong enough to compete in a tournament, etc. I personally think that's doing a great job.

It's kinda the reason why a lot of us left TMD(well, not leave the website, just the 1.5 forum) is because there were those hordes of spammers and scrubs ruining it all, and we were sick of it. As I said earlier in the post, the reason The Source is functioning really well is because the site is being moderated fairly well. The rest of TMD was doing really good with this too(minus the n00b forum), except for the 1.5 Forum, because we never really had much moderation. It was pretty good when Shadowlotus was on it, but then he was busy or something, and didn't have the time to do it. Jacob Orlove was already doing the n00b forum, and Zherbus had his hands tied with the rest of the website, leaving us with nobody to watch over the board, and it eventually turned into chaos. For a little while, maybe a month or so, drg` moded the board, but due to his own schedule was unable to do it, and we were then left without moderation. So, then The Source got organized, and that's where we are now.

But, on the note of The Source being the "TMD of 1.5", I think you're right on that. In some ways, I also consider it to be the "Little Brother" of TMD.

Actually, he kinda leaked it to me, who drg` then showed me his own list that Syracuse people(who have no connection to TMD/meandeck what so ever) started constructed and then I noticed the similarity, and then gave drg' some of the info from what Rian told me.

Sorry Rian, -Diablos.