Old School Mtg

Last Saturday marked a historical event for the 93/94 community, when our hero Fab gathered a crew of old school players to duel in Toronto. The reports state went very well, and Fab has hopes of over 10 people joining up for a coming tournament in the early months of next year. He sent me some pics and a video of good people playing good magic; enjoy :) (click the images to expand them) (That's an awesome flip, and it almost makes me want to retract our one-card errata on the orb.)

The BSK finals was held yesterday in Gothenburg. After an exciting but fairly short final (just above the hour), Elof emerged as the champion after a Demonic Tutor for Fireball in top-deck mode. Elof. Your parents will love him. This is his second shark in two tournaments! A longer report and more pictures will be provided by Elof/Kalle during the coming week. At the same time there was a smaller tournament at the same location, I'll be sure to post about that as well when I have more info. The champion being crowned means that we can also finally update the pimpwalker points score for BSK. Currently we have the following t8, with a little more than 3 months left of the season (but no really big tournaments left): 1. Egget    60p 2. Pefken    56p 3. Elof    41p 4. Schram    39p 5. GaJol    29p 6. Mg    22p 7. Honka    21p 8. Almelund    20p ...

I've moved four times in the last four months, in three different countries. Not long before that I'd been living in the same spot for over 6 years. Life and living situations changes as I get older, and it gets harder to keep in touch with my friends and many parts of my nerdy side. I like me some nostalgia every now and then, and I really feel that this format is a good excuse for me to meet both old and new friends. As I stated previously, I'm sorry that there has been no movement here since BSK. I've changed country and moved twice since then, and sometimes it feels like a solid internet connection in Bavaria is more of luxury than a necessity. By now I'm settled however, and access shouldn't be a problem anymore. These are exciting times! The last 6 weeks has been great for our community. We've had BSK 2012, which was the largest BSK to date (second largest tournament overall), and at this point our hotel suites has become almost a convention in it...

This friday marks the third annual tournament at BSK. There's lots of tech floating around in my local discussion group, metagame breakdowns and ideas. It's clearly not easy to build the correct deck even if you figure out how to break the metagame, since most players doesn't have access to the entire card pool. If you realize you want to play 4 Nether Void, or a set of Forcefield, you'll have a hard time requiring those cards anyway. At Warcon, we saw an aggressive version of the Deck emerge. At n00bcon, the world championship, the Parfait deck showed off as a potentially stronger control deck than even the Deck. Relic Barrier could be a top tier this tournament as well, either as a part of a prison deck or as a way to counter it. The only cards played by all decks in the t8 last n00bcon was Sol Ring and Strip Mine, but we saw a whopping 28/32 Disenchants as well. It'll be great to see everybody again! Robert Schram, winner BSK 2011 Dan Holm, winner BS...