The first Zeta Shift of the run has it’s first Donation Drive, for a Throne Of Eldraine Booster Crate & CFB Events Golden Ticket.
What’s better than drafting Magic: The Gathering with your friends? Drafting with your friends twice! This Throne of Eldraine Booster Crate includes a booster box of the Throne of Eldraine along with twelve additional booster packs, enough for a Throne of Eldraine draft and a Chaos Draft! The boosters included in this crate are: two Hour of Devastation, two Iconic Masters, two Core Set 2019, two Ixalan, one Rivals of Ixalan, one Guilds of Ravnica, one Ravnica Allegiance, and one Core Set 2020. But wait there’s more! You will also get a ChannelFireball playmat, deckbox, sleeves, life pad, and two spindown life counters.
Oh, one more thing! You will also get a CFB Events Golden Ticket, good for a free entry into MagicFest Grand Prix anywhere in the world in 2020!
Donate $8.33 (or multiples thereof) for a chance at this great prize donated by our friends at Channel Fireball. We’re running this drive until 2:45am PST.
Don’t forget to make a donor account to get this awesome prized shipped out to you even faster if you win!
Thank you all so much for your excellent and foreboding entries into the Goose Is Loose contest!
We got nearly 150 entries, so the decision wasn’t easy, but after going through them all, we chose our winner, and four honorable mentions.
Honorable mention by Kite:
Honorable mention by Ciijay:
Honorable mention by bloodofstarsart:
Honorable mention by TacticusVigil:
And our winner, JPriceLegendary!
Congratulations JPriceLegendary, you have won a Desert Bus For Hope 2019 t-shirt as well as a 2019 DBloon!
Hold onto your bus, it’s time to find out what you missed on the first Night Watch of 2019!

Graham took us behind the scenes of DB2019’s intro:
DUMP TRUCK MYSTERY MEALS:
Jordan and Matt graced us with K-Pop poses:
This or That: TMBG songs or B-Movie Edition:
A wild moose appears!
The Ham Father arrived:
Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2019 happenings around the web…
- Visit photos.desertbus.org for the latest photos.
- Visit youtube.com/user/DesertBusForHope for the latest video highlights from the Video Strike Team (VST).
- Be our friend on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- And, of course, the live stream is always available at desertbus.org and twitch.tv/desertbus!
It’s dangerous to go alone! Particularly without adequate warmth.
Relive the magic of the moment you first get the fabled Master Sword with this queen-size snuggly quilt made with love.
Fun fact: the quilting alone has 134846 stitches.
Donate $8.03 (or multiples thereof e.g. $16.06, $24.09 etc.) until 11:50PM PST to be in with a chance of winning!
You’ve seen it on camera, now see it on you! The Desert Bus For Hope 2019 Shirt!
Screen printed on cotton-poly blend shirt blanks, they are available in Unisex or Femme styles in sizes XS to 4XL (5XL in unisex).
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a picture where “it is really obvious what terrible thing the goose is going to do next”.

Please email your entries in .png or .jpg format to contest@desertbus.org with the headline “Goose Is Loose” by 11PM PST to be in with a chance of winning, and please remember to add your chat name in the email!
An indispensable tool for surviving the Quiet Apocalypse. This hatchet is hand-forged by Hultafors in Hults Bruk, Sweden, and features a head made from Swedish steel and a hickory handle etched with the Hinterland Games logo. Also included in this lot is a Hinterland hoodie (size Large), a pair of enamel mugs, and a poster for The Long Dark’s third story episode, Crossroads Elegy, signed by the team at Hinterland Games.
Fun fact: the axe is approved for use in the World Axe Throwing League and the International Axe Throwing Federation League tournaments.
Donate $7.78 (or multiples thereof e.g. $15.56, $23.34 etc.) 9:30PM PST to be in with a chance of winning!
It’s time for the first donation drive of Night Watch 2019!

Set aside the legendary creature you have chosen as your commander, shuffle up your 100-card singleton deck, and cross your fingers for a turn one Sol Ring. It’s time to play some Commander! With these four pre-constructed decks from Commander 2019 you can Populate gigantic tokens with Ghired, Conclave Exile, Morph to pass unseen with Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer, Flashback spells from your graveyard with Sevinne, the Chronoclasm, or give into Madness with Anje Falkenrath.
Includes the Commander 2019 decks “Primal Genesis,” “Faceless Menace,” “Mystic Intellect,” and “Merciless Rage.”
Donate $9.14 (or multiples thereof e.g. $18.28, $27.42 etc.) until 8:00PM PST to be in with a chance of winning!
The cah-caws are no more! This year, Alpha Flight is throwing things back to those long forgotten days where you actually had to drive to a store to find movies to watch. Ahh… the VHS had so many features… you could play… pause… uhh… it remembered where you stopped playing…?
Thankfully, here in 2019, it’s a lot easier to watch the latest video highlights on this thing they call The Internet. Here’s what you’ve missed during the first Alpha Flight shift of Desert Bus for Hope 2019.
Check out the radical new Alpha Flight intro video! (We’re number one! Alphabetically!)
New Alpha Flight team member Jacob needs a primer on how to drive the bus.
We found Creepy Doll. Creepy Doll is in the building.
We read a few cards from RoboRosewater.
We Caramelldansen our way to $100,000! (Thank you!)
And finally, a message from the Snorsh Tourism board.
Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2019 happenings around the web…
- Visit photos.desertbus.org for the latest photos.
- Visit youtube.com/user/DesertBusForHope for the latest video highlights from the Video Strike Team (VST).
- Be our friend on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- And, of course, the live stream is always available at desertbus.org and twitch.tv/desertbus!
Every eight hours, we’re running silent auctions featuring items lovingly crafted by the Desert Bus for Hope Craft-A-Long community. Right now, you can place a bid on these two items…
Remember, to bid on a Silent Auction, you’ll need to sign up for a Donor Account. These silent auctions run until 12:00am Midnight PST.
And, check out the Silent Auctions page for a list of items we’ll be auctioning throughout the run. New lots start every eight hours.

















