I don't have a lot of time to play test. I played a lot of Control Slaver, Landstill, and Draw 7 back in the day. Now I usually play zoo or counter top in legacy.

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually have cards to play ANT. However, I don't have an imperial seal and I have 1 grim tutor.  Fish I could play, and I could try to get Oaths fast.
Thanks guys!

I am looking at playing my first Vintage tournament in 6 years. I don't think any proxies are permitted. I have all of the expensive and not expensive staple cards from 2004 except for Timevault, workshop, and Bazzaar, (in other words I have all duals, the P10+Drains). I also have almost all of the legacy staples Goyf, Wasteland, FOW, etc., etc. I have no idea what the metagame is, and of notable exception to the sub 100 rares I do not have Oath of Druids. This tournament may not even happen so I don't want to go investing a lot of money into it but I would like to bring something competitve to the table. Reccomendations?

Welcome back old man

Format is 1.5.
There is 2 tournaments usually a DCI tournament and a club tournament. The club tournament is a lot more casual. If there are not enough DCI players then we all get merged into a club tournament for the evening.
Tradiing: Of course!

Sending you an email.

OK.

The short of it is:

Friday nights at 6 we play at the inquisitive.  http://theinquisitive.net/

Once a month on Saturday there is a tourney at AI. www.aigamestore.com

There is some action at Noble Coors on Sunday but normally only 4 or 5 people.

PM me your number and we can talk further.

There were also 103 FOW. Sort of amazing actually as there was only like 112 islands...that LotV (a sb/md) card showed up almost as much as a basic land, and as much as FOW!

Congratulations on your finish. Why weren't you playing Leyline of the Void in your board if you wanted to really hate flash?

Success speaks for itself. How many people were there? What was the idea behind the scepters (a controllish build?)? Why no mages? I'd love to know what you were thinking.

Regardless of the skill level it takes to pilot a deck at the end of the day I look at one thing: The Scoreboard. Within the rules I don't care how I win, as long as its a 2-0 sweep.

There are 3 tournaments this weekend for 1.5 in Abq. Barring I don't have a hot date I will be attending all three. I don't get anything for announcing these tournaments except hopefully better players in attendance to mitigate the scrubs. If you come to a tournament do tell me that you came, I am the "old guy" with blonde hair, so that I know to keep posting things up here.


Friday: Gamegopher
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www.gamegopher.com
7:00 PM
Entry Fee: $6
Prize: Based on attendance: ~2 packs into the pool per entrant
Sanctioned: I think so.
Style: If sanctioned: DCI swiss, otherwise Double elim.



It's back and all of the strong players in Abq are going to show this Friday...or that's what they told me. If you don't suck and only come to one tournament then you want to come here because the prize support is the best in town and all the regular heavy hitters should be in attendance. It should be awesome as the store owner rocks!

Saturday: Active Imagination
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www.aigamestore.com
7:00 PM
Entry Fee: $2.50
Prize: Based on attendance. Some amount of packs. Nothing extravagant but it is cheap to play.
Sanctioned: Yes. This is how I will become the highest ranked eternal player in NM...mu ha ha ha.
Style: DCI swiss

Here is a mix of T2, extended, and 1.5 decks and the competition goes from excellent to terrible so be prepared to wade through a scrub or two before the battle begins.

FYI: This is under a new owner and is a lot better than when Glenn used to run things!

Sunday: Noble Collectibles on Coors
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PM me if you need directions or google it.
1:00 PM
Entry Fee: $5.00
Prize: All entry fee is payed out in store credit which can be used at any of the Noble Collectible Stores.
Sanctioned: Never.
Style: Double elim. or round robin depending on # of entrants.

This is hit or miss, and as far as the meta anything goes. Sometimes we have 5 people other times we have 12. We try to have a tournament regardless.


Questions: Contact the stores directly or PM me.

I would like to push myself in front of a bus for not reading the card. I just had it in my head that it was an instant. Thank you for not flaming me, I will flame myself....FLAME, FLAME, FLAME!

Can you imprint an Ancestral vision on an Isochron scepter? If so, what happens when you activate scepter? How many cards do you draw and when?

Wow that was a good metagame!
My Sunday round robin tourney was: RATS!!!! (coming in first, I was pwned by swarmyard), UGW thresh (mau, coming in second), Faerie Stompy (3rd.), Arcane GBU Rock, Mono-G Accelerate into huge dudes, and a weird MBC truffle shuffle hybrid.

I applaud Vroman for having the tourney and I say yay to "bus stop" (i.e. you could have found that pile of cards accidentally left at a bus stop) decks that take first.

Don't feel so bad...I live in New Mexico

I hope everyone in the NE is going. I went to a Mana Drain Open a long time ago and I really enjoyed playing there as everyone was nice. Good luck to you all.

In the western part of NY there is a great deal of 1.5. I made the change from 1 to 1.5 when I moved to ABQ. At first it is painful and sucks but its not so bad once you get used to actually having an attack step.

Hi I recently won an ebay auction and am waiting for a letter(cards) from Ontario to New Mexico (via normal post: standard letter mail). The cards were shipped on September 30th. how long is a reasonable time to wait given that this is an international letter that has to travel ~3,000 miles and we lost a post day in the US for Columbus day.

Cheers,
JK

I feel that it sucks too but I understand the rule was made so that it does not require any interpretation. You present a non-legal deck for whatever reason you get a game loss.

Personally I would have let the guy put the card back into his deck if he was the one who noticed the card was missing. Actually in a sanctioned tournament one of my buddies noticed I was missing the card not me and he let me just put it back in. He also knows I have no interest in cheating. Besides he now gets to make fun of me as a "cheater", if hewould have made me take a game loss he would have been labeled as a "lame ass" that had to resort to getting game wins against me through technicalities.

Congratulations! However, where was your angel stax???

Tonight this happens again. Come experience the insanity that is the ABQ metagame.

This looks like it will be weekly. Turnout was a little light (7 people) prize support for ABQ was excellent: 14 packs! Bob is the man!

This is an announcement that there is Sunday weekly 1.5 tournament at the Noble Collectibles on the West Side in the plaza with the Target in it. It starts at 1:30 pm sharp. Entry fee is $5 and all of the entry fee is given out in store credit. The card prices are at Scrye median but the guys there are willing to work with you especially if the card has some wear on it. I don't have a phone number off hand but you can look it up or PM me for more info.

I just talked to the owner and this is definite. Last week there was no tournament due to everyone hoarding their money for the pre-release.

Where: Game Gopher in the plaza located at the NW corner of San Mateo and Osuna - look for a Pier 1 from the road. It is right next to Laffs comedy club.
What: Unsanctioned 1.5 Tournament (most likely double elim), The entry fee is $6 and you are playing for packs. 2 packs per person goes into the prize pool.
Prizes will probably go down to the top 4.
How: to contact the owner for more info: 505 352 0593
When: 9/29/2006 Tournament begins at 7:30

Metagame: Wide open.

Well it will suck that they get 10 of a card but no one can argue with that logic (and price) and they even get a useful box to keep it all in! I have to remember not everyone is a magic guru with cards coming out of their ears. I guess someone could use this stuff!

I have a few questions about ditching bulk commons:

1. What is the length (inches or cm) of 1000 ct. card boxes?
2. Is it worth mailing in bulk commons or do you just break even after you ship such a heavy box?
3. What is the best place to mail in bulk commons or is there success to be had on ebay with this?

SCG buys 1000ct. boxes of commons for $6. It cost me $1 for the box, and if they don't pay for shipping. I may actually lose money, on the other hand. Does anyone have a better idea? And yes, I am considering just giving them away.

Thank you,
JK

WTF, he dominates the tournament and then decides to stop. He must explain this kind of idea! It is good to see so many people supportingTML Open. It seems that it is actually very encouraging becuase there seems to be more 1.5 dispersed around the country than 1 so to get that many people is fantastic!

I apologize if any of you tried to go Frday or Saturday. The store owner was just opening and wasn't open on Friday, which caused the reschedule. I went for a few hours on Saturday as I never had a time that the tournament may start.

If there was anyone that went to Game Gopher on either day or would just like to stay abreast of other local tournaments WHICH I KNOW GO DOWN then please post here or send me a PM.

Thanks,
JK

I know that you can stifle cracking the memory jar, my question is if you can stifle the "At end of turn, each player discards his or her hand and returns to his or her hand each card he or she removed from the game this way."

So that you get to keep the hand off jar and not go back to the old one?

Since it says "At end of turn" (like an Astral Slide) I am guessing stifle will work, but the card isn't in play anymore so I am not sure.

Either she already considers you just a friend or she was asking you "Which one would you like to see me in more as I ... your dick?"

Don't be a pussy, instead get some! Seriously, I have been known to give fashion advice to women quite a bit (I have impeccable taste) but I can safely say most of these chicks I was friendly with.

You know this reminds of that song, "If I knew what I know now, when I was younger" any way, gg some ass!

pussy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (MTG x 10000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000 00)

Get my drift :B

Good luck,
JK