At MTGO Academy, we love random stuff, including goofy and humorous card interactions! We’re so excited, in fact, about the bizarre card interactions that are sure to emerge from Wizards’ Magic Online‘s Festival of Old Limited Sealed on Monday, April 1st, that we wanted to incentivize the community to share some of the wacky antics that go down.
Hence, this mini-contest! To enter, please send a Tweet to MTGO Academy that
- Begins with “@MTGOAcademy”
- Includes a TweetPic or other link to an image of a funny or bizarre card interaction you observed in one of your Magic Online matches when participating in the Festival of Old Limited Sealed (which will only fire 4 times!)
- Includes a (very) brief description of the card interaction in question.
Your submission must be received by the end of April 2nd, 2013, US Eastern time. (One submission per participant, please!) After we’ve had a chance to go through the submissions, we’ll post the ones that our editorial staff finds the most entertaining or interesting in a post on our front page. If your image gets posted, you’ll win a small prize!
The prize will be 10 event tickets of bot credit at our in-client bot chain (Academy_Sellbot, Academy_Buybot, etc.) for the Magic Online account tied to the person who submitted the image. Everyone, including MTGO Academy contributors, is welcome to participate, but please don’t send us images of other players’ games. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below.
And yes, if the event ends up being not real, then the contest will be canceled. 
So you really think this is real – despite the acronym of the event name – despite the fact that most think the old and new clients both would have trouble with deck building with 10 boosters – despite the very obvious date of the events? We’ll see!
I figure that it’s real, just April Fools-themed. I dunno. I hope it’s real, and in fact, I would actually be disappointed if it weren’t, especially since the events are scheduled in the client, and they look like so much fun.
My logic is that WotC would only embrace April Fools Day insofar as it made things really fun, and not insofar as it disappointed players. To schedule an event that people are excited about and then not to fire it because it’s a joke doesn’t seem like their style since it makes it possible to be -disappointed- as a customer — even if only slightly — that it’s a joke.
Oh well, if it turns out to be a gag, and that the events don’t actually fire, then there will be no contest.
I’ll bet anyone one (1) 6-ticket entry fee that the event actually fires (though I won’t make any stipulation about what will come out of the boosters).
Don’t get me wrong – I hope they are real too! So far, though, it seems as though many are not believing in them or nobody can play them on a Monday. I thought for sure they would be all full up already. I signed up for the 1st three of them – definitely can’t do the last one at midnight my time before my first day back at work after the holiday!
Putting them on a Monday is another reason methinks they are not real – they would get much greater participation in them on a weekend day (e.g., pre-release events)!
But hope springs eternal!
Well it is real! I am in my first game but opponent is a no-show! 20 minutes was not long enough for deck building! Got me a G/W elves deck!
I played earlier and built a crappy deck. I was so hungry during the build that I couldn’t focus, and I paid the price. Pretty fun to have a giant pile of cards in front of you that you need to figure out what to do with. Building method was a little different than normal: easy to exclude cards right from the get-go that interact with keywords unlikely to be in your or opponents’ decks a lot of the time.
I ran it twice – first time had a pretty synergestic Green White elf deck. Got blown away last two games though since most of Black removal is aimed at weenies and that mowed my elves right down.
Second time I got a black green monstrosity that just couldn’t put up any serious threat! So then I quit this format and went back to Momir and got my packs for the night!
Deck building was just atrocious with this many cards and not being familiar with the sets at all!
I like fun formats like this, but only once in a while. Because they aren’t consistently fun. Only fun for novelty’s sake.
I had mondays off for 6 months straight. I got moved to Thursday/Friday (better) a month ago, randomly had the last 2 mondays off for various reasons…and of course I’m not available when this happens for ONE DAY ONLY.
Blah.