Tales of Old school Magic: The Gathering from Montréal, Canada
On May 31st 2025, it was beautiful and sunny in Montreal. It was the day of Tundra Wolves Challenge, 8th of the name. The event had sold-out in less than 24h, leaving organisers kerkuffling over the ever growing waitlist and the maxed out venue. Good news right off the bat: we'll be changing venues for … Continue reading TWC8: T.O. Report for the event I didn’t organize
Saturday May 30th, 2025, was held Tundra Wolves Challenge 8 (TWC8), hosted by the Montreal Tundra Wolves. For the first time ever, I am writing a tournament report not from an organizer’s standpoint, but rather from a player’s perspective. It’s that real life events from last year such as… the graces of early parenthood (shout … Continue reading Under the Blood Moon: a TWC8 player report and Beast Island update
By guest writer Jason Cortright, Sin City’s Fallen Angels Part I: Finding Beast Island It’s Christmas Eve, 2021; I’m scrolling through Instagram on my phone. I’m going into my third year of playing Old-School Magic. I had started going down the Old-School rabbit hole on Mono-Black, with one of my early acquisitions being a set … Continue reading Flipping Out: A Return to Beast Island
Saturday June 1st, 2024, 64 players from all over North America answered the call at seventh edition of the now classic Tundra Wolves Challenge, held in Montreal. Numerous old school Magic clubs were represented, namely: of course Montreal's Tundra Wolves, but also Ottawa's Capital Chaos, Toronto's Geocities of Brass, Québec City's Brew Crew and Fallen … Continue reading TWC7 T.O. Report
Great feedback was received following the public announcement of Branching Paths rolling out during the next couple of weeks. Some experienced game designer pointed out that our plans to make the set publicly available -free of charge- for print and digital play following it’s release event, was, beyond « non-profit », perfectly in line with … Continue reading Going Public (Domain) with Branching Paths
So, we made a public domain, entirely custom set in the spirit of Old school MTG. The project’s aim was to create new fan-made content for OS MTG players to enjoy, while making a deliberate effort to remain within 1993-1994 MTG flavor, even if we used modern tools. It’s a “What if” WotC had taken … Continue reading Branching Paths: a public domain, fan-made OS set
Inscriptions/Registrations: https://forms.gle/X5NzmAmcdob2v8sU8 (ENGLISH FOLLOWS) Ⓕenrir en est la preuve: le loup est un animal qu’il vaut mieux ne pas déranger. Ⓘl paraît que la meute de Montréal va bientôt faire trembler toute la région… Ⓡeste sur tes gardes, si tu viens nous défier sur notre terrain de chasse! Ⓔs-tu prêt à réveiller ton instinct grégaire, … Continue reading TWC6 + Branching Paths
On June 11th, 2022, we had the pleasure of hosting our fifth yearly, larger-scale Old school Magic event: the Tundra Wolves Challenge 5. This year, 39 mages from the Montreal Tundra Wolves, Quebec city Brew Crew & Fallen Angels, Ottawa Capital Chaos, Toronto Citizens of Brass, American Bong Wraiths, Cleveland Rocs, as well as a … Continue reading TWC5 T.O. Report
Roploplo, we believe, is the best multiplayer Old school pseudo-commander format. Created at Parc du Père-Marquette in Montreal, summer 2021, we've been addic… testing and refining it intensively ever since! In fact, it's also become the locals' fav webcam-based OS experience. Roploplo is: politics meet epic plays, in a singleton environment where underappreciated cards get … Continue reading Introducing: Roploplo
After the shipwreck, the Woman travelling from the Brass City and I washed ashore on an unknown Island. We were bruised, exhausted. Nobody else made it. I remember that, looking up, rays of a setting sun would burst through the thick tree line before our eyes, making it so that we could see little further … Continue reading A PRIMER TO BEAST ISLAND
Tales from la Tundra 