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Results for Pre-PTQ At Battleground Games & Hobbies in Plainville [Deck lists]
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
Below are the results for the Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier for Milwaukee held in Plainville on 3/15/15. Thanks to those that came and congratulations to Tim Fay for his outstanding performance with a great-looking deck! We likewise wish to congratulate Battleground Games & Hobbies regulars Ken Briscoe and Jay Costello on their performance! Don’t forget there is a Standard Format Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier for Milwaukeein Abington on April 12th. Also, there is a Prerelease for Dragons of Tarkir on March 21-22 at both Battleground locations!
Players: 60
Rounds: 6 before a cut to top 8
Top 8 PLayers:
1. Tim Fay
2. Edin Enzmann
3. Rory Madden
4. Ken Briscoe
5. Cristian Ferreira
6. Benjamin Winterhalter
7. Nicolas Cuenca
8. Jay Costello
Prizes:
1. 2 boxes
2. 1.5 boxes
3. 1.25 boxes
4. 1.25 boxes
5. 1 box
6. 1 box
7. 1 box
8. 1 box
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Top 8 Deck Lists:
Tim Fay
1st Place
2x Duress
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
2x Lingering Souls
3x Man Leak
2x Spell Snare
2x Spell Pierce
4x Path to Exile
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1x Thassa, God of the Sea
4x Geist of Saint Traft
4x Zur the Enchanter
3x Spreading Seas
2x Detention Sphere
1x Steel of the Godhead
1x Eiganjo Castle
1x River of Tears
2x Darkslick Shores
3x Creeping Tar Pit
3x Marsh Flats
2x Flooded Strand
4x Polluted Delta
1x Hallowed Fountain
1x Watery Grave
2x Godless Shrine
2x Island
1x Swamp
1x Plains
Sideboard:
2x Dismember
1x Damnation
1x Supreme Verdict
2x Timely Reinforcements
1x Threads of Disloyalty
1x Illness in the Ranks
1x Kitchen Finks
2x Stony Silence
1x Rest in Peace
1x Flash Freeze
1x Dispel
1x Steel of the Godhead
Edin Enzmann
2nd Place
4x Goblin Guide
4x Monastery Swiftspear
4x Eidolon of the Great Revel
2x Grim Lavamancer
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Lava Spike
4x Rift Bolt
4x Skullcrack
4x Boros Charm
2x Lightning Helix
2x Shard Volley
3x Searing Blaze
3x Mountain
4x Scalding Tarn
4x Wooded Foothill
4x Bloodstained Mire
1x Stomping Ground
3x Sacred Foundry
Sideboard:
3x Destructive Revelry
1x Lightning Helix
2x Path to Exile
2x Deflecting Palm
2x Smash to Smithereens
3x Molten Rain
2x Kor Firewalker
Rory Madden
3rd Place
4x Goblin Guide
4x Monastery Swiftspear
4x Eidolon of the Great Revel
2x Grim Lavamancer
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Lava Spike
4x Rift Bolt
4x Bolros Charm
2x Lightning Helix
1x Shard Volley
4x Skullcrack
4x Searing Blaze
3x Mountain
4x Wooded Foothill
4x Bloodstained Mire
4x Arid Mesa
3x Sacred Foundry
1x Stomping Ground
Sideboard:
4x Destructive Revelry
3x Kor Firewalker
3x Molten Rain
2x Smash to Smithereens
3x Path to Exile
Ken Briscoe
4th Place
3x Noble Hierarch
2x Scavenging Ooze
4x Tarmogoyf
2x Anafenza, the Foremost
4x Seige Rhino
3x Lingering Souls
1x Duress
3x Inquisition of Kozilek
3x Thoughtseize
4x Liliana of the Veil
2x Dismember
1x Path to Exile
1x Maelstrom Pulse
4x Abrubt Decay
1x Vault of the Archangel
2x Twilight Mire
1x Stilling Wildwood
2x Treetop Village
1x Temple Garden
1x Godless Shrine
2x Overgrown Tomb
1x Windswept Heath
4x Marsh Flats
4x Verdant Catacombs
1x Plains
1x Forest
2x Swamp
Sideboard:
1x Torpor Orb
4x Fulminator Mage
1x Batterskull
2x Timely Reinforcements
3x Leyline of Sanctity
1x Golgari Charm
1x Seal of Primordium
2x Creeping Corrosion
Cristian Ferreira
5th Place
4x Phantasmal Image
4x Merrow Reejerey
4x Silvergill Adept
4x Aether Vial
2x Tidebinder Mage
3x Vapor Snag
2x Spell Pierce
2x Master of Waves
4x Master of the Pearl Trident
4x Cursecatcher
4x Spreading Seas
4x Lord of Atlantis
2x Cavern of Souls
1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
4x Mutavault
12x Islands
Sideboard:
2x Swan Song
1x Tidebider Mage
2x Mana Leak
1x Hurkyl’s Recall
2x Dismember
1x Vendilion Clique
2x Skaab Ruinator
2x Spell Pierce
2x Spellskite
Benjaminm Winterhalter
6th Place
2x Grim Lavamancer
4x Kind Ape
4x Loam Lion
4x Wild Nacatl
4x Flinthoof Boar
4x Tarmogoyf
3x Wolly Thoctar
3x Ghor-Clan Rampager
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Path to Exile
4x Lightning Helix
4x Arid Mesa
4x Windswept Heath
4x Wooded Foothills
1x Sacred Foundry
2x Stomping Ground
1x Treetop Village
1x Temple Garden
1x Forest
1x Mountain
1x Plains
Sideboard:
3x Dragon’s Claw
1x Deflecting Palm
2x Stony Silence
1x Ancient Grudge
2x Volcanic Fallout
2x Molten Rain
3x Skullcrack
1x Unravel the Aether
Nicolas Cuenca
7th Place
4x Mox Opal
4x Ornithopter
4x Arcbound Ravager
4x Springleaf Drum
2x Galvanic Blast
1x Thoughtseize
4x Signal Pest
4x Vault Skirge
4x Cranial Plating
3x Memnite
2x Spellskite
2x Etched Champion
2x Master of Etherium
4x Steel Overseer
4x Darksteel Citadel
3x Glimmervoid
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
4x Inkmoth Nexus
1x Island
Sideboard:
1x Relic of Progenitus
2x Ancient Grudge
2x Spell Pierce
1x Welding Jar
2x Whipflare
2x Wear/Tear
2x Thoughtseize
1x Dismember
2x Etched Champion
Jay Costello
8th Place
1x Spellskite
2x Memnite
2x Steel Overseer
1x Master of Etherium
3x Etched Champion
4x Ornithopter
4x Signal Pest
4x Vault Skirge
4x Arcbound Ravager
4x Cranial Plating
4x Mox Opal
4x Springleaf Drum
1x Welding Jar
3x Galvani Blast
2x Ensoul Artifact
1x Thoughtcast
4x Darksteel Citadel
4x Inkmoth Nexus
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
3x Glimmervoid
1x Island
Sideboard:
1x Spell Pierce
1x Chalice of the Void
1x Phyrexian Unlife
1x Spellskite
1x Whipflare
1x Illness in the Ranks
1x Dispatch
1x Wear/Tear
2x Blood Moon
2x Ancient Grudge
3x Thoughtseize
Tags: Deck Lists, Magic the Gathering, Modern, MTG, pPTQ, Preliminary PTQ, Tournament
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TOMORROW – Modern Pre-PTQ for Pro Tour Milwaukee
Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Plainville MA
THIS SUNDAY! Join us for our first of two Pre-PTQ’s leading up to Pro Tour Milwaukee! We look forward to seeing you there.
Format: Modern
Date: March 15th, 2014 a SUNDAY
Time: Doors open at 11:00am, Round 1 pairings at 12:00pm
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
Address:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
Parking on site
• Google Maps
• Battleground’s Facebook Page
This event is being run as a Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier for Milwaukee:
• Competitive REL
• Decklists required
• Cut to top 8
Prizes:
6 Booster Packs per person will be entered into the prize pool. These packs will be awarded to the top 8 finishers. Additional prizes may be awarded based on turnout.
Tags: Event, Magic the Gathering, Modern, MTG, Pre-PTQ, Pro Tour Milwaukee, Tournament, Wizards of the Coast, WOTC
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MTG ‘Dragons of Tarkir’ Pre-release One Week Away!
Friday, March 13th, 2015
The Dragons of Tarkird Prerelease presents players with a special opportunity to open a Prerelease Pack. There are five Prerelease Packs to choose from; each corresponds to a one of the five Dragon Clans in Dragons of Tarkir:
Dromoka – White/Green
Ojutai – Blue/White
Silumgar – Black/Blue
Kolaghan – Red/Black
Atarka – Green/Red
If players would like to be guaranteed a specific Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease Pack you MUST preregister for the event they would like to participate in. Please talk to someone at the store or contact us to preregister.
Locations:
Abington Store:
1423 Bedford Street
Abington MA 02351
781.261.9669
Plainville Store:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
Schedule of Events:
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: March 21st Friday night / Saturday morning
Time: 12:00am (midnight) – BOTH LOCATIONS
Entrance Fee: $30.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: March 21st Saturday afternoon
Time: 12:00pm – PLAINVILLE
Time: 2:00pm – ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $30.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: March 21st Saturday night
Time: 6:00pm – PLAINVILLE
Time: 7:00pm – ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $30.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck**
Date: March 22nd Sunday afternoon
Time: 12:00pm in PLAINVILLE
Time: 7:00pm in ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: March 22nd Sunday night
Time: 6:00pm in PLAINVILLE
Time: 2:00pm in ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $30.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
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*Sealed Deck: Each player receives one Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease Pack corresponding to the clan of their choice.
**Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck: Each TEAM will receive 2 Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease Packs with which to build two 40 card decks.
Parking on site
Google Maps
Battleground’s Facebook Page
What Do I Get?
Each Player will receive one Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease Pack that contains:
4 Dragons of Tarkir booster packs
1 Fate Reforged booster pack
1 seeded booster pack
1 Activity insert
1 Clan information card
1 Spindown Life Counter
For this event, players may use the promo card included with the Prerelease Pack in their tournament deck.
For more information on DRAGON FURY, the Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease Activity that will result in players winning additional cards, visit this link.
What Else Can I Do?
Open Dueling: Open Dueling players each receive 1 Dragons of Tarkir Intro Pack. Open Dueling players use their Intro Pack to play against each other, as well as Prerelease tournament players who are between matches. All players should be encouraged to help teach Open Dueling participants how to play Magic.
Come down, play some cards, check out the new set, and meet some new people!
Tags: Dragons of Tarkir, DTK, Magic the Gathering, Midnight Madness, MTG, New Release, Prerelease, Wizards of the Coast, WOTC
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Announcing ‘Magic Duels: Origins’
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
- Improved Deck Builder with step-by-step deck construction guidance
- First-ever playable Planeswalker cards
- Solo Battle mode featuring virtually endless AI opponents
- Expanded multiplayer options, including Two-Headed Giant mode
- Quest system with new individual and community challenges every week
- Limitless Free-to-Play with 100% earnable content
- All-new Skill Quest tutorial system
Magic Duels: Origins arrives this July to console on Xbox One, PC via Steam, and iPad tablets, with PlayStation 4 joining later this year.
About the author
Simeon is now the Community Manager for Battleground Games & Hobbies. If you have any questions or inquiries, then you can reach him at Sims@battlegroundgames.com. He is also an avid gamer who loves to play board games and video games. He graduated college with a degree in Political Science, and now serves the public by writing about games. You can check that out here. Don’t forget to “like” him on Facebook as well. It’ll update you on all of his newest content. Best of all, you can follow Simeon on Twitter (@SimeonCortezano) for some real time hilarity. Thanks for reading!
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Tags: magic duels origins, magic origins, Magic the Gathering, MTG, origins, Simeon Cortezano
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Visit us at PAX East – This Weekend!
Friday, March 6th, 2015
Battleground Games & Hobbies will be at this weekend’s PAX East convention in Boston at the Boston Convention Center Friday, March 6th thru Sunday, March 8th. Please be sure to stop by and visit our amazing booth (#C902) in the Tabletop Hall and try out some fantastic FREE game demo’s! And who knows, perhaps demo participants may even receive a special reward for demoing a game with us.
Plus, this year, we’re featuring all kinds of amazing board games in stock; no one carries as deep an inventory at PAX East as Battleground Games & Hobbies! However, in the event we sell out of an item – no problem! We’ll special order it for you at the show and have it shipped directly to your home. This is a new feature for this year’s show and one we’re really excited about. Please see show staff for details about having a game shipped directly to your house!
Need a little extra cash for the show? Have a lot of cards you wish to trade in? We will be buying Magic the Gathering single cards at this year’s PAX East! Turn those unwanted cards into cash – all weekend long!
Finally, our retail stores will have amended hours during PAX East, as follows:
Friday:
Abington 4:00pm – 12:00am
Plainville 4:00pm – 12:00am
Saturday:
Abington 2:00pm – 11:00pm
Plainville 2:00pm – 11:00pm
Sunday:
Abington 11:00am – 7:00pm
Plainville 11:00am – 7:00pm
Regularly scheduled events, such as Friday Night Magic (FNM) will be run as normal.
Please stay tuned to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr all weekend long for all kinds of wild and crazy pictures and updates from the show. And don’t forget, please make sure to stop by our booth #C902 in the Tabletop Hall and say hello!
We look forward to seeing you all there! And most of all – HAVE FUN!
Tags: Board Games, Booth, Boston, Boston Convention Center, Convention, PAX East 2015, Show, Special Event, TableTop
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One Week Away – Modern Pre-PTQ for Pro Tour Milwaukee!
Friday, March 6th, 2015
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Plainville MA
Just one week away! Join us for our first of two Pre-PTQ’s leading up to Pro Tour Milwaukee! We look forward to seeing you there.
Format: Modern
Date: March 15th, 2014 a SUNDAY
Time: Doors open at 11:00am, Round 1 pairings at 12:00pm
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
Address:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
Parking on site
• Google Maps
• Battleground’s Facebook Page
This event is being run as a Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier for Milwaukee:
• Competitive REL
• Decklists required
• Cut to top 8
Prizes:
6 Booster Packs per person will be entered into the prize pool. These packs will be awarded to the top 8 finishers. Additional prizes may be awarded based on turnout.
Tags: Event, Magic the Gathering, Modern, MTG, Pre-PTQ, Pro Tour Milwaukee, Tournament, Wizards of the Coast
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