Tony Ames Successfully Defends Magic The Gathering Singles Championship!

Last night in a heated day of Magic the Gathering at Empire Entertainment, it was Tony Ames who, in his first title defense since taking it from Wolf-Man Friday, would ultimately defeat store owner James Seagraves in the finals.

Since there were only 6 players, a conventional tournament wasn’t possible. Instead, a round robin tournament was created. If Tony Ames won the tournament, it would be considered a title defense and a chaos game would be held to determine a number one contender for next week. If someone else won, they would get the title shot. While Tonyames went an impressive 4-1, James also went 4-1, rebounding after a mana-screwed loss to Wolf-Man in the first match. While the contest was much anticipated and highly hyped, Tonyames and his Real American theme music would triumph over James in a fairly quick match. Wolf-Man went 3-2, his championship hopes ending after a mana-screw loss to Foreman, who also was 3-2 and had his championship hopes dashed by a mana-screwed loss to James. Poofy-Haired Paul and the Magic Man would each go 1-4.

With this win, Tony Ames proves he is not a transitional champion, and has broken the record for most successful title defenses, with…1. However, will he be able to continue his streak of dominance Saturday when he must partially rely on Foreman in order to successfully defend their tag team titles? Stop in on Saturday to find out!

Empire Entertainment Crowns Magic Tag Team Champions!!!

eptember 8th was a night that will go down in Empire Entertainment history! It was the night that we held our first ever tournament for the newly created Empire Entertainment Tag Team Championship belt! 8 people showed up, and we decided that as opposed to going by store ranking for teams, we would just randomly determine the teams by having each player select a random land card, and the two who’s cards were the same were on a team. Here’s how the teams ended up:

Team 1 : Jason “Magic-Man” Heckel and Travis “Wolf-Man” Schilling

Wolf-Man was using his trusty white deck with flanking, while Magic was using a newly created white deck that I never really got to see much of.

Team 2: Tony Ames and Jason Foreman

Tony Ames was using a black and blue deck, while Foreman (suprisingly) was not using his elf and platinum angel deck. He instead used a newly constructed black deck.

Team 3: James L. Seagraves and Tyler “Giggles” Miller

James was using the newly revised Traumatize deck, and Giggles was using a newly created blue and white deck.

Team 4: Paul “Poofy Head Paul” Lewis and Nate “Staz” Nastase.

Paul was playing with some black contraption of his, whiel Staz was using a white (and potentially lethal) rebel deck.

Here’s how the matches broke down:

Round 1:

Magic and Wolfman defeated James and Giggles – barely
Foreman and Ames defeated Poofy and Staz

Round 2:

James and Giggles defeated Poofy and Staz – barely
Foreman and Ames defeated Magic and Wolfman

Round 3:

Foreman and Ames defeated James and Giggles – barely
Magic and Wolfman defeated Poof and Staz

In the end, it was Tony Ames and Jason Foreman who went undefeated, thus claiming the tag team title. James and Giggles nearly beat them though, which would have caused a 3 way tie for the best record; thus meaning a 3 way 2 on 2 on 2 match would have been scheduled.

All in all it was a great evening for Hudson, Michigan. Next weekend look for a similar contest to determine the #1 contenders for the title, and soon after that there will be a title match!

Empire Entertainment’s Magic The Gathering Results – September 2nd, 2007:

Despite the fact that our store wasn’t even supposed to be open, we ended up having an on the fly round robin tournament last night, and, just as he did during our last official round robin tournament – Wolf-Man (aka Travis Schilling) went undefeated against four other competitors.

Here were the decks being used last night:

Wolf-Man: White deck – flanking – many low cost creatures – Gaze of Justice

Tony Ames: Green and White deck – all flyers almost – tons of enchantments – Glorius Anthem mass production

James L. Seagraves – Newly created all red deck – no sorceries or instants – all creatures with firebreathing and defenders – pumpable to the max.

Jason Foreman – the dreaded elf deck that spits out mass insect tokens – blanchwood armor – thornweald archer / lure combo – and oh ya, that damned Platinum Angel.

Samwise Brown – Don’t even know what this kid was playing with, but whatever it was wasn’t built properly – as NOBODY saw hardly any creatures. We think it may have been white and green, but we’re not sure.

Wolf-Man made quick work of Tony Ames, Jason Foreman, Samwise Brown, and James L. Seagraves in 1 on 1 contests, raising his Empire Entertainment Magic ranking very close to that of John Macey’s.

Tony Ames went 1 and 3, defeating only Samwise Brown. The game between James and him was extremely close however.

Jason Foreman used his elf/platinum angel deck, which was brutal as usual in 1 on 1 play, as he went 3 and 1, losing only to Wolf-Man.

James L. Seagraves went 2 and 2, defeating both Tony Ames and Samwise, but losing to Wolf-Man and Foreman. Despite losing to Wolf-Man in a ranked game, he challenged him to an unranked rematch and narrowly defeated him. But, as it was an unranked game, nobody cared!

Samwise Brown went 0-4, as he really needs some help building a deck. He’s still looking for his first ranked victory, and nobody has any idea when that might come.

Empire Entertainment Gets New Shipment Of Tenth Edition Magic Cards!

They’re in! More booster packs for all of the citizens of Hudson, Michigan to enjoy! Empire Entertainment recieved their new shipment of Magic The Gathering Tenth Edition cards this morning, so come in quickly and get them before they’re sold out again!

Stop in to Empire Entertainment 200 1/2 E. Main Street in Hudson, Michigan today to pick them up! Or give us a call at 517-448-3674 and have us hold you some!

Magic The Gathering Results – July 28th, 2007

Today’s Magic the Gathering game was a bit of a disappointment in terms of turnout, but the veteran players took the opportunity to capitalize on the low turnout by offering key lessons for the novice Magic players in the area.

Today only four players showed up at Empire Entertainment to play Magic: Tony Ames, Eric Clark, Cody Halsey, and James L. Seagraves. Cody and Eric have only been playing the game for a couple of weeks, so Tony and James decided that this weekend would be a great opportunity to show them a few things.

The first game was a true David Vs. Goliath story, as Tony Ames and James Seagraves teamed up against the two newcomers. James was playing his famous blue and black deck with only four creatures, while Tony Ames was playing a much more normal deck. While Seagraves was drawing dead, searching desperately for a swamp to come up, he did manage to get a couple of psychic venom’s on the opponents lands, rendering them almost useless. While James was busy handcuffing the opponent’s lands, Tony provided the creature support. In the end, it was an “early frost” that forced Eric to tap both of his psychic venom cursed lands, dealing the final four damage and killing them both.

In the second game, Ames teamed up with Halsey, and Seagraves with Clark. Seagraves changed decks this time around and went with his newly constructed blue and white deck. Seagraves not only took control of most of Ames’ creatures with the Rootwater Matriarch, he also Traumatized him, causing Tony to throw half of his deck into his graveyard. Seagraves and Clark proved to be far to tough for the Halsey and Ames, as they stomped them rather quickly.

In the final game, Ames and Clark took on Seagraves and Halsey, and everyone used the same exact decks. This one was the closest of the battles, as Tony Ames broke out the infamous “Ninja Cats,” (Nacatl War Pride,) and Clark broke out heavily enchanted Razertooth Rats (which had fear, thus no creatures could block them on the other side.) Those two creatures caused a ton of damage to the other team, and by the time Seagraves finally broke out his Rootwater Matriarch, it was too late, as he could not steal both the Nacatl War Pride AND the heavily enchanted Razertooth Rats. Ames attacked with the War Pride, and it was all over.

The Nacatl War-Pride proved too much for Seagraves in the final game!

So, despite the fact that hardly anyone showed up to the event this Saturday, it was at least a good chance for some new players to learn some advanced strategies, and get a good look at some highly powerful (and highly expensive) Magic Cards.

Wednesday, August 1st will be the next organized Magic game at Empire Entertainment. If you’re anywhere near Hudson, Michigan, stop on in!