Next Two Events

This Saturday the 2nd at 1pm will be the first ever FITSSFF Gatecrash draft!  Note the location change: 4th floor of Crawford (the SUB was busy).  We'd like to make this a huge event, so bring your friends!  If you know people who you think might like to learn Magic, tell them to come at 12 noon and we'll teach them the basics.

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The next weekend, February 9, will be an event we've never tried before.  There are some important guidelines, so please read all of this.

You know all of those rares in your binder that nobody will ever trade for and you'll never use in a deck?  What if there was some use for them besides emergency firestarters?  Well, now there is. Introducing...the Reject Rare Draft!

Here's how it works. Each person brings 45 rares that they don't mind getting rid of.  We shuffle everyone's cards together, and then deal them out into "packs" of 15 cards.  Each person gets three "packs" and we sit down, draft decks, and play games like normal.  Except it won't be normal, because we'll have all of the pwerful and/or weird effects of rares without effects that are normally commons -- Rampant Growth-type things for example.  It will probably be one of the stranger formats you've ever played.

If you don't have 45 rares to bring, I can sell you 45 of mine for $5 and I'm sure other players would be happy to do the same.

You'll need to follow some guidelines when choosing your rares; one Vizzerdrix is fine but somebody bringing 45 Vizzerdrixes would make every game the same, which is the opposite of what we want. So:

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1. You keep the cards you draft, which means that other people will be keeping most of your cards. Make sure you don't mind losing them.

2. It's a Reject RARE Draft, so rares and mythic rares only. I recommend against bringing cards that have changed from rare to uncommon like Serra Angel or Jayemdae Tome.

3. No duplicate cards please.

4. We'll be using the Vintage banned list. You can find the full list here, but basically the only things that are banned are silver-bordered cards and cards that say "ante" on them.

5. Try to balance the number of cards of each color. It doesn't have to be exact, but don't bring, say, 30 white cards.

6. This is less important, but the draft will be more interesting if you bring a good mix of card types instead of 30 enchantments or something.

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Let me know if you have any questions or if I missed anything. See you there!

Gatecrash Prerelease

The Gatecrash prerelease is this weekend! Events will be happening from midnight Friday night onward.  Leave a comment or come find us if you need a ride.

EDH Tomorrow

We'll be playing EDH/Commander tomorrow (Saturday) at 1pm in the SUB. Prizes will be IOUs for Gatecrash packs.  Come on out!

Welcome Back 2013

Hi, and welcome back to a new semester!  Sorry for the short notice, but you should have gotten the e-mail by now -- Standard tourney this Saturday, 1pm in the SUB. See you there!