Tiny Leaders

Tiny Leaders is a Magic: The Gathering format. Although not officially santionable by Wizards of the coast it is popular with casual plaers. It is a singleton format that uses a Commander and restricts deckbuilding to cards of converted mana cost 3 or less. 

It was conceived in 2013 and has its own list of banned and restricted cards.

Rules

• All cards must have a converted mana cost of 3 or less.
• Each player chooses a legendary creature (or suitable Planeswalker) which is their commander. Decks may use other legendary creatures as well. Partner commanders are only legal if their combined color identities are less than four total colors.
• Decks must have a color identity that is a subset of the color identity of their general. The color identity of a card is composed of every colored mana symbol that appears on that card — whether in the mana cost or the rules text.
• Except for basic lands, players may not use more than one copy of any given card unless stated otherwise on the card itself.
• Each deck must contain exactly 50 cards including the General, and may additionally have a sideboard with a maximum of 10 cards
• Players start with 20 life.
• Each player's starting hand size (before mulligans) is 8 minus the number of cards in their command zone (meaning 7 cards for regular commander or 6 cards for Partner commanders).

Realms of Story

 

Our commander nights run every Thursday from 7pm through until 10pm. They are great fun, a great way to meet new people and great value (they are FREE to attend).

Next Thursday (14th) the evening will be even better, because you will get to be part of a great story too!!

There will be the opportunity to join in with the Wilds of Eldraine Commander Party.

Everyone that attends with get a special promo card which is Syr Konrad, the Grim. He would make an excellent commander with the following rules text ... 

"Legendary Creature — Human Knight. Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. : Each player mills a card."

Players will also have the opportunity to use the take part in the "The Realm of Story"

Once the first commander is cast players can change the story and reveal global abilities that effect all players such as ...

If you want to join us for the event, sign up on our website now ... https://www.kdgames.co.uk/booking-calendar/thursday-night-commander?category=d4f465a0-a7ab-49bd-ba3e-6f20cc8f931a&referral=service_list_widget

Art Competition

Our summer art competition has come to a close. There was quite a bit of last minute drawing in our Pokemon Club this morning. We had lots of entries and there were some truly magnificent pictures. Judging was extremely difficult and many thanks to Toxi and Lily for helping me to select the 5 winners.

Everyone that entered got a packet of Scarlet and Violet and the top 5 all got a little extra. Thank you to all the children that took the time to draw their favourite Pokemon, it was really nice to see how creative you could all be.

Here are the entries that we received...

As you can see the standard was very high, but we had to narrow it down to just the top 5, which after a lot of changing minds we eventually did. The final winners were as follows...

Congratulations to Freya, Oscar, Alula, Ren and Rufus. The competition was a great success and we very much hope to do another one on the run up to Christmas.

Pokemon Go Tournament

As part of our recent Battlefield week we ran our first Pokemon Go Tournament. We had six players and we used the Great League format. The players and their teams were as follows...

Jake:            Roselia 1500cp,         Absol 1496cp,              Hypno 1496cp,    

                    Machamp 1495cp,     Tentacruel 1495cp        Vigoroth 1495cp

Alula:          Blastoise 1388cp        Snorlax 1373cp            Raichu 1378cp

                    Persian 1225cp           Togedemaru 1209cp    Torracat 1120cp

Ian:              Tyranitar 1499cp        Charizard 1496cp        Ludicolo 1495cp

                    Stunfish 1494cp          Breloom 1489cp         Aerodactyl 1484cp

Olly:            Charizard 1372cp        Manitine 1499cp        Snorlax 1454cp

                    Jolteon 1425cp            Armadilo 1341cp        Aerodactyl 1337cp

Barnaby:     Charizard 1494cp        Zebstrika 1491cp        Aerodactyl 1487cp

                    Blastoise 1476cp         Lapras 1476cp            Hitmonchan 1470cp

Ren:            Raichu 1486cp             Aerodactyl 1471cp     Celebi 1417cp

                    Lapras 1406cp             Golem 1485cp           Toxicrok 1467cp

 

MTG 'Conquest' Store Championship.

This Sunday as part of our 'Conquest' event we will be running the postponed Store Championship for Lord of the Rings. 

The event will be 'standard' format. It will start at 2pm and will be held in the function room in the Crown and Anchor which is next door to the shop. 

Entry for the event will be £5. There will be participation cards for everyone which is 'Gifted Aetherborn' plus a prize pack.

The top eight will get a foil 'Eidolon of the Great Revel' and a foil 'Saruman of Many Colors' for the overall winner.

You can book a place at this event by using the following link... https://www.kdgames.co.uk/booking-calendar/kd-games-store-championship?category=d4f465a0-a7ab-49bd-ba3e-6f20cc8f931a&referral=service_list_widget

Pokemon Series 3 Prize Packs and beyond!

The new season of Pokemon Prize packs is almost here. We will start handing them out from Tuesday the 15th August and the season will last all the way through the next 6 months until 14th February 2024.

Both our junior league and masters league events will operate as they did this series. This means that when players attend one of our junior Pokemon clubs they can record up to 2 games played on our club leader board and when they get to the stars (at the ninth and tenth games played) get given a prize pack. 

At our masters night which is every other Friday from 7pm, players will have a choice of playing casually for free or paying £5 entry fee to receive one prize pack.

All Pokemon Rocks that are handed in to the shop after 14th August will be rewarded with the new series 3 packs as well.

As a special celebration of the Pokemon World Championship 2023, which is being held in Yokohama from August 11th - 13th, we will be running a special free event on Saturday 12th August at 2pm. Every player that attends will get a free series 3 prize pack a few days early and the winners in each age group will get extra packs. This is free to anyone that wants to come, but they will need to register online and have a standard deck to be able to play. There will be no championship points awarded for this event.

The first sanctioned event that we will be running where the series 3 packs will be issued is our League Challenge which is on the 19th August (spaces are limited) and there will be an additional chance to get packs at our Gym Leader Challenge which is being held as part of Conquest Sunday at the end of the month.

Gambit Sunday Review

Last Sunday was Gambit Sunday at KD Games. A it was a great day enjoyed by both experienced club veterans and new players alike.

After setting up the initial scenery there was a pause for a brief coffee and chat.

Following that battle commenced with some Kill Team with Space Marines taking on the Sisters of Battle and a small 500 point game of Age of Sigmar. 

We also had a few people arrive that were keen to learn how to play Pokemon TCG which we were happy to teach.

There was a good amount of Bloodbowl being played as well as the alternative versions of dungeon bowl and gutter bowl. 

The afternoon was broken up with a simple game of Bag of Dungeon with is made by Gunpowder Studios who will hopefully be with us for the Conquest Sunday at the end of August. 

Then it was back to Kill Team and Age of Sigmar for most of the afternoon's remaining battles.

The day finished with a game if Warcry played on the very first scenery we had set up in the morning!

It was a good say with a great atmosphere.  In total there were 14 players with a great mix of young players and experienced players. Good to see several new faces as well. I look forward to the mid month one in Sunday. A full list of Sunday dates can be found on our website.