Pro Tour Qualifier Theros- Dublin

Standard Qualifying tournament for Pro Tour Theros in Dublin! Winner will receive an invite and airfare to the Pro Tour.

Registration: 9:00 a.m.

Start Time: 10:00 a.m.

Notes: Registration closes at 9:50am.

Entrance fee: $25

Format: Constructed – Standard (DGM)

Format Description: Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.

With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its english card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic.

The following card sets are permitted in this Standard tournament:
Magic 2013 (M13), Innistrad, Dark Ascension, Avacyn Restored, Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon’s Maze.

Structure: Swiss

Structure Description: The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself.

Each round, players who win receive 3 points, those who draw receive one point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round. In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however.

In some events, after Swiss rounds there will be a cut to a single-elimination playoff between the top players.

Prizes: First place receives an invitation and plane ticket to play at the Pro Tour Theros in Dublin, Ireland! Other prizes will be current packs depending on attendance.

Tuesday – MTG Standard at 6:30, Warmachine at 5:30
Wednesday – YGO Advanced Format at 6:30, Pathfinder Society at 6 Sign-ups available at http://warhorn.net/madtown-pfs/
Thursday MTG Modern at 6:30 WITH CASH PRIZES!
Friday MTG – RELEASE PARTY FNM DRAGON’S MAZE!!! – Booster draft, 1 Dragon’s Maze, 1 Gatecreash, 1 Return to Ravnica!

We’re doing pre-registrations for all 10 guilds for all 4 events.
Midnight
Saturday Morning
Saturday Two-Headed Giant
Sunday Two-headed Giant

Payment is required to register. We can take payment in cash or credit in person, Or by credit card over the phone.

General Info
All event times listed are start times. Registration will open for each event 1 hour before start time and close 15 minutes before
Buying/selling is allowed only by authorized dealers onsite. Trading is permitted but no cash may be involved

The sealed events are *not* run in pod format. All players will be in a single tournament up to the maximum available (200 players for the individual swiss events)
Beginners are encouraged to play in the Open Dueling format, it’s low competition and casual, good for getting your feet wet.

Each of the Guild Prerelease Packs contains the following: (The RtR and GC boosters that are in the pack will have 1 matching color between them. If you choose a Gatecrash guild, the RtR Guild Booster will be for a guild that matches 1 color of the Gatecrash guild you picked. For a full explination see the post on the Wizard’s Website)
1 Return to Ravnica Guild Booster
1 Gatecrash Guild Booster
4 Dragon’s Maze Boosters
And for the time being, I assume the following will also be included
1 Guild promo card which players CAN’T play at event
Spindown life counter
Welcome letter from the “Guildmaster”
Guild symbol sticker
Achievement Card

Midnight Madness Sealed 4/27/13
Start time: 12:01am Saturday morning, Reg at 11pm Friday night.
Entry fee: $30
Operation product: Guild Prerelease Pack!
Format: 4 rounds swiss
Prizes: 2 Packs per player in the prize pool
Prize Structure:
4-0 = 8 packs
3-0-1 = 6 packs
3-1 = 4 packs
2-2 or better 1 pack

Sealed 4/27/13
Start time: 10:00am Saturday morning, Reg at 9.
Entry fee: $30
Operation product: Guild Prerelease Pack!
Format: 4 rounds swiss
Prizes: 2 Packs per player in the prize pool
Prize Structure:
4-0 = 8 packs
3-0-1 = 6 packs
3-1 = 4 packs
2-2 or better 1 pack

2HG Sealed 4/27/13 and 4/28/13
Start time: Approximately 3pm Saturday afternoon, Reg at 2pm. This event will start when the 10:00am sealed event has finished allowing players to play in both events if they wish.

Start time: 1pm Sunday afternoon, Reg at 12:15pm
Entry fee: $30 per player, $60 per team.
Operation product: 2 Guild Prerelease Packs!
Format: 3 rounds swiss
Prizes: 2 Packs per player in the prize pool
Prize Structure:
3-0 = 6 packs per player on the team
2-1 or better 3 packs per player on the team

Open Dueling 4/27/13
Start time: 2pm – 4pm Saturday
Entry fee: $15
Operation product: 1 Dragon’s Maze Intro Pack.
Format: Open League play (unrecorded games against other sealed or League players)

Due to changes in Wotc Policy, we are no longer allowed to run drafts at prereleases. We apologize to those of you who really love the drafting, as soon as we are allowed to by the rules we operate under, we will gladly do so again, but for now, no drafts at prereleases

New Events!
Thursday Night CASH Modern – Registration 6pm; Event Starts 6:30
Entry Fee: $5
Prizes:
4-0 $20 Cash
3-0-1 $15 Cash
3-1 $10 Cash
2-2 1 Booster

Sunday $10 Drafts
Registration 12:30; Start time: 1pm
Entry $10
Prizes – “redraft”
After all three matches are played, everyone takes all rares, mythic rares, and foil cards out of their decks and those cards are drafted by the players in the pod based on standings.
First pick – First Place
Second pick – Second Place
third pick – First Place (after this pick, no additional picks)
Fourth Pick – Second Place (after this pick, no additional picks)
fifth pick – third place
sixth pick – fourth place ect.

Changes – Saturday Legacy CASH PRIZES
Entry Fee: $5
Prizes:
4-0 $20 Cash
3-0-1 $15 Cash
3-1 $10 Cash
2-2 1 Booster

There are a couple other things we are considering, but I want to see how these changes work out first

On January 3^rd, 2001, Dave Elsner and I unlocked the doors for our first full on day of business at Misty Mountain: Games and Diversions original location on Madison’s east side on Monona Drive.

It was very exciting.  Dave and I each had our full time jobs and we were working it out with help from my (now) ex-wife. We opened with too little money and too many dreams, but that’s the way these things happen sometimes. Luckily we had good friends, a great community and a strong work ethic.

Not long after the open, my marriage fell apart and unhappy with my place in life I made a very scary call to quit my “day job” and work the store. Dave still helped a few hours a week, mostly when I had to leave town for events to keep the money coming in.  But generally it was me standing behind that counter, cleaning the store, counseling kids, taking out the trash, ordering product and stocking shelves until sometime in 2004 when it seemed like we were doing well enough that Dave could come on full time as well. He quit his job and joined me.

I learned so much about myself, about my community and about what it takes to make a successful business. I didn’t pay myself from the store for the first 2ish years we were open. And when I started paying myself sometime in 2002… I started at $100 a week.  The events I ran as Legion Events kept me in enough money to keep a roof over my head and food on the table.

Things eventually took off well enough that I left Dave to manage the store in 2006 and went to focus on my events full time.  I also opened a second store in the Minneapolis area.  A few years later, Dave was done running retail, so I bought his interest in Misty Mountain and it became a sole owner business. I made a tough call to bring an “outsider” from Minneapolis to take over the management of the store and Ben brought it back from what was a very hard downward spiral to “chugging along”.

A few short years later “Legion Supplies” was born and as it has grown beyond my wildest dreams. I’ve also been remarried and have a beautiful energetic 2 year old running around (constantly). We moved to Minnesota in late 2011 to be closer to my wife’s family. Now the scope of events has changed and left me in a position where I run significantly fewer events per year, having turned most of them over to the stores, but have significantly more to do with each event I run. I maintain a fairly hectic schedule (still) of trade shows and cons as I promote my supplies business and Grand Prix events. I am also trying (somewhat successfully) to keep my working hours per week in a more “tolerable” (for my family) range of 50 hours a week or less.

All of this means it has become harder and harder to maintain a vested and involved relationship with the store and Ben and I found ourselves in a position where I either needed to bring in a new manager, or sell the store.  We talked about it off and on over the last 6 months. A little jokingly at first, then more serious and finally about a month ago had a serious discussion about it.

I am sad to announce that Misty Mountain Games in Madison is being sold.  It was my first store. There is, and probably always will be a large part of me in that store.

I am happy to announce that it is being sold to Ben Rislove.

Ben has done some soul searching over “what do I want to be when I grow up?” and realized, he wanted to own/run a game store.  It’s what he’d been doing on and off a big hunk of his adult life, and it’s what he loves.  My sincere hope is that the ownership responsibility engages him as it did to me when I opened the store, then took those steps to make it my full time gig.  It’s exhilarating to be your own boss. It’s also a little scary. I hope many of you have noticed what I’ve already noticed since Ben and I made this deal: he’s become more invested and is giving the store better attention than he was when he was “working for the man”.  I think it’s going to work out great for the store.

Misty Mountain Madison’s next chapter is to be written without me.  That’s a little scary for me.  In a recent conversation, it was likened to a child leaving home.  I’ve done what I could to raise it right, give it good foundation, now I’m sending it out into the world to make it’s way.  It’s been pride that’s kept me from selling it up to this point.  But it’s the right time to move along in my life, and let Ben create the next chapter in his life.

Madison has my thanks for the many years of supporting my business.  I hope you continue to support Ben. Misty Mountain is still there.  Ben is keeping the name and the legacy that comes with it.

Now if you’ll excuse me… I seem to have something stuck in my eye….

Steve Port

King of the Mountain

The site is up and functional.  But there’s some cleaning up and beautifying to do.

Thanks for your patience as we clean it up and get full functionality back online!

Make it out for lootin’ treasure and gainin’ levels! Awesome real life booty is on the line come on out and pirate it up

Pro Tour Qualifier for PT Dragon’s Maze

Dragon’s Maze Qualifying tournament for Pro Tour Sand Diego! Winner will receive an invite and airfare to the Pro Tour.

Registration: 9:00 a.m.

Start Time: 10:00 a.m.

Entrance fee: $25

Format: Constructed – Modern

Format Description: Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.

With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its english card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic.

The Modern format allows cards from every Magic set released using the “Modern” or “Eighth Edition” card frame. This includes cards from the following sets:
Eighth Edition
Ninth Edition
Tenth Edition
Magic 2010
Magic 2011
Magic 2012
Magic 2013
Mirrodin block
Kamigawa block
Ravnica block
Time Spiral block
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor block
Alara block
Zendikar block
Scars of Mirrodin block
Innistrad block
Return to Ravnica Block

Structure: Swiss

Structure Description: The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself.

Each round, players who win receive 3 points, those who draw receive one point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round. In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however.

In some events, after Swiss rounds there will be a cut to a single-elimination playoff between the top players.

Prizes: First place receives an invitation and plane ticket to play at the Pro Tour! Other prizes will be current packs depending on attendance.

Tonights Friday Night Magic will be 3 packs of gatecrash, AND as an added bonus of release time fun you we recieve a brand new Promotional Reliquary Tower (NO MAXIMUM HANDSIZE!)*

*You cannot play with your reliquary tower In the draft
**But it’s sweet for your commander deck!