Author Archives: Mark Ian Alloso

Two Standard Archetype Project Today

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With the Standard rotation two months, I can say that people get bored of playing it with the current metagame. Even here in our local community, they get tired of seeing Solar Flare, Wolf Run Ramp, Red Burn, Tokens, etc. Maybe the partial cause is the addiction to EDH but still. I personally know that there are still a lot to explore in the current sets in Standard and I’m looking forward to innovate more in the format while waiting for Dark Ascension in February. Continue reading →

Some Innistrad Block Decklists

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While preparing for the Innistrad block portion of the Team tourney format for Iloilo Champs 2011, I’ve decided to browse the web for reference lists of the trending decks in the format. After a few clicks, I found a lot of the lists from recent Magic Online tournaments. Here are a few of what I’ve found: Continue reading →

Magic: the Gathering Iloilo Championships 2011

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Just sharing this announcement of the upcoming Magic event this month of December. It will be a two-day multi-format tournament and kind of a commencing event for the year. Iloilo Champs is already on its third year and we are all hoping of more events to held in the upcoming years. The complete Magic: the Gathering Iloilo Championships 2011 event info after this cut. Continue reading →

Use Paypal with the UnionBank EON Card

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Being a freelance Web developer, one of the major issue is on receiving payment or salary from the client. Since they are outsourcing from overseas, I’ve observed that their common method is to pay via Paypal. The use of this online payment system in the Philippines seems to be growing fast by the years. The problem though is that local banks seems to have no integration feature for Paypal, aside from Unionbank’s EON Cyber Account card. Continue reading →

Japan and Wolf Run Ramp Dominated Worlds

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After four days, three formats of intense Magic competition in Worlds 2011, Jun’ya Iyanaga and Team Japan dominated the individual Worlds 2011 Champion and Team Worlds Champion respectively. Iyanaga’s Wolf Run Ramp version worked successfully with the aggro-expected Metagame popularized by the Token Town, UW Humans and Team Fireball’s innovative build of Tempered Steel Aggro. Continue reading →