Magic: the Gathering Booster Pack Battle with Core Set 2019 vs Theros Beyond Death

I had some casual booster pack purchases from the online Magic: the Gathering stores on Shopee whenever I have some extra budget to spare or I found good deals posted by these specific stores. Also, this was not my first time buying from the particular store but due to their consistent sale on the price of the single assorted set booster packs, I was always convinced to buy some batch of packs to be opened on video.

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Magic: the Gathering Standard’s Top Sideboard Choices January 2023

There are several Magic: the Gathering websites that have been my point of reference on the data of the top-tier and top-performing Standard decks on the current BRO metagame. I am also checking not only the maindeck’s cards but also the sideboards. Thus for today’s blog post, let us do a quick rundown of the latter as of January 2nd week, 2023.

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Upcoming MTG Iloilo Events: Phyrexia All will be One PR Pass

I have contacted our local TO Rei Coo for the upcoming Magic: the Gathering tournaments that could entice the local Iloilo community in joining and playing competitively with more reason to do so. With that in mind, we tried to gauge the possible dates of the Prerelease weekend since the usual delays on the arrival of the product are expected. This has become the norm since the pandemic struck as the supply chain has been affected.

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Magic: the Gathering – Sharing My Rakdos (B/R) Lands Collection (January 2023 Update)

It has been a while since I updated my Magic: the Gathering Rakdos (Black-Red) lands collection and the relevant good news (but still requires some funding for purchase) was the reprinting of Sulfurous Springs in Dominaria United. The card’s variance was my concern as there is regular art and borderless art. The same is applied to the Haunted Ridge card from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt.

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More Pioneer Decks to Feature Starting with Boros Sagas

Here is some New Year good news. The local Magic: the Gathering Pioneer weekly tournaments are now having an increase in player support, and the added participants are those having a holiday vacation here in Iloilo City. The first Pioneer FNM tournament of the year 2023 got 12 participants and much more if not others having conflicting schedules. I was able to drop by Reis’s place and took some videos for vlog content which I will post this weekend.

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BRO Standard Mono-Blue Artifacts Aggro Deck – Is it a More Stable Build?

Hello Geists, how is the new year going for you so far? I hope it is good and we should welcome the year right and on the positive side of things. Anywho, this blog received good news for the start of the year which I will disclose soon. For now, we will just continue with the Magic: the Gathering deck techs in Standard and soon with Pioneer in the mix.

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