@kaluma said in Survival Salad:

*decklist*

I played this 75 yesterday. It was only a 3 round round-robin, but I went undefeated and had a ton of fun.

I can't edit my own posts but someone on twitter got me. For the rest of y'all: http://www.starcitygames.com/events/080618_invitational.html#Vintage_Power_9_Series_

Coverage is already off the front page of their site.

EVENTS shows only future events.

DECKLISTS doesn't list Vintage as a format.

Anyone know where I can find this shit?

Given that I am unlikely to prize any event, I'd greatly prefer that an event be affordable over having a good prize pool. Hell, I'd easily pay up to $20 for a good event with no payout at all.

That said, based on previous events, I'm unlikely to ever make an NYSE just because of how difficult it is to physically get there :/

Anyone interested, please just respond with 3 pieces of information first, which you can then follow with commentary:

• Distance/hours willing to drive for Vintage in SA,TX?

I'm gonna say 197 miles because that's how far it is from my house to San Antonio and it doesn't make sense for me to drive further than that to get to San Antonio. This is kinda a weird question.

• Prize support that makes the trip worth it?

I care less about prize support and more about the ratio of entry fee to prize support. I believe it's ~90% for both Austin and Houston, with the 10% going to paying for tournament supplies.

Entry fee that makes the prize seem fair/worth the attempt?

In terms of scheduling, I'll pay whatever the entry fee is given that the prize pool is adequate. However, once you get to $40 or more, I'm going to expect it to be professional. I'm talking lots of space, dedicated judges, match slips, the ability to process credit cards, etc. For semi-casual like at a brewery, no more than $25, and even that's pretty high given that I'll also be forking over a lot of cash to the bartenders.

I boil it down to one thing: Don't make me get a hotel room (or crash) for more than one night.

That means it either needs to be late enough in the day that people can wake up and drive to it or early enough in the day that people can drive home afterward. If you're going to be having booze (like Houston and Austin do), I'd aim for that first one since people aren't likely to want to road trip after a half dozen beers.

If I'm traveling, give me something to do before/after. Both times I've driven to Austin, the Austinites have arranged going out to bars afterwards. This is a ton of fun and way better than me sitting in my hotel room.

Link to annoucement post

Previous results and other cool shit at LoneStarLhurgoyfs.com

TCDecks Link

With the summer sun beating down on Houston, we finally moved indoors. Be sure to check out Joe's Black Shops deck. Re really buried the lede calling it "Mirage Mirror Shops"

Standings:

Decks:

1. Ben Kendrick - Ravager Shops
2. Joe Kington - Black Shops
3. Elijah Henly - Ravager Shops
4. John Hammack - Grixis Karn
5. Luke Burchfield - Ravager Shops
6. Sam Craven - Paradoxical Erayo
7. Will Miertschin - Pitch Dredge
8. Nick Patniyot - Omnitell

Pics:

Beers

Noms

Haha! I've got you at last!

Oh... oh no.

One of the day's many Shops mirrors

"Vintage is a turn one format!"

We didn't have even change for payout so John accepted beers instead.

@dr-j "Playing" is a more generic term that is used when the card you're referring to could be a land. By using "play" here, the Temporal Aperture allows you to cast the spell on top or play the land on top.

601.1a. Some effects still refer to "playing" a card. "Playing a card" means playing that card as a land or casting that card as a spell, whichever is appropriate.

Nick's tweet for people to retweet

It's not for me but I retweeted this from my account and the Goyf account

• Can I play that spell without paying the extra sphere mana cost?

117.9. Some spells have alternative costs. An alternative cost is a cost listed in a spell's text, or applied to it from another effect, that its controller may pay rather than paying the spell's mana cost. Alternative costs are usually phrased, "You may [action] rather than pay [this object's] mana cost," or "You may cast [this object] without paying its mana cost." Note that some alternative costs are listed in keywords; see rule 702.

117.9d. If an alternative cost is being paid to cast a spell, any additional costs, cost increases, and cost reductions that affect that spell are applied to that alternative cost. (See rule 601.2f.)

601.2f. The player determines the total cost of the spell. Usually this is just the mana cost. Some spells have additional or alternative costs. Some effects may increase or reduce the cost to pay, or may provide other alternative costs. Costs may include paying mana, tapping permanents, sacrificing permanents, discarding cards, and so on. The total cost is the mana cost or alternative cost (as determined in rule 601.2b), plus all additional costs and cost increases, and minus all cost reductions. If multiple cost reductions apply, the player may apply them in any order. If the mana component of the total cost is reduced to nothing by cost reduction effects, it is considered to be {0}. It can't be reduced to less than {0}. Once the total cost is determined, any effects that directly affect the total cost are applied. Then the resulting total cost becomes "locked in." If effects would change the total cost after this time, they have no effect.

tl;dr: Yes, you still have to pay for sphere

Sorry for the triple post.

• Can I play that spell at any time, i.e. play an enchantment during my opponent's turn?

The rules for when a spell may be cast remains unchanged. For an example of a card that would allow this, see Leyline of Anticipation

• If I play the spell, will doing so trigger the Nether Void?

Yes. Nether Void triggers on any spell cast, regardless of the cost paid (or not paid) to cast it.