Francis | FGC
@franciscowper.bsky.social
Legacy, Vintage and Premodern tournament organiser in London, UK.
Events: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/londoneternalevents
https://www.twitch.tv/fgcmtg
https://www.youtube.com/@FGCmtg
Events: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/londoneternalevents
https://www.twitch.tv/fgcmtg
https://www.youtube.com/@FGCmtg
15 years of bans in Legacy*
Time for some new entries to the list.
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*Wrenn and Six and Sowing Mycospawn not pictured.
Time for some new entries to the list.
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*Wrenn and Six and Sowing Mycospawn not pictured.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
15 years of bans in Legacy*
Time for some new entries to the list.
🧙♂️
*Wrenn and Six and Sowing Mycospawn not pictured.
Time for some new entries to the list.
🧙♂️
*Wrenn and Six and Sowing Mycospawn not pictured.
Congratulations to Chaz Cade for winning London Vintage VII with Jeskai PO🥇, and our runner up Fabio Zanasi with Raker PO🥈.
Special mention to Patrick aka @kindamtg.bsky.social for his magnificent use of Jumbo Cactuar. 🌵
Looking forward to LVTVIII in the spring.
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Special mention to Patrick aka @kindamtg.bsky.social for his magnificent use of Jumbo Cactuar. 🌵
Looking forward to LVTVIII in the spring.
🧙♂️
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Congratulations to Chaz Cade for winning London Vintage VII with Jeskai PO🥇, and our runner up Fabio Zanasi with Raker PO🥈.
Special mention to Patrick aka @kindamtg.bsky.social for his magnificent use of Jumbo Cactuar. 🌵
Looking forward to LVTVIII in the spring.
🧙♂️
Special mention to Patrick aka @kindamtg.bsky.social for his magnificent use of Jumbo Cactuar. 🌵
Looking forward to LVTVIII in the spring.
🧙♂️
For London Vintage VII, we have a new sticker to hand out!
Continuing the theme of Pokémox Sapphire, we now have...
Tickets and details: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
Continuing the theme of Pokémox Sapphire, we now have...
Tickets and details: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
August 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
For London Vintage VII, we have a new sticker to hand out!
Continuing the theme of Pokémox Sapphire, we now have...
Tickets and details: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
Continuing the theme of Pokémox Sapphire, we now have...
Tickets and details: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
Split the finals of the Eternal Mania Team Trios event in the Old School seat!
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Split the finals of the Eternal Mania Team Trios event in the Old School seat!
3-0 at the Edge of Eternities prerelease, thank you old friend, I've missed you!
July 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
3-0 at the Edge of Eternities prerelease, thank you old friend, I've missed you!
Looking forward to this, despite the format being somewhat unexciting. Let's try and do better than last year!
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July 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Looking forward to this, despite the format being somewhat unexciting. Let's try and do better than last year!
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A potential swan song for Entomb at weekly Legacy; a night spent sacrificing children is a night well spent.
Farewell(?), Tin Fins
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Farewell(?), Tin Fins
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June 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A potential swan song for Entomb at weekly Legacy; a night spent sacrificing children is a night well spent.
Farewell(?), Tin Fins
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Farewell(?), Tin Fins
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🥈with UW Oracle at the June LLM!
🎣🎣 Sneak and Show
🐠🐠 R Painter
🎣🐠🐠 Tin Fins
🐠🐠 Goblins
ID
🐠🎣🐠 Mystic Forge
🎣🐠🐠 W Painter
🐠🎣🎣 Cephalid Breakfast
Chose to play this expecting:
1) Moon + Saga
2) Reanimator
None of which really happened.
Stock Up is brilliant, list in alt.
🎣🎣 Sneak and Show
🐠🐠 R Painter
🎣🐠🐠 Tin Fins
🐠🐠 Goblins
ID
🐠🎣🐠 Mystic Forge
🎣🐠🐠 W Painter
🐠🎣🎣 Cephalid Breakfast
Chose to play this expecting:
1) Moon + Saga
2) Reanimator
None of which really happened.
Stock Up is brilliant, list in alt.
June 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🥈with UW Oracle at the June LLM!
🎣🎣 Sneak and Show
🐠🐠 R Painter
🎣🐠🐠 Tin Fins
🐠🐠 Goblins
ID
🐠🎣🐠 Mystic Forge
🎣🐠🐠 W Painter
🐠🎣🎣 Cephalid Breakfast
Chose to play this expecting:
1) Moon + Saga
2) Reanimator
None of which really happened.
Stock Up is brilliant, list in alt.
🎣🎣 Sneak and Show
🐠🐠 R Painter
🎣🐠🐠 Tin Fins
🐠🐠 Goblins
ID
🐠🎣🐠 Mystic Forge
🎣🐠🐠 W Painter
🐠🎣🎣 Cephalid Breakfast
Chose to play this expecting:
1) Moon + Saga
2) Reanimator
None of which really happened.
Stock Up is brilliant, list in alt.
🏆 Took down the London ELMQ today with URg Delver.
⚡🌧️🌧️ Grixis Control
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
⚡⚡ BUG Nadu
⚡🌧️⚡ Sneak and Show
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
ID
QF Scoop (couldn't attend ELM)
SF ⚡⚡ Sneak and Show
F ⚡⚡ Red Painter
List in alt and on Moxfield: moxfield.com/decks/FYgvjY...
⚡🌧️🌧️ Grixis Control
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
⚡⚡ BUG Nadu
⚡🌧️⚡ Sneak and Show
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
ID
QF Scoop (couldn't attend ELM)
SF ⚡⚡ Sneak and Show
F ⚡⚡ Red Painter
List in alt and on Moxfield: moxfield.com/decks/FYgvjY...
April 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🏆 Took down the London ELMQ today with URg Delver.
⚡🌧️🌧️ Grixis Control
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
⚡⚡ BUG Nadu
⚡🌧️⚡ Sneak and Show
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
ID
QF Scoop (couldn't attend ELM)
SF ⚡⚡ Sneak and Show
F ⚡⚡ Red Painter
List in alt and on Moxfield: moxfield.com/decks/FYgvjY...
⚡🌧️🌧️ Grixis Control
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
⚡⚡ BUG Nadu
⚡🌧️⚡ Sneak and Show
🌧️⚡⚡ Moon Stompy
ID
QF Scoop (couldn't attend ELM)
SF ⚡⚡ Sneak and Show
F ⚡⚡ Red Painter
List in alt and on Moxfield: moxfield.com/decks/FYgvjY...
For those who are waiting for EW EU playmats, you'll be waiting longer than expected (as expected). @magic.wizards.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For those who are waiting for EW EU playmats, you'll be waiting longer than expected (as expected). @magic.wizards.com
Played some Miracles last night in paper (what it dooooooo) and got the 3-0.
Control is fun when you win the matchup lottery and don't get your basics exiled.
Loved the @forceofphil.bsky.social quad Mystic Sanctuary Thwart package, wasn't brave enough to play Argivian Find.
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Control is fun when you win the matchup lottery and don't get your basics exiled.
Loved the @forceofphil.bsky.social quad Mystic Sanctuary Thwart package, wasn't brave enough to play Argivian Find.
🏆🙏🧙♂️
March 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Played some Miracles last night in paper (what it dooooooo) and got the 3-0.
Control is fun when you win the matchup lottery and don't get your basics exiled.
Loved the @forceofphil.bsky.social quad Mystic Sanctuary Thwart package, wasn't brave enough to play Argivian Find.
🏆🙏🧙♂️
Control is fun when you win the matchup lottery and don't get your basics exiled.
Loved the @forceofphil.bsky.social quad Mystic Sanctuary Thwart package, wasn't brave enough to play Argivian Find.
🏆🙏🧙♂️
Sunday morning Trophy with Bant Beans.
I tried a league with Leyline Binding and hated getting wastelanded off my removal vs tempo and so cut it and here we are. Murktide feels great in a format where Swords is at a low ebb.
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I tried a league with Leyline Binding and hated getting wastelanded off my removal vs tempo and so cut it and here we are. Murktide feels great in a format where Swords is at a low ebb.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sunday morning Trophy with Bant Beans.
I tried a league with Leyline Binding and hated getting wastelanded off my removal vs tempo and so cut it and here we are. Murktide feels great in a format where Swords is at a low ebb.
🧙♂️
I tried a league with Leyline Binding and hated getting wastelanded off my removal vs tempo and so cut it and here we are. Murktide feels great in a format where Swords is at a low ebb.
🧙♂️
Challenge T8 with Tempo Doomsday
Vod available on Twitch including deck discussion: www.twitch.tv/videos/23880...
No Show 2-0
GB Reanimator 2-0
BW Solitude Scam 1-2
UB Tempo 2-1
ANT 2-0
UB Reanimator 2-1
T8
UB Reanimator 1-2
Vod available on Twitch including deck discussion: www.twitch.tv/videos/23880...
No Show 2-0
GB Reanimator 2-0
BW Solitude Scam 1-2
UB Tempo 2-1
ANT 2-0
UB Reanimator 2-1
T8
UB Reanimator 1-2
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Challenge T8 with Tempo Doomsday
Vod available on Twitch including deck discussion: www.twitch.tv/videos/23880...
No Show 2-0
GB Reanimator 2-0
BW Solitude Scam 1-2
UB Tempo 2-1
ANT 2-0
UB Reanimator 2-1
T8
UB Reanimator 1-2
Vod available on Twitch including deck discussion: www.twitch.tv/videos/23880...
No Show 2-0
GB Reanimator 2-0
BW Solitude Scam 1-2
UB Tempo 2-1
ANT 2-0
UB Reanimator 2-1
T8
UB Reanimator 1-2
I played Nadu Tinker today at the London Vintage Tournament #6 to a 2nd place finish!
Swiss
Food Chain 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Dimir Lurrus 2-0 W
Grixis Breach 2-1 W
Esper Lurrus ID
Top 8
Doomsday 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Esper Lurrus 0-2 L
Super fun. Decklist in alt.
Swiss
Food Chain 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Dimir Lurrus 2-0 W
Grixis Breach 2-1 W
Esper Lurrus ID
Top 8
Doomsday 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Esper Lurrus 0-2 L
Super fun. Decklist in alt.
February 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I played Nadu Tinker today at the London Vintage Tournament #6 to a 2nd place finish!
Swiss
Food Chain 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Dimir Lurrus 2-0 W
Grixis Breach 2-1 W
Esper Lurrus ID
Top 8
Doomsday 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Esper Lurrus 0-2 L
Super fun. Decklist in alt.
Swiss
Food Chain 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Dimir Lurrus 2-0 W
Grixis Breach 2-1 W
Esper Lurrus ID
Top 8
Doomsday 2-1 W
Grixis Breach 2-0 W
Esper Lurrus 0-2 L
Super fun. Decklist in alt.
Thanks to all who came to LVT#6!
Final standings:
1) Raffaele Ramagli, Esper Lurrus
2) Francis Cowper, Nadu Tinker
3) Charles Cade, Grixis Breach
4) Nicola Fantini, Grixis Breach
5) GK Neill, Golos Shops
6) Fabio Zanasi, Jewel Shops
7) Hugh Karp, Doomsday
8 ) Matthew Watts, Dimir Lurrus
Final standings:
1) Raffaele Ramagli, Esper Lurrus
2) Francis Cowper, Nadu Tinker
3) Charles Cade, Grixis Breach
4) Nicola Fantini, Grixis Breach
5) GK Neill, Golos Shops
6) Fabio Zanasi, Jewel Shops
7) Hugh Karp, Doomsday
8 ) Matthew Watts, Dimir Lurrus
February 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thanks to all who came to LVT#6!
Final standings:
1) Raffaele Ramagli, Esper Lurrus
2) Francis Cowper, Nadu Tinker
3) Charles Cade, Grixis Breach
4) Nicola Fantini, Grixis Breach
5) GK Neill, Golos Shops
6) Fabio Zanasi, Jewel Shops
7) Hugh Karp, Doomsday
8 ) Matthew Watts, Dimir Lurrus
Final standings:
1) Raffaele Ramagli, Esper Lurrus
2) Francis Cowper, Nadu Tinker
3) Charles Cade, Grixis Breach
4) Nicola Fantini, Grixis Breach
5) GK Neill, Golos Shops
6) Fabio Zanasi, Jewel Shops
7) Hugh Karp, Doomsday
8 ) Matthew Watts, Dimir Lurrus
23 for London Vintage! 5 rounds with a cut to Top 8.
February 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
23 for London Vintage! 5 rounds with a cut to Top 8.
By the time you're choosing to reanimate this, you'll be full of Christmas cheer.
December 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
By the time you're choosing to reanimate this, you'll be full of Christmas cheer.
Pretty sure it's this one, not close; a staple of all formats it was legal in for 8-9 years and still sees play today on and off.
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Pretty sure it's this one, not close; a staple of all formats it was legal in for 8-9 years and still sees play today on and off.
No unbans in Legacy is a shame, and Nadu is now the de-facto ruler of the format until it gets banned in March. More could have been done.
I'll have to console myself by breaking out some old friends in the budget format.
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I'll have to console myself by breaking out some old friends in the budget format.
🧙
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
No unbans in Legacy is a shame, and Nadu is now the de-facto ruler of the format until it gets banned in March. More could have been done.
I'll have to console myself by breaking out some old friends in the budget format.
🧙
I'll have to console myself by breaking out some old friends in the budget format.
🧙
What I want:
Axe: Psychic Frog, Vexing Bauble, Sowing Mycospawn, Nadu Winged Wisdom (pref. also Kozilek's Command, Orcish Bowmasters)
Free: Mana Drain, Frantic Search, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Earthcraft, Survival of the Fittest
Will this happen? Of course not.
Image credit to @area.bsky.social
Axe: Psychic Frog, Vexing Bauble, Sowing Mycospawn, Nadu Winged Wisdom (pref. also Kozilek's Command, Orcish Bowmasters)
Free: Mana Drain, Frantic Search, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Earthcraft, Survival of the Fittest
Will this happen? Of course not.
Image credit to @area.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 11:27 AM
What I want:
Axe: Psychic Frog, Vexing Bauble, Sowing Mycospawn, Nadu Winged Wisdom (pref. also Kozilek's Command, Orcish Bowmasters)
Free: Mana Drain, Frantic Search, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Earthcraft, Survival of the Fittest
Will this happen? Of course not.
Image credit to @area.bsky.social
Axe: Psychic Frog, Vexing Bauble, Sowing Mycospawn, Nadu Winged Wisdom (pref. also Kozilek's Command, Orcish Bowmasters)
Free: Mana Drain, Frantic Search, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Earthcraft, Survival of the Fittest
Will this happen? Of course not.
Image credit to @area.bsky.social