Modern Constructed Tournaments!

"This way to the prize vault, guys!"

Well, we've been talking about it for long enough.  Finally, those conspicuously missing Constructed Tournaments are hitting the table this weekend at the Wargate!

You can find the format's rules here, including what sets are legal and what cards are banned.  Every draft we've done so far, or event we've hosted has been legal for Modern, including Shards of Alara block.  There are a few banned cards, so double check the list to make sure your deck doesn't include any of those.

Our Modern Constructed Tournaments will be open to whomever wishes to join with no limit to the number of seats.  Matches will be set at thirty minutes, with the corresponding Match Round.  This means like our drafts, each round will begin at a set time and everyone will follow a single clock.  With five rounds (generally, maybe more or less if we have a huge or pitiful turnout) that means we'll fit nicely into the same time slot we've been running our drafts - about three hours, at 3pm on Sunday.

There will be a small fee to join the tournament, but it is meager.  All proceeds will go directly to the club treasury,  where it will languish for a thousand years - or until we buy a some more wargames accouterments with it!  We wouldn't ask you to fork over your hard earned dough unless we were going to make sure you got something back for it, so the winner and runner-up for these Modern Constructed Tournaments will take home decks for their Modern pool.

These aren't trash decks, or peoples throwaways, or even Starters right out of the box.  These have been carefully built and painstakingly put into protectors, and have a lot more uncommons and rares in general than any deck you could get at a store.  Not only that, but they are brimming with playsets that want a home in your card pool!  I'll be giving away more than twenty of these things this year, so fight hard and get your hands on as much loot as possible!

We'll be running Magic tournaments and drafts the first Sunday of every month now!  Check back each month for what the scuttlebutt is and how you can get involved.  April will be Innistrad Draft, and May is Dark Ascension Draft!  In June we'll be back to Modern Constructed, but then we'll have M13 and Avacyn Restored for later this summer and going into Autumn!