We were back on schedule for the new players’ sanctioned tournaments and yesterday’s event was the first step. Standard Pauper was the right format for these players to enjoy a firsthand tournament experience in the local MtG community.
Last night’s turnout was a success as twelve players went to play and battle with the Commons in Standard. It was a four-round tournament and good thing TO Rei was there to help in managing the pairings, matchup results, and stuff.
I have brought three additional decks to help out with the attendance and to give the other players ideas on the possible archetypes in the current metagame of the format. The deck I played was White Black Tokens which is a popular Tier 1 deck from the tournaments in the PDC Magic site.
I won the first-round match against Red White Heroics but was swiftly defeated by the same archetype in the second round with a Temur Battle Rage pump combo in both games. Round three was against Red Green which I barely won the third game because of his misplay (a misread on Selfless Cathar’s ability). The last round matchup was a pseudo-mirror match but I was able to outplay her with combat tricks and Harsh Sustenance on the dome.
My final record was 3-1 and got me Fourth place. Here is the rest of the Top 4:
MtG Iloilo Tournament Results
Standard Pauper (April 1, 2015)
Top 4:
1st, Allen Paul (Sultai Dredge)
2nd, Ric (Red White Heroics)
3rd, Arthur (Mono Red Aggro)
4th, Mark Ian (WB Tokens)
I am looking forward to another high attendance on the next Wednesday schedule and hopefully, more new players will come out of their kitchen tables and participate. Big thanks to the Carbo brothers for bringing their friends to the event and also thanks to the regulars, Franco, Nonoy and Ric, and to my teammate Arthur for joining and making this tournament a success.
On future tourneys, I think we can have raffle prizes and additional bonuses for the top finishers (maybe a deckbox or sleeves). I guess we’ll need someone to sponsor those.
Lastly, here are the pics from the tournament.