I see you're giving bounties for bringing in new players, but what about old players who quit a long time ago but want to get back in?  Because if that counts, Bill should get something awesome.

Pre-reg me.

Doubleplus yes.

Well, I guess I'll be the first to pre-reg on the Drain.

Whatever you do, don't get a Dell.  Lenovo Thinkpads (formerly IBM) are pretty good quality.

Oh, and HD space on laptops is at a premium.  I doubt you'll be able to get more than 200 gigs at a reasonable price.  Terabyte sized hard drives are not an option.

I played against Jason (Ichorid) in the QFs.  After punting every which way and various idiot moves, I managed to pull out the match.  I didn't deserve it.  I was so mentally out of it I somehow mistook a Underground Sea for a Tropical Island.  Terrible.

Epic.

You are not alone, my friend.  It might be cool if you can read the foreign language, but it's definitely not cool if you can't read japanese but have your deck pimped out in japanese anyway.

My condolences.

I mean, uh, sorry about that typo.  Nice work man.

Nitpick: you have numerous typos and misspellings.  My last name is spelled "Ye." 

I would like to see what full crock of bullshit they will serve up to justify this.

I'm pretty sure that of the cards that were restricted, they could have chosen any 3 and shaken up the format enough to neuter any decks they felt were overpowering (GAT, Tyrant Oath, Flash, Painter, etcetc) and not totally ruin it for everyone.

Someone was hitting the crack pipe.  It's the only logical explanation.

i lol'd.

I may or may not be able to make this, but I'm leaning towards going, so put me on the pre-reg list please

I spit out my drink.

It would appear that "ask and ye shall receive" is the order of the day on Mox Diamond.  However....


The Mask x2 + Welder lock no longer works, and this makes me frowny inside.

Put me on the list.  See you on Sunday.

Pretty sweet to get picked!  You guys must be doing something right!

Congratulations, Steve.  Glad to see our testing inspired you, in a way.  Hope your windfall paycheck goes to good use.

All I can say is: Nice.  Prize.  Pool.

Shadowmoor.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/preview/shmpack

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67166&d=1204868282

I pooped my pants.

Apologies for missing the mini-event.  I had a friend in town and we had planned on going, but there was a dinner he had to go to at 7 and the timing failed to work out.  Looks like it was fun anyway, though. 

Oh well.  Put me down for next week.  No flaking this time.

I frowned at the new Extended system.

Listen not to these heathens who say that $40 is too much.  They know not what they speak of.  Put me on the list of pre-regs.
-A

This looks like fun.  Add me to the prereg list, Dan.  See you on Saturday.

Looking at the top 8, this tournament must have been a blast, seeing all kinds of rogue decks and cards that I'd have to read.  How was Jace?  I've been wondering how he would be, though I expect he's not at his peak right now, what with all the Juggernauts and Tarmodorks running around.

I tried really, really, hard to make a ITEOC/Aven Mindcensor stax deck work.  I could never get the mana right; I even cut workshops and had just Ancient Tomb/City of Traitors, but it never really came together.  Perhaps Coalition Relic was what the doctor ordered, but I'll never know.  The metagame has moved on.

Please pre-reg me as well.  Pretty excited to go to my first ELD tournament.

The pictures of a Tarmogoyf with a red die set on 3 on it, including the one with Yawgwill, are of me (SuperLong) playing against Manny (GAT).  I won that game by Threads of Disloyalty'ing his Goyf, attacking him to 2, then topdecking into Tendrils while on 2 life after the Threads got REB'd.

As far as actual tournaments go, I had a miserable day.  The Draw7's in SuperLong let me down all day.  Memory Jar into 6 mana and a Force?  Timetwister into 2 Duresses, 2 Thoughtseizes, 2 Rituals, and a Force?  Give me a break.  And my match against Lotushead was also a mess.  Hardcast Colossus after getting Cap'd.  D'oh, Memnarch.  Cast and activate Mindslaver the turn before I win.  Oh well.

However, that's not to say I had a crappy day.  It was good to just hang with you guys again after not seeing you guys for so long.  And building a cube stack is turning out to be the best Magic decision I've made in months.  Drafting at Denny's after the site closed was surreal and a blast.  Especially when I got to Seismic Assault a Sundering Titan dead, then attack with Ophidian and Solemn Simulacrum for the win.

I'm not sure it's fair to compare the off color Moxen in other Long builds with the Rituals in SuperLong.  The other Long builds also run Rituals, so it's more accurate to describe it as -3 moxes, +3 Ponder.  I'm glad you cut that Desire nonsense, it's so bad in this deck (Gifts has been turning out to be awesome in testing).  Along the vein of things that are bad in this deck, however, unfortunately includes the draw-7s.  The power level of the deck is so low that post-timetwister, you frequently burn on mana or just cast Duress before passing the turn.  Memory Jar is so much better because you can Brainstorm/Ponder and break in response, which is usually good enough to get there.  From my testing, SuperLong is much more stable than GrimLong but feels simply underpowered compared to PitchLong decks from a few months ago.  However, the stable mana base makes SL strictly better than GL against the rising Stax/9-sphere MUD decks. 

In other news, the website seems to have changed and the link to the articles section is, uh, gone?