Throwback Thursday Tournament Report: July 19 Lorwyn Block Constructed

Happy Thursday all. One more day and we are into the weekend of Magic: the Gathering games and other hobbies that you might have scheduled to do on those days. Today’s blog post is another throwback Thursday report of the local tournaments done back when the Lorwyn set was still in the Standard format. Check it out below one of our Block Constructed events.

July 19th, 2008, the last Saturday our Magic: the Gathering tournament was held before Eventide becomes legal. We decided the format to be LBC (Lorwyn Block Constructed) in preparation for Team Iloilo for the upcoming GP Manila in August.

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MTG Kamigawa Standard Deck Feature – Abzan Aggro

Magic: the Gathering online platforms like MTG Arena gets you to build and playtest Standard deck archetypes without spending on the actual card. If ever you would need to play the deck on your next local game store tournament, then you would only do the card changes digitally.

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MTG Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Standard Boros Aggro Update

I have been looking for improvements on some of the Standard decks I have posted before on this blog by looking at Magic: the Gathering tournament results posted at the MTG Top 8 website and on MTGO. It is to look for some comparisons if what I have thought of a decklist is the same and will perform well in the actual event.

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Ragnarok M 2.0 – Hyakki War of Emperium GVG Recap (March 24, 2022)

Our guild Hyakki has decided to change the channel again hours before the War of Emperium event last Thursday, March 24th. That is because of the anticipation that the strong guild that went to the channel last week was still to remain there and to claim the same Agit1 Castle that was supposedly also our target castle. I think it was a risky but logical move and fortunately benefitted us, as the chosen channel had few competing guilds to battle with.

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Magic: the Gathering – A Futile Attempt to Hit that Meathook Massacre Card

Buying a few Magic: the Gathering booster packs and hoping to hit the good value cards of that set is more of plainly very lucky. If not, then it is just a futile attempt. That is because the chances of pulling the cards depends on what cards were already opened from the other booster packs. If it is a freshly-opened box, then there is a ratio of a certain pack that will have that card.

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MTG Kamigawa Standard Blue/Green Deathtouch Deck Update

For today’s Magic: the Gathering Standard deck discussion, we feature a Tier 2 deck archetype in the format in which the strategy has long existed in the history of the game. That strategy is to win via Poison Counters, and there is one Uncommon creature in Kaldheim that can produce it: Fynn, the Fangbearer.

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