In last night’s Wednesday Standard Magic tourney at Nth Dimension: Comics and Games, the TO had decided to implement the recent banning in the format. That meant no Golos decks or sight of the Field of the Dead to expect in the event and so everybody made adjustments in their decks, including our card pool.

I decided to give our Mono Red Cavalcade build another shot even though I knew that the deck’s good matchup is gone. I was expecting a lot of Food decks since our local community is fond of aggro to midrange Green-based decks. Three Tibalts in the sideboard against lifegain and Lava Coils to deal with Questing Beasts. Unfortunately, I could not sideboard against bad luck and so I drew eight lands in a row and died in my first Round match. There were 12 players in attendance, and I hoped that my two teammates can redeem my loss. Being paired with one of them in Round 2 is not part of the plan though.

After four rounds, I ended up with a 1-2-1 record which I do not want to detail about. Anywho, the Top 4 finishers in the tournament are as follows:

MtG Iloilo Tournament Results
Wednesday Night Standard
(October 23, 2019)
Top 4:
1st, Tonton (Simic Food)
2nd, Christian (Golgari Adventure)
3rd, Ace (Bant Food)
4th, Ruel (Gruul Aggro)

12 players, 4 rounds gameplay.

Almost all of the decks in the Top 4 have Questing Beast in their four-drop slot. This would mean more of these decks in the coming weeks and can be a game changer in some of the matchups. I do hope our card pool can come up with decks that can counter this.

Until the next blog post.