Elmhurst, IllinoisTime: Saturday February 17th – Sunday February 18th 2024 Saturday – Not Checks Floor Judge Cracking the Encode AP casts Hidden Strings and Ciphers it onto their currently animated Mutavault. If they animate and attack with Mutavault on their the next turn, will Cipher trigger? Yes. Cipher only cares that the card it’s being […]
2024-02-09 – Regional Championship Ottawa
Gatineau, QuebecTime: Friday February 9th – Sunday February 11th 2024 Friday – LCQ Floor Judge A Subtle Solution AP drew a card during their draw step, but NAP wanted to cast Ice on AP’s land in their upkeep. AP put the card they drew back, then responded to Ice by casting Solitude, NAP then cast […]
2024-01-20 – Face to Face Vancouver
Vancouver, BC Time: Saturday January 20th 2024 Players: 95 | Format: Modern Role: Head Judge Time to Wait The trend continues where I actually write notes before my team meeting and then use them and then the team meeting is good. That’s it. That’s the entire team meeting story. The other thing that happened at […]
2024-01-05 – SCG Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio Time: Friday January 5th – Sunday January 7th 2024 Friday – LCQ Floor Judge The Land of the LCQ The LCQ setup was interesting, we were only responsible for three events, which were estimated to be around 60 players. We had four people on the team including the Lead. One person was on […]
2023-12-14 – Dreamhack Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia Time: Friday December 14th – Sunday December 16th 2023 Main Event: 1300 players Friday – Scheduled Sides Lead Empirically Confusing Lately TOs have been realizing that running side events is not only important, but also hard. In general, being sides lead requires a relatively high logistics score. Being sides lead at Dreamhack even […]
2023-12-03 – Chillerpillar
Kamloops, Canada Time: Sunday December 3rd 2023 Modern | Players: 44 Role: Head Judge and Prizewall Manager What’s in a Chillerpillar So some background on this event, this is a small local event created by players to support and help one of the local players who has cancer. Last year it was just a single […]
2023-11-24 – Regional Championship Toronto
Toronto, Canada Time: Friday November 24th – Sunday November 26th 2023 Friday – LCQ Lead My Lead is So Sick I was field promoted to LCQ lead a day before the event began, because the person that was supposed to be doing it got Covid. We decided to use a spin-off of the system I […]
2023-11-10 – SCG Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Time: Thursday November 10th – Sunday November 12th 2023 Friday – Modern 5K [142 Players] – Paper/EOR/Clock Team Lead Descend into Confusion While I was doing modern all weekend the rest of the event was experiencing Lost Caverns of Ixalan prereleases. Since prerelease comes out before the CR update it’s always a bit […]
2023-10-26 – MTGSummit
Salt Lake City, Utah Time: Thursday October 26th – Sunday October 29th 2023 Main Event: Sealed | 158 Players Thursday – “Battles” Floor Judge Raise the Flags For a treat, read my report about MTG Summit last year. Let me begin with this: I had a great time at MTG Summit last year. I love […]
2023-11-05 – Nerd Room RCQ
Williams Lake, BC Canada Time: Sunday November 5th 2023 Role: Head Judge | Sealed | Players: 17 “R” is for RCQ This store has such a big heart and not quite enough players. I attended their previous modern RCQ as a player, there were around 20 of us, but was an event that awarded RC […]