MTG Standard 2-24-10

What a glorious event.  Eighteen delightful MTG players dueled like rutting elk for top honors at Game Den's Wednesday night Standard MTG tournament.  In a five round event, nobody ended up undefeated.  Antoine Harris, Jordan Paxton and Jeff McHenry all finished 4-1 and took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.  Antoine was unable to draw land to power his fast Goblin deck and lost to Jeff's Jund deck in round 5, but Antoine won the tiebreaker battle and took top honors. 1st-Antoine Harris-Goblins 2nd-Jordan Paxton-Jund 3rd-Jeff McHenry-Jund 4th-Skylar Sherman-Eldrazzi 5th-Josh Jensen-Naya Other participants in no particular order: David Hoague-Kor Jerry Jong- Blue/White control Ryan Sherman-Jund Derrick Martinez-Naya Josh Snow-Jund Brandon Chapman-All American Control Robbie Snow Green/White Aggro Adam Westwood-Bant Control Jeremy Hansen-Naya Addison Hansen-Eldrazzi Michael Walberg-Eldrazzi Nathan Wright-Boros Drew Winn-I dunno Thank you to all participants.  The first person to comment on this posting on gameden.com's main page will receive a free entry to next week's Wednesday night Standard MTG tournament.

Standard Tournament 2-17-10

Fifteen lovely MTG players battled like beauty queens in a Miss WVC Pageant  at Game Den's MTG Standard tournament on February 17, 2010.  In the championship match,  Jordan Paxton playing Jund defeated Josh Snow and his Turbo Fog deck 2-0.   Jordan had one card left in his library when he won game two.  A key Maelstrom Pulse destroying three Howling Mines helped JP's victory in game two.

1st:  Jordan Paxton-Jund 2nd:  Josh Snow-Turbo Fog 3rd:  Robbie Snow-Warp World 4th:  Anthony Covert-LD 5th:  Josh Jensen-Naya Other participants in no particular order: Antoine Harris-Vampires Jeremy Hansen- Naya Lightsaber Ryan Sherman-Naya Lightsaber Skyler Sherman-Eldrazi Anthony Johnson- Emeria Allies Andy Sartor-Mono White Shawn Meyer-? Adam Westwood-??? Jeff McHenry-? Daniel DeCarvalho-"Land only" Thank you to all who participated.   All players receive at least one pack and one foil promo card for a $5 entry.

Standard Tournament 2-10-10

Seventeen glorious players battled for top honors in this MTG tournament. 1st: Josh Snow 2nd: Shawn Meyer 3rd: Josh Jensen

Worldwake Release Event 2-6-10

Thank you to all 38 participants in Game Den West Valley City's Worldwake Release Event. The competition was fierce as many of the top rated MTG players in Utah attended. 1st: Geoff Dearing 2nd: J. Alex Sittner 3rd: Seth Williams

FNM 2-12-10

Game Den WVC had 30 players for FNM on Feb 12th.  And there was much rejoicing. Each participant chose to draft either Block, two Zendikar and one Worldwake, or all Worldwake, and four pods were formed with 8-8-8-6 players accordingly. Many splendid cards worth dollars were opened. Pod winners: Jason Tran Connor Giffin Ryan Phillips Bryan Hawley