Events Update!!!

Sunday September 27th @ 3 p.m.
This Sunday we will be holding a standard format tournament.

Thursday October 1st @7:30 p.m.
ZENDIKAR!!! This party will start at 7:30 and go all night long! There will be a final standard format tournament that will include Lorowyn block cards. This tourney will start at 8 p.m. SHARP! We have to allow enough time to finish the tournament by midnight. After midnight we will be holding the first ever Zendikar draft! I can't wait till this event goes down...:-)

Sunday October 4th @ 3 p.m.
This Sunday we will be having our premier Zendikar standard format tournament!

Thursday October 8th @ 7:30 p.m.
Zendikar Draft anyone??? :-D

Sunday October 11th @ 3 p.m.
This Sunday we will hold the first ever "Cycle Back" tournament! This tourney will allow all cards from the standard format and it will also include cards from the last cycle (Even/Morning tides, Shadowmoore, and Lorowyn). This one should be interesting...


Well that's all for now. We're thinking of holding a legacy tournament soon as well. But, we'd like to give everyone a chance to enjoy Zendikar first, as well as get their new combos down. Legacy tournament coming soon!...You've been warned...;-)



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The Pauper Tournament!!!

This Thursdays all common card tournament was quite a success! We held an 8 man tournament with lots of excitement! There were lots of cool deck ideas this time around, sparking the idea of a "2 Bits Tournament" which would include uncommons as well as commons. We'll probably hold that one sometime in the near future...;-) This weeks winner or should I say "Winners" were Clint AND Cisco. They decided to split the prize AND the token photo, just to prove a point. And that point is, you don't need rares and mythic rares to win a tournament, just good deck ideas and a bit of luck! Congrats guys!

:-D

Next Thursday we will be holding a $7 Shadowmoore draft, as a fairwell to this awesome set. Hope to see you there...


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Zendikar Update!!!

Now that we finally know how much Zendikar we're going to be receiving, we can finally take pre-orders! Starting this Thursday we will be accepting payed pre-orders for all Zendikar products (Booster packs, Intro packs, and Fat Packs). We are getting a decent amount of product this time, but if you want to guarantee you get your Zendikar stuff, I would suggest pre-ordering it. We will be holding a Midnight event at The Sub Shack on October 1st, with a Zendikar draft at 12:01. There will be many festivities including a "Fairwell to Lorowyn" pre-constructed tournament. The last standard format tournament that will include Lorowyn block cards. That tourney will start no later than 8 p.m. in order for it to be over by midnight. We also have a few surprises in store...:-) We look forward to seeing everyone the night of October 1st!


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The September 13th Event!!!

This week was a crazy week... This week there was several folks who joked that Al and Gary would make it to top 2 this week before the tournament started. They said it couldn't happen... Then they said it SHOULD happen since neither has won a tourney yet... Then it DID happen!!!! Gary and Al were top 2 in this weeks standard tournament!!!! Al's Demon deck vs. Gary's Red/White deck! In the end it proved that Al's Demons were too much for Gary's Haste/Lifelinker's !!! Congrats Al on your decisive victory... Now it's Gary's turn...;-)

I think Al should get a Demon token to go with his Demon deck...:-D

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The M10 Only Event!

This week we held our first M10 only tourney! It was an 8 man Swiss style tourney with lots of cool combo ideas! The top 2 this week?... Cisco and Al! After a few rounds, Cisco won, and Al was done... Congrats Cisco for winning the first ever M10 only Tourney!!!



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GTS Distribution Shuts Down it's Orlando Office...

Most everyone at our events knows Jon "The Distributor". And if they didn't, they soon learned of him at one of our many tournaments when he rolled right thru them with some crazy deck combo...;-) Well unfortunately the company he works for GTS Distribution has closed their Orlando office and he has left for Washington state. We will miss all the shenanigans that went on at "The Distributor" with Jon, Mike, and Fred (names are in order from left to right in the picture above). Fred went to their Ft. Lauderdale location. And as for Mike...we're not too sure about where he went, but from the looks of his picture we're assuming he may have got fed up with it all and joined a gang or something...xD We're gonna miss you guys, but we still look forward to talking on the phone with ya when we get stuff...


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A quick website update...

We just wanted to let everyone know, OUR OFFICIAL WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING!!! There is not a lot of content on there as of yet, but that will be changing soon! Some of the Player Slayers will be writing articles with deck ideas and strategies! The War Room will consist of Tips and Strategies. The Foundry area will consist of cool deck ideas (Including "Building on a Budget" articles). ART "It's in there" will consist of articles dedicated to the artwork of MTG. The Marketplace will offer our current prices on products. And finally The Foundation talks about who we are. We hope that everyone enjoys our new website as it is truly "By the Players, For the Players"...

www.theplayerslayers.com

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Events Update!!!

We all had one heck of a time with this weeks M10 only tourney! Now that this tourney's over, here's an update for more of the upcoming events!...

Sunday September 13th @ 3 p.m.
This Sunday we plan on holding the first ever TEAM tournament! There is still room for a few more teams, should anyone else want to participate. You can find the rules for the team tournament here. Please email us at founders@theplayerslayers.com and let us know if you've formed a team. Also, in the event that we don't get enough folks for a team tourney, we will still hold a normal standard format one...;-)

Thursday September 17th @ 7 p.m.
This Thursday we will hold a "Pauper" tournament. This one should be quite interesting because it involves COMMONS ONLY!!! The idea? Build a deck using only commons from all current standard format sets (Even/Morning Tide, Shadowmoor, Lorowyn, Shards of Alara, Conflux, Alara Reborn, and M10), then come out, play the tournament, and see all the crazy combos that you never thought possible with nothing but common cards! Neat huh?

Sunday September 20th @ 3 p.m.
This Sunday we will be holding a normal standard format tournament.

Thursday September 24th @ 7 p.m.
This Thursday we will be holding a "Fairwell to Shadowmoor" Draft! This draft will be only $7 to enter!!! You get the usual 3 packs to draft from and the winner will recieve 2 Shadowmoor packs! Now, don't think these cards are useless just because they are going out soon. We WILL be holding extended style tournaments once the rotation shifts. So don't throw out all those good Lorowyn block cards, and make sure you write down your deck ideas! This is a great opportunity to pick up some good cards at a heck of a good price...:-)

Well, that's all for now. We would like to invite anyone with a cool tournament idea to please let us know about it! It's always nice to hear back from our community, and it would be REALLY cool to see some more insane tournaments!!!

We would like to thank everyone who comes out to our events. We hope that mixing up the tournaments from time to time will inspire everyone to think a bit more "Outside the Box" AND make everyone better deck builders in the process (Plus, it's just alot of fun!...hehehe). Because as every Player Slayer knows, when it comes to Magic, it's all in the cards...:-D

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The September 6th Event!!!

This week we said goodbye to one of our fellow Player Slayers. Jon is leaving Orlando to work in Washington State. He will be missed... However, that being said, Jon went out with a bang! He has won the last TWO tournaments he played in!!! Last week it was his Jund deck, this week it was "The Tezzerator"!!! One of the main cards was Tezzeret the Seeker...

This weeks 8 person tourney came down to Jon and Cisco for the top 2! Cisco came close, but no cigar this time for his famous mono-white deck. Congrats Jon! You really kicked it up a notch!


Great job Jon! We're gonna miss you...

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The September 3rd Event!

This Thursday we held our first ever "Shards Block Only" event! There were a lot of creative deck ideas this week, mostly Bant and Jund, but also some Grixis and others too... The top two this week were Jon with his Maelstrom Pulse powered Jund deck and Cisco with his Rafiq Charged Bant deck! Both Slayers had powered thru the competition to get here, but only one will survive through the night. And that Player was Jon with his Jund deck! In a decisive 2 - 0 victory over Cisco, Jon has proven he has what it takes! The craziest part of the whole thing this week was that Jon and Cisco faced off earlier in the competition and Cisco won...crazy huh? Great Job Jon!

Jon survived the Tournament and all he got was this louzy picture...xD

Here are some more pics from this weeks event...

Don't cry Randy, it'll only hurt for a little while...:-)

Next Thursdays event will be an M10 only event! Can't wait to see how that one plays out...

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Events update!!!

Just a quick reminder to everyone that we will be shaking up our events a bit from now on! Here is an update of what is going on at the next few events...

Sunday September 6th @ 3 p.m. we will be holding a normal pre-con tournament.

Thursday September 10th @ 7 p.m. there will be an M10 ONLY pre-con tournament. (Shards Block only went over really well, and M10 has a lot of good cards in it, so I'm looking forward to this one!).

Sunday September 13th @ 3 p.m. we will attempt the first ever TEAM tournament!!! Chris went to a special effort to create fair and balanced rules for this one, so it should be very nice...:-) We have posted the rules here. Make sure you read them carefully before finding a team mate and building decks together. The team tournament will cost $4 per person and the winning team will split the prize however they choose. Also, we ask that you please shoot us an email telling us you wish to play the team tourney, with whom you're playing, and who your team is (Insert cool team name here). This way we can have a heads up on who's coming. You can email us at

founders@theplayerslayers.com

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Also, another quick note, we now have Plane Chase game packs in stock for $17.95 each. These packs take multi-player games to a whole new level!

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Thursday, September 3rd Event!!!

Well, up until this point, Thursdays have been traditionally for casual play and teaching new Player Slayers the basics of Magic. But starting this Thursday, we're gonna kick it up a notch!!! Each Thursday we are going to have fun just experimenting with different style's of tournaments in addition to casual play and training. This Thursday we will be holding a "Shards of Alara" tournament! This particular tournament will only allow cards from the Shards of Alara, Conflux, and Alara Reborn sets. It will still run the same way as our traditional tournaments, but only those cards will be allowed. No M10 and no Shadowmoore, Morning/Eventide, or Lorowyn this time...:-D This should provide a fun time with the more powerful cards in the Shards block that have a tendency to get shut down early on due to the speed of the other sets. We already have 6 committed players this week and there's always room for more! The tournament will start around 7 p.m. at the Sub Shack. We look forward to seeing you...


Also, some of the other ideas floating around out there for Thursdays are...

1) Team tournaments (You can find the rules for team tournaments under June's "Team Tournament Rules" Posting here on the blog). So start looking for a team mate now...;-)

2) 5 Colors at war and 5 Shards at war style game. This will be a fun style with winner take all prize support! You can find the rules for this format here.

3) Shadowmoore, Eventide, Morningtide, Lorowyn Block Tournaments. (So don't throw away all those old cards once they go out...;-)). Also M10 only and future blocks as well.

4) Draft tournaments. Everybody loves drafts!!! :-D

We'd also like to hear any ideas YOU may have about spicing Thursdays up a bit. If you have an idea for a fun tournament game, let us know! We're always looking for suggestions from our community.


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