Who have you been emailing? If its not, try emailing Jason Vogt at [email]Jason.vogt@wizards.com[/email]. He is responsible for missing tournaments inquiry's. He may not be the right one to contact, but hopefully he will give you a reference to the right person.
Its hard to find boxes for less than 80 anymore, I know that many distriburtors don't even sell boxes for less than 70, and although I don't know what wizards charges direct, its probably close to that for premier stores.
When foils were first introduced in Urza Block and Masques block, you used to be able to weigh the boosters to figure out if there was a foil in it, a lot of shops would do this to get foils to sell as singles to thier customers. Nowdays its a little harder, but I suspect there is a way to do it somehow.
My shop got ours on time, but we opened and immediatly sold though our entire shipment. All they had left were the boxes reserved for the release event and FNM drafts.
Well you probably won't be able to run FNMs, because Wizards requires that to become a Premier Store, and thus recieve eligability for FNMs and other Premier events, you actually have a store. I think this may include running Prereleases, PTQs and GPTs. But they may not care for those, just that you be a Premier TO.
I think that a lot of TOs probably run out Promos, especially with the large sets, which historically have the largest amount of people attending. We ran out in Denver for Ravnica and almost ran out of Lotus Blooms too.
I usually get mine right before Champs, usually about the second or third week of October. When you get them depends on where you live and how Wizards ships the player rewards.
I think that traditional LD with Vore and Wildfire are great in standard. The best part of this is the fact that you no longer have to deal with cranial and erradicate getting your Vores. Plus you have the new Totems as alternate win conditions and acceleration.
Its the nightly server rush for preview cards, the server has been too busy to handle requests this time of night all week, just wait a while and it will be back up.
I didn't think the test was all that hard, a couple of the questions kind of threw me, but they just took a little thinking to figure out.
According to the DCI floor rules, if a spectator notices an incorrect play, he should stop the game and call a judge or other tournament official. If you are one of the players, you should also call the judge, regardless of whether it was your mistake or not. Also, if a judge is present but doesn't notice you should still point it out to him/her and let them make a ruling.
If there is no way for your opponent to target another creauture then the game ends in a draw because it is a loop with no optional choices. The rule your referring to where they pick a number of times to complete an action is when there is an optional choice inside the infinite combo.
Seeing what Alan Comer did with Thrumming Stone, do you see its value going up at all? Maybe $2-3 because of its interaction with Top and Counterbalance?
I think that the judge was completely fair in this situation. This was an error on the part of both Olivier, his opponent, and somewhat the staff. Because of this mixup, the judge probably thought 1 game was enough of a penalty for Olivier and simply gave him a downgraded warning.
I dont see why a 1/1 flyer in the guild would be bad, as Jeremy said, is WW really going to play 12 1/1 flyers? The only reason to play this would be if Frazzle starts to get played a lot, because it lets your late game 1/1 flyer through the counterspells.....or maybe its not any better at all. And what does WW cut for another 4 1/1 flyers anyway? I think that the new flying men/falcon is perfectly plausible.
I didn't think the test was all that hard, a couple of the questions kind of threw me, but they just took a little thinking to figure out.