PreOrders for Ajani vs Nicol Bolas Duel Decks are now open. To reserve your copy, please prepay at the shop, one per customer, please.
It will be released on September 2, 2011 and contains two preconstructed theme decks. Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas contains two 60-card decks consisting of reprints from throughout Magic’s history.
We’ll be holding a sealed deck event to introduce the new Magic set. Players will receive 6 booster packs and must make a minimum 40 card deck with those cards and basic lands.
The winner of the event (with no losses and no ties) will receive an ENTIRE BOX of M12.
The cost of the event is $25.
The title pretty much says it all. There’s now a link in the menu bar that takes you to the spreadsheet we use to update our buylist. (don’t get any ideas, you can’t change anything without the password. So, no changing the price of Argent Sphinx to a hundred bucks and dumping a truckload on us.)
Also, prices are subject to change. Prices in the shop are updated more frequently than the printed buy list. So, for example, if two major cards were to get banned, the price would change in the shop before the buy list got updated.
Wizards of the Coast announced today that Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic will both be banned in Standard effective July 1, 2011. Exception: The deck list for the “War of Attrition” Event Deck will be legal in Standard if kept completely intact. That deck, which went on sale on June 10, contains two copies of Stoneforge Mystic.
Aaron Forsythe – Director of Magic R&D explains it this way:
The Standard metagame is stagnant and unhealthy at the moment, and has been for months. Jace, the Mind Sculptor is appearing in winning deck lists an alarming percentage of the time, with Stoneforge Mystic appearing almost as often. For reference, 88% of the decks in Day 2 of Grand Prix Singapore contained multiple copies of Jace, and almost 70% of the Day 2 decks contained Stoneforge Mystic. The numbers from Pro Tour Qualifiers and independent large events like the StarCityGames.com Open Series look very similar.
We haven’t seen cards dominate the field like this, possibly ever. Even in the heyday of Affinity (the last deck to require such drastic measures in Standard), we weren’t seeing anything like this level of homogeneity. When you realize that both cards, besides being dominant in Standard, are top tier in Constructed formats of all sizes up to and including Legacy (and even Vintage for Jace), it becomes harder and harder to argue that the cards are anything but flat-out too powerful.
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UPDATE: FNM is now starting at 6pm. Check the events calendar to see the format.
Starting in July, we’ll be doing Block Constructed starting at NOON. (FNM = Friday Noon Magic)
The Haunted Game Cafe is a board game store and coffee bar located in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado. We are a full service game store, carrying hundreds of games in a wide selection of family board games, card games and hobby games. We have a large selection of open games available for play in the cafe.
We're located in the Red Lobster plaza on the west side of College between Horsetooth and Foothills Parkway.
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