How To Support your MTG Local Game Stores by Buying Card Products

Here in the MTG Iloilo Community’s current and only local game store, the big challenge is to ensure that the sealed products of each Magic: the Gathering set are sold to the local players. At times, we can’t expect these players to have the finances and budget to buy booster packs as they might prefer to buy the card singles for their deck components rather than take the risk of pulling these cards from the packs.

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How to Prepare to your 1st Magic: the Gathering Prerelease Event

I remember my first Magic: the Gathering Prerelease event where I just prepared a piece of paper, a ballpen, and a deck box containing some basic lands in it. At that time, internet access was limited and you’d only have the official MTG website posting the info on the complete spoiler list, and the strategy details were somewhat premium.

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Upcoming MTG Iloilo Events: Phyrexia All will be One PR Pass

I have contacted our local TO Rei Coo for the upcoming Magic: the Gathering tournaments that could entice the local Iloilo community in joining and playing competitively with more reason to do so. With that in mind, we tried to gauge the possible dates of the Prerelease weekend since the usual delays on the arrival of the product are expected. This has become the norm since the pandemic struck as the supply chain has been affected.

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Magic: the Gathering BRO Standard Deck Tech: Abzan Self-mill

The current Magic: the Gathering Standard metagame is still shaping up with the entry of The Brother’s War in the format though we already seeing some staple decks like those built around Portal to Phyrexia. Some variances I saw was Mono-Green and Jeskai Midrange artifacts. Also, the new Soldiers Tribal aggro deck is looking to be the face of the metagame under the aggro category.

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Tournament Throwback – Magic: the Gathering Iloilo City Championships 2016

One of the major Magic: the Gathering events or tournaments in our local MTG Iloilo City community was the yearly Iloilo City Championships held every December of the year. I call it a tribute to the community and commemoration of another year of competitive, meaningful, and fun Magic: the Gathering gameplay.

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Magic: The Gathering Random Repacks Number Raffle & Chances of a Judge Foil Card

I have thought of ways of promoting the Magic: the Gathering Iloilo community by having some raffle number games in the form of repacks. These contain at least a Mythic or Rare, some commons and uncommon, and a foil card. I priced each for only 25 pesos, numbered it 1 to 100, and to be randomized it beforehand. I had some regular value Rares and full-art basic lands added, and one of the repacks was inserted with a special card. That is because the participants will have chances of opening a Morophon Judge Foil which is currently around 50usd each.

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