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For our last week playing only with Gatecrash, attendance was quite good. We drafted and played three rounds of Swiss with nine players. The results were a little strange and so were the top two decks. A perfect way to say goodbye to Gatecrash booster drafts.
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- 5/15/2013
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- Zanman
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Is there anything better than playing with Magic cards for the first time? I had a great time playing in Dragon’s Maze prerelease events on Saturday in my hometown of Coppell, Texas, and on Sunday in nearby Grapevine. There were pros and cons associated with the way Wizards of the Coast designed the events, and some of these issues affected some people’s fun, but in the end, all must be forgiven. Magic’s newest expansion is super fun to play with!
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- 5/13/2013
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- Zanman
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The best thing that you can do, when a new Magic set comes out, is play with it. While our minds see the new cards and immediately think about which cards can help our constructed decks, the quickest way to get experience with the new cards is by playing in limited formats like sealed deck. Hopefully you got a chance to play sealed deck at a prerelease event in your corner of the world. If you have a few booster packs that you’re about to crack open anyway, why not get a little play out of them at the same time. DC-10 has become a time-honored way to experiment with the functionality of all the cards in a new set in the fastest possible way. It’s possible you’ve read one of my other DC-10 articles, I do one just about every time a new set comes out because I happen to be the world’s leading proponent on the format.
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- 5/13/2013
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- Zanman
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Just when I thought my teammates had run out of interest in Gatecrash draft, we get another healthy table of seven drafters tonight.
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- 5/2/2013
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- Zanman
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It’s finally time to get our hands on Dragon’s Maze! Prerelease events begin Friday night at midnight. More of us will see Dragon’s Maze for the first time on Saturday. For me, it’ll be Saturday afternoon at Roll2Play in Coppell, Texas. Me and up to fifty-nine of my closest friends.
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- 4/26/2013
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- Zanman
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After two bad weeks with four men and five men, respectively, the weekly draft gets back on its feet with a decent seven player table. We even manage to get a 3v3 team draft afterwards.
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- 4/24/2013
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- Zanman
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We only had four players last week and we don’t do much better this week with five. This time, however, we get a little creative. Joe Klopchic told me that in Florida they were publicizing a booster draft competition using both Gatecrash and Return to Ravnica. If this were a regular block, current booster drafts would already contain both sets. It would be, in order of packs opened, Gatecrash then Return to Ravnica then another Return to Ravnica. This block is different. RTR and GTC are each big sets. In order to make these two sets play together fairly in booster draft, the guys in Florida have envisioned drafting four booster packs instead of three. We’re short this week, so why not try Return/Gatecrash draft?
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- 4/17/2013
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- Zanman
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I battled bravely in the Modern PTQ in Austin a week ago, and bravely went down in flames 2-2. I had no intentions of playing the following weekend. I was invited to judge at a PTQ in Wichita, Kansas, on March 16th, but declined. I might want to play in Wichita because I did so well in Austin (without winning the whole thing) that I needed the Wichita PTQ to give me one more chance. At the other end of the scale, I thought that if I washed out big time in Austin, like an 0-2 washout, that I would want the Wichita PTQ a week later to get me back on my feet. Neither happened, I finished 2-2 in Austin with a Modern deck that I believe was just a handful of cards from being exactly the right deck for the day. Then I heard there was an online PTQ that started at one in the afternoon (local time) on Sunday. A SEALED DECK PTQ. For me, that’s just too good to pass up. One last chance to qualify for the San Diego PT that I can participate in without endless hours in a car.
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- 4/10/2013
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- Zanman
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The Gatecrash booster draft bandwagon hit a bump this week. Only four people show up for tonight’s meeting. That doesn’t sound too bad, right? Four people isn’t like a no-show or anything? Yes, it kind of is. Four people COUNTING Jeff Zandi and Lawson Zandi, people who reside at the Guildhall and who receive their mail there. Even with only four players, we managed to have some fun drafting Gatecrash and playing a small round-robin tournament with all the rares and foils from the draft going to the single round-robin winner. We have more than a month to go before Dragon’s Maze arrives. It’s too soon for dudes to be bailing out on Gatecrash.
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- 4/8/2013
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- Zanman
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After several weeks of eight-man drafts, we come up one player short this week and draft with seven. Interest in drafting Gatecrash remains high, although the drafts have begun to get a little predictable. Even with just seven tonight, we manage to keep six players together for a 3v3 team draft after the main event is finished. Even with two drafts tonight, we finish fairly early.
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- 4/1/2013
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- Zanman
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