You’re about to win a playset of Force of Wills that are in near mint condition. Whoever found these or played these took very good care of them, they look unplayed.
So here’s the deal…
This is the official kickoff contest of JohnnySpike.com and I wanted to make sure I gave you something really cool. I nearly got punched in the face by my wife when I told her I was going to be giving these away LoL.
If you win these Force of Wills you can play them in your Legacy decks, trade them for the cards you need in your T2 deck, keep them in your trade portfolio, sell them for quick cash, or trade them for a bunch of T2 trade stuff and pimp out your portfolio.
The contest will run until April 25th, I will be announcing the winner on April 30th after verifying the winners points.
What are points?
Points are how you win this contest, whoever has the most verified points wins the playset of Force of Wills.
Here’s How You Get Points: (see rules below)
- 10 Points = Tweet about this contest and include a link to this page
- 50 Points = Subscribe to our RSS Feed
- 100 Points = Follow @JohnnySpikeBlog on Twitter
- 100 Points = Become a fan of our Facebook Fan Page
- 100 Points = Add a message about this contest with a link to this page to your forum signature
- 100 Points = If you have a MTG blog and write a post about our contest with a link to this page
- 250 Points = Leave a comment below this blog post to officially “register” for this contest
- 500 Points = Write an article about MTG for us to post on our blog later
Contest Rules:
There are a few minimum requirements that must be met as well which you can read about below. All participants are required to keep track of their own points tally, and when the contest ends on April 25th at midnight, the contestants that wish to be “verified” will need to send an email to johnny@johnnyspike.com with proof of their claimed points.
All submissions must be received by April 25th at 12:00pm EST (if unable to do this for some reason, please notify us in advance). Our team will carefully go over your submitted points claims to determine and verify the winner.
Additional Terms…
*You can tweet about our contest more than once per day but we will not count more than 3 tweets per day.
*RSS subscriptions must be proved by submitting a screenshot that shows our blog posts in your preferred RSS reader or email.
*To get credit for forum signatures you must tell us your username and what forum to look in
*Blog posts must include a link to this page with the words “magic the gathering blog” linked to our homepage as well as a link to this specific page
*Comments below must use a legitimate email address or you will not be registered.
*Articles written for this contest must be at least 500 words in length and not have any plagiarized content. We will be triple checking every article to make sure you have not copied someone else’s work. The topic of the articles can be on; Combos, Deckbuilding, Tournament Reports, Tournament Advice, Trading Advice, or explaining any of the popular decks in T2, Extended, or Legacy. If the article is outdated, not relevant, and does not help our readers it will not be counted.
It Starts RIGHT NOW!
By the time you have finished reading this blog post others have already started. If you want to win you should get started right now. It’s not to late… You never know who is going to be lazy and who will go for the gold.
Keep On Spikin’
Justin Brooke
P.S. Remember to leave a comment below with your best email address to “register” for the contest and get a quick 250 points!
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is there a limit on how many articles can be written?
Wow I could definetly use these… sadly I usually never win contests like these. Doesn’t hurt to try though!
No Derrick, they just have to be good, current, and relevant!
Force of Wills for putzing around on the net?
I’M IN.
Cool. Looking forward to this. Lets see if Legacy can become playable. Lol.
its because force of will is the only first turn counter spell that makes it so amazing its the onlt card that will negate any first turn combo theese day in vintage you see so many of them and bam play forsce of will they u used a mutil card combo and you destoyed there plans in espicially in vintage even in leagacy you dodnt always get that 2nd or 3rd turn so how do u counter that spell force of will =) definatley a good card to have
Tim, with this contest it’s up to you. It’s not a luck shot like the one StarCity is running right now. Don’t get me wrong theirs is great but you have to just be randomly picked.
With this contest if you earn the most points YOU WIN THE PRIZE!
Count me in. FoW has been one of my favorite cards for ages!
*registering for contest*
I write for several online newspapers including Examiner.com (Boston Magic: the Gathering Examiner) and AssociatedContent.com (Featured Video Game Contributor).
If I decide to write an article for either of these newspapers, will I receive entries for the playset of FOW?
Also, I will be emailing you shortly in regards to writing articles for you.
-David Leavitt
Boston Magic: the Gathering Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-21272-Boston-Magic-the-Gathering-Examiner
Okay, I don’t really have the time tonight to read all of what’s this website about but my guess is : a singles cards selling site with articles and a community but only for Johnnys and Spikes, am I right?
If so, count me in and you’ll get a crapload of articles… shouldn’t have sold my FoW playset last summer , didn’t know Legacy was coming big with tournys and all that
will there be other free card chances
I seek to officially “register” for this contest, and to say this is a fairly good idea… tho i have found though personal experience with running contests, that many smaller prices are more well recieved then one large one. that being said, you should write articles for http://www.mtgcast.com ^_^ those goes are epic
Where does one submit articles?
Figured i would go for it.
Yes, where does one submit articles to?
Chris, you submit them to johnny@johnnyspike.com but please hold all articles and your points sheets until April 25th when we ask for them.
@Eric Maltais, Right now we are just a blog but we do hope that it will be a two way conversation
@David yes if you write for those sites and give proper mention of our contest then I will count it as if you were blogging about us on your own blog. However, I cannot count it as an article for us since it’s not usable by us. Make sure you include a link to us if you do write and article about our contest and I will be responding to you about the writer position.
Will articles be discounted as “out of date” if they are written about pre-Rise of the Eldrazi, since they are to be submitted post-Rise of the Eldrazi?
Be careful not to write about things too far back, however, historical deck data and magic the gathering blast from the past articles are fun. Just turn in the article and if it’s a good read then we’ll include it.
Very nice idea.. And good luck to johnnyspike.com in it’s future growth!
im not that good i just started playing magic, im sure i can’t hurt to try and win
It’s rather funny that you would ask people to write a bigger post for MTG. I just started to play a few months ago and i’ve played in a few events at my local store, and my girlfriend would look through my cards and pick out cards she liked. Turns out with just a bit of coaching from better players she picked out her first deck Eldrasi green blew my poor deck out of the water now i have to play catch up but its fun. lol and who says girls dont like gamers?
Hey folks! Good luck on the contest, lets hope we all build a good community as a result.
I hope I am considered registered in the contest, you can’t actually be sure since “register” was in quotation marks, which in English are used to demonstrate irony or to quote someone else. BUT!
I’ll just hope that’s a mistake. hehe
How will Johnny Spike keep track of things like whether I added a link to this page in my forum signature or whatever?
Looks like a good blog for competitive or even casual MTG players. Look forward to updates!
@SpecialBats Everyone is in charge of keeping track of your own points and if they can’t be proved then we can’t verify you got them. On April 25th we will ask everyone to turn in their point tally sheets, articles, and proof.
To prove you added a sig link you just need to tell us which forum and what your username is, we will check manually.
when I write an article or two, how should I show them to you? Should i make like a free blog or something, and post them there and then link the site in the email?
This looks like a very interesting contest
So best of luck to everyone!
I think that this would really boost up my deck and I think the contest is a great way to kickoff your website
Hey Justin, or JohnnySpike (haha), I’ve got a couple articles here I wrote about decks I’ve been playing and how they play in today’s meta. When would you like me to submit them for this contest? All at once at the end? Or right now?
Thanks for the nice community and awesome contest!
Count me in for this! You want us to hold onto any articles we’ve written until the 25th?
is this for real? lol seems intresting.
i cant wait to find out who will win this who will the lucky guy be? or girl as the case may be good luck everybody
I would love to through these in a couple decks
I will be writing articles. I hate twitter tho
FoW… A card i thought i would never own…. Finally a shot at being mine!
So, how do you plan on keeping track of people who have twitter, facebook, a website, and who subscribe to your RSS feed… do you use some kind of tracking system to ensure that all of the points go to the right person?
Oops, nevermind, I just saw in the rules we keep track of our points
This is an amazing contest and there is nothing that I need more than a set of Force for my legacy deck. Just need duals, fetches, and entombs if I win this to finish Reanimator.
Yes please hold all articles until the 25th when we ask everyone to turn in their point tally sheets, thanks!
Here’s my submission for the Fow’s! May the one with the most time on their hands win!
Saw the ad on facebook, and I was already interested. Signed up for the RSS, and I like what I see on the site so far.
I’ve entered. Hope I win!
Awesome, I’ll definitely write some articles
I’m entering the contest
LOL!!noob in MTG so ill try and win FOW destroy my AREA if i got those!!^^
Registering for contest…
Excelent! I’d love to pick up a playset of FoWs!
I just got your email you sent out to everyone about the Twitter updates. I haven’t been including the hashtags. I’ve been posting something like this
Win some Force of Wills in the contest sponsored by @JohnnySpikeBlog http://ow.ly/1wti5
Even though I haven’t been using #freeplayset, could I on submission still receive points for these previous postings?
Thanks.
I shouldn’t be surprizing so hard at that.
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