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The First MTG Playtester: Barry Reich will be one of the guests at Dice City's Old School Winter Ball February 2-3:



That's him holding a Sea Serpent, which Richard Garfield gave him permission to alter the rules text of. He played the very first game of Magic: The Gathering, when he and Garfield shuffled up 120 playtest cards, split the stack evenly between them, and pretended to be powerful wizards vying for control of a small piece of Dominaria. You, too, can have your sea serpent altered by Jeff!



Dice City's other big guest for the event is Jeff Menges -- who has made a special oil painting of his iconic Swords to Plowshares art for a commemorative playmat.



The constructed tournament is Saturday, February 2nd, and an old school limited event will be held on Sunday, February 3rd. Ya'll need tickets, and you can get them by going ri-chere. When I say "need tickets," I mean that you have to preregister and buy tickets. Please do that so you aren't standing on the sidewalk the day of hoping there's an open seat.



A portion of the ticket price includes a donation to Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, and there will be a huge number of singles to buy and a wide variety of prizes. It's just too much for me to condense into a little e-mail like this, but let me say that the prize structure has plenty for those of us who just want to have fun, and plenty for those of you who want to win. You can win a prize for a winning record with the most cards from The Dark or from Fallen Empires in your deck, for instance, similar to how the Sarpadian Series incentivized playing a tribal deck.



I'll put the link right here again.



Dice City is at 11406-b Georgia Ave., Wheaton, MD 20902.

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Want to get in some games before a sewious termanent? We'll be having a little DC-Baltimore hybrid meetup at Jailbreak Brewing Company on January 20th, from 12-4 pm. This is the regular weekend and day for the Baltimore meetup, so it replaces our monthly meeting. Jailbreak is at 9445 Washington Boulevard North F, Laurel, MD 20723.



-Jon



P.s. I have the Dicord Community Deck in hand for the next couple weeks. If you lose a game to it, you have to alter a card!