I feel very lucky; I have
got to play a lot of cards and clix in the last week. I did my first Conspiracy draft – I loved the
format and the interaction of the Conspiracies but felt that the cards in the
set were a little lacklustre and I felt this was an opportunity to reprint a
lot of good legacy and modern cards which has been missed. The dethrone mechanic is great and causes
some interesting decisions.
This guy did a lot of work for me in Conspiracy...
I've also had the chance to
draft Modern Masters again and I have to admit for the first time not draft it
for “value” as none of the cards were mine.
It is a great draft set and you wish that conspiracy was as good. I drafted a Fairy/Dinosaur deck and ruled the
skies with my abundance of fliers and ground based fatties.
...and this guy was great in Modern Masters.
But I am guessing you did
not come here to hear about what I drafted in the last week right? You want to know about the invitational don’t
you? Ok then let’s get this done then. I can now confirm that the price will be £25
and this will be the only cost to you regardless of where you get to in the
competition. AT the end of day one
anyone who has not made the top 16 will get 2 boosters in prize support and a
promo of some description subject to availability. The person who comes 17th will receive
3 boosters in prize support as well as a promo as they came “so close”.
The top 16 will come back
for day 2 which will include 4 rounds of Modern followed by a Khans of Tarkir booster
draft in 2 pods of 8. The pods will be
based on the standings at that point.
Players who come between 16 – 9 will receive an additional 3 boosters in
prize support. Players who come in the
top 8 will receive a number of boosters which will scale dependent on the
number of players who participate.
KHAN!!!!! Sorry had to do that.
The top 6 players will
become the Steel City Patriots team for 2014 – 2015. In the past the team’s entry to Pro Tour
Qualifiers and Grand Prix has been covered by a sponsorship deal for the top
6. However, as I am sure you are aware;
from February 2015 there is a dramatic change to the PTQ system with shops
being able to run 1 PPTQ each season with the winner in each case qualifying to
play in a Regional PTQ (which will be free to enter). I don’t think there is a Magic player in the
country that has not crunched the numbers and knows that there could possibly
be 5 PPTQs every Saturday and Sunday with a massive variance at the moment with
regards to price. It is not possible for
Patriot Games to cover PPTQs in the same way as it did PTQs as the cost would
be excessive (in the region of £6,000)!
We are looking at other alternatives for the team prize and will let you
know what we have decided in this handy dandy blog thingy next week.
The regional PTQ promo.
There is one more piece of
information I need to let you know before I go.
I had a number of messages through Face Book from people wanting to be a
part of the invitational who had not got invites. As we have not been able to run any
qualifiers this year, as I mentioned this week, the players who have got
invites have done so due to regularly turning up or because they have done
something significant with regards to Magic in Sheffield; Mike Radford once gave
us 2 funky boosters to use in a chaos draft and that pretty much got him
invites for life. This year 3 members of
the auto invite top 16 from last year are unable to attend for various reasons
and have graciously offered their spots up to others (thanks Lee Parker, James
Brook and Quinton Lip). As a result I am
very pleased to announce the following players are now invited;
- Lino Lurgold
- James Platten
- Michael Kelly
These are the only changes
to the list published last week. There
may well be other deserving players out there but a line has to be drawn and
this is where we draw it for this year.
I look forward to seeing you all in less than 2 weeks. Final details with regards times etc. will be
in next week’s blog.
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