I am currently here in Quezon City for the five days training on the Special Course on Urban and Regional Planning. While the lectures usually end at 5:00pm, I decided to check on the nearby MTG gamestores to participate in their scheduled tournaments. One that I have found was The Dragonforge shop, which is located inside the UP Town Center mall that is along Katipunan Avenue.

Their Standard Showdown schedule for the week was Tuesday afternoon at 5:30pm and I barely made it in time after rushing to get to the place from UP Diliman campus. Good thing my nephew who was studying in the university told me which jeepney to ride from the SURP building up to the overpass that is across the mall. There were already players waiting for the first round pairings and I immediately told them TO that I will be joining the tournament. I then made sure that my deck has the correct maindeck and sideboard cards. I browsed through the cards again to review on the deck strategy of the Gruul Warriors and to check if I interpreted the new cards correctly.

The first Round started about 10 minutes later with 16 players in attendance. Here is a recap of my matchups after the Swiss rounds.

Round 1 vs Temur Reclamation – Won 2-0
Round 2 vs Azorius Aggro – Lost 0-2
Round 3 vs Gruul Warriors – Won 2-0
Round 4 vs 4C Control – Won 2-0

I finished fifth overall after checking on the rankings, which is one place short for the Standard Showdown pack prizes. Well at the least I got one regular booster pack as consolation. Here below is the post I made on my Deathmarked FB page along with a short caption.