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Tag Archives: Magic

School Holiday Program April 2012

April 09, 2012   Digby   No comments

School is out for just over two weeks and it’t time to escape the weekly grind with a few exciting events at Battlecraft Games. We are running the YUGIOH SUPER LEAGUE again and we will be also running a few extra MAGIC events to get you thought the holidays! Details below:

Magic: The Gathering

Wednesday

  • 11am Commander

Thursday

  • 2pm Standard

Fridays

  • 12pm Modern
  • 4pm StandardFNM
  • 8pm Draft FNM

Sunday

  • 2pm Draft

Yugioh

Wednesdays

  • 2pm Yu-Gi-Oh Super League

Thursday

  • 11am Yu-Gi-Oh Super League

Saturday

  • 11am Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament
  • 2pm  Yu-Gi-Oh Super League

Sunday

  • 11am Yu-Gi-Oh Super League
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Avacyn Restored Prerelease 28-29 April

March 22, 2012   Digby   5 Comments
avacyn restored prerelease

In the world of Innistrad, the Helvault is a mysterious but significant object which even has its own card in Dark Ascension. For the Avacyn Restored Prerelease the Helvault will come to life in our store for your players to create a gaming experience unlike any we’ve ever built before and to build anticipation for the set at levels still higher than the successes we’ve enjoyed over the past few years.

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Competitive Edge: Failure to Brew

March 11, 2012   Doug   No comments

For a while now I’ve been brewing for Standard. Sticking to an Esper shell, I’ve made several control decks with different win conditions, tried my hand at making Chalice of Life work in an artifact combo deck, and finally have switched to aggro with an illusion/spirit tribal deck. I’m no Conley Woods, so naturally all of my decks have failed miserably. So now I’m going back to control, where I’m most comfortable, examining other Esper control decks in the format and finding one I’d like to play.

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Melbourne Grand Prix Trial!

February 21, 2012   Digby   No comments
Grandprixtrial

Grand Prix Melbourne is the second of the 2012 APAC Grand Prix and Australia’s ‘Sporting Capital’ is set to put on a show. After last year’s visit to the Constructed Realm, Limited roars back Down Under with Innistrad Sealed and Booster Draft. With a $30,000 purse and four Pro Tour invites up for grabs at the Grand Prix you can be sure that competition will be fierce and with the best judges around keeping it fair, it’s going to be a fun time to be playing Magic. To ensure that you have the best chance of getting to day 2 of this premier event, we are running a GP trial at Battlecraft Games and the Trial winner  will be awarded 3 byes in the Melbourne Grand Prix 2012. 

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Competitive Edge: Losing to Variance in Limited

January 20, 2012   Doug   1 Comment

Losing to variance sucks. There’s no better way to put it. Whether you get too many lands, or not enough, or your spells are too expensive, or you never draw your bombs, or your opponent simply gets lucky – there are just some games that you lose where you can’t do anything about it.

This is how last week’s Friday night draft went for me:

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Competitive Edge: My Dark Ascension Wishlist, part 1

January 13, 2012   Doug   No comments

By the time you read this, we’ll have seen at least one week of Dark Ascension previews, but at the time of writing I’ve hardly seen any of the set. What I have seen, however, has already got me very, very excited – Gravecrawler signals a push for a zombie deck in Standard, Increasing Confusion will replace Blue Sun’s Zenith as a finisher in decks looking to win through Nephalia Drownyard, and the new mechanic Fateful Hour gives us new ways to play with Phyrexian mana (and maybe even completely break it, finally, if there’s a Fateful Hour effect powerful enough.)

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Competitive Edge: Casting A Modern Eye

January 08, 2012   Doug   No comments

If you don’t know about Modern, it’s the newest non-rotating format introduced by Wizards of the Coast, includes every set from Modern onwards, and is still very, very open for exploration and experimentation.

I don’t play Modern, but I am looking at breaking into the format and starting to compete in Modern events, once I can afford to build a deck. I’ve been following the development of the format and what players are doing, and think I have a pretty good idea of what the format will look like for the upcoming PTQ season.

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Competitive Edge: Consistency vs. Synergy in Innistrad Draft

December 30, 2011   Doug   No comments

Hi everyone! Read these next few paragraphs carefully, because I’m only saying this once. Maybe three times. Maybe ALL OF TEH TIMEZ. I’m not sure yet.

Ahem.

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Magic Super League

December 15, 2011   Digby   8 Comments
Magic League

Get ready for the finale of this years “Magic: The Gathering” calendar at Battlecraft Games. There will be a 24 Boosters of Dark Ascension for first place! That’s right. There will be 24 boosters of the brand new February release boosters! Kind of exciting hey! And the more you play, the more chances you have of winning this fabulous prize.

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GP Hiroshima and misc. Part 1

November 16, 2011   Anthony Hlaing   No comments

Decks are chosen on style, their place in the metagame and an assortment of other reasons. One of these will include it being your ‘pet deck’, that one thing you cannot let go and must continue to have to feel good and hope to win.

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