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Battle For Zendikar @ D20 Games

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Magic

Hey folks,

The next set of Magic cards is (almost) here. Battle for Zendikar is a return to one of our all time favorite settings, Zendikar, a lush world where even the lands come alive to defend against one of the all-time scary set of uber-monsters in all of Magic, the Eldrazi (the race that featured creatures that would make Godzilla look like a pet hamster such as Emarkul, the 15/15 protection from every color beast that is still the biggest and baddest critter in all of Magic.)

This epic struggle features the lands coming alive to help out, and with it comes the favored full art lands in every pack. As if that wasn’t enough, there are super rare lands that aren’t actually from the set, the Expedition lands. These lands are special full art versions of the Fetch and Shock lands. If you happen to be lucky enough to pull one of these super rare beauties, make sure to sleeve it and keep it safe. It looks like they will be selling for between $100-300 each, depending on which one.

ONE VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: One of the big rules of the store at D20 is treating each other honestly and fairly. I’m super proud of how people treat each other here, so I just want to remind people of something that will have almost everybody shaking their head in agreement: We treat trading unfairly with someone as the same as stealing. If you know that someone has a card that is worth a lot, trade with them the way that you would want to be traded with. Honesty is doing the right thing when you probably won’t get caught and it is just you who make sure you are a stand-up guy. So (and this is to our jr. members especially), remember that if you aren’t sure, you never have to make a trade. And if we find out that there have been serious “take advantage of” type trades, it is not ok.

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Open at midnight Thursday Oct 1st to pick up booster boxes and fat packs.

Zendikar Expeditions

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Battle For Zendikar Prerelease @ D20 Games

One of the all time great sets, Zendikar is back with a (for) vengeance. The invading Eldrazi…the crew of supersized god-like bad guys that gave us such cards as the all-time king of “Oh…you didn’t just cast….”, Emerkul! And this is a land known for, well, Lands. Ye Embedded image permalink p, the Zendikar lands are back! (“Why yes, I did first pick a foil basic land from this pack”) Not only are these full-art beauties are a must for any well dressed deck, but the return of the Landfall mechanic means that just playing a land can do anything from buffing up one of your guys to having another pop out an extra 5/5 creature!
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

The Great AC fundraiser….We get cool!

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events

For those of you who have been to the new store, you know it is great, but has one big flaw….in the immortal words of Kiss Me Kate….It gets Too Darn Hot. We are looking to be both green and cool blue by putting in solar power on the roof to get the temp to stay as cool as our players.

So, since running a game store is more of a public service then a fountain of excess cash, we are reaching out to our community to raise what we need to get this problem fixed for all of us.

First thing we are doing is we have a real (and soon virtual) donation jar in the store. Were giving people tickets to thank them for their donations, and I’m going to kick in some good stuff based on how much we raise. The drawing to give away the goodies will be Aug 23rd (Ben’s Birthday). Here is a partial list of what we will contributed to the thank you gift drawing. $1-1 ticket, $5-6 tickets, $10-15 tickets, $20-35 tickets, and $50 or above will get you double tickets.

Amount Raised	Item(s) Added	Met?
$100-200	From the Vault: Angels (1) Pokemon Charizard EX Box	YES!
$200-300	From the Vault Annihilation (1) From the Vault Angels(1) Pokemon Mega Absol Ex Box
$300-500	Dragon’s of Tarkir Release box (2) From the Vault Annihilation (1) Commander Decks (3) Pokemon Tin (choose from any we have) Free Drafts (3)
$500-750	From the Vault Angels (1) Commanders (3) Pokemon Ex or Mega of your choice from what is in stock
$1000	Birthday party for 6 kids ($250 value) more TBA
$1500	Dual Deck Anthologies (1) From the Vault Annihilation (1) From the Vault Angels(1) More TBA
$2000	Garruk’s Axe!!

Family Games for Firefigher’s July 4th Weekend

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events

Family Games for Firefighters: Play a game with yer family and help bring some fun to our firefighters. We all know that being a firefighter is hours of waiting around interrupted by intense, sometimes life-risking actions. We want to give some of our favorite games to our firefighters, to reward both family play and the boys and girls in red, we will set aside 10% of each tabletop game sold this weekend to use to give goodies to our firefighters.

Great 4th of July choices for family games include:

Smaller games:

Cover your Assets-our favorite family card game
Hanabi–a co-op card based fireworks building game with the twist that the only player who can’t see your hand is, well, you. 😉
Love Letter—the most interesting card game you’ll ever play with a hand size of 1 and only 15 cards in a deck.
Spot it--great fun for all ages
Boss Monster-Get rid of all the pesky heroes that keep trying to invade your Dungeon. JUST Released this month– Boss Monster 2!

Super fun for big groups (5 and up):

The Werewolf Games
The Resistance and Avalon
Bang (The Walking Dead and Halo Versions)

Cooperative games (Everybody vs the game…not each other):

Castle Panic: Keep the monsters from knocking down your castle…great for families (siblings). New expansion just came out: The Dark Titan.
Forbidden Island and Desert: Complete the quest before the Island sinks from under you or you get buried under the dunes.
Pandemic. Keep the world safe and healthy. (a lot less creepy then it sounds…even my 11 year old daughter loves it.) New expansion here as well: State of Emergency.
Xenoshyft: Starship Troopers-style deck-building game where you and your space marine buddies try and keep the hoards of increasingly bad-___ aliens from overrunning your base.
And in honor of our Firefighers— Flashpoint, the co-op game of keeping the day from going up in smoke.

And finally: Just plain great games.

Betrayal at the house on the Hill: Just scary enough game where you and your friends explore(and create) the creepy house until one of you suddenly is chosen by the game as the Betrayer, and it becomes them vs. everybody else in the game to complete a secret mission. WAY fun.
Five Tribes: New game…Mancala meets 7 wonders meets Settlers of Catan. On of those games that gets better each time you play it.

I vastly applaud those who have been making the effort and even succeeding at getting there to be more face to face time, and less face to screen. 😉

Info for Pokemon Prerelease and Earlier time for Date Night Magic….

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Magic

Hey folks-here’s the scoop.

Magic Date Night: Saturday Night….NEW START TIME OF 4;00…not 5:30….and pizza is included in new price ($25) (less external food options. Pick up is by 8:30 at the latest (I’m taking my guys to see the Avengers.)

Pokemon Roaring Skies Prerelease event is this Saturday morning May 2nd. Here’s the deal. We provide the space, but it is run by the Pokemon league folks, and as much as they would like to, they can not do preregistration for the event. They’ve been allocated stuff for about 26 players. so it will be first come, first served, with registration starting at 10:30 am. It is $30 (cash directly paid to the organizers). Each player gets 6 packs of the new stuff to make their best decks with, plays a few rounds, and gets two more bonus packs when they return their land at the end. We WILL be doing our version of this event for the release the next week, so if you can’t make it, don’t want to risk not getting in, or don’t make it before they sell out, you CAN sign up in advance for the RELEASE event the week of the 9th (I started doing this for every new set after the first time when I had to watch a small parade of teary eyed kids…the Dad in me couldn’t take it).

There WILL be standard Pokemon League side by side with this event since we have the added space…

Parent to parent happy kid tips:

It is not competitive and is good for all levels of players
It will be a full house, so kids should either have parents around or be comfortable with that type of scene (as should you).
Make sure they have food or $$ for snacks (please make the food both clean finger and rug friendly…I put in our human sized chessboard rug myself…)
To avoid the sad kid syndrome…let them know that if they don’t make it into this one, that we will have a special one the next week for the release where they will get the same number of packs, but where you can sign up in advance so you are guaranteed a spot. Let them know that not everyone will get in and that you will give it a try. (See me if this happens….I can provide great words of comfort that come from someone who is not their parent, and is therefore much more heard. I know…my kids treat me like the wah-wah voice of the Peanuts cartoons as well.)
Make sure they have a box or ideally small bag to keep their stuff in…with name on it. Every time we have kids leave a pile of good cards on a table and get very upset when someone else picks them up.

This is for the Release event on the 9th….NOT FOR THE PRERLEASE on the 2nd.

Kahns Release Weekend Events

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Magic

So here is the dealeo with Events for the Khans Release weekend for Khans.

(Kahn’s online Practice Drafter)

Thursday at OPEN at Midnight to buy first boxes (12:01 actually…since the release is Friday Sept. 26th.
Khans Release Promo card

We will open at ~10 pm for a little pre-midnight Zombie Conspiracy.
Friday:
1. Release day: Boxes ($119.99, Boosters 3.99 per pack, buy 6 get one free), Intros decks ($15.99-17.99), and Fatpacks ($39.99-one bonus pack) .
2. 7 p.m. Friday Night Magic.
Saturday
1. 1 pm…Kid’s Draft (and Non kids draft depending on signups)
2. 4 pm...Two-Headed Giant ($17.50 pp)
Sunday
1. 11 am-Kahns Sealed tournament ($25 pp)

After it dying out for a while, interest in the league has popped back up because of how much people are enjoying Khans. Stay tuned…

Buy Tickets Here For D20 Events

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This week (and weekend)–Star Realms Toury, Magic Grand Prix Qualifier…

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Magic

Hey folks,

A couple of particularly interesting events this weekend:

Tonight (Thursday. Aug 21st) we are having our first Star Realms tournament. This is a GREAT deck-building game that we finally got back in stock.

And on Sunday, we are having a Qualifier for the Salt Lake City Magic Grand Prix. Even if you don’t have any way to go, the qualifier is very interesting to try. If you’ve every wanted to see what it is like to play in a competitive tournament, this is a good one. It is an M15 Sealed-deck event, which means that everyone has an equal chance in terms of the cards they get. Competitive means that it includes things like opening and marking the contents of each set of six packs and then passing them around, dosie-do style so it ends up in another players hands. Decks must be made and registered (returned to the same starting state before each match, and the rules are enforced at competitive level (no, take backs, or “I actually meant to…” and playing to slowly can be called against you if the judge thinks that it is too much. This not an appropriate event for new players, but if you know how to play and want to play like the big boys (and girls) do…this is a great event.

Start time is 10 am on Sunday, Aug 24th.

Early Releases this weekend at D20 Games—Pokemon Furious Fists, D&D 5.0 players handbook, and some great games

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Misc, Updates

Hey folks…good weekend coming up. 8/8/14

Besides the Magic Game Day Events on Saturday and Sunday, we have one of our special rare pack drafts (Ice Age Draft…) on Sat night, a Cardfight Vanguard prerelease for Divas Duet on Sunday at 2, and some early releases, or limited releases on some very, very good stuff.

These include:

Pokemon Furious Fists—we get to sell it on Fri. to because a certain big box retailer who shall remain nameless 😉 We have packs, starter decks AND a few Elite Trainer Boxes…
D&D Next Players Handbook ($50 for a limited number–we get to sell ’em two weeks before the general release on the 19th.
Betrayal at the House on the Hill—This is a GREAT game that has been out of print forever, but was just reprinted this week. (And sold out IMMEDIATELY form both the manufacturer and all our distributors. I have 12 that I got after my first 4 sold out right away.)
We have 6 copies of Marvel Avengers vs. X-men Dice-masters game in stock..still waiting for the big reshipment
Star Realms (a terrific two player deck-building game) has been in extremely high demand and we’ve been waiting and waiting for it to get in…apparently it is starting to hit the distributors and should be in early next week.

Happy 4th of July Weekend…

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Magic, Updates

Hey folks…Happy 4th of July weekend!! We’re going to be open and do some special things to have some fun for the holiday.

NEW in Stock…

D&D Next is finally out…D&D Next Starter Set. ($19.99)
Wave 4 Star Wars Mini’s are in and selling fast

NEXT WEEKEND…M15 prerelease!!! Sign ups are ready now. Preorder boxes for $99 until the end of the 4th of July weekend…110 after that for the next week.

For the 4th:

Open at 4 on the 4th for FNM…(Early and frequent drafting)
$12 Conspiracy Drafts
Date Night Magic
$12 Conspiracy Drafts

Here are the details….

Friday…Open a bit late (4 pm) and then we’ll be doing FNM a bit differently so people can go see the fireworks if they want to. Instead of our usual one big draft, we’re going to be doing pods of 8 starting at 4:30 with two that will be the “Official” FNM prize card times.
- Sign up sheets starting at 4:30…run pods when we get to 8.
- FNM prize card pods at 5:30 and 7 (Everyone plays pods as long as there are fat least 8)
- Sheets out for $12 conspiracy drafts (no prize…just play all weekend) Play when there are at least 6 players
Saturday
- Pokemon league IS on from 11-1 on Saturday (NO POKEMON League next week because of big Magic M15 prerelease.
- Date Night Magic is ON for this Saturday night.
- $12 4th of July Conspiracy Draft list starting at 2 pm,
Sunday
- Last Standard tournament for a couple of weeks because of the M15 prerelease and release events
- $12 Conspiracy drafts.

We also have some GREAT family games we got in for weekend/family Fun. Come in and look for the Summer favorite recommendations including:

Cover Your Assets
Boss Monster
Battle Sheep
Gravwell
And we have Cardwars back in stock…

M15 Prerelease Events @ D20 Games

By Ben Calica / Leave a Comment / Events, Misc, Updates

Prerelease time!!! M15 is looking full of what I can only term as the Magic Equivalent of Super-Heroes. 😉 (Including SIX planeswalkers, 4 of which are brand new. )

As usual we are running 4 `prerelease events, two on Saturday and Two on Sunday.

What: Sealed Standard event (get 6 packs of the new stuff and build best 40 card deck.) Play either competitive (at least 4 rounds, with bigger fistfuls of prize packs for the winners, but needing to win at least two rounds to get any prize packs.) or casual (play three rounds, win a round, win a pack)

Who: Who’s it good for? Since everyone is starting from scratch from a new set, this is a great event for all players. We run a very friendly shop, so particularly for the casual events, feel free to ask for and get help in figuring out what to make. Regardless of what happens, you get to keep all your cards and have a day worth of fun.

Each of 5 different color prerelease pack comes with 5 M15 boosters and 1 special seeded pack of it’s color, as well as a special promo card that can be used in the deck.