Old School Magic - 9/7/2014 - Vacaville, CA

[BC]

Forgotten Path Games in Vacaville, CA will be hosting our second Old School Magic event on September 7th.

This format is based off the established 93/94 format (for more information visit http://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/). For this tournament we will also allow Fallen Empires, Revised, and Chronicles. The banned and restricted list is below

Forgotten Path Games
850 Alamo Drive
Vacaville, CA 95688
707-474-9834

NorCal Old School Magic
Sunday, September 7 @ 1 PM
$20 entry fee
In-store registration opens at noon
No proxies allowed
Black bordered cards encouraged
Foreign language cards are legal

Restricted in NorCal Old School:
Ancestral Recall
Balance
Black Lotus
Braingeyser
Channel
Chaos Orb
Demonic Tutor
Fork
Library of Alexandria
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Maze of Ith
Mind Twist
Mishra's Workshop
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Power Artifact
Recall
Regrowth
Shahrazad
Sol Ring
Strip Mine
Time Vault
Time Walk
Timetwister
Wheel of Fortune

Banned:
Bronze Tablet
Contract from Below
Darkpact
Demonic Attorney
Jeweled Bird
Rebirth
Tempest Efreet

Errata:
Chaos Orb (2)
Artifact
1, Tap: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and touches the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Changes from the previous tournament:
Mirror Universe is unrestricted
Black Vise is unrestricted
Hymn to Tourach is unrestricted

[Smmenen]

Can't wait! 

[aahz]

Mana Vault? Just to clarify.

[BC]

Mana Vault is restricted too.

[Smmenen]

Ok, good

Im really looking forward to this!

[serracollector]

You guys ever decide to make winter orb work like it used to with relic barrier and icy manipulator? if not black vise is gonna be about useless. especially in a field full of hymns.

[Smmenen]

I'm super excited for this.  Truly.  This format is so much fun.  I'm really glad we aren't going with the blog and leaving mana vault restricted.   I hope I can win this one too and change the restricted list again

[saspook]

I'm super excited for this.  Truly.  This format is so much fun.  I'm really glad we aren't going with the blog and leaving mana vault restricted.   I hope I can win this one too and change the restricted list again

Does the first place prize include being able to make a change to the B+R list?  Because that would be awesome.

[Smmenen]

Read the OP 

[BC]

Revised is legal for our tournaments. Come play.

[Smmenen]

Who is attending this event?

[aahz]

I'll be there.

[Smmenen]

I'm not driving to Vacaville just to play you. Who else is coming?

[heiner]

how was it? im super busy so couldn't make it

[JACO]

Were there any results, lists, or pics from this? Hollaaaaa

[nedleeds]

Black Vise is unrestricted

Please tell me somebody Stasis locked some unsuspecting clowns (Remove Enchantments FTW).

[aahz]

The good news: Old School was played.
The bad news: there are more people interested in the outcome of the event than could be bothered to show up for it.

We had a whopping THREE people actually show up. After two round-robin rounds, the dust settled in a 3-way tie (the top 3 from the last event, incidentally; I guess we scared everyone else away).

I played the same list as last time since I've been busy with work and the deck I was building for the event didn't quite come together in time.

There were a few interesting stack interactions and rules questions that arose, including a clear need to codify the nuances of Chaos Orb in even finer detail:


It's pretty clear that (unfortunately for those of us not quite in the Bay Area) these need to be hosted in a more central location. Perhaps a different format from a typical Mtg tournament might be more effective. Something like a day/evening of Old School over food/drinks at a non-gamestore venue? Just talking out loud.

The few pics that I snapped:
I missed the "good" shot of this, but pre-Mind Twist for smmenen's whole hand:

Post-Twist:

At least smmenen has finally acknowledged that he needs to do something about those horrible white-bordered Cities:


Serendib Djinn is an excellent blocker against Juzam:

[BC]

Yeah, the turnout sucked. I unfortunately couldn't even go due to child care issues.

I think Vacaville might be too far for people to travel for Old School. Either that, or people just wanted to watch football.

[Smmenen]

Vacaville is not a good place for Old School.