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Battleground is HIRING!

Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

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Battleground in NORTON is hiring!

Are you great with people? Do you have an interest in tabletop games? Here’s your chance to join our team.

Job posting here: http://goo.gl/e81SYe

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Battleground in NORTON MA opens July 5th

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Open

 

Battleground Games & Hobbies is on to the next chapter! Our new location in Norton MA will be opening on Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 at 175 Mansfield Ave, Norton MA – The Greatwoods Plaza. Detail on the Grand Reopening will be coming soon.

 

The doors of our Plainville location will be closing after about 6 years on July 3rd.

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Behind The Shield – Episode 14 – “A Friday the 13th Spooktacular”

Friday, May 13th, 2016

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It’s Friday the 13th! So you know what that means! Okay, it doesn’t mean much. It’s just another week and another episode. But there are some exciting things that Andrew and I do talk about like Captain America, Eternal Masters, and more. Andrew’s even working on a board game that I get excited about; maybe more than him? HAHA

 

Ps. You’re reading the title correctly, it says episode 14. What happened to episode 13? Maybe it’s bad luck or maybe it’s locked away in Prince’s vault. It exists, but no one is sure where it is…

 

Also, if you’re interested in registering for the Eternal Masters events, here’s the link we talk about: http://bit.ly/1R1pzaI

 

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Register NOW for Eternal Master Release Weekend Events

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

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Eternal Masters is almost upon us and Battleground plans to kick it off with an awesome day of launch events.
 
On Saturday, June 11th both Battleground locations will offer players the opportunity to play with and win tons of Eternal Masters product.  We will have a booster draft option as well as Standard, Modern, and Legacy “Win-a-Box” options.
 
Seating in each event is limited.  Players MUST register online or in-store ahead of time. Register now to lock in your spot!
 
Click HERE to register for Eternal Masters Booster Draft.
 
Click HERE to register for the Standard “Win-a-Box” event.
 
Click HERE to register for the Modern “Win-a-Box” event.
 
Click HERE to register for the Legacy “Win-a-Box” event.
 
All of the events will be played in 8 player pods.
 
The Booster Draft prize payout will award 4 packs of Eternal Masters to the 1st place finisher, 2 packs to 2nd, and 1 pack to 3rd and 4th. (4-2-1-1).
The “Win-a-Box” events will award 1 sealed booster box of Eternal Masters to the 1st place finisher.
 

Our schedule of events for June 11th looks like this:

ABINGTON:
Booster Draft – 12:00pm
Standard “Win-a-Box” – 4:00pm
Legacy “Win-a-Box” – 8:00pm

 

PLAINVILLE/NORTON:
Booster Draft – 12:00pm
Legacy “Win-a-Box” – 4:00pm
Modern “Win-a-Box” – 8:00pm

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‘Sword and Shield’ – Episode 2 – “It’s a Conspiracy!”

Friday, February 26th, 2016

Hey everyone! We’re back with another episode of Sword and Shield. I guess some of you actually liked it, so we did another episode. This week, we’ve got Andrew Pegg-Wheat. If you’ve ever ordered a card from the store and recieved it by mail, Andrew is the guy who probably packed the card for you and shipped it. On this week’s episode, we talk about some Pokemon, Netrunner, and then tackle Conspiracy 2: The Empty Throne. However, Wizards has been having fun and changed the name again. Now it’s Conspiracy 2: Empty Throne!

 

Also in this episode, my mic sounded low. I’m always working on perfecting the sound quality, so let me know if you have any suggesstion (or if you want to buy me some professional equipment). Anyways, sit back and enjoy the show. Don’t forget to share it with your friends as well!

 

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Taking A Closer Look At Pauper RUG Tron

Friday, December 18th, 2015

urzas tower
 

Pauper has become quite the format on Magic Online once again thanks to the re-introduction of league play. Today I wanted to quickly look over one of the popular decks currently being played in the format. In paper form, these decks tend to be on the very affordable side of the spectrum. However, because some of these cards have seen limited print runs online, they can be somewhat expensive digitally.

 

Right now, let’s take a look at RUG Tron:

 

Main board

4 Fangren Marauder
4 Mulldrifter
4 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Ulamog’s Crusher
4 Ancient Stirrings
2 Rolling Thunder
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Expedition Map
4 Prismatic Lens
4 Prophetic Prism
4 Haunted Fengraf
1 Shimmering Grotto
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower

 

Side board
3 Circle of Protection: Green
3 Circle of Protection: Red
2 Doom Blade
3 Earth Rift
4 Rest for the Weary

 

I haven’t played this deck, but I have gone up against it. And it’s quite the deck. Now, the deck I played against online was a mono green version, but I couldn’t find the exact list. However, it didn’t differ much from this list besides the fact that it didn’t play blue or red. This list is still just as good and I still would have been smashed by this deck.

 

fierce-empath

 

The mono green deck I played against replaced Sea Gate Oracle with Fierce Empath to tutor for the big creatures in the deck. It also replaces Mulldrifter with Maul Splicer for some scary synergy and more creatures to beat you with.

 

It looks like a very fun deck to play. You get to cast some ridiculously big creatures during turns you normally wouldn’t. However, it’s biggest weakness is against counter spells. It can only say okay to them and shrug it’s shoulders. So if you play against a deck like Mono Blue Delver, just play your spells. You can try to wait for an opening, but thanks to spells like Cloud of Faeries, Snap, and Spellstutter Sprite, they can have quite the number of resources available to them.

 

Well that’s it for now. See you all next time…

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