L.A. Mood's June Heroclix Schedule
All events Begin at 6:30pm

As per the new usual if changes are needed to Schedule they will be posted.

June 2, SuperHero Olympics Again (for those that want it)
Build a team of 5 figures, one for each event, point Limit of 1000
Prizes: To be announced

June 8, Ye olde Fan Favorite
Build a team of 1000 pts,
Prizes: To be announced

June 16, This One Leads
Build a team of 600 pts, must have at least one character over 150 points
Prizes: To be announced

June 30, American Substitution
Buy 1 or 2 Captain America Gravity Boosters, and replace at least one figure on your team with one of those Figures, 400 build total
Prizes: To be announced

L.A. Mood House Rules
1. Purple Rings are legal, and no figures are retired
2. No Battlefield Conditions
3. Feats can only being used on figures with Red, Blue Yellow or Purple Rings

Upcoming: The New Phyrexia Game Day Extravaganza!

Hello, Magic players!

As you know, one month following a set's release is the set's Game Day. This June 12th, join me and your fellow players at L.A. Mood to compete for prizes and glory in a New Phyrexia Standard event!

When: Sunday, June 12th. 10:00 am registration, 11:00 am start time.

Entry Requirements: One (1) Standard-legal deck and sideboard. Decklist required, and required for eligibility for the factionalized deck prizes. No entry fee.

Format: Swiss rounds with no cut to Top 8. Top 8 prizes are awarded based on standings after the Swiss rounds.

Prizes: All participants receive a copy of the participation prize: The impressive full-art Priest of Urabrask (while supplies last)

Top 8 finishers will also receive a copy of the enormous full-art Myr Superion.


New Phyrexia's game day will once again feature factionalized decks! The top two placements with a factionalized deck (min. 10 cards of one faction and no cards of the other) will also receive a copy of Myr Superion!

In addition, New Phyrexia Game Day will again feature two exciting side events: $15 Keep-What-You-Draft 8-4 NPH/MBS/SOM Drafts, and $15 Standard Win-A-Box 8-man queues!

In order to help ensure the side events fire, I'm strongly encouraging everyone to e-mail me ahead of time to "pre-queue" for a side event. Pre-queuing doesn't cost you a penny and there's no commitment to play - it's simply expressing your interest in drafting or Win-A-Box events so I can offer clear numbers to other interested players on Game Day! All entrants into side events will receive an additional copy of Priest of Urabrask and the first-place finisher will receive a copy of Myr Superion! (while supplies last).

As always, questions, comments and suggestions can be e-mailed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com. Pre-queue requests too!

Magic: The Gathering June Schedule of Events!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I had the dates for Game Day and Commander Launch Reversed! Check below for the correct dates!

Hey everyone! June is nearly upon us and in order to keep everyone up-to-date, here's a list of all of our regularly scheduled events for Magic, and few special events to boot!

Friday, June 3rd - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, Standard-legal decks required. No entry fee.
Sunday, June 5th - Sunday EDH Madness! 12:30 pm start time, bring your favorite EDH deck and duke it out for prizes or merely for glory! Pauper and Casual play available at all times. No entry fee.
Monday, June 6th - Monday Night Drafting! 6:15 pm start time. NPH/MBS/SOM or NPH/NPH/SOM or 3x NPH format based on player requests. $12 entry fee. Rare re-draft prize structure.

Friday, June 10th - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, Standard-legal decks required. No entry fee.
Sunday, June 12th - New Phyrexia Game Day! 11:00 am start time, Standard-legal deck required. No entry fee. Prizes available for participation and for victory!
Monday, June 13th - Monday Night Drafting! 6:15 pm start time. NPH/MBS/SOM or NPH/NPH/SOM or 3x NPH format based on player requests. $12 entry fee. Rare re-draft prize structure.

Friday, June 17th - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, Standard-legal decks required. No entry fee.
Sunday, June 19th - MTG: Commander Launch Party! 11:00 am start time, Commander-legal deck PROVIDED with entry fee. $30 entry fee. Prizes available!
Monday, June 20th - Monday Night Drafting! 6:15 pm start time. NPH/MBS/SOM or NPH/NPH/SOM or 3x NPH format based on player requests. $12 entry fee. Rare re-draft prize structure.

Friday, June 24th - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, Standard-legal decks required. No entry fee.
Sunday, June 26th - Sunday EDH Madness! 12:30 pm start time, bring your favorite EDH deck and duke it out for prizes or merely for glory! Pauper and Casual play available at all times. No entry fee.
Monday, June 27th - Monday Night Drafting! 6:15 pm start time. NPH/MBS/SOM or NPH/NPH/SOM or 3x NPH format based on player requests. $12 entry fee. Rare re-draft prize structure.

June's FNM promo foil is the Bant role-player Rhox War Monk! A solid return on a mere three-mana investment, he's a great dude to play in any Green/White/Blue Commander deck.



Be on the lookout for upcoming posts describing the MTG: Commander Launch and the New Phyrexia Game Day events in greater detail!

As always, quesstions, concerns and comments can be mailed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com

Magic Schedule for May, 2011

Hello, everyone! Keeping you updated with a schedule of events for Magic at L.A. Mood. Special announcements at the end of this post, so read all the way!

The schedule for May, 2011 is as follows:

Friday, May 13th - FNM! This is the very first FNM where New Phyrexia cards are Standard-legal, so stock up on our singles before heading to our tournament! 6:15 pm start time, no entry fee.
Sunday, May 15th - New Phyrexia Release tournament! Head down to LA Mood at 10:00 to register for our Sealed Deck Release Tournament. 11:00 am start time, $27 entry fee, booster packs and Phyrexian Metamorph promotional card provided.



Monday, May 16th - Monday Night Draft! Two formats available - NPH/NPH/SOM, or NPH/MBS/SOM, based on player requests. 6:15 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Friday, May 20th - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, no entry fee.
Sunday, May 22nd - Sunday Casual! This will be the debut of our brand-new all-multiplayer EDH format - keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming announcement! All decks welcome. 12:15 pm start time, no entry fee.

Monday, May 23rd - Monday Night Draft! Two formats available - NPH/NPH/SOM, or NPH/MBS/SOM, based on player requests. 6:15 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Friday, May 27th - FNM! 6:15 pm start time, no entry fee.
Sunday, May 29th - Sunday Casual! EDH Multiplayer, Pauper, and even some L5R! All decks welcome. 12:15 pm start time, no entry fee.

May's FNM Prize foil is the outstanding avian sword-bearer, Squadron Hawk!

Don't forget, MTG: Commander release and Launch Party are rapidly approaching! Check out all the details in this post here.

Also upcoming is New Phyrexia's Game Day, sure to be a lot of fun! June 12th at LA Mood!

Also, a reminder that it's never to early to pre-order upcoming promotional sets like FTV: Legends or Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Bolas. All pre-orders will be honored, and promotions (such as our special offer on MTG: Commander) will always be retroactively applied to any existing pre-orders.

As always, questions, comments and suggestions can be directed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com.

See you at the release!

HeroClix Event Date Update

Hey Everyone due to last minute changes at my job

May 12, SuperHero Olympics is now tomorrow May 11 at 6:30pm!
Build a team of up to 1000 pts and 5 figures, one for each event
Prizes: To be announced

Sorry for the short notice!

L.A. Mood's May Heroclix Schedule
All events Begin at 6:30pm

I Hope everyone Had a great Free Comic Book Day!

With May the new Rules are in effect, if you need to download the new Rulesbook it's found here
http://wizkidsgames.com/v3/products/heroclix/downloads/2011HeroClixCoreRulebook.pdf

and the new Powers and Abilites Cards is here
http://wizkidsgames.com/v3/products/heroclix/downloads/2011HeroClixPAC.pdf

A new House rule is also being implemented as well... Feats will still be allowed, but can only be played on older figures with Red, Blue, Yellow and Purple Rings. any of the newer figs (Avengers set forward) may not have feats attached to them.

Please ask away if you have any questions about the new rules.

lastly If Changes to the Schedule, occur, the Changes will be posted on this Blog and L.A Mood's Facebook page

May 12, SuperHero Olympics
Build a team of up to 1000 pts and 5 figures, one for each event
Prizes: To be announced

May 19, Tournament Standard
Build a team of 300 pts,
Prizes: To be announced

may 26, Colossal Battle Royals
Buy a Giant X-Men Super Booster, and plan in 3 Battle Royals
Prizes: To be announced


L.A. Mood House Rules
1. Purple Rings are legal, and no figures are retired
2. No Battlefield Conditions
3. Feats can only being used on figures with Red, Blue Yellow or Purple Rings

Free Comic Book Day, May 7 2011

Fantastic faces!
Super costumes!

A great day to celebrate for the young,

and for the older kids!



Thank you to Richard for signing and giving out his comic on FCBD!



Thanks to all the customers who patiently waited in lines!


And thanks to the great staff, who made it run so smoothly!

Command Your Forces with Magic: The Gathering: Commander!

Hello, Fellow EDH Lovers!

L.A. Mood is proud to announce a special promotion for the upcoming Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander sets! Set for a June 17, 2011 release, each of the five sets features a 100-card deck and three brand-new, foiled generals for each Magic "Wedge" (A color combined with its two enemy colors - for example, Green with Blue and Black), as well as 51 brand-new, never-seen-before, Eternal-legal, Commander-focused cards!

Each set comes with an MSRP of $29.95, but if you pre-order all five sets, we'll give you them for the price of four, a 20% discount!

Pre-orders are available now; in addition, I have a limited number of Japanese-language Commander sets available for pre-order, so act fast! First come, first serve.

For more information about the MTG: Commander sets, along with links to the official Wizards website and announcements, click here.

If you have no idea what Commander is, but think this all sounds terribly exciting, a quick primer on Commander can be found here.

Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement regarding our special Commander Launch Party on June 19th!


As always, questions, comments and suggestions can be directed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com

photo Kyle Rea, Metro News

Free Comic Book Day in the news!!

Metro News

The Londoner

Saturday, May 7th, 10AM - 6PM

See you there!!!

More info here.

New Phyrexia: The Prerelease

The Grand Work has been completed! Come celebrate the utter subjugation of the Plane of Mirrodin at L.A. Mood this Sunday, May 8th, for our New Phyrexia Prerelease Sealed Tournament!

Format: Sealed Deck. 3 Boosters of Scars of Mirrodin and 3 Boosters of New Phyrexia are provided; from this, construct a deck with a minimum of 40 cards. The rest of your cards are your Sideboard for the duration of the tournament. Lands are provided.

Rounds: Swiss rounds with a cut to top 8. Feature Matches available each round!

Time: Sunday, May the 8th (Mother's Day!). Registration opens at 10:00 am. The Tournament begins at 11:00 am.

Cost: $27, payable at the door.

Rules and Enforcement: This Prerelease is run at 8k, Regular Rules Enforcement Level - same as an FNM.

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This tournament will feature Pool Registration and Random Checks to ensure that your deck only contains cards from your pool. Pool Registration will be done at the start of the tournament, and will consist of:

1) Opening your booster packs and noting the contents on the provided pool registration sheet.

2) Passing the contents of the packs, along with the registration sheet, to be double-checked by another player (determined by seating).

The Random Checks consist of:

1) Randomly selecting players at the beginning of a round and briefly examining their deck to ensure only cards registered in their pool are in their decks.

There is NO Deck Registration. You are free to change the details of your deck in between rounds as much as you like, provided you are only using cards registered to your personal pool.

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In addition to all of the above, generous prizes are available to our top-placing participants (Top 8/Top16 based on attendance) and each and every player will receive a free promotional copy of the outstanding Sheoldred, the Whispering One, a card that practically shouts "Put me in your EDH deck!"

Wow!

Don't forget, questions, comments and concerns can be directed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com, 24/7!

Saturday, May 7th from 10AM -6PM
Free Comic Book Day &
Comic Shop Crossover!

Come on down and pick up your free comic! yes Free Comic!!



Check out our fabulous sales and our bargain basement! Stock up on your summer cottage reading or even start your Christmas shopping early, there will be something to please everyone!



Pick up a passport to get a chance to win one of many fabulous prizes donated by these amazing stores:
L.A. Mood Comics & Games
Heroes
Comic Book Collector
Neo Tokyo
Worlds Away
Visit these 5 stores and the Central Branch of the London Public Library and get your passport stamped at each place, and drop your ballot off at the last stop for the draws! Winners will be announced on Monday May 9th, 2011.

The Library will be hosting the first official FCBD Costume Contest at 2:30 PM, open to all ages, register before 2:15PM. Prizes will be awarded in various age categories. $50 in gift certificates and Downtown Dollars for Best in Show in each category, $10 gift certificates for 2nd prizes in each category and graphic novels for the runners up! Prizes donated by the Comic Shop Crossover stores!

Taz from FM96 will be at L.A.Mood's for a live remote from 11AM to 1PM!

New Phyrexia Buy-A-Box Update

A reminder to all of our Magic players that the last day to pre-order boxes of New Phyrexia with us is April 28th, 2011, this Friday! Make sure to pre-order today or tomorrow to take advantage of our pre-order promotion - a full box of New Phyrexia for a mere $100!

Four copies of the buy-a-box promotional card "Surgical Extraction" remain to be claimed! First come, first serve!

As always, questions, comments and concerns can be directed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com

HeroClix Event Date Update

The April 28 event, One Man Army is now Wednesday April 27
Build a team of one figure up to 400 pts,
Prizes: Limited Edition Karima Figure

Thank you for Your Patience

HeroClix Event Date Update

The April 21, Marvel Vs DC event is now on April 20th due to schedule conflict

Build a team of 700 pts, You team must include one figure each from Marvel and DC
Prizes: Limited Edition Archangel Figure

Thank you for Your Patience

NEW THIS WEEK
T-shirts:
-New Green Lantern, Superman, Deadpool, and glow-in-the-dark Ghostbusters!
-kids' and youths' shirts: Star Wars and Venom
Trades/Paperbacks:
-reprint of D&Q's I Never Liked You
-Stephen King's N.-Sense & Sensibility tp
-Safe Area Gorazde re-stock

Comics:
-Journey into Mystery #622

Games:
-Munchkin games re-stock

Don't forget about Record Store Day tomorrow!
Special releases (limited quantities!):
Rush- Caravan/Bu2B 7"
Green Day/Husker Du Split 7"
AC/DC- Shoot to Thrill/War Mac 7"
Bad Brains- Pay to Cum 7"
Urge Overkill- Effigy/Smokehouse 7"
Bad Brains- God of Love LP & 7"
Introduction to Syd Barrett LP
Foo Fighters- Medium Rare LP

Live Music Performances between 2pm and 6pm, including:
Mark Kulmala (3:15pm)
The Sate Bird of Idaho (4pm)
Mr. Eman (4:45pm)

L.A. Mood is proud to announce all the details for the upcoming National Qualifier Tournament!

Hello, Magic players of all of London! As you've likely heard by now, L.A. Mood has been selected to hand out to one lucky player a personal invitation to compete in the Canadian National Magic Championships!

So, how are we to decide on which player to send to this prestigious event? With a gentlemanly Standard Tournament, of course! Our National Qualifier Tournament is being held on Saturday, April 23rd. Registration opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 10:45 a.m., with the tournament beginning strictly at 11:00 a.m.

The Main Event!

Entry into our Tournament is a $10 fee, payable at the door. This $10 fee included both the cost of entry and a free lunch voucher for Los Comales, good for one Burrito or Chimichanga and a side of fries.

All players will be required to submit the following to the tournament organizer (myself) at time of entry:

- One (1) complete, legibly written or typed decklist detailing the exact name and number of each of the cards in your deck and sideboard, which must each be 60 and 15 cards, respectively.

Failure to submit a decklist may result in your expulsion from the tournament.

Important! This tournament is 32K and run at a Competitive REL. This means that the rules of Magic will be strictly enforced, including the time limit of 50 minutes per round!

The tournament is Swiss Rounds, like a Standard FNM, with Top 4 or Top 8 playoffs depending on attendance. Playoffs have no time limit but players are expected to maintain a reasonable pace of play.

In addition to the National Invition, Top 8 or Top 16 finishers (depending on attendance) will be eligible for additional prizes!

Side Events!

So long as store product supplies and interest exists, Side Events will be run throughout the day. These Side Events will consist of:

1) 8-man Standard Single-Elimination Win-A-Box.

2) 8-man MBS/SOM/SOM Draft Single-Elimination tournaments with 8-4 draft payout.

All Side event entry fees are $15. Sealed product and lands are provided for Draft side events. Side Events will begin as soon as table space has been secured for the expected duration of the event.

And that's it! Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or comments regarding this exciting Magic opportunity! lamoodmagic@gmail.com

Magic: The Gathering: The (Very, very belated) Schedule of Events for April!

Hello, all! My April post is shamefully late, but nevertheless here. I am extremely happy to see everyone made it through the first few uncertain weeks safe and sound, and I am here again to guide us through the rest of April. Check the bottom of this post for exciting information regarding New Phyrexia Pre-orders!

The schedule for the rest of April is as follows:

Friday, April 15th- FNM, Standard. No entry fee, start time 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, April 17th - Casual Sunday Madness! Come try out your crazy EDH, Pauper, and what-have you concoctions! No entry fee, open gaming from 12:15 p.m. onward.

Monday, April 18th - Monday Night Drafting! $12 entry fee, three boosters and land provided. Start time 6:15 p.m. Rare Re-draft.

Friday, April 22nd - FNM, Standard. No Entry fee, start time 6:15 p.m. This is the last chance for you to test out that awesome Standard deck you'll be trying to win your National Invitation with!

Saturday, April 23rd - L.A. Mood's National Qualifier Tournament! Full details posted in a separate post. $10 entry fee, includes a lunch voucher for Los Comales, our next-door Latin Restaurant. Standard-legal deck required, 11:00 a.m. start.

Sunday, April 24th - Sunday Madness is CANCELED for this week. Enjoy your Easter!

Monday, April 25th - Monday Night Drafting! $12 entry fee, three boosters and land provided. Start time 6:15 p.m.

Friday, April 29th - FNM, Standard. No Entry fee, start time 6:15 p.m.

As many of you have seen, our FNM prize foil for this month is Artisan of Kozilek, with a snazzy new FNM foil layout and watermark and simply spectacular art!

BONUS! For all of our New Phyrexia Buy-A-Box Preorders, we are offering a very special deal for the release weekend: Pre-ordering a box and picking it up by Monday, May 16th entitles you not just to the promotional card "Surgical Extraction", but also a special release-weekend-only-price of a mere $100 per box, taxes included! Wow!

And, for the curious, Surgical Extraction looks like this:

Pre-order your box today!

Check in my next post for the full details of our National Tournament Qualifier!

NEW THIS WEEK:

Games! Sales!
-Reduced price Agricola games while quantities last:
-Agricola
-Agricola Farmers of the Moor-Agricola The Goodies
-Agricola Gamers DeckTrades/Paperbacks:
-Boys Vol 8 TP Highland Laddie-Marvel Zombies TP Vol 5
-Grimm Fairy Tales TP Vol 9

Ultimate Marvel TP Sale!!
-Check out our selection of Ult Spider-Man and Ult X_Men TP's at $5-$10 each!

...and don't forget to keep your Saturday, April 16th afternoon free for RECORD STORE DAY!!! Send this facebook invite to your friends!

L.A. Mood's April Heroclix Schedule
All events Begin at 6:30pm

Due to my new Job there may be Changes to the Schedule, if that occurs The Changes will be posted on this Blog and L.A Mood's Facebook page

April 7, Wave of Next?
Build a team of 500 pts
Prizes: Limited Edition Deadpool figure

April 14, Tournament Standard
Build a team of 300 pts No Feats
Prizes: Limited Edition Crimson Gem of Cyttorak Object

April 21, Marvel Vs DC
Build a team of 700 pts, You team must include one figure each from Marvel and DC
Prizes: Limited Edition Archangel Figure

April 28, One Man Army
Build a team of one figure up to 400 pts,
Prizes: Limited Edition Karima Figure


L.A. Mood House Rules
1. Purple Rings are legal, and no figures are retired
2. No Battlefield Conditions
3. Keyword teams effects are back in effect

NEW THIS WEEK!!!
Games:
-Battletech Into Box Set
-Munchkin Zombies-Nightfall Deck Building Game
-Resident Evil Deck Building Game

-MTG: Knights vs Dragons Duel Decks
-Restock: 7 Wonders

Comics:
-Dollhouse Epitaphs 1-shot

-Godzilla #1