Commander League Fall 2015

The league is three months long. September through November.

There is a one time $10 entry fee.  When you sign up and pay your fee you choose your commander for the league. Each legendary creature can only be registered once as a commander. This does not limit that card’s use in other decks.

• Once per month a player may pay a $5 fee to switch commander.  Each player may only have one deck registered in the league at a time.

Players may switch all other cards in their decks outside of a game as they wish. Players may use legendary creatures in their 99 cards that have been registered as other player’s league commander .  We will be abiding by the Wizards commander ban list located here: http://magic.wizards.com/en/gameinfo/gameplay/formats/commander

• Players may bring a 10 card sideboard in addition to their 99 cards and 1 Commander. After Commanders are announced, players have 3 minutes to make 1-for-1 substitutions to their deck. Your own sideboard can also be used to wish for cards that are outside the game. Any card that references bringing in cards from outside the game(ex. Spawnsire of Ulamog) also can only pull cards from your sideboard.

Because Commander games are long and usually not played in multi-game matches, Commander uses a modified mulligan rule designed to alleviate mana-light hands without significantly increasing the odds of finding individual cards. This is also known as the “Brittany” mulligan rule.

1. In turn order, players may exile (face down) some or all of the cards in their hand.
2. Each player then draws cards from their deck equal to the number they exiled.
3. Players who exiled at least one card may return to step 1 and repeat the process, drawing one less card each time.
4. Players shuffle all exiled cards into their deck.

Players may play up to four games each day that Super Salty is open, towards their league standing. Each game played is worth one point and each win is worth an additional point. Every Tuesday will  be League Day, where points are tripled. A game must last at least seven turns by each player before one of the players may forfeit. If a player loses before turn 7 from any other method the result will stand. After each game, players must report their record to the judge, and/or the employee behind the counter, to have their results recorded.  At the end, we will hold a tournament with all the players who have earned over 140 points.  Prizes will include invitations to participate in the Legacy Status tournament, where the victor will walk away with legacy status. Which includes discounts on a range of products. As well as perks including legacy member night only events. With additional perks to be added later.

• If no other players are available for play someone who has completed their games for the day may act as an opponent. However, if that is the case regardless of outcome the player who is still to gain points will only receive one point for their game.

Imperative Justification

So if you have never meet one I will tell you all about them. A Lolicon is a person that thinks little anime chicks attractive…I know gross right, so when you tell them they are a perv they react with something along the lines of “It’s art! she doesn’t have an age” or “I can think they are attractive because they aren’t real”…My response is “Yes, it is art and Yes they do have an implied age” and to the other I say “NO! You can’t because that shit is creepy and now I wanna look your name up on the county sex offenders web page.”

These people do exist and so Jake and I felt that they needed a card to counter any accusation that is thrown their way.

You’re Welcome Perverts

Parents Basement (Real Life MTG)

When first taking on the Real Life MTG challenge, we looked at what legendary lands there would be in this real we call “real”. The one that stuck out the most was non other than “Parent’s Basement”.

You can 5 generic mana and sacrifice a life goal (College, girlfriend, any friends for that matter) and be free of responsibility for one fiscal year. That sure is an awesome land!!

 

A Neck Beard’s Séance (Real Life MTG)

While working at my comic shop yesterday I overheard two guys arguing about who’s better Superman or Goku. Then I heard this statement “Goku can travel at 1.63 times the speed of light“…Hold on a second, let’s think about this…

…Nerds pride themselves on being intelligent and “right” when it comes to any argument they are faced with. We have all come across the will of a nerd engaged in an argument at least once in our lifetime and we all know the Spartan like intensity they fight with. Now, with that said we will go back to yesterday…

…Those words flew through the air and into my ears then up to my brain and processed, replayed and replayed again…I was taken back. “What the fuck did he just say?” I wondered, then looked over to them and said “Guys…my brain can’t handle anymore blah blah blah, take it in the back room so I don’t shoot myself in the face” When they were gone, I wondered what need to be done about this blatant hypocritical paradox nerds live in.

There needs to be a Magic the Gathering card for all nerds to use the moment they are about to go from Real Life facts to Fictional facts. All they need to do is slap this card on the table and show everyone around them that they are intelligent about this world AND the world you are about to enter. Challenge accepted…

YOU’RE WELCOME

A little bit about me and a small rant about Pokemon

Hello readers and welcome to my first official blog post. As you will come to know I am in fact a huge nerd. I play video games, card games, board games and generally tend to put on Lord of the Rings or Star Wars to fall asleep to. I spent a year in Japan and watch anime when I can and wear my Doctor Who shirt proudly when I go out in public.

This one right here.

Now if I look at the way spend my time in any one week I spend a ridiculous amount of my time on Magic: The Gathering. I’m constantly coming up with new deck ideas, or thinking about sideboard options, or wondering if I would have blocked the wolf token. Now recently friends of mine have started to play quite a bit of a grade school favorite of  mine the Pokemon card game. Now the only handhelds I have missed playing was the Hoenn region games, not due to interest but  more of a lack of a gba. So I when I saw the enthusiasm of my friends I couldn’t help being caught up in it.

Luckily for me there was also the Pokemon Northwest Regionals around the corner. And while I didn’t have a deck ready, and had no idea about the general metagame of Pokemon, my friends invited me to come along as I had the most big tournament experience out of any of them. (Seeing as my grand achievement so far is missing out on day 2 of a Grand Prix by a tie its not really that much experience but it was more than they had.) And what can I say I love big tournaments. So even though I figured I would just be a glorified gofer I was pretty excited to go.

Now problem wasn’t the professors wearing labcoats , that was pretty awesome and if I was one I’d damn well wear it around, or the no photography sign,  let’s face it there are some sick fucks out there, it was with the fact that the second I tried to watch me a Pokemon card game I was told, by a guy who looked like I just shit on his lawn, that if I was finished with my match I would have to leave the area.

And they look so friendly.

Obviously I hadn’t played any matches and told him so. He told me there were no spectators allowed for the games. Now this is where I have a problem. Mainly, I think because I don’t understand why. Pokemon has some of the least flexibility of game play after deck construction I have ever seen, one of the reasons it is so good for the kids. There are no interactions on your opponents turn, there is no sideboard, and if I started baseball signing to let someone know what was in their opponent’s hand I think a few people might notice. You can’t even willfully mulligan for God’s sake.

Now I have been to Grand Prix’s in Magic and even at the level I have never been told I can’t observe a game. Magic players, in general, enjoy watching each others games. I have learned as much from watching others play magic as I have from playing myself. I am inspired from watching other players and seeing other decks. Some of the best decks I have built have been based off of decks I have seen at these tournaments. The fact that Pokemon would deny that to their player base tells me that they couldn’t care less about the player’s growth and creativity as competitive players. Along with the rule  on changes that make competitive Pokemon more friendly to stalling out, it really seems to me that Pokemon TCG is staring to turn shitty. I’m not sure if the player base is to blame that these did decisions had  to be made by Pokemon, I did notice that the Pokemon players did tend to act more like douchy Yu-Gi-Oh players, or if the Pokemon organization acted on their own whims, but either way the future looks bleak for competitive Pokemon players if this trend continues.

Gone the way of the Naruto TCG.