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Magic the Gathering: Secrets of Strixhaven Prerelease 201 – Green Bay West – $45

Gnome West Secrets of Strixhaven

Ahhh the ol’alma mater Strixhaven is once more holding classes. Gnomes Games invites you to go on a tour of the campus and learn the Secrets of Strixhaven in a Magic the Gathering prerelease event!

Class Schedule

Date: Friday, April 17th
Time: Noon
Entry: $45+tax
Class: Secrets of Strixhaven Prerelease 201
Companion Entry code: EZMJ6GN

201 Curriculum Guide:

Secrets of Strixhaven Prerelease 201 at Gnome Games Green Bay West has multiple potential dates and is meant for those who are interested in:

  • Randomly receiving One of Five Secrets of Strixhaven prerelease packs, focusing on one of the five colleges of Strixhaven: Silverquill, Prismari, Witherbloom, Lorehold, and Quandrix!
    • Each Prerelease pack contains: A College-Themed Seeded Booster, Spindown Counter, a bonus Foil Rare or Mythic Rare card and 5 Secrets of Strixhaven Play Boosters.
    • The College-Themed Seeded Booster is themed around one of the five Strixhaven colleges.
  • Building a 40 card minimum deck out of their prerelease pack and basic lands provided by Gnome Games!
  • Playing 3 rounds of Magic the Gathering with the deck made during a 50 minute deckbuilding period.
    • Each round is decided by best 2 of 3 games during a 50 minute time frame.
  • Winning a Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster with each match win!
  • Enjoying the chance to play with the newest cards with the Magic the Gathering community at Gnome Games!

Strixhaven University

Founded over 700 years ago by five spellcasting dragons, Strixhaven University is Arcavios’s premier institution of magical learning, drawing promising young mages from all across the Multiverse to study in its halls.

Strixhaven is divided into five colleges, each with their own campus, faculty, and academic fields of study. Each college focuses on the clash between two opposing colors of mana, exploring the questions and challenges that arise from these dichotomies.

For more information on the colleges, and the lore of the plane of Strixhaven check here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/planeswalkers-guide-to-secrets-of-strixhaven

For more opportunities to play check our calendar at: www.gnomegames.com/events/

It’s Turtle Time! Magic the Gathering Pick-Two Draft at Gnome Games Appleton North!

It's Turtle Time!

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton North for our It’s Turtle Time! Pick-Two Draft event!

Entry: $35*
March 29th at 5pm

Each player will receive 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles booster packs and be added to a pod of four players.
All players begin each game with an emblem with the following rules text:

  • Mutant creatures you control have “Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life.”
  • Ninja spells and spells with sneak you cast cost  less to cast.
  • Turtle creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them

During the draft, players select two cards from each booster before passing the rest.
Pack-1: pass left; Pack-2: pass right; Pack-3: pass left.

After drafting, players build a 40-card deck using their drafted cards plus basic lands.

After completing the draft and building their deck, we will run a two-round tournament! First round with initial pairings, then winners pair off and others play each other. Win-a-match, win-a-pack and players who go 2-0 receive a unique promo card!

Preregister for the event with this code: NMJ3ZP2

Magic the Gathering Open Play Commander Night at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5*

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering Commander Nights!

Every Thursday at 6 PM, come in for open play Commander Nights! Hop into games with friends, or find some new faces to test your decks out with! For $5 of Magic the Gathering related product, you’ll get entered into a randomized race for the chance to win exclusive promo packs and cards. Don’t have a Commander Deck? Check out our Commander Decks for sale in-store!

Players need a Wizards account to qualify for promotional products. Don’t have a Wizards account? Sign up here! Preregister for the event on the Companion app using this code: 86JX28E

What is Magic the Gathering?

Magic is a collectible trading card game of fun-filled, strategic games to play with friends old and new. Welcoming worldbuilders, narrative lovers, and gameplay enthusiasts alike, Magic has something for everyone and countless ways to play. Gathering together is half the fun! Bring along your crew or meet up with some new faces! A Multiverse of adventures awaits you, filled with powerful, unforgettable characters and spells to explore. Test your abilities to think fast and have fun on a battlefield of possibilities! Try new strategies with creative deckbuilding or push your skills to go for the win.

Each of the five colors in Magic represent a different philosophy and a different playstyle. Choose your color(s) to decide which type of land you’ll be drawing resources (mana) from and what type of Magic you’ll wield. Magic the Gathering has several starter products to choose from, including Jumpstart Packs, Beginner Bundles, and more! If you don’t want to learn on your own, check out our Learn to Play: Magic the Gathering events at Gnome Games, hosted every Monday from 6 PM to close!

What is Commander?

The Commander format is all about picking your character and building a deck around them! In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players have a limit of one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic’s history. A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

For more news, events, and more on Magic the Gathering, check out their website!

More Magic the Gathering at Gnome Games is found on our calendar!

Magic the Gathering Open Play Commander Night at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5*

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering Commander Nights!

Every Thursday at 6 PM, come in for open play Commander Nights! Hop into games with friends, or find some new faces to test your decks out with! For $5 of Magic the Gathering related product, you’ll get entered into a randomized race for the chance to win exclusive promo packs and cards. Don’t have a Commander Deck? Check out our Commander Decks for sale in-store!

Players need a Wizards account to qualify for promotional products. Don’t have a Wizards account? Sign up here! Preregister for the event on the Companion app using this code: PPJV6DN

What is Magic the Gathering?

Magic is a collectible trading card game of fun-filled, strategic games to play with friends old and new. Welcoming worldbuilders, narrative lovers, and gameplay enthusiasts alike, Magic has something for everyone and countless ways to play. Gathering together is half the fun! Bring along your crew or meet up with some new faces! A Multiverse of adventures awaits you, filled with powerful, unforgettable characters and spells to explore. Test your abilities to think fast and have fun on a battlefield of possibilities! Try new strategies with creative deckbuilding or push your skills to go for the win.

Each of the five colors in Magic represent a different philosophy and a different playstyle. Choose your color(s) to decide which type of land you’ll be drawing resources (mana) from and what type of Magic you’ll wield. Magic the Gathering has several starter products to choose from, including Jumpstart Packs, Beginner Bundles, and more! If you don’t want to learn on your own, check out our Learn to Play: Magic the Gathering events at Gnome Games, hosted every Monday from 6 PM to close!

What is Commander?

The Commander format is all about picking your character and building a deck around them! In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players have a limit of one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic’s history. A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

For more news, events, and more on Magic the Gathering, check out their website!

More Magic the Gathering at Gnome Games is found on our calendar!

Magic the Gathering Open Play Commander Night at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5*

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering Commander Nights!

Every Thursday at 6 PM, come in for open play Commander Nights! Hop into games with friends, or find some new faces to test your decks out with! For $5 of Magic the Gathering related product, you’ll get entered into a randomized race for the chance to win exclusive promo packs and cards. Don’t have a Commander Deck? Check out our Commander Decks for sale in-store!

Players need a Wizards account to qualify for promotional products. Don’t have a Wizards account? Sign up here! Preregister for the event on the Companion app using this code: NMEWJ6Y

What is Magic the Gathering?

Magic is a collectible trading card game of fun-filled, strategic games to play with friends old and new. Welcoming worldbuilders, narrative lovers, and gameplay enthusiasts alike, Magic has something for everyone and countless ways to play. Gathering together is half the fun! Bring along your crew or meet up with some new faces! A Multiverse of adventures awaits you, filled with powerful, unforgettable characters and spells to explore. Test your abilities to think fast and have fun on a battlefield of possibilities! Try new strategies with creative deckbuilding or push your skills to go for the win.

Each of the five colors in Magic represent a different philosophy and a different playstyle. Choose your color(s) to decide which type of land you’ll be drawing resources (mana) from and what type of Magic you’ll wield. Magic the Gathering has several starter products to choose from, including Jumpstart Packs, Beginner Bundles, and more! If you don’t want to learn on your own, check out our Learn to Play: Magic the Gathering events at Gnome Games, hosted every Monday from 6 PM to close!

What is Commander?

The Commander format is all about picking your character and building a deck around them! In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players have a limit of one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic’s history. A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

For more news, events, and more on Magic the Gathering, check out their website!

More Magic the Gathering at Gnome Games is found on our calendar!

Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party – Green Bay West

Green bay west courierMystery Pizza you say? What could possibly go wrong? The Commander Party for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gives you a chance to find out!

Monday, April 6th at 6pm we invite players to play together with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party set of rules!

Eventcode: GXMRMY7

Each player who joins in will get a promo Courier of Comestibles! (While supplies last.)

SETUP: Before the game begins, shuffle the Pizza cards together, Mystery Pizza side face up, to create a Mystery Pizza deck.

GAMEPLAY: If a Mystery Pizza card would be put anywhere other than the battlefield, put it on the bottom of the Mystery Pizza deck. At the beginning of your end step, if you don’t control a Mystery Pizza, put the top card of the Mystery Pizza deck onto the battlefield under your control. It’s a Food Equipment artifact with these abilities: Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may flip this card. If you do, resolve its effects, then put it on the bottom of the Mystery Pizza deck.

For more information on the Commander Format visit https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats/commander 

Commander Rules

Play Rules/Modifiers

This format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player.The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic‘s history.

Color Identity

A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

Command Zone

This is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it’s been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

Commander Damage

A player that’s been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player’s commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted).

Current Commander Banned list.

Join our other events by checking out our calendar!

Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party – Green Bay West

Mystery Pizza you say? What could possibly go wrong? The Commander Party for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gives you a chance to find out!

Monday, March 16th at 6pm we invite players to play together with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party set of rules!

Eventcode: ZQEGEGE

Each player who joins in will get a promo Courier of Comestibles! (While supplies last.)Green bay west courier

SETUP: Before the game begins, shuffle the Pizza cards together, Mystery Pizza side face up, to create a Mystery Pizza deck.

GAMEPLAY: If a Mystery Pizza card would be put anywhere other than the battlefield, put it on the bottom of the Mystery Pizza deck. At the beginning of your end step, if you don’t control a Mystery Pizza, put the top card of the Mystery Pizza deck onto the battlefield under your control. It’s a Food Equipment artifact with these abilities: Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may flip this card. If you do, resolve its effects, then put it on the bottom of the Mystery Pizza deck.

For more information on the Commander Format visit https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats/commander 

Commander Rules

Play Rules/Modifiers

This format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player.The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic‘s history.

Color Identity

A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

Command Zone

This is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it’s been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

Commander Damage

A player that’s been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player’s commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted).

Current Commander Banned list.

Join our other events by checking out our calendar!

Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Two-Headed Commander Party

Green bay west courierJoin the Gnomes at Gnome Games Green Bay West for some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fun with a Two-Headed Giant Commander Event celebrating this totally Turtle Power filled set on Monday, March 30th!

Two-Headed Giant Commander Night is a new Commander event in which players can earn promo cards by pairing up to battle other two-player teams. If you’re new to Commander, or want to come out with your friends and play with the new set, this is the perfect opportunity to do so!

Play follows the normal Two-Headed Giant rules, with a few added exceptions:

  • Each team starts with 60 life.
  • A team loses when they take 21 or more damage from a single commander OR have 15 or more poison counters.

More info on Two-Headed Giant Rules can be found here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats/two-headed-giant

Companion App Code: J28G86M

Commander Rules

Play Rules/Modifiers

This format is for four players per game and deck sizes are 99 cards + 1 commander card. The game duration for this format should be about 20 minutes per player. The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them. In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players are only allowed one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic‘s history.

Color Identity

A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

Command Zone

This is where your commander resides during the game when they are not in play. At the start of the game, each player puts their commander face up into the command zone. A commander can be cast from the command zone for its normal costs, plus an additional two mana for each previous time it’s been cast from the command zone this game. If your commander would be put into your library, hand, graveyard or exile from anywhere, you may return it to your command zone instead.

Commander Damage

A player that’s been dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the course of the game loses the game. The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player’s commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted).

~Entry: 5$

Check out our event calendar for more opportunities to play!

Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party!

On Friday, April 3rd from 3 PM to 9 PM come play in this set’s Commander Party! These are like our regular Commander nights, but with a fun themed twist! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rules are out on the table, and it’s all about pizza. Using a deck of Mystery Pizza tokens, play goes on as usual until players start to flip their Mystery Pizza tokens and reap the rewards! Or crash out, who’s to say?

Entry is $5 of Magic-related product. Anyone that participates receives an exclusive Courier of Comestibles promo card! Players should enter on the Companion app, which requires a Wizards account. Don’t have one? Sign up for an account here!

Players can enter for the event ahead of time using this code on the Companion app: 657WEPZ

For more Magic the Gathering news, events, and more, take a look at the Magic the Gathering website!

Interested in more Magic at Gnome Games? Check out our calendar here!

Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander Party!

On Friday, March 13th from 3 PM to 9 PM come play in this set’s Commander Party! These are like our regular Commander nights, but with a fun themed twist! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rules are out on the table, and it’s all about pizza. Using a deck of Mystery Pizza tokens, play goes on as usual until players start to flip their Mystery Pizza tokens and reap the rewards! Or crash out, who’s to say?

Entry is $5 of Magic-related product. Anyone that participates receives an exclusive Courier of Comestibles promo card! Players should enter on the Companion app, which requires a Wizards account. Don’t have one? Sign up for an account here!

Players can enter for the event ahead of time using this code on the Companion app: EZ64M5Q

Can’t make it to this event? We’re hosting a second one on April 3rd!

For more Magic the Gathering news, events, and more, take a look at the Magic the Gathering website!

Interested in more Magic at Gnome Games? Check out our calendar here!