3rd Miracle Worker Cup on March 23, 2019 – rise up and ramble on

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT LOCATION HAS CHANGED – TOURNEY WILL BE HELD AT PUB GINNHEIMER HOEHE, FRANKFURT

Hey old school folks,

come celebrate the spirit of the olde cards at the 3rd Miracle Worker Cup, a premier casual MTG Old School tournament hosted by oldschoolarena.com.

Discover the benefits of the rambling new Atlantic format and enjoy the non competitive non discriminating atmosphere of friend- and companionship where crazy and creative deck builds rule the house.

Format: Atlantic Old School Sets, Rules and Ban/Restriction list apply.

Special: Proxies allowed without limits, regardless whether Revised, Italian Legends, 4th Edition, IE/CE or DIY Print-outs, original artwork recommended though.

Style: Swiss-system tournament, 4 rounds minimum

Fee: 2€

Trophy for the winner: one original altered The Dark Miracle Worker signed by all tournament players.

Trophy for most creative deck: one original altered Glasses of Urza.

Venue: Ginnheimer Höhe Pub

Adress: Diebsgrundweg, 60487 Frankfurt am Main

Timing: 23rd of March 2019 tournament starts at 2pm sharp. Please bring a Deckphoto on your smartphone for post-tourney documentation purposes.

Registration: until March 22 via email to jerome[at]oldschoolarena.com

About: the 3rd Miracle Worker Cup is hosted by the Frankfurt Germany MTG Old School Community Blog oldschoolarena.com and is a non-sanctioned private event for friends and fans of the 9394 MTG format.

To ensure highest quality deck builds and relieve all players from desperate urge to sneak counterfeits into their Decks we decided after thorough reflection to go with the adage of Liga Catalunya de Old School and allow „Proxies sin Limite“.

For those who’ve got the Power: Be humble, welcome the new players, fathom the chance to play in a creative and non-discriminating environment, where skills outperform wealth.

For those without significant 9394 card pool: be bold, get inspiration on Wak-Wak, let creativity free flow and build your favourite deck.

As we favor the true and old flavor of the 9394 era of MTG we value creativity and fun over competitiveness and discrimination in this tournament, so besides Proxies and casual table talk we don’t mind a few beers neither.

Registration is open and we’re happy to have you taking part in the 3rd Miracle Worker Cup on 23rd of March 2019

Invitation to the 1st Miracle Worker Cup

Hey old school folks,

we’re happy to invite everybody to the 1st Miracle Worker Cup, a premier MTG Old School tournament hosted by oldschoolarena.com 

Format: Swedish Old School Sets, Rules and Ban/Restriction list apply.

Special: Proxies allowed without limits, regardless whether Revised, Italian Legends, 4th Edition, IE/CE or DIY Print-outs (mtgpress.net), original artwork recommended though.

Style: Swiss-system tournament

Fee: 2€ or one old school card from your private card pool as donation for the Top 4 price pool.

Trophy: one original The Dark Miracle Worker signed by all tournament players.

Venue: The Blue Saloon („Blauer Raum“) at Frankfurter Berg Collaborative Living Project ProWoKulta 

Adress: Am Ulmenrück 7, 60433 Frankfurt 

Timing: June 16, 2018 tournament starts at 4pm sharp.

Registration: from now until June 15, 2018 via email to jerome[at]oldschoolarena.com

About: the 1st Miracle Worker Cup is hosted by the Frankfurt Germany MTG Old School Community Blog oldschoolarena.com and is a non-sanctioned private event for friends and fans of the 9394 MTG format. 

To ensure highest quality deck builds and relieve all players from desperate urge to sneak counterfeits into their Decks we decided after thorough reflection to go with the adage of Liga Catalunya de Old School and allow „Proxies sin Limite“. 

For those who’ve got the Power: Be humble, welcome the new players, fathom the chance to play in a competitive environment and train for n00bcon.

For those without significant 9394 card pool: be bold, get inspiration on Wak-Wak, let creativity free flow and build your favourite deck. 

We’re happy to have you taking part in the 1st Miracle Worker Cup on June 16, 2018 

Luck, Skill and the Cards

 

Old School Magic is not just about the cards as we elaborated in our recent post „Posh vs. Budget“, and winning any MTG tournament is always the result of the right mix between luck, skill – and the appropriate cards in your deck.

Thus although Old School might have an entry barrier due to small supply of super rare, .ie. super expensive old cards, it is far from guaranteed that you’ll automatically end in the Top 4 only because you’re the rich pimp with all available Power cards stacked together in a deck you’ve copied from the latest Noobcon list.

Actually yesterdays local Old School trial tournament for the Magic Bazar Eternal Weekend showed quite surprising  results, that we’ll share with you today to make our point clear.

Who would have believed that a neat and clean powerless White Weenie would catch the trophy in an Old School tourney? Sure enough the navigator of this Weenie Deck is an apt MTG player who knows the rules of the game from the heart, but apparently he also knew all the tricks of his army of lil‘ creatures and how to navigate his budget deck through the mists of Powered Decks and Black brews. According to the winner it was the double main decked Land Tax that made all the difference, together with that unstoppable flood of one and two drops under Crusade.

Black indeed. Swamps quickly become the dominant land drop in Old School when Fallen Empires is included: Hymn to Tourach simply rocks the house, and we saw quite a few 1st round Hymns cast with help of Dark Ritual or Mox Jet.

The 2nd place was conquered by a CermakAttack version that successfully played 4 Psychic Purge in Sideboard to give the Black breed appropriate fodder: a Hypnotic, Hymn or Mind Twist drawing Psychic Purge resulted in 5 damage right in the face. Together with 1st round Lions and 2nd round Efreets and Psionic Blast as finisher this tournament classic was a success.

The rest of the Top 8 list was dominated by 5 Black players: ranging from brutal MachineHeads on 3rd and 4th place, a brilliant take on JuzamNetherVoid on 5th, to extreme DiscardRack on 6th and UB Tempo on 7th.

Two of the Top 8 Decks:

Winner: White Weenie

3rd place: Black red MachineHead

 

German Old School Calendar

Upcoming Old School Tournaments and Gatherings

In this section we publish all German Old School events that we know of. Please provide your local event information and we happily publish it here.

1st Miracle Worker Cup

Saturday, June 16, at 4 PM, find all relevant info here

Old School Meetup – Playtesting

Wednesday (every week!)
from 6 PM
in JK-Store
Eschersheimer Landstr 267
60320 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

Old School Trial for Eternel Weekend Europe

Wednesday, April 25th 2018
5 €
at 6 PM
in JK-Store
Eschersheimer Landstr 267
60320 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

MKM Series Hamburg

Sunday, May 20th 2018

Eternal Saturday

Saturday, May 26th 2018
in JK Event Store
Gwinnerstr 36
60388 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

Old School Tournaments at JK Series Summer

Friday, June 1st 2018, at 6 PM
Sunday, June 3rd 2018, at 3 PM
in Bürgerhaus Bischofsheim
Dörnigheimer Weg 21
63477 Maintal (Germany)