Come out To The Players Guild for a chance to win store credit and earn free entry to the NYSE IV!

When:              Saturday April 30, 2016
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:             The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                30 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 play test allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  300 in store credit and free entry to NYSE III
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Come out and show your support to The Players Guild and earn your chance for modern masters 2015 booster box and qualify for a regional pro tour qualifier!!

When: Saturday May 21, 2016
Start time: 12:00 pm
(registration begins at 11:00 am)

What: Sanctioned Standard Event
(Decklists required)
Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where: The Players Guild
Columbia Mall
225 Columbia Mall Drive
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
(570) 640-6408

Fees: $25 dollar entry fee

Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants. Each player entering will add 3 standard booster packs to the prize pool.)

First: Modern Masters 2015 Booster Box Second: 36 standard legal set booster packs
Third: 18 standard legal set booster packs
Fourth: 18 standard legal set booster packs
Fifth: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Sixth: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Seventh: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Eighth: 6 standard legal set booster packs

All pack prizes can be converted into store credit where interested.

NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the community and The Players Guild, come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.

Hope to see everyone there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

STANDARD PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Today we only had 14 Vintage players arrive to participate in the Vintage tournament for the change to win store credit! For this event, first place was awarded 200 in store credit, second place was 100 in store credit, and third and fourth were 25 in store credit.

Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:

Control Oath:  1 – 7.14%
5c Keeper:  1 – 7.14%
RUW Bomberman: 1 – 7.14%
RUW Mentor: 2 – 14.29%
Painterstone:  3 – 21.43%

Shops:

Aggro:  1 – 7.14%
Smoking Nova:  1 – 7.14%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 0 – 0.00%

Combo:

Ritual Doomsday: 1 – 7.14%

Rogue:

Merfolk: 2 – 14.29%
Mono Black LD: 1 – 7.14%

Event was run with 4 swiss rounds and cut to top 4.

Top 4 matches and results:

Turk, Adam vs. Butker, Joshua – Turk wins
Koprowski, John vs. Shalongo, Keith – Koprowski wins

Finals and results:

Turk, Adam vs. Koprowski, John  – Turk wins

Top 4 decklists:

First – Adam Turk
No deck name provided

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Triskelion
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
1 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Crucible of Wolrds
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Wurmcoil Engine


Second – John Koprowski
”Painter”

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Tinker
1 Dack Fayden
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ponder
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Pyroblast
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Painter’s Servant
2 Grindstone
3 Mental Misstep
2 Gush
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Volcanic Island
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
1 Island
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Illness in the Ranks
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain

Semi-Finalist – Keith Shalongo
”Painter”

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Tinker
1 Dack Fayden
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Mana Drain
1 Ponder
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Pyroblast
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Painter’s Servant
2 Grindstone
3 Mental Misstep
2 Gush
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Volcanic Island
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
1 Island
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Illness in the Ranks
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain


Semi-Finalist – Joshua Butker
”Ritual Doomsday”

4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
2 Island
1 Swamp
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
4 Dark Ritual
4 Doomsday
4 Gush
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Gitaxian Probe
4 Preordain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
3 Serenity

SB:
4 Steel Sabotage
1 Serenity
1 Scrubland
3 Defense Grid
2 Thoughtseize
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Echoing Truth

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 4!!!

Good luck to everyone (who doesn't have excuses like Jon). I'll see everyone (expect for Jon) who is dead to me (except for Jon), tomorrow at this point!

Side note: *FYI* you're dead to me - Jonathan Geras.

Happening this weekend!

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday April 2, 2016
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:            The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 PLAYTEST CARDS allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

See everyone tomorrow for PPTQ fun!

Happening this weekend!

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday March 5, 2016
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:            The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 PLAYTEST CARDS allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Today we had 24 Vintage players arrive to participate in the Vintage tournament for the change to win store credit! For this event, first place was awarded 300 in store credit, second place was 150 in store credit, third and fourth were 75 in store credit, and fifth through eighth were 25 each in store credit.

Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:

Control Oath:  3 – 12.00%
Moat Control:  1 – 4.00%
Tezzcast:  1 – 4.00%
RUW Bomberman: 1 – 4.00%
RUW Mentor: 2 – 8.00%
Hedron Oath:  1 – 4.00%
Painterstone:  2 – 8.00%

Shops:

Robots:  2 – 8.00%
Smoking Nova:  1 – 4.00%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 2 – 8.00%

Combo:

Doomsday: 1 – 4.00%
Petition Tendrils: 1 – 4.00%
Gush Tendrils: 1 – 4.00%

Rogue:

UR Burn: 1 – 4.00%
White Trash: 2 – 8.00%
Mono Black Eldrazi: 1 – 4.00%
UW Parfait: 1 – 4.00%

Event was run with 5 swiss rounds and cut to top 8.

Top 8 matches and results:

White, Steven vs. Potucek, Joshua – Potucek wins
Murray, Matthew vs. Kelsey, Chris – Murray wins
Seals, Keith vs. Cady, James – Seals wins
Eberhart, Ryan vs. Brennan, Joseph – wins

Top 4 matches and results:

Eberhart, Ryan vs. Potucek, Joshua – Potucek wins
Murray, Matthew vs. Seals, Keith – Seals wins

Finals and results:

Seals, Keith vs. Potucek, Joshua – Potucek wins

Top 8 decklists:
First – Josh Potucek
”Dredge”

4 Golgari Grave Troll
2 Golgari Thug
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
3 Ichorid
4 Bridge from Below
2 Dread Return
1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Unmask
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Serum Powder
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Mana Confluence
2 Dakmor Salvage
3 Petrified Field

SB:
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Serenity
4 Barbarian Ring
3 Wispmare

Second – Keith Seals
”Ravager Shops”

4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Trinisphere
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Hangarback Walker
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Triskelion

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Duplicant
2 Wurmcoil Engine

Semi-Finalist – Matthew Murray
”Jeskai Mentor”

4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
3 Monastery Mentor
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Pyroblast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
3 Gush
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
2 Preordain
2 Gitaxian Probe
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear//Tear
2 Island
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus

SB:
3 Disenchant
2 Containment Priest
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Rest in Peace
1 Plains
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Stony Silence
1 Supreme Verdict

Semi-Finalist – Ryan Eberhart
”Dark Petition Storm

1 Chain of Vapor
4 Underground Sea
1 Badlands
4 Dark Petition
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Polluted Delta
1 Marsh Flats
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Necropotence
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Defense Grid
2 Cabal Ritual
4 Dark Ritual
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Swamp
2 Duress

SB:
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Tinker
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Island
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Empty the Warrens
3 Defense Grid
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Rebuild

Quarter-Finalist – Joe Brennan
”Gush Mentor”

1 Karakas
1 Dig Through Time
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Disenchant
1 Island
1 Pyroblast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Narset Transcendant
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Dack Fayden
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tundra
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Flooded Strand
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
2 Flusterstorm
3 Monastery Mentor
4 Preordain
3 Gush
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep

SB:
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Plains
2 Rest in Peace
1 Serenity
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Stony Silence
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
1 Disenchant
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Containment Priest

Quarter-Finalist – Chris Kelsey
No Deck Name Provided

1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Workshop
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Hangarback Walker
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Triskelion
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Trinisphere
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Karakas
1 Sphere of Resistance
2 Tormod’ Crypt
3 Dismember

Quarter-Finalist – James Cady   
No deck name provided
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Monastery Mentor
1 Balance
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Thoughtcast
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Batterskull
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Opal
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
3 Seat of the Synod

SB:
1 Mind Twist
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Devout Witness
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Disenchant
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Containment Priest
3 Leyline of Sanctity

Quarter-Finalist – Steven Whitheead
”5c Moat Tempo”
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Flusterstorm
1 Sol Ring
1 Pyroblast
1 Duress
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Time Vault
1 Balance
3 Mana Drain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Sylvan Library
1 Dack Fayden
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Moat
4 Force of Will
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Library of Alexandria
3 Mana Confluence
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
4 Flooded Strand

SB:
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Disenchant
1 Plains
1 Island
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
1 Rest in Peace
1 Slaughter Games
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Containment Priest
1 Tormod’s Crypt


Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 8!!!

See everyone tomorrow for vintage!

It's coming up!

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday February 6, 2016
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:            The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 PLAYTEST CARDS allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Today we had 25 Vintage players arrive to participate in the first Vintage tournament of 2016 for the change to win store credit! For this event, first place was awarded 300 in store credit, second place was 150 in store credit, third and fourth were 75 in store credit, and fifth through eighth were 25 each in store credit.

Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:

The Answer:  1 – 4.00%
UW Landstill:  1 – 4.00%
Moat Control:  1 – 4.00%
4c Keeper:  1 – 4.00%
RUW Bomberman: 1 – 4.00%
RUW Mentor: 3 – 12.00%
RUW Delver:  1 – 4.00%
Grixis Thieves:  1 – 4.00%
Oathstill:  2 – 8.00%
Strixis Control:  1 – 4.00%
Painterstone:  1 – 4.00%
BUG Fish:  1 – 4.00%
Gorger Gro:  1 – 4.00%

Shops:

Aggro Shops:  1 – 4.00%
Smoking Nova:  2 – 8.00%
Uba Stax:  1 – 4.00%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 3 – 12.00%

Brian Kelly:

Eyes in the Sky: 1 – 4.00%

Rogue:

UR Burn: 1 – 4.00%

Event was run with 5 swiss rounds and cut to top 8.

Top 8 matches and results:

Brennan, Joseph vs. Geras, Jonathan – Brennan wins
Ottaway, Sean vs. Murray, Matthew – Ottaway wins
Koprowski, John vs. Davidoff, Nate – Davidoff wins
Seals, Keith vs. Dobbin, Zach – Dobbin wins

Top 4 matches and results:

Brennan, Joseph vs. Dobbin, Zach – wins
Ottaway, Sean vs. Davidoff, Nate – Davidoff wins

Finals and results:
Brennan, Joseph vs. Davidoff, Nate – Brennan wins

Top 8 decklists:

First – Joe Brennan
No deck name provided

3 Gush
2 Flusterstorm
3 Preordain
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Swords to Plowshares
4 Monastery Mentor
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Mox Ruby
2 Dack Fayden
1 Island
1 Ponder
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Wear/Tear
1 Mox Jet
1 Karakas
1 Brainstorm
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Dig Through Time
1 Pyroblast
1 Mox Sapphire

SB:
1 Mountain
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Pyroblast
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear/Tear
2 Stony Silence
1 Pithing Needle
1 Shattering Spree

Second – Nate Davidoff
Dredge w/Bloodghast

3 Mana Confluence
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Dakmor Salvage
3 Petrified Field
4 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
3 Ichorid
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Dread Return
1 Flame-kin Zealot
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Serum Powder
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Bridge from Below
4 Bloodghast
3 Golgari Thug

SB:
4 Barbarian Ring
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Serenity
3 Wispmare

Semi-Finalist – Zach Dobbin
No deck name provided

1 Buried Ruin
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2  Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Strip Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Sol Ring
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
1 Mana Crypt
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Uba Mask
2 Smokestack
2 Null Rod
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
2 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Black Lotus

SB:
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Dismember
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Phyrexian Metamorph

Semi-Finalist – Sean Ottaway
No deck name provided

4 force of will
4 mana drain
3 dack fayden
3 trinket mage
3 mental misstep
3 sudden shock
3 blood moon
2 Consecrated sphinx
2 batterskull
2 flusterstorm
2 jace, the mind sculptor
1 ancestral recall
1 dig through time
1 time walk
1 treasure cruise
1 engineered explosives
1 Sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 mox ruby
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 mox pearl
1 mox emerald
1 black lotus
5 island
4 scalding tarn
2 volcanic island
1 polluted delta
1 library of Alexandria
1 mountain
1 ancient tomb
1 tolarian academy

SB:
4 grafdigger's cage
 2 ravenous trap
2 rolling earthquake
2 energy flux
2 pulverize
1 tormod's crypt
1 mindbreak trap
1 arcane laboratory

Quarter-Finalist – John Koprowski
No deck name provided

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Flusterstorm
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Dack Fayden
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Tinker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Mental Misstep
3 Painter’s Servant
2 Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Pyroblast
2 Grindstone
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
2 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Island
4 Scalding Tarn

SB:
1 Mountain
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Ingot Chewer
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Illness in the Ranks
2 Thoughtseize
2 Nihil Spellbomb


Quarter-Finalist – Keith Seals
Smoking Nova

4 Mutavault
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Chalice of the Void
3 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
3 Smokestack
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Crucible of Worlds

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Dismember
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Ensnaring Bridge

Quarter-Finalist – Matt Murray
Meer-ah-cleez

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Arid Mesa
1 Karakas
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Remand
2 Dragonlord Ojutai
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Dack Fayden
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Terminus
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Moat
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time

SB:
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Counterbalance
3 Ingot Chewer
3 Rest in Peace
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key

Quarter-Finalist – Jonathan Geras
Blowout Train USA Mentor

1 Young Pyromancer
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Monastery Mentor
2 Wear/Tear
2 Dack Fayden
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Preordain
2 Pyroblast
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Island
1 Karakas
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Flooded Strand
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tundra

SB:
3 Containment Priest
3 Rest in Peace
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Shattering Spree
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

I'm assuming you are talking about kozilek great distortion?

I think you are entirely missing his concept here, Gotshall.

Come out and show your support to The Players Guild and earn your chance for modern masters 2015 booster box and qualify for a regional pro tour qualifier!!

When: Saturday February 13, 2016
Start time: 12:00 pm
(registration begins at 11:00 am)

What: Sanctioned Standard Event
(Decklists required)
Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where: The Players Guild
Columbia Mall
225 Columbia Mall Drive
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
(570) 640-6408

Fees: $25 dollar entry fee

Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants. Each player entering will add 3 standard booster packs to the prize pool.)

First: Modern Masters 2015 Booster Box Second: 36 standard legal set booster packs
Third: 18 standard legal set booster packs
Fourth: 18 standard legal set booster packs
Fifth: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Sixth: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Seventh: 6 standard legal set booster packs
Eighth: 6 standard legal set booster packs

All pack prizes can be converted into store credit where interested.

NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the community and The Players Guild, come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.

Hope to see everyone there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

STANDARD PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Thanks!

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday January 2, 2016
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:             The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 proxies allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Today, 16 vintage participants came out to Bloomsburg in order to win store credit. Top 8 were awarded for the event. First was awarded 250 in store credit, second took 100 in store credit, third and fourth each received 50 in store credit, and fifth through eighth took 25 in store credit each. Thanks again to those who did come out to support the format and play vintage in Bloomsburg. We look forward to seeing you all for more events in the future!
The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
UW Landstill: 1 – 6.25%
BUG Landstill: 1 – 6.25%
Landstill Oath: 1 – 6.25%
UWR Delver: 1 – 6.25%
Bant Gro Gorger: 2 – 12.5%
Jace/Mentor Control: 1 – 6.25%
Painterstone: 1 – 6.25%
Petition Tendrils: 1 – 6.25%
Doomsday: 1 – 6.25%

Workshops:
Uba Stax: 1 – 6.25%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 0 – 0.00%

Brian Kelly Decks:
“JP Kohler made me do it”: 1 – 6.25%
“Allies in the Sky”:  2 – 12.5%

Rogue:
Homebrew Burn: 1 – 6.25%
Stiflenaught Fling: 1 – 6.25%

This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Poutcek, Joshua vs. Dempsey, Brandon – wins
Murray, Matthew vs. Beaver, Jeremy – Beaver wins
Whitheead, Steven vs. Reitnauer, David – wins
Brennan, Joseph vs. Geras, Jonathan – Brennan Wins

Top 4 Pairing and Results

Finals

Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future. And again, thanks to everyone who did come out to the event. Congrats to the top 8!

Top 8 Deck lists:

First – Joshua Potucek
“Potucek Landstill Oath"

4 Oath of Druids
2 Griselbrand
1 Gaea’s B lessing
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Standstill
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Toxic Deluge
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Treetop Village
1 Creeping Tar Pit
3 Mishra’s Factory
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Forest
3 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island

SB:
1 Wasteland
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Nature’s Claim

Second – Jeremy Beaver
“The Blowout Gro Train"

2 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Meddling Mage
4 Werebear
3 Managorger Hydra
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Elspeth, Knight’s Errant
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Land Grant
2 Null Rod

SB:
1 Forest
1 Null Rod
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Trygon Predator
3 Nature’s Claim
3 Containment Priest
3 Ravenous Trap

Semi-Finalist – Steven Whitheead
“5c Moat Aggro"

1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
4 Force of Will
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Notion Thief
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Moat
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Dack Fayden
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Time Walk
3 Mana Drain
1 Time Vault
1 Sylvan Library
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Balance
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sol Ring
1 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Voltaic Key
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
3 Mana Confluence
1 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland

SB:
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Containment Priest
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Disenchant
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Rest in Peace
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

Semi-Finalist – Joe Brennan
“ No deck name provided"

4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Monastery Mentor
2 Dack Fayden
3 Gush
3 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Force of Will
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tundra
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Strip Mine
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Brainstorm
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Emerald
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Island
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Pyroblast
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Karakas

SB:
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Wear//Tear
1 Shattering Spree
1 Mountain
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Containment Priest
2 Pyroblast


Quarter-Finalist – David Reitnauer
“RUW Delver"

3 Lightning Bolt
2 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
2 Path to Exile
4 Gush
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Pyroblast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
3 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Strip Mine
1 Island

SB:
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Sudden Shock
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
1 Mountain
1 Wear//Tear
1 Shattering Spree

Quarter-Finalist – Brandon Dempsey
“Lotus Petal Control"

1 Merchant Scroll
4 Gush
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Fastbond
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Imperial Seal
3 Mental Misstep
4 Doomsday
4 Preordain
1 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
2 Dark Ritual
1 Necropotence
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Lotus Petal
1 Laboratory Maniac
4 Force of Will
1 Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
3 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Black Lotus
SB:
1 Forest
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Xantid Swarm
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Duress
1 Illness in the Ranks

Quarter-Finalist – Matthew Murray
“JP Kohler made me do it"

1 Palinchron
2 Notion Thief
3 Dack Fayden
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Expedition Map
3 Mox Opal
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
4 Mana Confluence
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
3 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
2 City of Brass
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Tinker
1 Alhammaret’s Archive
1 Memory Jar
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

SB:
1 Containment Priest
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Aegis of the Gods
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Nihil Spellbomb

Quarter-Finalist – Jonathan Geras
“Blowout Train Bant Swole"

4 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
3 Gitaxian Probe
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Managorger Hydra
4 Wearbear
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Land Grant
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
4 Meddling Mage
2 Null Rod
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection

SB:
1 Forest
2 Flusterstorm
4 Rest in Peace
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Null Rod
1 Swords to Plowshares

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 8!!!

Few hours away!

See everyone tomorrow for vintage!

There are players at the store on Mondays, Wednesday's, and Thursday's after 5 that can play vintage games. We also have a vintage for store credit event this Saturday at 12.

Just realized I forgot to post this here.

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday December 5, 2015
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:             The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 proxies allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

The players guild in Bloomsburg, pa. About a 45 minute drive west from hazelton. We play vintage a lot. Tournaments are on the first Saturday of every month for vintage.

Today, 20 vintage participants came out to Bloomsburg in order to win store credit. Top 8 were awarded for the event. First was awarded 300 in store credit, second took 100 in store credit, third and fourth each received 50 in store credit, and fifth through eighth took 25 in store credit each. Thanks again to those who did come out to support the format and play vintage in Bloomsburg. We look forward to seeing you all for more events in the future!
The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
UWR Bomberman: 1 – 5.00%
Esper Bomberman: 1 – 5.00%
UWR Delver: 1 – 5.00%
UR Delver: 1 – 5.00%
Grixis Control Slaver: 1 – 5.00%
Bant Gro Gorger: 1 – 5.00%
Jace/Mentor Control: 1 – 5.00%
Painterstone: 2 – 10.00%
Gush Tendrils: 2 – 10.00%
Doomsday: 1 – 5.00%

Workshops:
Smoking Nova: 1 – 5.00%
Terra Nova: 1 – 5.00%
MUD: 1 – 5.00%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 2 – 10.00%

Brian Kelly Decks:
“Allies in the Sky”: 1 – 5.00%

Rogue:
UW Parfait: 1 – 5.00%
Elves: 1 – 5.00%

This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Potucek, Joshua vs. Beaver, Jeremy – Beaver Wins
Kelly, Brian vs. Difebo, Dominic – Kelly Wins
Ottoway, Sean vs. Reitnauer, David – Reitnauer Wins
Koprowski, John vs. Kohler, Justin – Koprowski Wins

Top 4 Pairing and Results

Kelly, Brian vs. Reitnauer, David – Kelly Wins
Koprowski, John vs. Beaver, Jeremy – Koprowski Wins

Finals

Kelly, Brian vs. Koprowski, John – Kelly Wins

Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future. And again, thanks to everyone who did come out to the event. Congrats to the top 8!

Top 4 Deck lists:

First – Brian Kelly
“Allies in the Sky"

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
2 Monastery Mentor
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Sylvan Library
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Fire//Ice
1 Repeal
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Dack Fayden
3 Preordain
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria

SB:
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
3 Nature's Claim
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Sudden Shock
1 Aegis of the Gods
1 Strip Mine
1 Stony Silence

Second – John Koprowski
“Painter"

1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tinker
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
1 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
4 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Gush
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ponder
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Island
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
2 Thoughtseize
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Shattering Spree
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Illness in the Ranks
1 Mountain
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Grafdigger's Cage

Quarter-Finalist – Justin Kohler
“ Red Deck Wins"

4 Trinket Mage
2 Auriok Salvagers
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Time Walk
3 Dack Fayden
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Sol Ring
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand

SB:
2 Pyroblast
2 Pithing needle
2 Containment Priest
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Rest in Peace
2 Disenchant
2 Magus of the Unseen
1 Tormod’s Crypt

Semi-Finalist – David Reitnauer
“URW Delver"

3 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Path to Exile
2 Pyroblast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Brainstorm
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Strip Mine
1 island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Mental Misstep

SB:
1 Wear/Tear
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Smelt
1 Shattering Spree
1 Mountain
1 Pithing Needle
2 Rest in Peace
4 Leyline of the Void

Semi-Finalist – Jeremy Beaver
“The Blowout GRO Train"

4 Tundra
4 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
 1 Black Lotus
4 Meddling Mage
4 Wearbear
3 Managorger Hydra
2 Monastery Mentor
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Mental Misstep
3 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Land Grant
3 Null Rod
3 Gitaxian Probe

SB:
1 Forest
1 Balance
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Trygon Predator
3 Nature’s Claim
3 Containment Priest
3 Grafdigger’s Cage

Quarter-Finalist – Dominic Difebo
“Blowout Train Combo"

3 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
2 Fact or Fiction
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tinker
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Dark Petition
3 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Duress
1 Necropotence
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Empty the Warrens
2 Thoughtseize
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Flusterstorm
4 Gush
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Fastbond

SB:
3 Ravenous Trap
2 Yixlid Jailer
3 Nature’s Claim
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Energy Flux
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Pithing Needle
1 Toxic Deluge

Quarter-Finalist – Sean Ottaway
“Gottshall’s Baby"

4 force of Will
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
4 doomsday
2 dark petition
3 dark ritual
1 ancestral recall
1 necropotence
1 brainstorm
1 ponder
1 gitaxian probe
1 hurkyls recall
1 laboratory maniac
4 gush
2 flusterstorm
2 thoughtseize
1 fastbond
1 merchant scroll
3 mental misstep
1 tendrils of agony
1 yawgmoth’s will
1 mana crypt
1 Sol ring
1 lotus petal
1 mox jet
1 mox ruby
1 mox sapphire
1 mox pearl
1 mox emerald
1 black lotus
4 underground sea
2 tropical island
4 misty rainforest
1 polluted delta
1 verdant catacombs
1 island
1 library of Alexandria

SB:
2 xantid swarm
2 abrupt decay
1 city of solitude
2 energy flux
3 hurkyls recall
2 trygon predator
1 chain of vapor
2 nature's claim

Quarter-Finalist – Joshua Potucek
“Homebrew Shops"

3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Pithing Needle
4 Phyrexian Revoker
3 Ratchet Bomb
4 Dismember
2 Batterskull
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Darksteel Juggernaut
2 Hangarback Walker
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Homeward Path
3 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

SB:
1 Darksteel Juggernaut
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Ghost Quarter

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 8!!!

Can't wait to see everyone this weekend!

Come out and show your vintage support to The Players Guild and win a bunch of store credit!!

When:              Saturday November 7, 2015
                       Start time: 12:00 pm
                       (registration begins at 11:00 am)

The Host:         Shawn Griffiths (kameli0n)
                              
What:              Unsanctioned Vintage Event
                      (Decklists required)
                      Swiss rounds with cut to top 8

Where:             The Players Guild
                       Columbia Mall
                       225 Columbia Mall Drive
                       Bloomsburg, PA 17815
                       (570) 640-6408

Fees:                25 dollar entry fee      
                       (10 proxies allowed for free, an additional five can be utilized at 1 dollar each)
                    
Prize Support: (Please keep in mind that this prize structure is based on 32 participants and will be scaled to reflect more or less participants.)      

First:  350 in store credit
Second: 150 in store credit
Third: 75 in store credit
Fourth: 75 in store credit
Fifth: 25 in store credit
Sixth: 25 in store credit
Seventh: 25 in store credit
Eighth: 25 in store credit
                                                                          
NOTE: Please everyone, show your support to the vintage community and The Players Guild,  come out and be part of another great event. We understand that dates our hard to accommodate everyone, but it is what it is, and we apologize to those who will be unable to attend.

As always, I will be set up on location as a dealer for all your buying, selling, and bartering needs.
 
Hope to see our previous champs and all challengers there!!!

Everyone! Do your best to attend as always, come for the awesome occasion, or attend your very first event in Bloomsburg, PA! And as always....

VINTAGE PLAYERS BE HERE!!!

Today, 12 vintage participants came out to Bloomsburg in order to win store credit. Top 4 were awarded for the event. Top 4 split 400 in store credit. Thanks again to those who did come out to support the format and play vintage in Bloomsburg. We look forward to seeing you all for more events in the future!
The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
UWR Bomberman: 1 – 8.33%
Esper Mentor: 1 – 8.33%
UWR Delver: 2 – 16.67%
Tendrils: 1 – 8.33%

Workshops:
Smoking Nova: 3 – 25.00%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 0.00%

Brian Kelly Decks:
Dragonlord Salvager’s Oath: 1 – 8.33%
Humanstorm: 1 – 8.33%

Rogue:
Dimir Discard: 1 – 8.33%
Elves: 1 – 8.33%

This event was run with 4 swiss rounds with the cut to top 4.

Top 4 Pairings and Results

Split

Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future. And again, thanks to everyone who did come out to the event. Congrats to the top 4!

Top 4 Deck lists:

Semi-Finalist – Keith Seals
“Smoking Nova"

1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Mutavault
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Sol Ring
2 Batterskull
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
3 Null Rod
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere

SB:
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Dismember

Semi-Finalist – Jonathan Geras
“Gottshall’s Baby"
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
4 Lighting Bolt
4 Gush
1 Dig through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Pyroblast
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
4 Preordain
1 Ponder
2 Null Rod
3 Dack Fayden
1 Strip Mine

SB:
3 Ravenous Trap
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Flusterstorm

Semi-Finalist – Matthew Murray
“Humanstorm"

2 Dark Confidant
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Trinket Mage
1 Notion Thief
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Magus of the Future
3 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Rebuild
1 Repeal
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
1 Timetwister
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Memory Jar
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
3 Cavern of Souls
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
2 Island
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
2 Containment Priest
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Rest in Peace
1 Pithing Needle
1 Dismember
2 Disenchant
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Plains
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Force of Will
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Semi-Finalist – Justin Kohler
“ No deck name provided"

2 Auriok Salvagers
4 Trinket Mage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Dig Through Time
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Time Walk
3 Dack Fayden
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Sol Ring
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand

SB:
2 Pyroblast
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Disenchant
2 Magus of the Unseen
1 Moat

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 4!!!