Slowly Building our Magic: the Gathering Standard Card Pool

With the return of the weekly Magic: the Gathering Saturday Standard tournament at our LGS Pro Reis place, our card pool is now quite obliged to build some of the Standard deck archetypes in the format and in the process become competitive again in the local gaming scene. This part is what we missed being one since the start of the pandemic

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Throwback Thursday Tournament Report: Red Deck Still Wins!

I am sharing an old Magic: the Gathering tournament report which was first posted on my old Death-Mark blog website. This was back in 2009 when I played Demigod Red in our local Standard event. It was nice reading and reminiscing the days when I was younger and more enthusiastic in playing the format and playtesting the decks almost every day. Check out the write-up below.

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Magic: the Gathering Iloilo Tournament Throwback: Cosplayfest 2013

Remembering the times when we were able to conduct Magic: the Gathering tournaments along with mall events and sponsored by the management, I am sharing today a throwback of an event back in August 2013. The event was Cosplayfest 2013 and was held in the fountain area of Robinson’s Place Iloilo in the city’s downtown.

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MTG Iloilo Arena Tourney Results Week 2

The second Magic: the Gathering Iloilo Arena local tournament was concluded last Saturday with a lot of recognized Ilonggo players gaining the top slots. Basically, these are regulars in the local events scene but also gained top finishes in tournaments in Manila, and other areas of the country. They are continuously doing great in the current Standard format.

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