
The Battle for Zendikar breakout card on last weekend’s Starcity Games Standard Open was the multicolored Sorcery Bring to Light. The card was featured in Pro player Gerry Thompson’s deck in which he played all five colors to utilize its maximum potential Continue reading
Author Archives: Mark Ian Alloso
Big Red in BFZ Standard Part 2

Here is the updated decklist after researching through the possible components from the new set along with card interactions that will be effective to the current metagame based on last weekend’s results in the Starcity Games Standard Open. Continue reading
MtG Iloilo Tournament Results (Oct. 2-3, 2015)

Last Friday’s Battle for Zendikar Release Party FNM saw 16 players in attendance. The local Standard metagame has currently revolved around the clans of Tarkir as Rei’s products has not yet arrived that night as well as most of the players’ Continue reading
Standard Deck Tech: Black Red Devoid Aggro

So I have decided to build a deck out of the Battle for Zendikar card pool that we got from the Prerelease last Saturday. Good thing we got enough components to build around the decks. I referenced this build from Gavin Verhey’s column about Continue reading
MtG Iloilo Tournaments this Week (Oct 3-4)

Coming this weekend specifically Friday will be the Release Party for Battle for Zendikar set. This will be a special FNM event with foil promo card freebies for the participants. Here are the scheduled Magic: the Gathering tournaments for Iloilo City this week. Continue reading
Standard Mardu Tokens Non-Budget Version

The Battle for Zendikar set will be legal to play this coming Friday and so I am thinking that the metagame will rely on decks that are based on the tribes of Tarkir. One of which is the Mardu clan and my version of their archetype is the token-based build. Continue reading