Premodern Unchained TO Report

Hello! It’s been a minute since I’ve written up a tournament report but the Unchained side event was incredibly fun to run, and many players shared how much they enjoyed the event, so it feels appropriate to write one up.

The Rochester Royals were welcomed back to LOBSTERCON to run our favorite Premodern variant: Premodern Unchained! Premodern Unchained allows for players to select one, non-ante, card from the Premodern ban list and play up to four copies of it in their decks. Cards like Force of Will, Necropotence, Strip Mine, and Balance become available resulting in powered-up existing decks and novel decks battling it out!

The Winter Ball ‘25

The Winter Ball ‘25 was a community centered Premodern, Old School, and Legacy Magic: the Gathering event hosted in the Greater Rochester NY area by the Rochester Royals. This was the inaugural event and we were blown away by the turnout! Seventy folks from across the North East of the United States joined us to jam Premodern, Old School, Legacy and raise support for those in need: The Gathering at its finest.

We had eleven people show up for our Premodern Unchained event! It was an exciting time of resolving Mind Twists, Memory Jars, and Tendrils! There were an exciting assortment of decks but our showcase ones are:

• Top Deck: Blue White Shrimp
• Spookiest Deck: Mono Black Pestilence
• Resolved The Most Restricted Cards: Storm

Shrimp took the day but we’ll be back next year with another Unchained event!

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Pestilence

Do you hate Elves, Goblins, and other low to the ground decks? Do you want to fear for your life against Burn, only to pull out the most satisfying win of your life? Do you like watching Phyrexian Dreadnaughts get sacrificed? I have a deck for you. Let me introduce you to Pestilence.

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