CCG Schedule for April 2012

Hello, Magic and L5R players!  Thank you all for your feedback!  Our $2 FNM entry fee has been warmly welcomed and we will be continuing it for April!

Also changing is our Casual night - now being held on Wednesdays each night as opposed to Sundays, get over humpday by bashing heads with your friends in the L.A. Mood Underground, 6:30 p.m. and onward.

As a reminder, the formats for FNM are as follows:

FNM Standard - 

Start Time 6:30; 
Entry Fee $2; 
Swiss Rounds; 
Prizes consist of 3 booster packs for every four entrants, distributed 30%-20%-20%-10%-5%-5%-5%-5% to the Top 8 finishers, rounded down to a minimum of one, with remainders going to the top two players.  FNM foils distributed to the Top 2 players automatically.


FNM Drafts -  
Start Time approx. 8:30 (after two rounds of Standard); 
Entry Fee $10; 
Keep What You Draft; 
Swiss Rounds;
Latest Draft Format (e.g., currently DA/INN/INN); 
Prizes consist of 3/2/1/1 booster pack prizes (based on 8 players) to the Top 4 and FNM foils distributed to the Top 2 players automatically.


The schedule for the month of April follows:


Saturday, March 31st - Infinite Magic at L.A. Mood! Free 8-man Standard and Modern Constructed queues and $12 8-man Rare Re-draft DKA/INN/INN Drafts available starting at 12:00 pm and going until interest wanes.  Get those last few Planeswalker Points for the Nationals Cutoff!
Monday, April 2nd - Monday Night Draft! DKA/INN/INN. 6:30 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Tuesday, April 3rd - L5R Players - They're Finally Here!  Event details at this link.
Wednesday, April 4th - Casual Magic!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  All formats welcome!
Friday, April 6th - FNM! Standard-legal deck required. 6:30 pm start time, $2 entry fee.  $10 3-2-1-1 draft available at 8:30 pm.
Saturday, April 7th - Modern Tournament at L.A. Mood!  Event details at this link.


Monday, April 9th - Monday Night Draft! DKA/INN/INN. 6:30 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Tuesday, April 10th - Casual L5R!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  Emperor-Edition deck recommended.
Wednesday, April 11th - Casual Magic!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  All formats welcome!
Friday, April 13th - FNM! Standard-legal deck required. 6:30 pm start time, $2 entry fee.  $10 3-2-1-1 draft available at 8:30 pm.
Sunday, April 15th - L5R Emperor Edition Constructed Tournament!  Event details at this link.


Monday, April 16th - Monday Night Draft! DKA/INN/INN. 6:30 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Tuesday, April 17th - Casual L5R!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  Emperor-Edition deck recommended.
Wednesday, April 18th - Casual Magic!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  All formats welcome!
Friday, April 20th - FNM! Standard-legal deck required. 6:30 pm start time, $2 entry fee.  $10 3-2-1-1 draft available at 8:30 pm.
Saturday, April 21st - Modern Tournament at L.A. Mood!  Event details at this link.
Sunday, April 22nd -  L5R Emperor Edition Draft Tournament!  Event details at this link.


Monday, April 23rd - Monday Night Draft! DKA/INN/INN. 6:30 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Tuesday, April 24th - Casual L5R!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  Emperor-Edition deck recommended.
Wednesday, April 25th - Casual Magic!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  All formats welcome!
Friday, April 27th - FNM! Standard-legal deck required. 6:30 pm start time, $2 entry fee.  $10 3-2-1-1 draft available at 8:30 pm.
ALSO Friday, April 27th:  Avacyn Restored Midnight Prerelease!  Event details at this link.
Sunday, April 29th - Avacyn Restored Sunday Prerelease!  Event details at this link.


Monday, April 30th - Monday Night Draft! DKA/INN/INN. 6:30 pm start time, $12 entry fee, rare re-draft.
Tuesday, May 1st - Casual L5R!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  Emperor-Edition deck recommended.
Wednesday, May 2nd - Casual Magic!  6:30 pm start time, no entry fee.  All formats welcome!
Thursday, May 3rd - Avacyn Restored Midnight Launch and Midnight Premium Draft!  Details at this link.
Friday, May 4th - FNM! Standard-legal deck required. 6:30 pm start time, $2 entry fee.  $10 3-2-1-1 draft available at 8:30 pm.  Avacyn Restored is legal for this FNM event.  Draft Event will be AVR/AVR/AVR.
Sunday, May 6thth - L5R Embers of War Release Tournament!  Event details at this link.


April FNM Prize foil is Dismember!!!  That's right, three exclamation points!  I'm super-excited!

Also available for players who participate in the April 6th FNM event - this very slick double-faced token card, the Human Wolf!  Or Wolf Human.  Wu-man?  Hum-olf?  I can't decide.

Duel Decks: Venser vs Koth. is in!  It will be on our shelves Friday, March 30th!

Remember that it's never too early to pre-order special sets like Planechase 2 or upcoming Duel and Premium Decks!  We're offering a 20% discount if you preorder all four Planechase 2 decks!

This is the month to preorder Avacyn Restored!  Our preorders are filling up fast and only the first thirty box preorders are eligible for the Buy-A-Box Promo (TBA).  Remember, our preorder price is $100, tax included, and you'll be able to pick up your box at Midnight (12:01 a.m. Friday!)  Also on special:  Avacyn Restored Fat Packs for $30, plus tax, May 4th to 6th only!


L5R players:  Available now for pre-order:  Embers of War!  Our pre-order price for L5R booster boxes has improved to $85 plus tax!


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


See you in the Blind Eternities!

Announcing: The Mirrodin Besieged Release!

Didn't get enough of Mirrodin Besieged at the pre-release? I know I didn't! So I'm doing it all again this Sunday!

It is my pleasure to announce the Mirrodin Besieged Release at L.A. Mood this Sunday, February 6th, starting at 11:00 a.m.

Our format for the event, just like the pre-release, is Sealed Deck, with one difference - the factionalized packs are no more! All participating players will recieve 3 generic Mirrodin Besieged boosters and 3 Scars of Mirrodin boosters, as well as one copy of the release promo, Thopter Assembly (Open the Vaults players rejoice!)

As before, the cost of entry will be $28, and the prizes will remain spectacular!

A few details in advance of the event:

1) Once again, we will be logging the contents of our packs. Hopefully, increased familiarity with the process will keep things speedy!

2) Once again, we will not be registering your eventual decklist. However, there is the possibility of a random deck-check this weekend; I will be checking to ensure that the only cards in your deck are cards listed on your checklist. Once again, the actual decklist is not being checked: only that the deck contains cards from your sealed pool and your sealed pool alone.

3) Other, incremental improvements to the pairing, announcement and seating systems will be in place to continue to provide you the smoothest and easiest release tournament ever, with an absolute minimum of voice cracks.

And that's it! See you on Sunday - try to arrive by 10:30 a.m. in order to keep the event running smoothly! Let's try to beat the pre-release attendance record of 52!

As always, questions, comments and suggestions can be e-mailed to lamoodmagic@gmail.com

Release Party!

Join us at the store on Saturday, February 3, 2007 between 1PM and 4:30 PM, to celebrate the release of D.S. Barrick's Skulsi Thatcher, his new, hand-bound hardcover collection of comic strips! Did I say hand-bound hardcover? Yes indeed! Daniel told me he's sewing/gluing this book together by hand! Guaranteed to be a work of art!

Here at L.A. Mood's we've known Daniel, since he was a talented artist in highschool. He showed much promise with his first self-published comic book The Day I Wrote Watermelon. There were more people down for his title on our membership list than some DC titles at the time, including easily recognized icons such as Wonder Woman and Aquaman! Unfortunately, for his following, Daniel's pursuit of a university degree in the Arts interfered with publishing a regular small press comic. He still is at school, working hard to become a highschool teacher of Art and English, but his efforts in university are paying off for us fans, with a creation of new characters, Skulsi Thatcher and her friends. This esoteric collection of strips, follows Skulsi and her friends around as they make unimportant observations of life. I asked Daniel how he would describe his comic and he replied, "Stealing from Seinfeld, it is a comic about nothing."

Well, I call it art! Daniel will be available between 1 and 4:30 PM, Saturday, February 3rd at the store to sign copies of his book, he might even be persuaded to make a free sketch or two! See you there!