Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay in posting, we've been knee-deep in sprues the last week or so getting ready for the upper end of our Warhammer campaign! Enough with all the apologetics, though. Today we're going to talk about our draft tourney we had this past Sunday!
Everyone in town knows we've been trying to draft Mirrodin Besieged since before it came out. We missed the prerelease tournament, and our FLGS has been unable to secure 8 players for a draft, even though they tried for 2 or 3 weeks. It has to be said, we're not really down with how they had structured their tournament anyway - it wasn't really sponsored by the FLGS (which shall remain nameless) and basically had absolutely no support. The guy who was trying to run it didn't even seem that enthused.
Well, we put off our draft tourney a few weeks to make room for them, but the FLGS never really got up to speed. We don't hang out a lot down there anyways - too few hours and not enough sanctioned or supported events, even with all their hard work. The Wargate beats down the door with events - so many we had to struggle to find a place in the schedule for this draft!
This set had a lot of changes from the last few, and Infect is still a big issue on the table. Now that there are spells that can deal with that sort of thing, I feel a lot better. However, an Infect deck took the top tier again as Josh brought a new drafted Infect deck and was able to take all three of his matches! Several others had gotten into the prize pool also, gaining new booster packs for every win!
It was a blast to game in Mirrodin Besieged, and we're going to start rolling out more Magic: The Gathering features. While we wait for the last part of the new block, we've gotten a booster box for Coldsnap! That's right, we're going to do vintage drafts! That's not all however, there's more good news on the Magic front - we'll be starting Standard Constructed tournaments soon! More info on that as we put the plan together, but basically you'll be able to use some of those draft cards you won in a Standard environment here at the Wargate!
Until then, to everyone who participated and has made the Wargate their gaming home: thanks for all your support, and with your continued interest the 'gate will continue to grow, expand and make available all the events you could want from a gaming club (and probably more)!
