First Pick:
Orlando Tragedy, community response
SCG, CoolStuff Inc. WotC responds to tragedy in Orlando: https://www.facebook.com/StarCityGames/posts/10153645888357918?pnref=story
http://www.coolstuffgames.com/orlandounited/
Gather the Townsfolk:
MTG Goldfish has Deck Search http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck_searches/new
Craig Wescoe offering private coaching: https://www.facebook.com/craig.wescoe?fref=ts
Jeff Hoogland quits MTGO: http://www.jeffhoogland.com/2016/06/farewell-to-mtgo/
Desperate Ravings:
Access Magic: Eldritch Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-TQCKuPFA
#TeamNahiri v. #TeamSorin http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/stone-and-blood-2016-06-15
The Red Zone:
Ban Miracles:
http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/ban-miracles/
Going Infinite
Sleep In Specials at Constructed GPs.
Just like Playmats before it.
Limited GPs still provide a service - prereg’ing your pool for you. This doesn’t fall from the sky. HOWEVER - You should still have the free option of showing up an hour before hand to register and build.
Professional Event Services hosted GP Columbus w free online deck reg - yet Sleep In Special still cost $20. This $20 is absurd.
Platinum Pros & Hall of Famers don’t have to pay for Sleep-In-Specials because WotC says so. Now it’s time for WotC, and the pro community, to help stand up for everyone else.
#FreeSiS
https://twitter.com/_DavidOchoa/status/740280665623531522 - Ochoa talking to PES
https://twitter.com/2Plowshares/status/741515761286402049 - Having to purchase due to flight
https://twitter.com/SamuelHBlack/status/741513853259939840 - as someone who gets it free, wotc needs to step in
https://twitter.com/TJCollectibles/status/741652732549947393 - weird reply by TJ Collectibles; condescending tone
The Finisher:
For those of you who regularly watch first person shooters you already know what the Counterstrike: Global Offensive ESL Cologne Major event was, but for those of you that don’t it was a major shooty-shooty-bang-bang tournament that happened last weekend in France. And it’s relevant for us robe-and-wizard-hat poker folks because instead of using double elimination or round robin play, it used Swiss with a cut to top 8,, which is the first time a major non-turn-based ESport used Swiss pairings. So now that CS:GO has started borrowing ideas from Magic, what tidbit would you like to see MTG borrow from the big boys in ESports?
