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35pt Warmachine Spell Draft
Mayhem Comics in Des Moines, Iowa
Saturday, January 9th
Registration by 10:30am
$10 entry fee
Guaranteed prize payouts for all entrants
Bringing a fully painted list as well as having ALL of your bases' front arcs marked on all your models will give you an extra raffle entry into door prizes.

SPECIAL RULES
All games of Spell Draft are played using baseline Steamroller
2014 rules, with the following exceptions.

• All players bring a single 35-point army list.

• All games are played using the Outflank scenario.

• All spells listed on a warcaster’s or warlock’s spell card
and all animi on warbeasts are considered “erased” for
this format. You can use only the spells and animi that
you draft in this event (see below).

• DRAFTING: Before the tournament begins, players are
divided into groups of up to eight players. Every player
is given a deck of eight cards, each of which lists one
spell or animus. When the EO announces that it is time
to begin drafting, take one card from your deck and add
it to your spell pool. Once all players have chosen a spell,
players simultaneously pass their decks to the player on
their left. Then take the deck from the player on your
right and repeat the process until your spell pool contains
exactly eight cards.

• Spell cards you draft become part of your warcaster’s or
warlock’s spell list for the duration of the tournament.

• Animus cards you draft can either become part of your
warcaster’s or warlock’s spell list or be assigned to a
warbeast as an animus. If you assign a card as an animus,
all warbeasts in your army that share the same name gain
this animus. Example: Joey has five shredders in his army
list. He drafts the animus card Rush. Joey can choose to
give his warcaster Rush as a spell or assign Rush to one
of his warbeasts as an animus. Joey assigns Rush to a
shredder, so all five shredders now have Rush.

• If an effect would reduce the COST of a spell below 1, it
reduces it to 1 instead.

• Cards labeled as spells can be used only as spells; they
cannot be assigned as animi.

• Once all players have drafted their spell list and assigned
any animi, note on your player record sheet the spell
resources you have and how you allocated any animi.

• Pairings for the tournament are drawn from all players in
all the drafting groups.


Warcaster Errata For Spell Draft

Replace the text of the The Witch Coven of Garghast's
Perfect Conjunction ability with the following:
A Perfect Conjunction is established anytime the Egregore
is completely within the triangular area between all three
Witches and each Witch has LOS to each other Witch. During
a Perfect Conjunction, reduce the COST of the first spell each
Witch casts during her activation by 1.

Deneghra, the Soul Weaver (Deneghra3) may not cast a
Damage spell via Arcane Spirits.

Hard at work getting the decks all set up for this. Hope to see you here next week!

I've never done a spell draft, but that does sound like fun. My first choice would be to bring Iron Mother. All her jacks are arch nodes and 8 focus. Her only problem is her spells suck. If I could get just one awesome spell, she'd be gold!

I spent way more effort on these cards than is probably necessary...