Old School Mtg

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...

The second biggest tournament of the year is coming up in little over a week, and I really look forward to see old and new faces. Viktor has booked two luxury suites at Hotel Scandic Plaza in Borås for the weekend, and as usual the main tournament will be held the friday before Halloween, adjacent to the BSK convention. As customary for national tournaments, the price is a Giant Shark from the Dark:   We are currently about 20 people signed up for the tournament, which means it's already the second largest in the history of the format so far (second to this years World Championship with 34 players), and it's already larger than last years BSK tournament with 18 players. All the previous shark winners have signed up, including forces like last years winner Robert Schram and the two-time n00bcon winner and current World Champion Rickard Samuelson. I've recently been contacted by a Fabien Sanglard in Toronto who wants to start up a 93/94 community there :) We wish him...

They played a small vintage tournament in Arvika 11 days ago, and sent me their standing, and since non-proxy vintage are part of the pimpwalker system I have now updated their pimpwalker standings. 8 people showed up and here's the results. Racetraitor won the tournament and for this was awarded 2 points Magnus76 came in second and got 2 point for this Jockemon placed third and earned 1 points for this. (Racetraitor and Mangus76 earned the same amount of points since we always round up).

Last weekend I attended a tournament at Wizard Games, a local game store in Gothenburg. Due to some unfortunate scheduling, the other big store in gothenburg had a Legacy-tournament the same day, and it might have resulted in fewer players in either tournament. Anyways, three fourths of a doozen old school gamers gathered to win glory and a crudly signed Moss Monster. First pick Moss Monster. Almost strictly better than Ironroot Treefolk. The winning deck, played by Kalle Nord. Chip Hogan/Weismann/Rick Lay-pile. Warmup between white weenie and Skull of Orm controll. The Skull of Orm deck unfortunatly lacked 6 basic swamps, and clearly had some mana problems. Black Mirror. Honka (on the left) overslept somewhere in a strange side of town and didn't make it to the first round. 700 SEK cab fare later he was at the site, and promptly won all his other duels to end up at second place after the undefeated Kalle. Turn one Juzam goes to town. Control Magic is awesome. ...

Sommaren börjar närma sig sitt slut, och det är återigen dags att vrida lite kort på Wizard-Games. Lördag 25e Augusti Format: 93/94 Starttid: 12.00 Inträde 30:- pistoler Priser: presentkort i butiken Övrig Info: All info om formatet finns här på bloggen. Söndagen 26'e Augusti Format: Vintage Starttid: 12.00 Inträde: 30:- Priser: presentkort i butiken. Övrig info: Sanktionerad Vintage, inga proxykort tillåtna. Modifierad prisstege. Förstapriset går till den som placerar sig bäst, andrapris går till den som placeras sig bäst med en lek utan Power Nine, Mishras Workshop eller Bazaar of Bagdad, motsvarande tredjepris går till den som placerar sig tvåa.

Warcon 2012 report, previously posted on the Old School forum. Like with my last long posts, I didn't bother to translate this or fix the images properly. It's a little harder to edit the pictures when I only have restricted access to the blog. Hopefully this will be enjoyable anyway :) Under torsdagen innan warcon hade jag flyttat ihop med min respektive, och det var en del flyttdamm på tapeten. Turligt nog föll alla bitar på acceptabel plats i tid, så vid halv elva på lördagsmorgonen stod jag vid Marklandsgatan för att bli hämtad av Göttebilen och rulla till Varberg. Göttebilen var Max (Balderuse), Honka (Goebblins), Kalle (egget) och jag, och vi hade ingen idé eller inga planer om hur länge vi skulle stanna på konventet. Som halvgardering hade jag med mig en sovsäck, men fick på detta utstå spe om att jag var för väl förberedd. På plats på Marklandsgatan mötte jag götte-Nilsson (GaJol) som i sista stund hade valt att strunta i att vara kattvakt och istället joina...

This deck, piloted by VM 2011 winner Viktor "oldschool" Peterson, missed top4 on tiebreakers during both Warcon 2012 and the n00bcon warm-up tournament. It's a strange yet beautiful deck which surely will make splashes during the big fall tournament at BSK 2012. If you though Mirror Universe was unfair before, this deck makes it plain evil. Land of the Lich CREATURES (4) 2 Wall of Earth 1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore 1 Serendib Efreet ENCHANTMENTS (5) 1 Lich 1 Land’s Edge 1 Dark Heart of the Wood 2 Sylvan Library SORCERIES (10) 2 Fireball 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Mind Twist 1 Recall 1 Timetwister 1 Wheel of Fortune 1 Braingeyser 1 Regrowth     INSTANTS (10) 1 Shatter 4 Mana Drain 1 Ancestral Recall 3 Lightning Bolt 1 Fork ARTIFACTS (8) 1 Sol Ring 1 Black Lotus 1 Mirror Universe 2 Ivory Tower 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire LANDS (23) 2 Diamond Valley 3 Underground Sea 1 Tropical Island 4 City of Brass 4 Taiga 2 Bayou 2 Mishra’s Factory 1 ...