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Magic 2015 Pre-release Just One Week Away!
Friday, July 4th, 2014
The Core Set 2015 Prerelease presents players with a special opportunity to open a Prerelease Pack. There are five Prerelease Packs to choose from; each corresponds to a one of the five colors in Magic: White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green.
If players would like to be guaranteed a specific Core Set 2015 Prerelease Pack they MUST preregister for the event they would like to participate in. Call ahead or contact us.
Abington Store:
1423 Bedford Street
Abington MA 02351
781.261.9669
Plainville Store:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
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Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: July 12th Friday night / Saturday morning
Time: 12:00am (midnight)
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: July 12th Saturday afternoon
Time: 12:00pm
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: July 12th Saturday night
Time: 6:00pm
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck**
Date: July 13th Sunday afternoon
Time: 12:00pm in PLAINVILLE, 6:00pm in ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $20.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
Format: Sealed Deck*
Date: July 13th Sunday night
Time: 6:00pm in PLAINVILLE, 12:00pm in ABINGTON
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
This event will run 4 rounds.
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*Sealed Deck: Each player receives one Core Set 2015 Prerelease Pack corresponding to the color of their choice.
**Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck: Each TEAM will receive 2 Core Set 2015 Prerelease Packs with which to build two 40 card decks.
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What Do I Get?
Prizes are based on attendance. There will be 2 booster packs per player put into the prize pool. Prizes packs are typically awarded to the top 35% of finishers.
Each Player will receive one Core Set 2015 Prerelease Pack that contains:
5 Core Set 2015 booster packs
1 Seeded booster pack*
1 Premium promo card
1 Activity card
1 Spindown life counter
1 Welcome Letter
For this event, players may use the promo card included with the Prerelease Pack in their tournament deck.
*Contains cards from the Core Set that are or have synergy with the color you chose.
What Else Can I Do?
Open Dueling: Open Dueling players each receive 1 Core Set 2015 Intro Pack. Open Dueling players use their Intro Pack to play against each other, as well as Prerelease tournament players who are between matches. All players should be encouraged to help teach Open Dueling participants how to play Magic.
Commander Melees:
Use your Commander decks with your friends!
Come down, play some cards, check out the new set, and meet some new people!
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Tags: Event, Magic 2015, Magic the Gathering, MTG, New Release, Prerelease, Wizards of the Coast
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Happy 4th of July!
Friday, July 4th, 2014
On behalf of the entire staff here at Battleground Games & Hobbies, we would like to wish you all a fun-filled, safe Independence Day!
Please note that Battleground Games & Hobbies in Abington, MA is OPEN today! So c’mon down and hang out with us in Abington all day today!
However, please note that Battleground Games & Hobbies in Plainville, MA is CLOSED today.
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The Pokemon Company Announces this Year’s World Championship
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
If you’re a Pokemon fan, you might want to check this out!
Hobby news website ICv2.com reported this week that The Pokemon Company International has announced the 2014 Pokemon World Championships will be held on August 16-17th at the Walter E. Washington Convention center in Washington, DC. The event also coincides with the premiere of the official Pokemon live orchestral concert series, Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions.
Full details on the World Championship event were not released beyond the date and location, which coincides with the concert series kickoff. The Pokemon Company is partnering with Princeton Entertainment for the concert series, which kicks off in DC on Friday, August 15th at the Warner Theater. The concert reunites creative producers from 2012’s The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert tour. Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions will take audiences on a musical retrospective with timed visuals through 20 years of the video game franchise’s most memorable melodies. So far, only the Washington DC and Philadelphia tour dates have been announced, with more dates and locations to follow at a later date.
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Z-Man Games Announces ‘Pandemic: Legacy’
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Z-Man Games has announced, according to hobby news website ICv2.com, a new addition to its popular disease-fighting Pandemic line of strategy games, Pandemic: Legacy.
The original Pandemic was designed by Matt Leacock, and this version is co-designed by Rob Daviau, who designed Risk Legacy. Pandemic Legacy will incorporate the evolving history and consequences of current games into future ones, much like role playing games. Characters and their actions in the current game play will affect how future games are played.
A Z-Man Games representative confirmed Pandemic: Legacy will not be released until 2015.
Other imminent upcoming releases in the Pandemic line include Pandemic: Contagion, in which players are the diseases, which will release at Gen Con; and the dice-based stand-alone Pandemic: The Cure, which is due in Q4.
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Fantasy Flight Games Announces ‘Descent: Journey’s in the Dark’ Expansion Pack
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Reported by hobby news website ICv2.com late last week, Fantasy Flight Games has announced the latest Lieutenant Pack for its Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) semi-cooperative fantasy board game. The Lieutenant Packs for Descent: Journeys in the Dark bring new life to the Overlord’s most powerful agents, while also providing an additional level of strategic depth to the gameplay. The Skarn Lieutenant Pack, which is not a stand-alone game, requires a copy of Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd Edition) to play, but in the context of the game, it unleashes massive new powers. The Skarn is a magical construct infused with life by the death of a high mage, and it possesses the ability to increase its size and strength endlessly by incorporating pieces of its environment. If left unchecked, The Skarn has the potential to threaten all of Terrinoth with its enormity.
The new Skarn Lieutenant Pack brings one of the Overlord’s most feared minions to life with a detailed and dramatically sculpted figure that players can use to replace the lieutenant taken from the Manor of Ravens expansion.
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
The Skarn Lieutenant Pack also contains a ten-card plot deck, “Twisted Soul,” which can impart some of Skarn’s potent defenses to a player’s other monsters. The Plot Deck also invites overlords to harness the Skarn’s brute power and regenerative nature in any campaign.
The Skarn Lieutenant Packincludes one highly detailed plastic Skarn figure, 2 Agent Cards, 10 Plot Cards, 16 Threat & Fortune Tokens, and a rulesheet.
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Days of Wonder Announces ‘Five Tribes’ Board Game
Monday, June 30th, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Days of Wonder has announced, according to hobby news website ICv2.com, a September release for Five Tribes, a new Euro-style big box board game designed by Bruno Cathala (Senji, Dice Town). Five Tribes builds on the long tradition of German games with wooden Meeples and provides a unique twist on the standard “worker placement” economic board game. A bit more of a “gamer’s game” than the typical Days of Wonder fare, Five Tribes has clear, easy-to-understand rules, but requires a clever and calculated strategy to win.
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
In this “worker displacement” game players score points by carefully maneuvering the Five Tribes of Meeples over the tiles that make up the ancient Sultanate of Naqula. They need to look ahead to what moves will not only position them to score, but also put their opponents at a disadvantage. It’s when, how, and where players “dis-place” the five tribes of Assassins, Elders, Builders, Merchants, and Viziers that determines victory or defeat.
‘Five Tribes’ board set up. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Designer Bruno Cathala, who Days of Wonder is bringing to GenCon to demo the game, explained his affection for the game: “After designing a series of smaller games, my inner-self began to insist that I work on something bigger and more substantial. While I’ve already played the prototype hundreds of times, it’s still the game I want to play most often. So please don’t hesitate to come to play with me at festivals–I never grow tired of Five Tribes.”
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Five Tribes is for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and older and takes approximately 40-80 minutes to play. It includes 30 Tiles depicting the Sultanate of Naqala; 4 Player sets with Camels and Turn Markers; 90 Wooden Meeples (Yellow Viziers, Red Assassins, Green Merchants, Blue Builders and White Elders); 12 Palm Trees & 10 Palaces; 22 Djinn cards; 54 Resource cards; 96 Victory Coins; a Scoring Pad; 5 Djinn & Turn Order Summary Sheets; 1 Betting Order & 1 Turn Order Tracks; and a Rules Booklet.
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