Author Archives: Mark Ian Alloso

The Latest Facebook Meme I’ve Joined

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This one’s seem cool enough. Here’s what you do: 1. Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2. Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3. Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4. Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together. 5. Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in. Continue reading →

Scars of Mirrodin Complete Card Spoiler

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Its a bit late to post this one, though if you might have stumbled to my blog and needed to find a card in the recently released Scars of Mirrodin, then this post if for you. Scars of Mirrodin had a prereleased last weekend and will be officially out this coming October the 1st. The complete Scars of Mirrodin spoiler below. Source is from MTG Salvations. Continue reading →

C&C (Cheap and Competitive) Decks for Standard

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*this is a repost from MagicIloilo.com
Playing and competing in Magic has been getting tough, especially on the financial aspect. Most powerful cards nowadays cost you a minimum of 500 pesos, and you really have to spend thousands to build a “so-called” Tier 1 deck. Most people (including myself) blame the Mythic rarity as the cause of this sudden rise in card prices, though we just have to deal with it. The problem now is for the beginners who want to play competitive Magic but do not have the financial capacity to do so.

With that, I’ve decided to write this article to cite a few budget decks that can compete with the Standard metagame today. Continue reading →

A Few M11 Card Previews from PT San Juan

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As the title says it, here are some card previews of the upcoming M11 set this July. The cards were from the Archenemy decks which was playtested at PT San Juan.

Sorcerer’s Strongbox 4
Artifact
2,T: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, sacrifice ~ and draw three cards.

Plummet 1G
Destroy target creature with flying.

Reassembling Skeleton 1B
Creature – Skeleton Warrior
1B: Return ~ from your Graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
1/1

Chandra’s Outrage 2RR
Instant
~ deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creatures controller.

MBC in Rise of the Eldrazi

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Hi all. What I’ve noticed since I’ve started playing Mtg is that thinking of deck ideas comes at unusual and inappropriate times. I remember back in college days when we were studying for the Thermodynamics exam when my friend came up with a CoP control deck with Alter Reality and Mind Bend. That one-time breakthrough then got him into the top 8 of that weekend’s tournament. It’s pretty odd, but we were happy about it.

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