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    • Old School at Golden Gate Taproom in San Francisco on 4/22/2017

      "Symposium of the Society of Flying Men", a proper boozy Old School tournament on Saturday, April 22 in San Francisco's Union Square.

      Reposted from the Bay Area Old School Facebook group. Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1783141965336561.

      Venue: Golden Gate Taproom (449 Powell St, SF) is centrally located in Union Square near Powell and Montgomery St BART stations. It's a three-level bar with ample arcade games, Pool, Foosball, Skeeball, etc for downtime if your aggro mirror match ends early.

      Structure: This will be a tournament with Swiss pairings. In lieu of top 4/top 8, we will play Swiss + 1 rounds (e.g. 5 rounds for 8-16 players, 6 rounds for 17-32 players). We will play timed 50 minute rounds. When time is called, any active games continue with 5 additional turns (including the current turn). If no one wins at the end of the 5th turn, the game is a draw.

      If you are playing The Deck and your match ends in a draw, you must buy your opponent a drink.

      If you and your opponent are both playing The Deck and your match ends in a draw, together you and your opponent must buy a round of drinks for everyone else.

      Prizes: Please bring one Old School card from your collection to contribute to the prize pool. It does not need to be anything valuable. All participants will sign all the prize cards. Prizes will be drafted at the end in order by final standing.

      Rules: No proxies. Only actual printing from legal sets or equivalent reprints with old border, same art, non-foil are permitted. Collector's Edition and International Collector's Edition are permitted. If you need to borrow something for the event, post here and someone will likely help you out.

      Legal Sets: Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires.

      Banned:
      Bronze Tablet
      Contract from Below
      Darkpact
      Demonic Attorney
      Jeweled Bird
      Rebirth
      Tempest Efreet

      Restricted:
      Ancestral Recall
      Balance
      Black Lotus
      Braingeyser
      Channel
      Chaos Orb
      Demonic Tutor
      Library of Alexandria
      Mana Drain
      Maze of Ith
      Mind Twist
      Mishra’s Workshop
      Mox Emerald
      Mox Jet
      Mox Pearl
      Mox Ruby
      Mox Sapphire
      Recall
      Regrowth
      Shahrazad
      Sol Ring
      Strip Mine
      Time Vault
      Time Walk
      Timetwister
      Wheel of Fortune

      Chaos Orb errata:
      1, Tap: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

      posted in Off-Topic
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    • RE: NYSE Open V Official Tournament Report

      4 Shops decks and 4 Mentor decks in the top 8. Snore. Clearly the restrictions of Probe and Gush did not do anything to hurt Mentor, as Stephen and others predicted.

      Although I don't think it would fix the problem with the super boring Vintage meta, Misstep should be restricted.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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    • Old School at Thirsty Bear brewery in San Francsico on January 14

      We'll be holding a proper boozy Old School tournament on Saturday, January 14 at Thirsty Bear, 661 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. The venue will be the upstairs lounge area. Food and drinks available from the bar.

      If you're interested in attending but aren't a member of the Bay Area Old School Facebook group, post here or shoot me a message and we'll get it sorted out.

      Start time: 12pm.

      Format: Swiss + 1, no top 8.

      Legal sets/banned/restricted: http://www.eudogames.com/magic/161009-old-school-magic

      We're taking votes among participants on whether to allow unrestricted Strip Mine and Workshop for this event. Voting is on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1683231675302411/ (only accessible if you are a member of the Bay Area Old School Facebook group).

      Edit 1/7: Voting is closed and we will keep Workshop and Strip Mine restricted for this event, so the rules are per the Eudo link above.

      Entry fee: bring an Old School card to contribute to the prize pool.

      Prizes: whatever people bring. All participants will sign the prize cards.

      posted in Off-Topic
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    Latest posts made by betasedgetroll

    • RE: NYSE Open V Official Tournament Report

      4 Shops decks and 4 Mentor decks in the top 8. Snore. Clearly the restrictions of Probe and Gush did not do anything to hurt Mentor, as Stephen and others predicted.

      Although I don't think it would fix the problem with the super boring Vintage meta, Misstep should be restricted.

      posted in Official Tournament Results
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      betasedgetroll
    • Old School at Golden Gate Taproom in San Francisco on 4/22/2017

      "Symposium of the Society of Flying Men", a proper boozy Old School tournament on Saturday, April 22 in San Francisco's Union Square.

      Reposted from the Bay Area Old School Facebook group. Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1783141965336561.

      Venue: Golden Gate Taproom (449 Powell St, SF) is centrally located in Union Square near Powell and Montgomery St BART stations. It's a three-level bar with ample arcade games, Pool, Foosball, Skeeball, etc for downtime if your aggro mirror match ends early.

      Structure: This will be a tournament with Swiss pairings. In lieu of top 4/top 8, we will play Swiss + 1 rounds (e.g. 5 rounds for 8-16 players, 6 rounds for 17-32 players). We will play timed 50 minute rounds. When time is called, any active games continue with 5 additional turns (including the current turn). If no one wins at the end of the 5th turn, the game is a draw.

      If you are playing The Deck and your match ends in a draw, you must buy your opponent a drink.

      If you and your opponent are both playing The Deck and your match ends in a draw, together you and your opponent must buy a round of drinks for everyone else.

      Prizes: Please bring one Old School card from your collection to contribute to the prize pool. It does not need to be anything valuable. All participants will sign all the prize cards. Prizes will be drafted at the end in order by final standing.

      Rules: No proxies. Only actual printing from legal sets or equivalent reprints with old border, same art, non-foil are permitted. Collector's Edition and International Collector's Edition are permitted. If you need to borrow something for the event, post here and someone will likely help you out.

      Legal Sets: Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires.

      Banned:
      Bronze Tablet
      Contract from Below
      Darkpact
      Demonic Attorney
      Jeweled Bird
      Rebirth
      Tempest Efreet

      Restricted:
      Ancestral Recall
      Balance
      Black Lotus
      Braingeyser
      Channel
      Chaos Orb
      Demonic Tutor
      Library of Alexandria
      Mana Drain
      Maze of Ith
      Mind Twist
      Mishra’s Workshop
      Mox Emerald
      Mox Jet
      Mox Pearl
      Mox Ruby
      Mox Sapphire
      Recall
      Regrowth
      Shahrazad
      Sol Ring
      Strip Mine
      Time Vault
      Time Walk
      Timetwister
      Wheel of Fortune

      Chaos Orb errata:
      1, Tap: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

      posted in Off-Topic
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      betasedgetroll
    • RE: Old School at Thirsty Bear brewery in San Francsico on January 14

      Had a great turnout with 14 participants and played 5 rounds. I linked an album of photos including most of the decks on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/oldschoolmtg/comments/5o7i80/photos_from_the_conference_of_the_society_of/

      posted in Off-Topic
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    • RE: Old School at Thirsty Bear brewery in San Francsico on January 14

      @aahz Correct, no Ice Age. The link is to the Eudo rules from the last event before the one where Ice Age was permitted, which is what we'll use (assuming there's no electoral college surprise with the vote tally - keep both Strip Mine and Workshop restricted is currently in the lead).

      posted in Off-Topic
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    • Old School at Thirsty Bear brewery in San Francsico on January 14

      We'll be holding a proper boozy Old School tournament on Saturday, January 14 at Thirsty Bear, 661 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. The venue will be the upstairs lounge area. Food and drinks available from the bar.

      If you're interested in attending but aren't a member of the Bay Area Old School Facebook group, post here or shoot me a message and we'll get it sorted out.

      Start time: 12pm.

      Format: Swiss + 1, no top 8.

      Legal sets/banned/restricted: http://www.eudogames.com/magic/161009-old-school-magic

      We're taking votes among participants on whether to allow unrestricted Strip Mine and Workshop for this event. Voting is on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1683231675302411/ (only accessible if you are a member of the Bay Area Old School Facebook group).

      Edit 1/7: Voting is closed and we will keep Workshop and Strip Mine restricted for this event, so the rules are per the Eudo link above.

      Entry fee: bring an Old School card to contribute to the prize pool.

      Prizes: whatever people bring. All participants will sign the prize cards.

      posted in Off-Topic
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    • RE: N.Y.S.E. Open IV Official Tournament Report

      @Prospero said:

      Vito Picozzo - Jeskai Mentor

      SB:

      2 City in a Bottle

      Is this some next level Dredge hate???

      posted in Tournament Reports
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    • RE: Old School?

      http://www.reddit.com/r/oldschoolmtg is the subreddit for Old School Magic. Not super active but people who follow the format from various different geographies are represented there.

      posted in Vintage Community
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