Grand prize for the tournament is the "Three Blades" set: a katana, wakizashi, and tanto, each within its own saya and displayed on a ceremonial stand.

Scaling prizes will be awarded to all final round players, including (but not limited to) the following:

All players will get some prizes, including promo cards and sealed product. Several players will receive "Season Of" boxes. Prizes will be given away at random between rounds, and certain "judges' choice" prizes will be given away later in the day.

More prizes will be announced as the tournament date approaches, and is likely to include several boxes of sealed product, distributed across the attendees.  

The Rare Pool

A tradition of the Evanston tournaments is the "rare pool" -- we ask that all attendees put one Gold-bugged rare or promo card into the pool, and at the end of the tournament, all players will select one card from the pool to take home. The Rare Pool works as follows: all participants receive one draw. The lowest-ranking finisher draws first, continuing in reverse order, with the highest-ranking finisher drawing last. This gives an incentive to finish out the tournament, and makes sure the last-place folks don't go home empty-handed. Participation is voluntary, but encouraged.
 

Bounties

Any and all players are encouraged to submit bounties by e-mailing them (including information on how to collect the bounty) to docangst@freeshell.org.