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Team BCW is Back for 2022!

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Team BCW at SCG Con
Team BCW (without Daryl), at SCG CON 2021, photo courtesy @JennyMatrixDXM

Star City Games has announced the return to hosting MTG in-person events with the 2022 SCG CON series. Approximately twelve SCG CONs are planned, with Philly, Indy, and Dallas listed as the first destinations. These will be independent events, not a tour in which players accumulate points. All of the heavyweight hitters of Team BCW from 2020 are returning 2022, including Shaheen Soorani, Daryl Ayers, Eli Kassis, Corey Baumeister, Ross Merriam, and Pete Ingram. Find their player profiles below.

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Introducing Team BCW for 2020

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Team BCW returns for 2020 with six competitive Magic: the Gathering players. These players will focus on the Star City Games Tour (SCG Tour).

On Fridays before some SCG Opens, Team BCW will host a BCW Challenge at a game shop near the SCG venue. If you’re a local to the SCG Open, or if you’re traveling and get to the city by Friday evening, please join us at the host store for the BCW Challenge. You can test your skills in a single game of Magic against a Team BCW member. Follow Team BCW on Twitter or Facebook to find details about upcoming BCW Challenges.

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Joe Lossett and Dylan Hand Added to Team BCW for 2019

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Team BCW returns for 2019 with five of the top Magic: the Gathering players on the Star City Games Tour. Jim Davis, Tannon Grace, and Ross Merriam are back from the 2018 team, and we welcome Joe Lossett and Dylan Hand!

On Fridays before SCG Opens, Team BCW normally hosts a BCW Challenge at a game shop near the SCG venue. If you are a local to the SCG Open, or if you are traveling and get to the city by Friday evening, please join us at the host store for the BCW Challenge. You can test your skills in a single game of Magic against a Team BCW member. Follow Team BCW on Twitter or Facebook to find details about upcoming BCW Challenges.

Jim Davis

Jim Davis
@JimDavisMTG
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Articles at CoolStuffInc.com

Jim has played Magic on every level from the humble beginning grinding at stores, all the way to the Pro Tour. Jim has played in fifteen Pro Tours, has sixteen SCG Open Top 8s, and three SCG Invitational Top 8s. Winning the Players’ Championship in 2015 sparked a full time Magic career. Jim frequently streams Magic on Twitch, posts on Youtube, and shares his expertise in articles at Cool Stuff Inc.

Tannon Grace

Tannon Grace
@THETannonGrace
tannongrace

Tannon Grace started playing Magic competitively in 2003 with the launch of Mirrodin block. He has been to six Pro Tours and has ten SCG Tour Top 8s. While Tannnon is new to streaming Magic, he has a great understanding of the game and has a professional commentary background, so watch for him to become a top streamer in 2019.

Ross Merriam

Ross Merriam
@rosshunneds
SCG Articles by Ross
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Ross has been a fixture on the SCG Tour since 2012. He currently has twenty-three SCG Open Top 8 finishes and two Invitational Top 8s. He has also played in eleven Pro Tours. Ross is well known for his articles and Versus videos at www.starcitygames.com. He rates playing fundamentally sound Magic at the top of skills needed to have sustained success.

Joe Lossett

Joe Lossett
@oarsman79
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Joe Lossett is the returning SCG Players’ Champion. He currently has twenty-two Open Top 8s with five wins. Joe won the 2016 SCG Players’ Championship. He’s returning to the SCG Tour in order to defend his Players’ Championship title, as the event was not held in 2017 or 2018.

Dylan Hand

Dylan Hand
@IngrathisMTG
ingrathis
SCG Articles by Dylan

Dylan Hand spent most of 2018 making his name on the SCG Tour, experiencing success as one of the top performers on the circuit with Modern Humans. For 2019, he looks forward to joining the group of veterans on Team BCW and pushing his game to the next level as he aims to qualify for the returning 2019 Players’ Championship.

Team BCW Gets Rolling with FNM Event and SCG Open in Columbus

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With the first weekend of the 2018 Star City Games Open Series in the books, here’s how Team BCW fared:

Comic Town in Columbus hosted the first BCW Challenge during FNM on January 5th. Comic Town players challenged Team BCW members Ross Merriam, The Tannon Grace, and Brennan DeCandio to a single game of Magic. Thirty-three people took the challenge, with 8 people walking away with a victory and receiving a special prize, and all 33 people who played walked away with a pack of BCW Elite Deck Guards. The event was fun for both players and the team, with lots of laughs and great games from Standard, Modern, and Legacy.

Team BCW members at Comic Town in Columbus, OH
Team BCW members at Comic Town in Columbus, OH

As for Saturday at the SCG Tour, the team started off strong with Todd Stevens playing his U/B Processor deck. If you missed it, Todd made a statement via Twitter that if he reached over 100 Twitch subscribers during his Christmas day stream, he would play U/B Processor at the first Open in 2018, and true to his word he played it in the open. Brennan Decandio played his Green Devotion deck that he has been working on and streaming for several weeks. Jim Davis played G/B Tron and he has also been streaming that deck for several weeks. The Tannon Grace took a shot at Grixis Death Shadow for this Open. Ross Merriam was the only team member to make day two and was running his take on Dredge. Ross finished day 1 with a record of 8-1.

Sunday Ross ran into some rough match ups on day two and finished the day in 59th place. Ross stated that he liked his build of Dredge because it was good versus the creature heavy decks. As for the rest of the team, Todd played in the Modern Classic with Bant Eldrazi and Brennan, Jim, and Tannon decided to take their shot at the Legacy Classic. Brennan finished the Legacy Classic in 32nd place with the rest of the team finishing outside of prizes.

The next Open is January 20th and 21st in Fort Worth, Texas, and we will have a BCW Challenge event held at Madness Comics and Games in Plano TX. If you plan on attending the Open, come hang out with the team Friday night. Follow us on Twitter at @Team_BCW for all the updates and fun.