The One Booster Draft

Hey guys. If you want to enjoy drafting but don’t have the budget, why not try the one booster draft. Here’s how it works:

What You Need

1. A booster pack
2. Some basic lands

The Rules

1. Each player picks a card from the pack and pass it to the direction agreed by the group. Do this until all the cards in the pack are drafted.

2. The players will then create a deck out of the chosen cards provided the deck will have a minimum of 25 cards and all the drafted cards must be used.

3. They will then be randomly paired and the game time will be the same with the normal time on regular drafts.

4. Each player starts at 15 life. Whoever gets his opponent’s life to zero wins.

5. The top four players after three rounds get the prizes, or you can make it cheaper and utilize the packs by picks by rank (i.e. the first place gets the first pick, and then the next pick for the 2nd placer and so on).

So there you have it. I hope you can try it and still enjoy drafting with just a booster to spend.

p.s. watch out for the report of our trip to the MTG Philippine Open last weekend. Until next time.

BR Goblins in M10 Version 2

Here’s the updated version of the Black Red Goblins that I’ve created post M10 Standard. Dragon Fodder acts like Time Spiral’s Mogg War Marshall, producing tokens to benefit the Goblin lords’ passive ability. I’ve also added Redcap and 2 Fallout to deal with token decks.

Maindeck
Lands
8 [ALA] Mountain
4 [SHM] Mountain
4 [M10] Dragonskull Summit
4 [SHM] Graven Cairns
4 [LRW] Auntie’s Hovel

Creatures
2 [LRW] Wort, Boggart Auntie
3 [M10] Siege-Gang Commander
4 [M10] Goblin Chieftain
4 [LRW] Squeaking Pie Sneak
3 [SHM] Murderous Redcap
4 [CFX] Goblin Outlander
4 [LRW] Mad Auntie

Spells
4 [ALA] Dragon Fodder
2 [CFX] Volcanic Fallout
3 [M10] Lightning Bolt
3 [M10] Doom Blade

Sideboard
SB: 4 [M10] Deathmark
SB: 2 [EVE] Chaotic Backlash
SB: 4 [LRW] Thoughtseize
SB: 2 [ARB] Thought Hemorrhage
SB: 3 [ALA] Infest

The sideboard is concentrated on beating white token decks, and the Thoughtseizes and Thought Hemorrhage for control and combo decks.

An ideal play would be:
Turn 2 - Dragon Fodder
Turn 3 - Chieftain
Turn 4 - Another Fodder or Pie Sneak *haste-beating action*

Let me know what you think.

Jamie Mackintosh Wins Australia Nationals

Jamie Mackintosh is the 2009 Australian Nationals champion piloting a G/W Elf Ball deck and defeating (or rather sweeping) Ian Wood’s 5-color Blood deck in the finals. Here’s the decklist:

Maindeck
8 Forest
1 Plains
4 Wooded Bastion
4 Sunpetal Grove
2 Windbrisk Heights
19 land

1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Mirror Entity
1 Cloudthresher
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Devoted Druid
4 Regal Force
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Elvish Visionary
35 creatures

2 Manamorphose
4 Primal Command
6 other spells

Sideboard
4 Great Sable Stag
2 Cloudthresher
3 Oversoul of Dusk
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Platinum Angel
2 Qasali Pridemage

Summary of the matchup results on the Top 8:
Quarterfinals vs. Garry Wong (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0
Semifinals vs. Hugh Glanville (UB Faeries) Won 3-2
Finals vs. Ian Wood (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0

Iloilo M10 Prerelease Pics

Here are our pics taken during the M10 Prerelease Party here in Iloilo City. It showcased the event area, some game highlights and the awards segment. To recall, I got into the top 4 (4th place actually) with a 3-1 record. John Paul got the undefeated record 4-0 and got the first place and the T-shirt prize. The other t-shirt went to Mao who got 2nd place with 3-1. Better luck for me next time on the shirt.
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Saturday’s Playlist

I am not actually preparing for any actual playlist whenever I go Djing at Lanai. I just bring in my new House music album downloads and pick random from them and from my old/crowd favorites.

Here are a few of my picks from last Saturday’s session together with DJ Osiris.
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Tournament Report: Playing The Core (Set)

Yesterday was a fun-filled Magic2010 Coreset Prerelease for us here in Magic Iloilo community. Although the participants were lessened to 18 players, it was still an enjoyment on us opening those M10 packs and the excitement of getting the chased rares. Too bad for me as none of my starting six booster packs have the rares that I wanted. The good thing though is that the deck has a lot of limited bombs.
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Black Red Goblins in M10

The arrival of Magic 2010 core set and the rotation of Tenth Edition in Standard shape up the current metagame and introduced us to new strategies in deck building. This also meant the return of Lorwyn favorite tribal decks and one of which are the goblins or boggarts in the Lorwyn world. M10 introduced new cards to tune up the deck. Here are some of the choices.
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Manny Pacquiao’s Latest Movie

Here’s a teaser of Manny Pacquiao’s latest movie entitled “Wapakman”. I’m guessing Pacman will be a superhero in this somewhat comedy type of film.

I just love how the beauty queen was punched and the excessive drooling of the characters. Lol!

DJing at Lanai Grill

Last Sunday, I had another schedule of DJing at Lanai Grill with Masyong a.k.a. DJ Mards. Supposedly, our playing schedule is every Saturday but our tournament finished late so I had to cancel. There was a birthday party sked on that day but that was also canceled the day before so we just took our time to have fun and practice on the mix. Here are some of our pics:
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