Military Gamer Supply will host a Magic the Gathering tournament at Las Cruces Comic Con. Sign-ups begin at noon and will end at 1pm. The tournament will start promptly at 1pm. Format will be Standard. There will be a cut to Top 8 with the Top 8 players receiving prizing. The prize pool will be dependent upon how many players enter the tournament. In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you. This is the grandfather of the collectible card game (or CCG) genre. Cards are categorized as common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare. Players collect cards and build decks out of their collection. Players build a deck of cards and duel against an opponent's deck. The first player to reduce his opponent to 0 life (or meet another set win condition) wins the game. Deck building is major part of the game. There are over 17,000 different cards from which to build your deck! Players randomly draw spells to see what they get and can play each turn. Although this limits your choices, there is a lot of strategy in how you play those spells. A robust list of game mechanics, including intricate rules for reactive card play called "the stack," provide for rich tactics and tough choices each turn. Though traditionally a two-player duel, there are several casual and tournament formats to Magic that allow more players to play.
This is the location where all video, board, role-playing, and TCG/CCG games will be played.