Magic the Gathering Archive

Starting Tuesday, November 15th, The Haunted Game Cafe will begin the second season of the Magic League Night for Innistrad. The format will be Sealed Deck. The first time you play in the league, you’ll purchase six packs of boosters for $30.  Each week after, players must buy one additional pack for $6. All costs beyond the cost of the packs goes to prize support.

The League will run for 6 weeks and then re-set and run for another 6 weeks.  The cost associated with the League will be due for each League.  If you wish to participate in both, then the costs will apply for both of them. The first League will run from October 4th, 2011 through November 8, 2011 and the second League will run from November 15, 2011 through December 19, 2011. 

Prizes will be awarded at the end of the evening to the top finishers. In addition, players receive points towards the grand prizes that are given out at the end of each six-week league.  Players receive one point for participating in each weekly event and one point for each person who finished below them in the standings at each weekly event. For example, if you finished first in a sixteen player event, you would receive 16 points (1 for playing and 15 for each participant you finished above in the standings.)

Players may only play cards opened in their event booster packs. We’ll be asking players to keep a checklist of all cards opened.

The checklist is available at Wizards website.

Weekly prizes will be based on the number of participants.

End of League Prizes will be based on the number of players that payed into the prize pool.

Innistrad League FAQ:

• No trading of cards is allowed. Players must use only cards they opened in boosters purchased for the league.
• Players may trade away or sell cards from their pool, but any cards removed from their pool must be crossed off their checklist. You may not add cards to your pool by trading.
• Sealed decks must contain a minimum of forty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance. There is no maximum number of duplicate cards allowed in the deck.  (i.e. If you draw 5 of the same card in your Booster Packs, you can play with all five in your deck)
• We will not be using the special Innistrad League rules.
• League events happen only on Tuesday evenings. There is no independent matches.
• You may alter your deck between each game and match. A match consists of the best of 3 games between two players.
• If you miss a week, you are not required to buy the pack you missed, but you may if you wish. However, whatever week you start, you must begin with a sealed pool of 6 packs.