While preparing for the Innistrad block portion of the Team tourney format for Iloilo Champs 2011, I’ve decided to browse the web for reference lists of the trending decks in the format. After a few clicks, I found a lot of the lists from recent Magic Online tournaments. Here are a few of what I’ve found: Continue reading
The (not so) latest deck list I’ve come up with, which is still with the same mana color choice from my previous post, is another take on the potential of the Black Red control archetype in Innistrad Standard. This version though focuses on to abuse of Chandra’s fiery pet, the Chandra’s Phoenix.
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I’m not talking about some back story from the fiery (literally) planeswalker but what I am referring to is a deck archetype I’d wanted to try in the new Standard. It’s not actually new since the combo exists way back after the release of Magic2012. I believed the rotation paved way for the deck to shine in the current meta. Continue reading
It seems that I can’t get enough of Black Red Vampires. As the Standard rotation draws near, I am still looking for possible deck archetypes to build with the new cards from Innistrad. I have found that there is still a potential on building a similar list from the last one. Continue reading
Last weekend was a really busy one for Magic communities around the globe. A few countries held their National Championships (including here in the Philippines) and the US had two major events, the SCG 5k at Richmond and the TCGPlayer 75k Champs in Chicago. It seems that more pros attended the latter event, with deck techs featured on the site. Let us check out a few of them.
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The Magic: the Gathering Philippine Nationals will be in this coming weekend and my excitement is, well, quite indefinite. This is actually my second time qualifying for this event (the first one was way back in 2003) and the first time I’m actually going there. I’m quite happy because Iloilo’s attendance for this year, as compared to the previous years, is fairly high with seven players qualified. Continue reading