Coming soon to KD Games is the brand new TCG - Riftbound League of Legends TCG.
There will be more on this in the coming months but for now here is a brief video introducing the game...
Are you enthusiastic about games? Well so are we!
Friday, 4 April 2025
Universus Standard Scramble Event
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Introducing Store Scrambles, a brand-new in-store event designed to help players get into the UniVersus tournament scene without the intensity of competitive play.
What Are Store Scrambles?
Store Scrambles are the perfect way to dive into organized play for UniVersus, whether you’re a new player or a seasoned competitor looking for a fun and casual event. Store Scrambles offers a structured tournament experience without the pressure of earning Championship Points, making them a great stepping stone toward bigger competitions.
Store Scrambles are the perfect way to dive into organized play for UniVersus, whether you’re a new player or a seasoned competitor looking for a fun and casual event. Store Scrambles offers a structured tournament experience without the pressure of earning Championship Points, making them a great stepping stone toward bigger competitions.
Why Play in a Store Scramble?
Perfect for Beginners – New to UniVersus? Store Scrambles are designed to ease players into the tournament scene with a more relaxed format.
No Championship Points? No Problem! – While these events won’t contribute to your Worlds qualification, they will offer fantastic exclusive prizes that you won’t want to miss.
Meet & Compete – Connect with fellow UniVersus players at your local game store, build friendships, and grow your skills.
Perfect for Beginners – New to UniVersus? Store Scrambles are designed to ease players into the tournament scene with a more relaxed format.
No Championship Points? No Problem! – While these events won’t contribute to your Worlds qualification, they will offer fantastic exclusive prizes that you won’t want to miss.
Meet & Compete – Connect with fellow UniVersus players at your local game store, build friendships, and grow your skills.
Store Scramble Format
Standard Format - A traditional UniVersus tournament where players bring decks from the standard card pool. This format rewards well-rounded strategies and mastery of the game.
Standard Format - A traditional UniVersus tournament where players bring decks from the standard card pool. This format rewards well-rounded strategies and mastery of the game.
Exclusive Store Scramble Prizing - Season 1
Every Store Scramble event comes with limited-edition promo cards, including participation and victory prizes!
Peerless Footwork (Participation) – Everyone who plays gets this exclusive card! (Up to 8 per event)
Every Store Scramble event comes with limited-edition promo cards, including participation and victory prizes!
Peerless Footwork (Participation) – Everyone who plays gets this exclusive card! (Up to 8 per event)
Universus - Local Championship
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Are you ready to put your skills to the test and battle against the best competitors in your area? The Local Championship is your chance to prove your tournament prowess, earn Championship Points, and take home exclusive prizes!
What Are Local Championships?
Local Championships are competitive events designed for UniVersus players who want to take their game to the next level. These events award Championship Points, helping you secure a spot at the biggest event of the year—Worlds! If you're aiming for the top, this is where you start.
Why Compete in a Local Championship?
- Face Top Competition – Battle against skilled players and sharpen your strategy.
- Epic Prize Support – We’re bringing even more amazing rewards to Local Championships!
- Earn Championship Points – These events count toward your Worlds invite, making every match crucial.
For our Local Championships we have chosen to run the event in the Standard format as this the style that best suits our community.
Standard Format - A traditional UniVersus tournament where players bring decks from the standard card pool. This format rewards well-rounded strategies and mastery of the game.
Season 1 Local Championship Prizing
This season brings amazing rewards for all participants, Top 8, Top 4, Finalists, and the Champion.
Participation: Tarot Reading promo (16 per event) – Just for entering!
Top 8: Enchanted Weapon Attack alternate treatment for top 8 players
Top 4: Enchanted Weapon Attack alternate treatment for top 4 players
Finalists: Enchanted Weapon Attack alternate treatment for the Finalists
Champion: Enchanted Weapon Attack alternate treatment exclusive to the Champion
Champion Playmat: The ultimate trophy for the winner of the event!
Feast your eyes on the prizing for Season 1 Local Championship events!
OUR LOCAL CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY 27th APRIL at 2pm
Pokemon Go League Challenge
Pokémon GO League Challenge Tournaments
Pokémon GO League Challenge tournaments are entry-level events that award a small amount of Championship Points.
In addition players are able to win Pokemon TCG Prize Packs (currently series 6).
The event is played using the Great League and each trainer will need to bring there mobile device with their own internet connection (we do not have WIFI) along with a list of 6 Pokemon currently on their account. You can write this list out at the shop if you arrive earliy enough.
Matches will use 3 of the six Pokemon to battle other trainers in a number of rounds (depending on attendance numbers)
Players are awarded Championship Points based on their finish position or placement at individual events. Test your skills here first to ease yourself into competitive play.
Our next event is Saturday 19th April at 2pm and tickets can be purchased on our website.
Arkham Horror Love Craft Letter
Step into the eerie town of Arkham with Arkham Horror Lovecraft Letter™, a chilling twist on the classic deduction card game. Delve into the madness of the Lovecraftian universe as you face eldritch horrors and uncover allies tainted with madness in this gripping battle of wits.
Can you maintain your sanity and outwit Cthulhu, or will you succumb to the creeping darkness that lurks within?
Arkham Horror Lovecraft Letter™ is a game of push-your-luck, deduction, and risk for 2-6 players that uses the award-winning Love Letter™ system.
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Altered - Tumult Championship
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Our first event for Altered will be the Tumult Championship. We will post more details on the prizes later but for now, here is the date for your diary. Saturday 26th April at 2pm. It will be a Standard Format event.
Standard is a format where you build a deck ahead of time and bring it to the game. Choose your favorite Hero or favorite faction and build a deck following the strategies you like best.
Whether you pick a pre-constructed deck, follow a decklist or craft a list of your own, Standard is the classic Altered experience and the one we recommend for new players and tournaments alike.
As a constructed format, Standard requires that you bring your own deck to any event.
Standard Deck Construction Rules
Standard decks in Altered must adopt the following guidelines:
- A deck must contain a minimum of 39 non-Hero cards plus exactly 1 Hero card. (Token cards do not count towards the deck minimum. If you have token cards to go with your deck, they start outside of your deck.)
- All cards in your deck must be of the same faction as your Hero card.
- You may have a maximum of 3 copies of a card with the same name, regardless of rarity.
- You may have a maximum of 15 Rare cards in your deck.
- You may have a maximum of 3 Unique cards in your deck.
Structure: Best-of-three
Round Time: 50m
Rounds: 3
Tarkir: Prerelease Guide
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Return to the plane of Tarkir and join up with one of five clans in Tarkir: Dragonstorm!
If you're looking to start casting massive dragons and assembling armies of brave warriors, there's no better place to start than our Tarkir: Dragonstorm Prerelease events.
Prerelease events are a casual and friendly way to get your first taste of a brand-new Magic set. They are run as Sealed events, where you build a deck from the contents of a Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Tarkir: Dragonstorm has added a twist, the packs are different there is one for each clan.
Prerelease events are a casual and friendly way to get your first taste of a brand-new Magic set. They are run as Sealed events, where you build a deck from the contents of a Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Tarkir: Dragonstorm has added a twist, the packs are different there is one for each clan.
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Abzan, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu and Temur
Each Tarkir: Dragonstorm Prerelease Pack contains the following:
- 5 Tarkir: Dragonstorm Play Boosters
- 1 Clan-themed Tarkir: Dragonstorm Prerelease Booster Includes 14 Magic: The Gathering cards
- 1 Traditional foil year-stamped rare or mythic rare card
- 1 Deck box
- 1 Spindown die (matches the Prerelease Pack's clan)
At a Prerelease event, it's everyone's first time playing with these brand-new cards. No matter how long someone has been playing, it's everyone's first time with Tarkir: Dragonstorm. Don't be afraid to ask questions, try new things, and be bold! Prereleases are an exciting time to be a Magic fan, and we hope to see you at one of our taking part in the fun.
Building Your Prerelease Deck
There are five different Prerelease Packs for Tarkir: Dragonstorm, each themed around one of the five clans of Tarkir. The only difference between the Prerelease Packs is the spindown die and the Prerelease Booster.
Each Prerelease Booster contains fourteen cards, including one rare or mythic rare card, that are themed around your chosen clan. While you don't have to build a deck around your Prerelease Pack's clan, your Prerelease Booster will give you the building blocks of a deck for that clan.
There are five different Prerelease Packs for Tarkir: Dragonstorm, each themed around one of the five clans of Tarkir. The only difference between the Prerelease Packs is the spindown die and the Prerelease Booster.
Each Prerelease Booster contains fourteen cards, including one rare or mythic rare card, that are themed around your chosen clan. While you don't have to build a deck around your Prerelease Pack's clan, your Prerelease Booster will give you the building blocks of a deck for that clan.
As you open your Play Boosters, think about how those cards synergize with your Prerelease Pack's theme.
Every deck needs a way to win, so the first cards you should look for are game-winning threats. A threat is any card that presents your opponent with a must-answer problem. That can be a massive creature with evasion, a power-boosting effect, or a consistent source of card draw. These are often rare or mythic rare cards.
In Tarkir: Dragonstorm, many threats are two or three colors, meaning you're unlikely to be able to play all your top-tier threats. Your deck should be based on three colors of mana, ideally being the three colors of your Prerelease Pack's clan. If you have a powerful three-color card like Roar of Endless Song, you might want to make a green-blue-red deck. However, if you've opened several monocolor threats, such as multiple copies of Yathan Tombguard, you might consider making a black deck, even if the individual threats are less exciting than a single multicolor card.
Every deck needs a way to win, so the first cards you should look for are game-winning threats. A threat is any card that presents your opponent with a must-answer problem. That can be a massive creature with evasion, a power-boosting effect, or a consistent source of card draw. These are often rare or mythic rare cards.
In Tarkir: Dragonstorm, many threats are two or three colors, meaning you're unlikely to be able to play all your top-tier threats. Your deck should be based on three colors of mana, ideally being the three colors of your Prerelease Pack's clan. If you have a powerful three-color card like Roar of Endless Song, you might want to make a green-blue-red deck. However, if you've opened several monocolor threats, such as multiple copies of Yathan Tombguard, you might consider making a black deck, even if the individual threats are less exciting than a single multicolor card.
Removal in Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Once you've settled on your core threats, it's time to figure out the other major portion of your deck: removal and interaction. Your opponents will also be playing their strongest threats, and removal lets you stop their plans dead in their tracks.
Removal can take many forms. White and black have the most direct creature-removal options, with spells that excel at getting rid of even the biggest, baddest Dragons.
Red and blue have more conditional forms of removal, letting them deal with a threat under specific circumstances. Red can get rid of creatures through direct damage, making high-toughness creatures a problem. Blue can return creatures to their owner's hand, prevent them from untapping, or reduce their power, but it struggles to find permanent solutions to threats.
Green can destroy artifacts and enchantments outright while relying on its own creatures to remove opponent's creatures. By utilizing your own massive creatures, you can quickly outmuscle even the mightiest of Tarkir's dragons.
The Mana Curve in Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Surviving on Tarkir means making the most out of what you have, and that's exactly what the mana curve helps you do in Limited. This is a concept that helps you efficiently and effectively cast your spells. If your average spell's mana cost is around two or three, you can reliably cast spells early while having larger spells for later in the game. In Sealed, your mana curve should look something like this:
1 Mana: 1–2 cards
2 Mana: 7–8 cards
3 Mana: 5–6 cards
4 Mana: 3–4 cards
5 Mana: 2–3 cards
6 Mana: 0–1 card
and 17 lands!
Normally, you calculate a spell's mana value by adding up the number of mana symbols in its mana cost. For example, a spell with a mana cost would have mana value 3. But Tarkir: Dragonstorm has two aspects that add some texture here: Omens and hybrid mana.
Cards with Omen spells effectively have two costs: the larger Dragon creature spell and the smaller Omen spell. Because of this, should Marang River Regent count as a four-mana card or a six-mana card on your mana curve?
Additionally, there is a cycle of common creatures with hybrid mana costs. These symbols, colloquially known as "twobrid" mana, can be paid with two generic mana or one mana of the indicated color. That means you can end up paying three to six mana depending on what lands you have. So, where should these fall on your mana curve?
The answer is … it depends! That might not be satisfying, but it really depends on what kind of deck you have. When placing these on your mana curve, think about when you're most likely to cast these spells. If your deck is mostly focused on white and black, running only a handful of green sources, you're not likely to cast Reputable Merchant for three mana. Instead, you should count that as a four-mana card.
Omen cards should be treated similarly. If you have a deck focused on accruing as much mana as possible with cards like Encroaching Dragonstorm, you should treat Marang River Regent as a six-mana creature. But if you're just running it for the sweet, sweet card draw, then you should treat it as a four-mana spell.
Once you've settled on your core threats, it's time to figure out the other major portion of your deck: removal and interaction. Your opponents will also be playing their strongest threats, and removal lets you stop their plans dead in their tracks.
Removal can take many forms. White and black have the most direct creature-removal options, with spells that excel at getting rid of even the biggest, baddest Dragons.
Red and blue have more conditional forms of removal, letting them deal with a threat under specific circumstances. Red can get rid of creatures through direct damage, making high-toughness creatures a problem. Blue can return creatures to their owner's hand, prevent them from untapping, or reduce their power, but it struggles to find permanent solutions to threats.
Green can destroy artifacts and enchantments outright while relying on its own creatures to remove opponent's creatures. By utilizing your own massive creatures, you can quickly outmuscle even the mightiest of Tarkir's dragons.
The Mana Curve in Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Surviving on Tarkir means making the most out of what you have, and that's exactly what the mana curve helps you do in Limited. This is a concept that helps you efficiently and effectively cast your spells. If your average spell's mana cost is around two or three, you can reliably cast spells early while having larger spells for later in the game. In Sealed, your mana curve should look something like this:
1 Mana: 1–2 cards
2 Mana: 7–8 cards
3 Mana: 5–6 cards
4 Mana: 3–4 cards
5 Mana: 2–3 cards
6 Mana: 0–1 card
and 17 lands!
Normally, you calculate a spell's mana value by adding up the number of mana symbols in its mana cost. For example, a spell with a mana cost would have mana value 3. But Tarkir: Dragonstorm has two aspects that add some texture here: Omens and hybrid mana.
Cards with Omen spells effectively have two costs: the larger Dragon creature spell and the smaller Omen spell. Because of this, should Marang River Regent count as a four-mana card or a six-mana card on your mana curve?
Additionally, there is a cycle of common creatures with hybrid mana costs. These symbols, colloquially known as "twobrid" mana, can be paid with two generic mana or one mana of the indicated color. That means you can end up paying three to six mana depending on what lands you have. So, where should these fall on your mana curve?
The answer is … it depends! That might not be satisfying, but it really depends on what kind of deck you have. When placing these on your mana curve, think about when you're most likely to cast these spells. If your deck is mostly focused on white and black, running only a handful of green sources, you're not likely to cast Reputable Merchant for three mana. Instead, you should count that as a four-mana card.
Omen cards should be treated similarly. If you have a deck focused on accruing as much mana as possible with cards like Encroaching Dragonstorm, you should treat Marang River Regent as a six-mana creature. But if you're just running it for the sweet, sweet card draw, then you should treat it as a four-mana spell.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Draft Archetypes
Most Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited decks will be themed around one of the five clans, each of which is centered on three colors. Each of those three-color combinations has its own strategy, known as a draft archetype. Additionally, each two-color pair shared by the clans has its own draft archetype.
Here's a brief guide to each of the three-color combinations that are highlighted in the set. This is meant to be a general overview of their themes, teaching you the clan's strategy, some key cards, as well as a few tricks that you can employ in your deck.
Most Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited decks will be themed around one of the five clans, each of which is centered on three colors. Each of those three-color combinations has its own strategy, known as a draft archetype. Additionally, each two-color pair shared by the clans has its own draft archetype.
Here's a brief guide to each of the three-color combinations that are highlighted in the set. This is meant to be a general overview of their themes, teaching you the clan's strategy, some key cards, as well as a few tricks that you can employ in your deck.
Abzan Endure
The Abzan take on the greatest foes by strengthening themselves and their allies with +1/+1 counters, either through the endure mechanic or with cards like Armament Dragon. Accelerate toward victory by supercharging your battlefield with Stalwart Successor and other cards with +1/+1 counter effects. If you find yourself without a creature to put counters on, don't forget that you can create Spirit tokens with endure!
The Abzan take on the greatest foes by strengthening themselves and their allies with +1/+1 counters, either through the endure mechanic or with cards like Armament Dragon. Accelerate toward victory by supercharging your battlefield with Stalwart Successor and other cards with +1/+1 counter effects. If you find yourself without a creature to put counters on, don't forget that you can create Spirit tokens with endure!
Jeskai Flurry
These decks want to cast two spells in a turn, so low-cost spells or effects that provide you with extra mana are at a premium. Narset's Rebuke clears the way while giving you the mana for a second spell, which you can use to buff your Jeskai Brushmaster.
These decks want to cast two spells in a turn, so low-cost spells or effects that provide you with extra mana are at a premium. Narset's Rebuke clears the way while giving you the mana for a second spell, which you can use to buff your Jeskai Brushmaster.
Sultai Renew
Cards with renew or harmonize will be leaving your graveyard like a flight of migrating dragons, and the Sultai take advantage of this by providing extra value. First, fill up your graveyard with Cruel Truths, then draw cards turn after turn with Kishla Skimmer, Agent of Kotis, and more. Once you've outvalued your opponents, go for the win with Feral Deathgorger!
Mardu Mobilize
Mobilize provides you with a deluge of creature tokens whenever you attack. Normally, you sacrifice them at the next end step, but you can eek out additional value through cards like Hardened Tactician. Send your tokens toward a great death with their swords in hand as you sacrifice them to Worthy Cost and drain your opponents with Venerated Stormsinger.
Mobilize provides you with a deluge of creature tokens whenever you attack. Normally, you sacrifice them at the next end step, but you can eek out additional value through cards like Hardened Tactician. Send your tokens toward a great death with their swords in hand as you sacrifice them to Worthy Cost and drain your opponents with Venerated Stormsinger.
Temur Harmonize
Go big or go home with the Temur as you cast spells from your graveyard through the power of your massive creatures. Harmonize synergizes nicely with the Jeskai's flurry cards and the Sultai's leaves-the-graveyard effects. Cheap, high-power creatures like Sunset Strikemaster can fuel powerful spells like Mammoth Bellow, making for a hard-hitting deck.
If you're looking for an extra challenge in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited, try building a Dragon typal deck. There's a cycle of Dragonstorms that let you replay them after a Dragon you control enters, giving you extra value from Tarkir's mightiest denizens.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm offers an intense and engaging Limited format where players harness all three colors of their clans. To help you play all those colors, they have included several cards—two-color lands, three-color lands, and mana rocks (mana-generating artifacts)—that provide an invaluable resource in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited: letting you actually play all your cool cards!
Go big or go home with the Temur as you cast spells from your graveyard through the power of your massive creatures. Harmonize synergizes nicely with the Jeskai's flurry cards and the Sultai's leaves-the-graveyard effects. Cheap, high-power creatures like Sunset Strikemaster can fuel powerful spells like Mammoth Bellow, making for a hard-hitting deck.
If you're looking for an extra challenge in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited, try building a Dragon typal deck. There's a cycle of Dragonstorms that let you replay them after a Dragon you control enters, giving you extra value from Tarkir's mightiest denizens.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm offers an intense and engaging Limited format where players harness all three colors of their clans. To help you play all those colors, they have included several cards—two-color lands, three-color lands, and mana rocks (mana-generating artifacts)—that provide an invaluable resource in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Limited: letting you actually play all your cool cards!
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