The Regionals Fever Is Here

It seems awkward to post this early about the Regionals but hey, one month is short time (especially for me).

Earlier, we had a conference on Ym regarding the team’s plans for the event like when to buy the plane tickets, the playtests, etc. The target is still Cebu. We had known that the fare price of the ferry going to Cebu has got higher so we have decided to go via plane instead. We’re still comparing the plane tickets on which one is the cheapest. Read more

Alara Reborn Rumor Season Started

Hey guys, guess what? The rumor season is here once again! I know it’s every Mtg player’s favorite part whenever there’s an upcoming set. This time its Alara Reborn scheduled to be released this April. As of the moment, we already know the Prerelease and Release cards, the set’s booster box, intro packs, and the content of the fat pack. A few teaser card images were also previewed. Read more

How To Create A Really Invisible Folder

While getting bored (again) while waiting for a new client interview, I decided to look at our old company forum and see if there are posts I haven’t read before when it was active. Unfortunately, there isn’t so I just look around and stumbled into this post by an officemate. I think this is worth the share so I’ll repost it here.

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Zendikar Announced

Wizards announced today in Magic Arcana the next big set after the release of M10. The set name, codenamed as “Live”, is called Zendikar and it will be released on October 2, 2009. The complete announcement quoted below:

Deadly Perils, Priceless Treasures.

Set Name
Zendikar

Three-Letter Abbreviation
ZEN

Number of Cards
249

Release Date
Friday, October 2, 2009

Prerelease Events
September 26-27, 2009

Launch Parties
October 2-4, 2009

Previews start on magicthegathering.com
September 7, 2009

Design Team
Mark Rosewater (lead)
Doug Beyer
Graeme Hopkins
Kenneth Nagle
Matt Place

Development Team
Henry Stern (lead)
Aaron Forsythe
Mark Globus
Erik Lauer
Devin Low
Matt Place
Mike Turian
Steve Warner

The set logo

The expansion symbol

A Few “Magic” Updates

Hey y’all, how are you doing. I just got some time to sneak in some update to this blog. I hope you had a fun weekend. Mine was great! I didn’t join the weekly tournament but it was fun. I’ll just won’t go into every detail hehe… Anyways, I’ve been browsing for Magic: The Gathering news & updates this past few days and here are some of them. Read more

Buy You A Drink

A Scotsman, American, and an Irishman are in a bar.
They are having a good time and all agree that the bar is a nice place.
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The Current Top MTG Players in the 2009 Season

I’ve stumbled on zesty’s post at the Rumor Mill regarding the current top ranking Magic players in this 2009 season. To recall, we had already four Grand Prix’s and one Pro-Tour which is Pro-Tour Kyoto, and this weekend we will be having another Grand Prix at Singapore.

Here are the top 3 Magic: the Gathering players based on the Magic Top 20 rank posted at TwinFu.com. Read more

What Magic (The Gathering) Has Taught Me

Playing Magic for almost half of my life has been very memorable and fun of course. The game has brought me not just strategies, creative thinking and innovations but also new friends, colleagues and even long-time buddies. With that, I decided to reminisce some important lessons I have learned in my nine years of being a Magic player/enthusiast. Here it goes: Read more

Work at the Moment: The “Conspiracy”

Hey y’all. I am sorry I didn’t able to publish some Mtg dosage for quite awhile now. Its because I got really stuck at work. Yeah.. excuses, blah..blah… I know but I think its worth it.

To give you some hint of what I do for a few weeks now, I’ve been studying and doing report on the training videos my client required me to watch. It is a training about PPC Marketing and doing campaigns of CPA Networks. These training videos were from the Arbitrage Conspiracy, owned by two marketing coaches Aymen and Emmanuel.

I’ve been learning a lot so far although its quite boring sometimes to go on a marathon on the training videos. A few things I’ve learned is that you’ve got to have the patience and a good observation on your campaigns.

Its just like playing Starcraft and utilizing each of your resources for maximum output, although I’m not saying its that easy as it is in PPC Marketing. You’ve got to observe every detail. The good thing though is they have provided a few tools and resources to use to help automate some of the work.

I’m currently on Week 9 of the training and I hope I can finish this so that I can do some real action on my client’s pages. I’ve done a few writings of the Google ads for warm up. Its just a disappointment though because most of the affiliate networks I’ve researched doesn’t cover Philippines to their members. I wish they could change their policy in the future. Still, I’ll be looking forward to implement what I’ve learned and have my own campaigns.

Oh and about Magic? Still doing good. Here’s our Top 8 pose last Feb. 28 tournament.

Got 7th on that one, piloting Boat Brew.

Signing off for now…. back to study mode…

*thumbnail image from the Arbitrage Conspiracy site.

New MTG Gateway Promo Cards

I don’t know if you already know about this but for the sake of those who don’t, here are the two new Conflux cards (with an alternate art) that will be included in the Conflux Gateway kits.

The kit is actually composed of the following:
- 40 each of 2 different alternate art promotional cards
- Conflux Magic The Gathering Gateway Kit poster
- Gateway Kit Information Sheet
- Gateway League Tracking Sheet
- How to Run a Magic The Gathering Tournament information
- How to Schedule and Report a Casual Event information
- 5 DCI membership cards to sign up new players

More info about MTG Gateway here.

Info source: The Rumor Mill.

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