Here is another short wrap-up of this weekend’s MtG happenings here in Iloilo City. First off is on last Friday’s FNM tournament wherein fifteen players gathered to battle Standard. That means four Swiss rounds and the top 4 players will receive the KTK booster pack prizes and foil FNM promo cards. I piloted an updated version of Abzan Constellations, based the list from the Manila players. I unfortunately just went 2-2 as I have lost to Temur Monsters and Rei’s Black White Midrange deck. Here are the top 4 finishers after those rounds.
Friday Night Magic (Nov. 21, 2014)
1st, Herbert (Mono Red)
2nd, Speedy (Jeskai Tempo)
3rd, Dean (Mardu Midrange)
4th, Rei (Black White Midrange)
Saturday’s scheduled events were Duel Commander morning session and another Standard tournament in the afternoon. Five players were present for the Commander tournament which I still managed to have it as a three-round event. I again piloted Marath to further practice on the deck as our card pool is slowly buying the needed components of the deck. I did perform well, finishing 3-0 and got the first place. The deciding game against Ezuri was pretty much very complicated but I managed to pull off the win. The top two finishers for the Duel Commander were:
Duel Commander (Nov. 22, 2014)
1st, Mark Ian (Marath, Will of the Wild)
2nd, John Marcelo (Ezuri, Renegade Leader)
Sunday was another session for Duel Commander as we practiced the currently built decks. Only three of us went to the said tambayan which was just a small session of playtest. At the least I was able to playtest Marath against the top tier Commander, specifically Vendilion Clique and GST. We are looking forward for the community to have more fandom on the format as we planning to expand to a bigger tournament with of course bigger prizes. Hopefully that tambayan will be finally completed by next month, for the establishment’s soft opening.
That’s about it for this local scene report. Next weekend will have a Modern Saturday tournament and I’ll try to detail it on the next report (i.e. decklists, matches summary, etc).
Until next post and thanks for reading.