The Chelmsford Bunker

Following on from the success of our Dark Ascension Booster Draft; on Wednesday 14th March, we’re going to be running our first Magic the Gathering Vintage Tournament.  Please see the details below:

‘Vintage’ Constructed Deck Tournament with the rules as below. We will play to a scoring format to where you play people around the table in rotation; best of 3 but stop if 2-0 up.

The person with the most points wins. If there is a tie then the result between the two will decide it or a one game sudden death playoff will decide the placings.

Cost to enter the tournament will be £3 (plus Club subs money £2 for members and £3 for non-members, it costs £5 to become a member and your first meeting is free) and all entry money (not subs money) to go into a prize pool which will be finalised on the night but we will aim at prizes for 1st to 4th place. Entry money to be paid to the organisers on the night subs money to go in the tin and names written in the book as usual. There are promo cards available to entrants (whilst stocks last) on the night I will confirm this soon.

We have amended the Wizards Vintage Tournament rules and they are as follows, we want a friendly tournament so have added further restrictions to the usual format:

Constructed decks for the tournament must be sixty cards no more no less . If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.

The sideboard can contain any number of rares, restricted, commons and uncommons but the deck must follow the rule of 6 rares, 16 uncommons and 1 restricted card from the list below (the restricted card counts against your uncommon or rare allowance too so if it is a rare you can have that restricted card and 5 other rares no more restricted cards), no more than 4 of any one card apart from Basic Land (and exception below) and the deck must be 60 cards no more no less.

With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic. (The five Ice Age block snow-covered lands — Snow-Covered Plains, Snow-Covered Island, Snow-Covered Swamp, Snow-Covered Mountain, and Snow-Covered Forest — are also basic lands. Note that snow-covered lands are permitted).

The other exception to this are cards like ‘Relentless Rats’ which have no restriction on the number of these cards in a deck. This card and any similar cards are restricted by the number of rares and uncommons allowed so in this case no more than 16 ‘Relentless Rats’.

Vintage decks may consist of cards from all Magic card sets, any edition of the core set, and all special sets, supplements, and promotional printings released by Wizards of the Coast.

Cards from expansions and special sets (like From the Vault, Magic: The Gathering – Commander, etc) are legal in the Vintage format on the date of release of the expansion or special set.

All promotional cards are legal in the Vintage format on the date of the release of the promotional card.

The following cards are banned in Vintage tournaments:

•Amulet of Quoz
•Bronze Tablet
•Chaos Orb
•Contract from Below
•Darkpact
•Demonic Attorney
•Falling Star
•Jeweled Bird
•Rebirth
•Shahrazad
•Tempest Efreet
•Timmerian Fiends

The following cards are restricted* in Vintage tournaments and only one restricted card is allowed in your deck.

•Ancestral Recall
•Balance
•Black Lotus
•Brainstorm
•Burning Wish
•Channel
•Demonic Consultation
•Demonic Tutor
•Fastbond
•Flash
•Gifts Ungiven
•Imperial Seal
•Library of Alexandria
•Lion’s Eye Diamond
•Lotus Petal
•Mana Crypt
•Mana Vault
•Memory Jar
•Merchant Scroll
•Mind’s Desire
•Mox Emerald
•Mox Jet
•Mox Pearl
•Mox Ruby
•Mox Sapphire
•Mystical Tutor
•Necropotence
•Ponder
•Regrowth
•Sol Ring
•Strip Mine
•Thirst for Knowledge
•Time Vault
•Time Walk
•Timetwister
•Tinker
•Tolarian Academy
•Trinisphere
•Vampiric Tutor
•Wheel of Fortune
•Windfall
•Yawgmoth’s Bargain
•Yawgmoth’s Will

GET BUILDING YOUR DECK!!