Killer Joe
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Something weird happened last night at the shop. Last week, the store Guru (so he thinks) won the thursday night casual tourney. This means that he's entitled to announce what is the format for the following week, usually it's 1.5 or extended, sometimes draft or standard, but last week he picked 1.5 with a twist: Everyone started out with five land in play, one of each color. You could only have a forty card deck but with no Slivers, artifacts or land. If a land was destroyed you put it back into play at the end of the turn. It was an okay idea, it was better than his original one which was to make decks that contained cards with 5 or less letters in it's title (whatever).
Here's the weird thing, we normally have 7 to 9 players and almost always the same ones, but on this night we had 15 players, I know that's not real significant but it was to me/us. There were players who I've never met before and that had known about our thurs. night tourny's but never cared to show up. I'm not one for unusual tourny formats but if that's what it took to 15 players what will it take to get more?!
I'm not a cut-throat player but I am the oldest in the group (30+), maybe It looks weird for me playing with youngins of 16 - 26 yrs. old. I don't know, but the feeling is starting to come back like when I first started when there were 20 plus at each tourney. I like it that way.
I'm rambling..............
This is Yellowjacket
Here's the weird thing, we normally have 7 to 9 players and almost always the same ones, but on this night we had 15 players, I know that's not real significant but it was to me/us. There were players who I've never met before and that had known about our thurs. night tourny's but never cared to show up. I'm not one for unusual tourny formats but if that's what it took to 15 players what will it take to get more?!
I'm not a cut-throat player but I am the oldest in the group (30+), maybe It looks weird for me playing with youngins of 16 - 26 yrs. old. I don't know, but the feeling is starting to come back like when I first started when there were 20 plus at each tourney. I like it that way.
I'm rambling..............
This is Yellowjacket