Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Welcome to War Torn Front!

Dear Viewers,

Welcome to the inaugural post of the War Torn Front blog, hosted by Wordpress and Blogger. This blog has been a long time in coming, and hopes to deliver news about War Torn Front. Since this is the inaugural posting, I feel some introductions are in order.

I am Brandon Agenbroad, local shop regular, EDH tinkerer, and random writer. As of this writing, I do not represent War Torn Front, in any name shape, or form and as such, my writing should be taken with a grain of salt when it comes in regards to War Torn Front policies. That being said, This blog will be updated weekly with the happenings here at War Torn Front, along with interviews from shop regulars and pros. This series is meant to help build and bridge the community together as War Torn Front grows to being the only shop the matters in Manteca. With that small introduction out of the way, lets talk about the store we love.

War Torn Front's current schedule allows for a ton of Magic playing and you should embrace it. Monday night's starting at 5pm, Pauper Magic events have begun to fire off. With a $5 dollar entry and store credit prizes, now is the time to dive into one of the arguably cheapest formats in Magic. Tuesday is Open Play night, allowing you to come down and play whatever to your heart's content. Wednesday is Modern Night kicking off at 7pm, letting everyone test Modern whether we are in season or not. Thursday is Casual Standard Night. This event is free entry with promos going to the top finishers. Want to try a Standard brew but not sure how it will hold up, come to Thursday nights and get a free testing session in. Friday nights are Friday Night Magic (FNM). FNM is $6 with prize payouts going as low as 2-1-1, earning 3 packs. This event kicks off at 7:00 pm and runs pretty late. Come on in for fun, prizes, trades and all the community you love. Saturday plays host to several events. First is the $15 Win-a-Box tournaments. This event fires as soon as 8 competitors show up, and last person standing walks away with a box of their choice. Second is the budget Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) league. This event starts around 2pm and costs a one time fee of $5 for the 8-12 weeks of league play. Highest point finisher in the league gets a custom playmat of their general and title of Season 1 champion. In addition, the winner has the right to add a card to the banlist for next season. Finally, Kaijudo hosts their Duel Day, the equivalent to Magic's FNM around 2 pm. Sunday, the staff takes a long breather to prep for the next week's events.

As you can tell, War Torn Front has something going on every day for 6 days. No matter whether you consider yourself a pro, scrub, newbie, or casual, War Torn Front has your number for gaming Magic. Since most of the viewers know about Standard, Modern and Draft, i will run down Pauper and the budget EDH league to those curious.

Pauper is a simple format with a small banned list located here:https://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=magic/rules/Pauper. This format is a minimum 60 card main deck and 15 card sideboard format. The only restriction is that all the cards in your deck must be common. Cards that were printed at common, and then reprinted at a higher rarity level are legal for use in these events. For example, Rancor was originally printed in Urza's Legacy as a common, then reprinted as an Uncommon in M13. As such, that card is legal for pauper.

The Budget EDH League is an 8-12 week event that runs on Saturday. It shares the same rules for EDH, namely being a singleton format. This means only 1 of any given card, aside from basic land, can be in your deck. The deck construction is 100 cards with one legendary creature serving as a "general." The general determine the colors of your deck and can be normally cast at any time you could play that creature. Each time your general is killed or exiled, you have the option of returning him to the command zone, which raises his/her cost by a culmative 2 mana. A general can kill a player by dealing 21 or more points to a player over the course of a game. Finally, this league adds a new restriction to the EDH game. In addition to following the banned/restricted list found here: https://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=magic/rules/100cardsingleton-commander, War Torn Front has added a budget restriction. Your deck, excluding basic lands, can cost no more than $15.00 before shipping and taxes. As you play in the league, you can earn points: 1 point for participating, 2 points for a player kill, and 1 point for last man standing at the table. You can play a maximum of three group games per week and submit results. Every 10 points you earn, increases the budget of your deck by 50 cents, to a maximum of $20.00 at the end of the league. As stated earlier, the top point getter will receive a custom playmat with their general and season 1 EDH league champion. They will also earn the right to ban 1 card for the next season.

Well, that wraps up the inaugural edition of the War Torn Front Blog. Come back next week as we talk events, and future endeavors for this little home away from home we all love.