tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65643082223740492592012-01-27T10:49:50.314-05:00In Nov 08 I became a WPN organizer, and had no clue what I was getting into. In Nov 09 I became a lv1 Judge. Currently I am running around 7 tournaments, monthly. This is my ongoing story. Allow me to share it with you..Dan Regewitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08406682853307260395noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564308222374049259.post-74115908919195051432012-01-27T10:41:00.001-05:002012-01-27T10:49:50.324-05:00

Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN February Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, commander, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 7,14,21,28th; 5:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00

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WPN January EventsMagic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc.Tuesdays: 3,10,17,24,31; 6:00-9:00pmFriday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI

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= Event Added for February= Thurs, Jan 19th, 2012The following event has been added to our schedule for February. Highlander-Commander: Awesome commander tastiness for all to enjoy! Multiplayer format with victory point options. $10 entry. Prizes to include store credit. Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Tues: 21st. 5:30-9:00pm.

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WPN December Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 6,13,20,27. 6:00pm. Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI

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WPN November Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 1,8,15,22,29. 5:30pm. Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN October Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays; 4,11,18,25; 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed

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Magic: The Gathering Events WPN September Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 6,13,20,27th; 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2

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= SCG Open Pitt - part 2: Deck checks As part of my staff duties at Star City Games open in Pittsburgh, I was on the deck checks team. Deck checks are a feature of just about every competitive or professional magic event run. At the start of the event, all players are seated and decklists are collected. Tables are then randomly selected to be checked. The reason judges perform deck checks is

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= Event Update The following event has been CANCELED: Magic the Gathering at SIBCON. New details for the following event: Innistrad - Prerelease! New Dimension Comics of Butler is proud to sponsor yet another Magic Prerelease. This time we are bringing a day's magic events to the SibCon Gaming convention. Butler Days Inn at 139 Pittsburgh Road. Discover the horror that lurks within the newest

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= Star City Games Open - Pittsburgh(part 1 - event report)Saturday, July 30th I had the awesome opportunity to participate in the Star City Games standard open in Pittsburgh, as a member of the judge staff. Overall I had a great day, enjoyed myself while keeping a close eye on decklists as part of the deck-checks team. I'm going to review a few of the things I learned throughout the day.In this (

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN August Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, commander, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 2,9,16,23,30; 5:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2

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= GPT Pittsburgh Event Report= July 26th, 2011On the 23rd I headed down to West-Mifflin early to Head-Judge a Grand-Prix Trial to be held at New Dimension Comics in the Century 3 mall. We were expecting a decent crowd due to both the standard format and the fact that the GP in question would be local, occurring in Pittsburgh.In the end we got less players than I personally was expecting, but

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= Magic 2012 Pre-release tales= Monday, July 11th, 2011Another successful pre-release has passed. I am pleased to report that 18 players participated in the main event, and 14 players played in our side-event draft. Those who have been reading know that this is a welcome boon from last pre-release where we had only 8 players for the main event. While I think this is a good sign for the health of

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WPN July Events Friday Night Magic - Extended! Thanks to recent changes in Wizards Policy, it is now permissible to run extendend format for FNMs. The extended format includes all cards from Lorwyn Block forward. Come try your hand at this interesting format! Here you rule. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Friday, 1; 5:30-9:00pm. Magic: The Gathering: Casual

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= Awesome Magic Story= Tuesday June 14th, 2011If you've played Magic for even a little while, you probably have a magic story to tell. A magic story is basically any narrative that only another magic player can truly appreciate. The most common stories that you can hear on a regular basis are "I pulled these awesome rares out of these packs!" or "I was up against the ropes in a tight game but

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN June Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays: 7,14,21,28 Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Fridays: 3,10,24; 5:30pm - 9:00pm

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= Interest Saturation= May 9th, 2011Periodically in the past I have taken a moment out of my already busy schedule to write a basic event report. These reports summarize how some of the events that often take more planning and preparation were actually executed and how successful they were, as well as any interesting rulings or other situations. After running the events related to the New

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN May Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays: 3,10,17,24,31 Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Fridays: 6,20,; 5:30pm - 9:00pm

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= 12 tips for the aspiring CommanderIn my continuing quest to educate the masses about the Highlander/Commander format and the many joys of playing, I have devised a short 12 item list. This list is not intended to be complete or definitive. It's simply 12 strategies that work well in almost any Commander deck. I highly recommend considering including these strategies when building a deck or

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= Commander: TestingI did mention testing, so I'm going to talk just a bit about how to do that. First of all, you can start testing in your own home.- Test handsThe first method of testing the deck you just put together is to look at an opening hand. If you don't like the look of the first one you see, feel free to shuffle and take seven more. For each hand that you look at consider the

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN April Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays: 5,12,19,26; 5:30-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Fridays: 8,22,29; 5:

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= It's all in the cards.If you've never built a Commander deck before, it kinda goes without saying that your going to need cards to build with. Even someone like myself who's a big fan of the format with multiple decks under my belt, goes out of their way to acquire cards when attempting to build a new Commander deck.You're going to need a lot of cards.Ok, maybe not that many. Although you can

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= Having A planLast week I introduced Commander as a format, this time I'm going to write about how one can go about building a Commander deck.The reason why I'm writing about the Commander format lately is because I recently completed my fourth Commander deck (well, that and because I enjoy it). Except for my first Commander deck, I have followed a series of steps and phases when building decks

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= Commander, an IntroductionI sit on one end of a standard 8-foot table, one of six bodies huddled around a massive game of Highlander Commander. One of my favorite formats for casual play. The person sitting on the far side of the table has a Tefferi commander preventing me from casting anything except on my own turn. My brother has a Howling Mine and just put a Mana Flare on the table. The

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= Running a Magic Game Day.= March 7th, 2011 Late on a Friday night, after the FNM was well done and over with, I became suddenly and violently ill. I'll spare you the horrid details but I definitely had a spat with the flu, and it attacked me suddenly and without warning. This posed a serious problem, because tomorrow, Saturday, was Besieged game day. I knew then that I would not be fit to run

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Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN March Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays, March 1,8,15,22,29th 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Fridays,

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I've been playing, judging, and organizing magic for a while now, and in that time I've gotten used to the pacing of sets being released, and of all the tournaments that go with them. As many of us did, I noticed the official announcement of the release of Magic 2012 - and thought nothing of it.But sometime afterwards I realized that M12, like M11 and M10 before it, was the Third set release in a

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=Mirrodan Besieged Prerelease - Event Report=Wed, Feb 2nd, 2011I'm happy to report another successful prerelease has been put in the records at Butler, PA. The day started with 23 total players in attendance. Only 6 players batting for the Phyrexians (a surprise), and the other 17 mirran. We preceeded with 5 rounds of swiss with no cut.Happily, the event went smoothly. The only rules issue I

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= WPN Events Feb and March= Monday, January 31st, 2011We are coming out of hibernation with a packed schedule for the next two months. Highlights include not one but two high-prize events, a commander event, and would you believe two-headed giant sealed deck?Magic: The GatheringEventsWPN Feb Events Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic:

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=WPN February Events=Mon, Jan 3rd, 2011Here are the details for the events to be run in February. With this announcement these events have been added to the calendar. Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase,

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= WPN January Events= Friday, Dec 3rd, 2010 Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays: 4,11,18,25; 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan Regewitz.

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Friday Night Magic for Friday, November 26th (black Friday) has been canceled. No gaming events will take place on that day. However, feel free to drop by and check out our Black Friday sales which include $10 T-shirts, 25% off toys, and 15% off board games.

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=== Overview Scars of Mirrodin represented the second Game Day I've proudly hosted. Sadly, the turnout was significantly smaller than last time around. Eight players showed up to play. Thus it was announced that not only would all participants recieve an extra extended-art Memnite promo, but that everyone would also walk away with a foil extended-art Tempered Steel. The event was to contain 3

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New Dimension Comics in Butler now has it's own facebook page. This is a great way for our local player base to stay connected to our event schedule. It's still in the process of being set up, so I'll continue to maintain events through this site for the near future. The goal however is to make Facebook the more complete and more accurate source for event information - which means I have an

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WPN December Events Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 7,14,21,28. 6:00pm. Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event.

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= WPN November Events= October 11th, 2010 Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 2,9,16,23,30. 6:00pm. Two Headed Giant! - 16th Friday Night Magic: Here,

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= WPN October Events= Thurs, Sept 2nd, 2010 Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 5,12,19,26 ; 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard

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=Revised events for September=Thurs, September 2nd, 2010The following Change is being made to my planned events for the month of September:The FNM scheduled for Friday, Sept. 24th is changed to "FNM for FtV". Expect your regular standard constructed FNM, but the cost to enter has been raised to $10, and we have a sealed box of From the Vault: Relics to give away. This represents the last FNM

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= Announcing September Events= Sun, Aug 1st, 2010This summer continues to be awesome in terms of Magic events both large and small. Personally I've been keeping an eye on the live coverage of Grand Prix Colombus!Here at NDC Butler I still have to look forward to our Magic Game day, and the Butler Gathering tournament.Not to overshadow the events that are still to occur in August, but I've worked

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= Event Update: Butler Magic GAME DAY!= 7/18/2010 I am pleased to announce that I have the opportunity to host a Magic: the gathering game day.When: Saturday, Aug 14th.Registration 10:00am-12:30pm; Tournament 1:00-9:00pmFormat: Type 2 standard constructed; Swiss rounds with a cut and single elimination top.Cost: $10.00 entry.Prizes: Exclusive game-day promos, as well as booster packs based on

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= Butler Gathering Magic Tournament= 7/5/2010When: Sunday, August 22nd, 10:00amWhere: Ghost Riders II, Butler PAFormat: Two events, singles and blind partnersLegality: VintagePrizes: A booster box of cards for each event, plus gift cards for 2nd and 3rd place in each event.Entrance Fee: $25 (includes entry into both events, plus 2 drinks and 1 snack from on-site snack bar).Please contact:

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Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Also frequently run odd formats such as planechase, archenemy, EDH, emperor, multiplayer, etc. Tuesdays: 3,9,16,23,30; 6:00-9:00pm Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry.

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Magic: The Gathering Magic Tournament: Here, you rule. This tournament is EXTENDED format. Recent changes to the extended format have been announced. This will be the first tournament using these format changes that NDC will run. $5.00 entry. Note that this event will take place at NDC in cranberry. Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Monday, 5: 6:00-9:00pm Magic 2011 Core Set Prerelease!: Come experience

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== Grand Prix Trial - Columbus== Sat June 19th, 2010 This past weekend I had a great opportunity to judge a Grand Prix Trial for GP - columbus (taking place July 30th - Aug 1st). Not only did I get the chance to judge, but I was given the honor, privilege, and challenge of being head judge for this event. I arrived on site about 10:30, and supplied the TO with deck lists for players to fill out

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= June events updated, July events posted= Wed, June 2nd 2010Of particular interest to the Eternal format crowd is that there will be a Grand Prix in Colombus for the Legacy format. Preceeding this event will be no less than 3 local Trials that will offer automatic byes in that event as well as other prizes.I will be attending as a judge the Grand Prix trial to be held at New Dimention Comics at

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= WPN event schedule - June= Sun, May 2nd 2010WPN June Events Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available for use. New Players Welcome. Tuesdays: 1,8,15,22,29 Friday Night Magic: Here, you rule. Standard type 2 constructed event. $7.00 entry. DCI sanctioned w/ prize support! Hosted by Dan

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= Myojin of Life's Web and Sudden Spoiling= Friday, April 30th 2010The following occurred in a casual Elder Dragon Highlander game with 4 players. At that time I made a rules call concerning this interaction that was incorrect. Here is the correct call.Situation:Player A has a Myojin of Life's Web in play with a divinity counter on it. They choose to attack Player B. Player B casts Sudden

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WPN May Events Magic: The Gathering Magic: Vintage Tournament: 10 proxy event. $20.00 entry. Prizes based on attendance but may include an unlimited Time Vault and/or a Beta Sinkhole. Deck registration required. Hosted by Dan Regewitz. Saturday, May 1st 3:00pm-7:00pm. Magic: The Gathering: Casual Play: Here, you rule. Come to play, trade, or build decks for Magic: the Gathering. Decks available

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For those players who expressed an interest in two-headed giant - an event has been scheduled for next month.Unfortunately, I cannot change or alter my FNM events for this month, so we will NOT be having a two-headed giant event in these next few weeks.My apologies for any confusion that may occur.

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=Special Event Announcement!=Sunday, March 14th.I am pleased to announce that I will be running my first Eternal format tournament since becoming a certified judge. Format: Type 1 Vintage!Location: New Dimension Comics - ButlerSaturday May 1st3:00pm deck registration (lists will be required)play 4:00-7:00$20.00 entryPrizes:With 8+ people we will hand out an Unlimited time vault to first

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= Event Update= March 14th, 2010I've updated my calender up to May 1st. I'd like to highlight a few events before I give you the full list. Firstly Rise of the Eldrazi releases in April, and thus we have our standard Pre-release and Launch party. Secondly, I've decided to mix it up on our casual nights. So the plan is to play with some planechase on april 6th, and to break out Vanguard on the

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= Event update= Tuesday, February 16thI just scheduled and sanctioned most of my events for the next month. The event dates and times have been uploaded to my google calendar (check 'event schedule' under links).In addition to events this month I have sanctioned and scheduled the next Magic Pre-release and Launch party for Rize of the Eldrazi. April 17th pre-release, and April 23rd Launch.WPN

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= MtG: Worldwake Pre-release= Sunday, January 31st. Due to my work and tournament responsibilities I don't often manage to get away from my home shop. However, I had the opportunity to attend and participate as a player in a pre-release down in Tarentum. My sealed deck pool was actually quite strong. I opened 2 marsh casualties (one foil), and a chain reaction for some solid board-sweeping. I

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= MtG: Worldwake Pre-release.= Saturday, January 30th. Another set, another successful pre-release. Only 14 people were enrolled in the main event, which was a bit less than what I was expecting (20+). Still many packs were opened, games and cards were payed, and things went smoothly. I had advertized a double-elimination draft. Strangely enough 16 people signed into the draft. There was a

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= Future Event Announcements= Tuesday, January 12th.The calendar has been updated with our tentative event schedule through the end of February. I thought I'd just take a moment to highlight some of my more exciting events...Worldwake Pre-release!Saturday, Jan 30th 12:00 registration; Play 1:00-5:30; Draft 6:00-9:00;Once again NDC is proud to host an officially sanctioned pre-release event. A

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= SWM: 150pt Option - "Legacy Theme"= Monday, January 4th.This month's option play was a 150pt constructed. Only factions from the Legacy era were allowed - Meaning New republic, Empire, Vong, Sith, and of course Fringe. Players were allowed to mix factions to a certain extent such as mixing New Republic with Empire or Vong (but not all three), or Sith with Empire. Players were restricted from

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic - Draft= Friday, December 18th.9 people sat down to draft Zendikar this week. We opted to go four rounds. No interesting rulings or interactions to report on. Trex H. was awarded first, and Aron S. came in second.A note about future events - There will be no FNM December 25th, due to the christmas holiday. There will however be on on the following Friday - January 1st.

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, December 11th.13 people attended our FNM this week. There was one snag round 2 when someone realized that they failed to grab a pair of Oblivion Rings from the previous match. No qualms I issued a penalty and we completed the tournament in good time. Aron S. and Adam H. split/draw the final round to take first and second.

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= SWM: 150pt Option - "Onezies"= Monday, December 8th.The special option play rules for this tournament were as follows: 150pts, one faction, only one copy of any character allowed. Allowed a maximum of one unique, one very rare, and one rare. Only one command effect applies, but it applies globally. All special abilities and ranged attacks are reduced to a range of 2 squares.Five players

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, November 13th.I return from the large tournament scene to my normal hosting duties for local FNM. Ten players show up for our standard event, and we go four rounds. Adam T. went undefeated and secured first with vampires. Adam H. came in second running a new breed of five-color-control.Someone wanted to know if you could pop a fetch land in response to

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= MtG: PTQ San Diego in Coraopolis= Saturday, November 7th.As a judgeling, (lv 0 judge or rules advisor - take your pick), I have had the opportunity to attend and judge large local events, such as one regionals and two PTQ. This was my second PTQ as a judgeling, and I was fairly confident about working with the full court. Virtually every judge in the region was called into this event, and if

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, November 6th.We had fourteen players, and three boxes of Zendikar in the shop, so things were looking up for our weekly constructed play. We skittered quite smoothly through four rounds. When the dust had settled Aaron S. had come in first playing Boros Bushwacker. Scott J. was ranked second playing 'red deck wins' aka: sligh.I am also glad to report that our

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, October 30th.We returned to our regular FNM with fourteen players this week. Zendikar prize was handed out to the top 5 (of 7). Jess E. managed an impressive streak this week with a white-soldier archtype. Andrew G. also had a solid tournament with Vengent Jund. They met in the finals and opted to draw/split the prize.I also would like to note the many

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic - Draft= Friday, October 23rd.We had a populated and successful draft this friday. Thirteen players sat down to draft in two pods. Despite my worries not one but two boxes of Zendikar came in, so enough packs were to be had for the entire draft and prizes. In pod 1 Erik L and Adam H opted to draw/split in the final round. In pod 2 Trex H won his final to take first, and

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, October 16th.I had 14 people for this standard type 2 FNM. Personally, I had a new deck idea I wanted to test out, so I jumped in myself. Nothing spectacular on my end. I went 1-3 with a blue-black milling deck. Otherwise we speeded through 4 rounds. Andrew G. playing vengent Jund, and Adam T. playing Bant both played to a 3-0 record and opted to draw/split in

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= SWM: 200pt constructed option play.= Monday, October 12th.For this option play we played a 'clone wars' theme. The rules were that a player could only play republic or seperatist, with no fringe characters allowed. Only four people participated in this tournament. We had a nice liesurely tournament, even if first round pitted clones vs clones and droids vs droids (see picture). Nick K. managed

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= MtG: Zendikar Box Tournament= Sunday, October 11th.With the release of every new set, we try to run a box tournament. Honestly it was lucky that we managed to pull this off with the high demand for the set, and the box-rationing that is already being followed by the distributor. We had nine people show up for the box tournament, so I decided to join in to make it an even 10 (Recent changes to

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, October 9th.The first constructed tournament of the new type 2. An interesting time to be sure as players experiment with new cards, combos, and try to tweak their decks for the future. I had a solid 15 players enrolled in this near-epic tournament. No kidding, there were some close calls and some key plays to be witnessed tonight. We went four rounds. Andrew G.

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= MtG: Zendikar Launch Party (draft)= Friday, October 2nd.I had 15 people show up for my launch party draft, and it was a good one. Players were organized into two pods for this event, so I essentially had two separate tournaments running simultaneously. We went a total of 3 rounds. In pod 1 Adam H. took first with a blue-green build involving a few whiplash traps. Aron S. took second. In pod 2

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= SWM: 100pt Constructed Tournament= Monday, September 28th.Just a regular constructed tournament this week for Star Wars Minis. Decided to switch it up a bit by only allowing 100pts. Seven players showed up for it, and we went our usual 3 rounds. Dave M. had a firm first with a mandalorian squad.

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= MtG: Zendikar Pre-release!= Saturday, September 26th.I usually work on saturdays, so I had to open the store this morning. Started registering my regulars almost immediately after opening. I did have help running the register, so I could focus on being a TO and judge. When packs were finally passed out around 1:00, I had 21 people in my tournament. Which is good because it matched last year's

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, September 25th.Twas the night before the pre-release, and all through the store the players were clamoring for their zendi-kar. Seriously though we had 8 people show up for our regular FNM, officially named 'Lorwyn's Last Gasp. Because this was the last FNM we would legally see kithkin or combo-elves haunt our doors. We went three rounds and packed it up.

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, September 19th.If you've been keeping track, we've had a few slower weeks. Well, I just made up for those with a larger tournament. 17 people to be exact. I'm not sure where they all came from, but the six that bussed themselves in from Clarion U. certainly helped. So with that number of people, we went 4 rounds. And luckly enough the rounds proceeded quickly

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= MtG: Magic Sealed Tournament= Tuesday, September 15th.Every now and then I will run a tournament on what is usually a free-play night. Such happened tonight. We had extra Shadowmoor tournament packs lying around, and with the set cycling out of type 2 soon, this was an opportunity to get rid of them. I knew that this wasn't going to be the highest attended event by far, even with M10 prize, and

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= SWM: 150pt Option Play tournament= Monday, September 14th.Our oddball SWM tournament this month was 150pts, but no force users, and players could use characters from multiple factions. Additionally, the first place prize for the tournament was a sealed box of the clone wars scenario pack - a $40 item. I had six players to start the tournament, and one late entry. We played a total of three

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, September 11th.So for this FNM, we had our monthly draft. Distributor messed up with the M10, but I had 8 people who were willing to draft shards block - so we did. Actually it was still a good draft. 3 rounds later Aron S. managed to win first with a build using Bant, and Mike R. took second with a Grixis build.

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= MtG: Magic Free Play= Tuesday, September 8th.I know I haven't written about our weekly Magic free play in a while, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. This week, for example we had a total of 10-11 people show up to simply play and enjoy the game. The other item of note is that a few people were playing plane chase, which is understandable given it's recent release. There was also some

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= MtG: Plane chase Launch= Saturday, September 5thOur plane chase launch was a moderately successful event. There was a fair amount of interest in the product, and we did manage to sell 5-6 decks in the first day. About 4-5 people lingered around to play the game for nearly 6 hours. Unfortunately I was unable to watch any of the games since I was working register at the time, but I heard that

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, September 4th.Our weekly FNM was down to a basic 8 people this week. I don't know, maybe something to do with school re-starting? So Scott J. took it in three rounds playing .. something new, I'm not quite sure what to call it, facing off against Kevin R. in the last round playing mono-black control.

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, August 28th, 2009 A few bits of news. Firstly, MTG salvation has already begun spoiling the next magic set - Zendikar. Check it out (or not). Secondly, we actually had some M10 tonight - one box worth, which was enough by a hair. Thirdly, From the Vault: Exile hit store shelves. Of course by the time anyone reads this it will probably be gone.In other news, I

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic - Draft= Friday, August 21st, 2009I was actually expecting to cancel this event because of the M10 shortages. After all why spend money on a draft if your not drafting the newest set, and we're expecting some in the next two weeks. However fate smiled upon us and a package came courtesy UPS while I was taking entries. 1 lousy box of M10 - but it was enough to run an 8-

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= SWM: Star Wars Minis 200pt 'massive' tournament.= Monday, August 17th, 2009So for our monthly 'oddball' tournament we had 200pt constructed armies. Players had to field at least 1 large or huge figure or (alternatively) 1 figure valued at 50 or more points. Seven people attended this tournament, and we went three rounds. In the last round Adam T. won against Mason obtaining a 3-0 tournament

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= MtG: Magic 2010 Box tournament= Sunday, August 16th, 2009Well I certainly wasn't expecting a shortage of the core set when I scheduled a Magic 2010 Box tournament nearly a month ago. However shortages happened, and we only managed to obtain (and hold onto) a single box of M10 for prizes. Fortunately that was barely enough. Unfortunately, despite the popularity of the set we only got 11 people

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, August 14th, 2009Ten people showed up again for our weekly FNM. Thus we played 4 rounds, and managed to squeeze in it all before 9. Adam H and Aron S. both went 3-0, and then opted to draw/split in the last round. Adam H was running Kithkin, and Aron S. was running combo-elves.

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= MtG: Magic Free Play= Tuesday, August 11th, 2009About 12 people attended this week’s free play. Of those, 10 opted to join in the casual play extended tournament I had scheduled. Because this was a casual event, I could participate, and I did - and luckily enough I managed to come out undefeated 4-0. I was playing a red/black goblin deck, and I somehow managed victories against some sizable

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, August 7th, 2009Ten people showed up for our weekly FNM. This is a good thing becuase it’s the first time I’ve been over my standard 8 in a while. We played 4 rounds. In the final round Adam H. managed to win over Ben R. in a white vs white duel (kithkin vs baneslayer).As a side note Chris L. brought to the tournament a strange little deck that used Dramatic

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= MtG: Magic Free Play= Tuesday, August 4th, 20097 people in all attended our free play. This was quite a surprise after last week when we must have had more than a dozen. Several games were played, but the most interesting for me was when I allowed a friend of mine to play one of my decks, and sat and watched the game. It was a slightly novel experience to see someone else play out one of my own

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= SWM: 200pt constructed= Monday, August 3rd, 20099 people in all attended our regular star-wars tournament. 2 players were late entries, which I easily entered for round 2. I hate to admit that time is becoming an issue. When time is called the SWM floor rules allows the players to finish the current round - thus all players activate all characters in turn sequence, but no new initiative is

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, July 31st, 2009Well for this week’s FNM we ran some standard format two-headed giant. I had precisely the minimum to sanction this event with 4 teams of 2 players - or 8 players. The play was fierce and intense on all sides, making for a great (and fun) magic night. For example the first round both matches finished 2-1, with close games. Ben R and Chris L barely

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= SWM: Star Wars Free Play= Tuesday, July 27th, 2009We had 8 people attend our free play event. Personally I like free play events because they allow you to explore the game and learn new stuff. I, for example, played only one battle, but used a mercenary squad with Nym - which isn’t my usual squad. I also did more than a few trades, watched pieces of two different games, and just kinda sat back

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, July 25th, 2009We had eight people show up for our FNM. Of those I would say about half were playing at least one new M10 card. The most interesting deck was, not suprisingly, a white deck that used some 2/2 first strikers like white knight and knight of the medowgrain, Baneslayer Angel, and Honor of the pure. Incidentally Ben played that deck and managed to win

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= MtG: Magic Free Play= Tuesday, July 22nd, 2009About nine people showed up for our weekly free-play, including one new player. We didn’t have any extra freebies to toss around, so people just did the usual. That being a combination of talk, play, trade, and generally have fun. Speaking of talk and trade, there was (of course) some activity on both counts concerning M10. People were buying and

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= SWM: Star Wars 150pt joint team (modified)= Monday, July 20th, 2009First, let me explain a bit about this format. We call it ‘joint team’ and it is very loosely based on other team formats where the team shares resources such as two-headed giant. For this tournament each player fielded 150pts, but teams played on the same map against other teams. Thus each team had a combined 300pts, and could

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= MtG: Magic 2010 Launch Party= Friday, July 18th, 2009We had our eight for our Friday night magic, except that we weren’t running FNM, we were running our Magic 2010 Launch Party. Our launch was draft format, and everything proceeded smoothly. We actually finished a bit early, with Niel taking the top spot. I’m a bit sorry to see that we didn’t beat our last Launch Party (which also had 8), but

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= MtG: Magic Free Play= Tuesday, July 15th, 2009Six players for our weekly free play, including one new player (always a good thing). We had some free swag in the game order (a giant 3’ sticker of Jace), so we actually ran an impromptu casual tournament with $1 entry on the spot, winner (Justin) got the sticker. Four players decided to participate in that, so we had a quick tournament while the

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= Star Wars Minis: Free Play= Monday, July 13th, 2009Recently some of my players have been asking about ships. So for this free-play we decided to break out Star Wars ships. The ships minis use different maps, minis, and rules than the character game, so I was interested to learn a bit more about it. I’ve done ships before, but only a few times, and it was quite some time ago. As a free-play the

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= MtG: Magic 2010 Prerelease!!= Saturday, July 11th 2009First off, yesterday was FNM, and I didn’t post a report for the event because of the prerelease on the following day. However I would like to mention that despite the fact that a handful of people told me that they wouldn’t be there, I still managed to get my 8 players to run the sanctioned event.So how was the prerelease? Exceptionally

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= MtG: Free Play= Tuesday, July 7th 2009We had another successful active free-play. About 8 people decided to show up and play. Told a few more customers who dropped by about our ongoing events, and highlighted the M10 prerelease coming up this saturday. FYI: July 8th, 12:45-8:45pm, $25 entry, sealed deck format :) You can always check out what’s going on by looking at my venue information.

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= SWM: 100pt sealed (Jedi Academy)= Monday, July 6th 2009I was expecting a few more people than normal for our sealed tournament featuring the new set. Perhaps 5-7. I got a whopping eleven, making this my largest SWM tournament ever! It took a bit more to organize the event. Had to drag out an extra table, prepare an extra map, etc. I had a sealed case of Jedi Academy that I passed out, each

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= MtG: Friday Night Magic= Friday, July 3rd, 2009Eight people showed up for our weekly FNM, as usual. What was unusual is that a portion of the players wanted to leave early for some early July 4th dealings. We also had a late addition into the tournament, so we had 9 people total playing, but only 5 by the end of round 2. Strange things like this are bound to happen on the small local scale, and

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