February Events

First off, let me mention that I have most of the Prerelease points update done, but I'm missing data from one of the stores and I'll have an updated standings posted later in the week.

I have posted the February events on the Upcoming Events section of the site, which you can see in the top right corner of the page. This weekend will be our first Mirrodin Besieged limited event - the return of the wildly popular phenomenon known as Two-Headed Giant Sealed. Note that the parity rule from last semester will still be in effect, so players with 10 League Points or more cannot team up with another player with 10 points or more. The standings used for this requirement can be found here: http://fitssffmagic.blogspot.com/2011/01/final-standard-results-standings-update.html.

Next weekend will be the beginner's draft and this semester's Pauper (all commons) event. The legal sets are going to be what I call "Old Extended." This refers to what would have been legal in Extended had Wizards not changed the format last summer. The legal sets include Kamigawa Block, 9th Edition, and everything printed since (including Cold Snap). I'll post more information about this next week.

The third weekend of the month we will have an event on President's Day (2/21), as I will be spending Saturday and Sunday in Columbia visiting the University of South Carolina. This will be an all-inclusive Limited day, where we will have groups for draft, sealed, and any other oddball limited format you might want to play.

The last weekend of the month will be this semester's Relay for Life fundraiser, which I'm going to market as "Commanders vs. Cancer." Commander is the new name for EDH, and I'll post lots of details on this fun format in the coming weeks. Let me know if you have any questions and I hope we have a great month of February!

- Dom