This year’s From the Vault is about to come out and people are asking how we are going sell them.
What is From the Vault? These are special super limited sets reprinting some of the best cards in Magic with new art and in all foil versions. This year it it is Angels.
Here is how the lists will work:
“Lock it in List”
10 slots on list
$79.99 until 8/5,
$89.99 until 8/12,
$99.99 until 8/19, $109.99 after that. (subject to change if market price goes way up)
“The big List”
10 boxes to be sold, random selection from list.
$49.99-Extra bonus entries in list awarded for “good customers” (Regular attendees for events, doing lots of business with the store. This is entirely at the discretion of the management. This will also include some recognition of those customers who go out of their way to be welcoming and helpful for new or learning players.)
The
“AC” Raffle
5 boxes
On the 23rd we will be pulling from a raffle to help us raise some funds to get a better ventilation system for the store to help with those extra hot days…we will be doing a bunch of prizes, including FTV Angels, Annihilation some most excellent cards, and Garruk’s axe.
Hey folks….some frustration evil is afoot with my Eventbrite software, so the ability to sign up online is, well, offline. We ARE having THG on Sat night, just come on by. Limited to the first 20 teams, but it is unusual for us to completely sell these out so just make sure to be here by 4 pm if you want to make sure you have a slot.
This set is in the slot normally taken by the yearly core sets and goes back to the origins of some of the original planeswalkers.
This weekend’s release events include:
Friday Night Magic @ 7
Two Headed Giant (using the prerelease Packs!) $17.50pp
New abilities in the set (and those who make a return):
Renown (new)
Renown triggers the first time a creature with renown deals combat damage to player. The ability puts some number of +1/+1 counters on that creature (the number after the renown keyword). Also, it causes the creature to become renowned.
Renown won’t trigger if the creature deals combat damage to a Planeswalker. In the unlikely event that the creature deals combat damage to its controller (through a damage redirection effect), renown will trigger. A creature that’s renowned stays renowned until it leaves the battlefield, even if it somehow loses all its +1/+1 counters.
Spell Mastery (new)
You count the number of instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard as a spell is resolving to determine if the spell mastery ability applies. Don’t count the resolving spell itself. It’s still on the stack at that point, not in your graveyard.
Menace (new)
A creature with menace can’t be blocked except by two or more creatures. Once a creature with menace is legally blocked by two or more creatures, removing those blockers from combat won’t change or undo the block.
Prowess
Prowess is a triggered ability that gives a creature +1/+1 until end of turn whenever you cast a noncreature spell. Creature spells won’t cause prowess to trigger, even if those spells have other card types, such as an artifact creature spell.
Scry
To scry N (where N is a number), look at that many cards from the top of your library. Then, put any number of them on the bottom of your library in any order and the rest on top of your library in any order.
We will be having prereleases the weekend of July 11th and 12th, and release events the following weekend. (Color choice is first come first served, and will be random at the event, so sign up a head of time. Online registration stops a couple of hours before each event so if you can’t sign up at that time, we may not be sold out in the store. Check website and we will post when we sell out.)
Advanced Plus-Pack Wars—We need a big favor on Thurs or Friday from our Magic Players…come in for a super cheap mystery box Pack Wars event. We need to have at least one event every year with 50 or more players to keep up our Advanced Plus status with Wizards. But it turns out that we can do this as a casual event, over 24 hours, so we decided to do pack-wars and give everyone who helps a reward of an extra cheap pack. Pack wars, for those who haven’t gotten a chance to play before, is basically taking a pack, opening it without looking and putting in 3 of each land, shuffling up and playing. It’s a great way to have extra fun rather then just opening the pack. (One offer per player.) We are doing it mystery box style, so there will be packs in the box from everything we sell. We will even have a few packs marked to be swapped for Modern Masters 2015 packs!
$3 for a pack (use for pack wars)
$5 for two players (two packs) if you bring in a player who has never registered for an event with us before**.
$0!!! (my treat) if you preregister (or have preregistered) for the Origins prerelease next weekend.
**Players under 13 must have a parent to sign them up for a DCI #
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!
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. 😉