YPSILANTI Mich- Where is it you can test your powers as an arcane wizard and summon creatures to do your bidding and then defeat the enemy wizard on the field of battle? This can be done at Stadium Cards and Comics, on Golfside in Ypsilanti Michigan every Wednesday. There is a hosted Magic: The Gathering tournament held for anyone who wants to try their hand at one of the most competitive TCGs (trading card games) around.
Magic: The Gathering, for those not familiar, was invented by math professor Richard Garfield and was introduced by Wizards of The Coast in 1993. It is extremely popular today and is still growing; the players at “Stadium” as it is referred to by locals are looking forward to the new set of cards called The Rise of Eldrazi. This will unveil some hundred or so new cards and create new “Standard” play, which generally means the cards which are currently new.
The manager Chad Thornton and Wizards of The Coast sanctioned official said, “I’m surprised that we had this many people here this soon to the release of Eldrazi,I really only expected a few people to show.” Sometimes soon after a set is released, there are upwards of twenty five people who come to the Wednesday tournament.
The entry fee for this tournament as well as others held at the store is five dollars. Generally for winning the tournament the top four players will split the earnings and get around eighteen dollars a piece. Jesse Peck, an Eastern Michigan University sophomore and frequent Magic: The Gathering player says, "Playing at stadium is fun, easy and accessible. No one that plays there is too competitive and the staff rocks. The tournaments there are my favorite in the area."
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