State of the Game - Oct 2022

State of the Game - Oct 2022

TL;DR: We're shaking up our weekly event schedule for TCGs

Since opening up events to in-store play back in May, we've seen our community explode, with our Commander and Friday Night Magic (FNM) events seeing great turn outs every week. The support from the community has been amazing, and it's wonderful to see so many familiar faces returning to the store to play some games and have some fun. The overwhelming popularity of Commander, as well as the resurgence in interest in FNM thanks to Dominaria United has given us the opportunity to expand our player capacity for both events, allowing us to host even more Magic players each week!

Magic: the Gathering

We've nearly sold out Commander every Tuesday, and this is great! We're now looking at expanding Commander to a second day of the week, so that those who can't make it out Tuesday nights have a chance to come down and play, and to give those hardcore fans that love the game another timeslot to play and hang out. Stay tuned to our Events page for more information!

There's been more than a passing interest in other formats for Magic the Gathering, such as Modern. We've decided to make a slight change to our Wednesday time slot for organized play. Starting with the first week of October, we've begun rotating between Modern and Pioneer each Wednesday. We've seen great success with other events in the store with a weekly rotation, and felt this was an ideal way to provide players with more ways to play Magic in store!

In other Magic: the Gathering news, we have our Dominaria United Store Championship happening on Saturday, October 15th @ Noon. This tournament will be held at Competitive Rules Enforcement Level, and features the Modern format. Not only is it a Store Championship, but we're doubling up on promos for this event and including some sweet door prizes, as well!

Beautiful looking promos, aren't they? Every player who signs up and participates in the event will receive a pair of promos, just for showing up! not only that, but one lucky person will be going home with a foil Neon Ink Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty! We're looking forward to a great turnout for this event.

Flesh and Blood

These past few weeks have seen some of the best turnouts for our Thursday Blitz nights since we started hosting Flesh and Blood Armory Events. For those not in the loop, an Armory Event is a weekly Organized Play event where players compete for cool promos, such as Cold Foiled Heroes or Weapons. Each month has a different OP kit that provides not just cards, but also Playmats that we raffle off at the end of the month to a pair of lucky participants. If you've never heard of the game before, I highly recommend checking it out, or stopping by the store and asking a member of our TCG Department about it. We even have free welcome decks to help new players get started!

We'll be expanding our Flesh and Blood Armory Events to include the Classic Constructed format, by popular demand. Starting October 27th, and every second Thursday afterwards, we'll be hosting Classic Constructed events. This will alternate every Thursday with the Blitz format. This change will take effective this month, and October 27th will be our first official Classic Constructed event. Weekly Armory events begin every Thursday at 6:30pm.

We'll be looking at hosting a learn to play event in the future, so if you're interested and want a hands on demonstration, keep an eye on our Events page as we'll be looking to host one such event sometime in the next month or so.

Weiss Schwarz

Not content to be outdone, the Weiss Schwarz community has come out in force! The community has grown quickly, and we're seeing record turnouts for the game in recent weeks! Not sure what Weiss Schwarz is? It's a game where you can pick from several anime franchises and battle against other characters in a massive crossover game! You can pit characters from a wide variety of anime against each other, from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fate Stay Night, Mob Psycho 100, to even RWBY.

We run Weiss Schwarz every Wednesday at 6:30pm.

 

We're happy to see so many people out and enjoying the different events we have on offer. Is there something else you'd like to see? A game or format that we're not running? Send us your inquiries to tcg@gameknight.ca and we can talk!