It is time again for another weekend recap of the Magic the Gathering happenings here in Iloilo City. The community isn’t tired of shuffling cards and slinging spells, which is a good relaxation output for a whole weekday of work or school.

The scheduled events were Standard FNM and Saturday’s Modern Month-ender. The results for Friday Night Magic tournament were:

FNM (Nov. 28, 2014)
Top 4:
1st, Rei (Black White Midrange)
2nd, Raoul (Red Green Aggro)
3rd, Herbert (Jeskai Tempo)
4th, Franco (Mono Red)

The card pool did some deck shuffling for each member and I ended up playing Esper Control, with the list taken from the second-place deck in the recent SCG Standard Open. It went as expected, as it did not perform well in the local meta and I finished with two losses and one draw. Raoul was the only player in our pool to take the highest finish of 3-1 (losing to Rei).

We then stayed overnight at Ghea’s place to build our decks for the Modern tourney. I piloted Temur Delver while Raoul played Treasure Burn. JayR also went to the event, and he piloted Blue White Merfolks. Another teammate, Justin, was also present, so we just handed him another Burn deck that we made at the last minute. The total participants were 13, so that means four rounds of gameplay. I went 2-2, losing to Burn and Affinity. The top 4 finishers were as follows:

Modern Month-Ender Tournament (Nov. 29, 2014)
Top 4:
1st, Carlo (Affinity)
2nd, Tonton (Birthing Pod)
3rd, Franco (BW Tokens)
4th, JayR (UW Merfolks)

We should have built the Junk pod deck, but we didn’t have enough time. Anyway, with that attendance, we are pretty confident that there will be another Modern tournament for this month, and we’ll also be including that format in this year’s Iloilo Champs event.

That’s about it for this week. Next week will be the first Stoke the Flames FNM and a GP Manila Trials in Bacolod. I will try to post a tournament report for that event, so just stay tuned.

Until next post and thanks for reading.