Two Magic: the Gathering game stores will be the location for this Saturday’s Standard Constructed tournament. For Friday, we will be having only one tournament which will be FNM at Rei’s Place. The last Saturday Showdown will be pushed through the next day whereas Critical Hit Comics and Games will also be having its own Standard event. I would expect players to be divided between the two depending on their convenience.

Here are the details of the scheduled MtG Iloilo Tournaments for this weekend:

Rei’s Place
December 16, 2016
Friday Night Magic
Standard Constructed format, 80php entry fee.
Top 4 gets an exclusive FNM Promo foil card and Kaladesh Booster packs
Tourney starts 6:00pm

December 17, 2016
Saturday Standard Showdown
100php entry fee.
Special booster promo along with Kaladesh booster pack prizes
Tourney starts 3:00pm

Critical Hit: Comics and Games
December 17, 2016
SATURDAY STANDARD TOURNAMENT
Time: 1:30pm
8 players minimum
P100 Tourney fee

I saw this deck archetype being piloted by one of my favorite Pros, Raphael Levy at the current Standard Pro Tour Kaladesh in Hawaii. I have not seen if it was featured in the deck tech area but basing upon the matchup coverage, I think the decklist looks like this:

Lands
1 Evolving Wilds
7 Mountain
7 Island
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
4 Wandering Fumarole
4 Spirebluff Canal

Creatures
3 Advanced Stitchwing
4 Stitchwing Skaab
4 Wretched Gryff
4 Prized Amalgam
4 Elder Deep-Fiend

Spells
3 Kozilek’s Return
4 Lightning Axe
4 Cathartic Reunion
2 Tormenting Voice
4 Fiery Temper

We just wait for the final decklist to be posted at the mothership site after the Day Two of the Pro Tour has finished.

Found this decklist while I was looking some topics at the Magic TCG thread on Reddit. The Standard format is still young a two weeks after the rotation and the metagame given has not yet stabilized. This deck archetype for instance another way of going aggro and at the same time providing a way to one-shot kill the opponent. Below is the decklist:

Maindeck
4 Attune with Aether
4 Blossoming Defense
4 Built to Smash
2 Harnessed Lightning
4 Larger Than Life
4 Uncaged Fury

4 Bristling Hydra
4 Electrostatic Pummeler
2 Longtusk Cub
4 Servant of the Conduit
4 Voltaic Brawler

4 Aether Hub
3 Game Trail
3 Cinder Glade
7 Forest
3 Mountain

Sideboard
2 Appetite for the Unnatural
2 Clip Wings
4 Galvanic Bombardment
2 Harnessed Lightning
4 Lathnu Hellion
1 Natural State

Being a fan of Black Red or Rakdos aggro deck builds, I am happy to share the recent version of this strategy featuring creatures from the plane of Kaladesh. The deck was piloted by Jacob Hagen and finished in the Top 4 of StarCityGames.com Standard Open – Indianapolis. Here below is the decklist:

Maindeck
4 Aether Hub
4 Foreboding Ruins
11 Mountain
4 Swamp

4 Bomat Courier
4 Inventor’s Apprentice
4 Pia Nalaar
1 Reckless Bushwhacker
4 Scrapheap Scrounger

4 Fiery Temper
4 Incendiary Flow
4 Unlicensed Disintegration
2 Fleetwheel Cruiser
2 Key to the City
4 Smuggler’s Copter

Sideboard
2 Call the Bloodline
4 Galvanic Bombardment
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
2 Lightning Axe
1 Reckless Bushwhacker
4 Transgress the Mind

Source

You can now say goodbye to your DTK and Origins cards as Kaladesh will become legal to play starting tomorrow. To commemorate and celebrate this recent Magic set, Wizards has announced a Release Party event in which exclusive foil promo cards will be given to players. As for the Iloilo community, tomorrow’s Friday Night Magic will have each participant given these cards. The card is Saheeli’s Artistry.

Below are the details of the event:

MTG Iloilo Kaladesh Release Party and FNM
September 30, 2016
6pm, Rei’s Place
Format: Standard Constructed
Reg: 100php
Prizes: Kaladesh Booster packs

It was a fun-filled Saturday as the Magic the Gathering Iloilo community welcomed the newest set Kaladesh via the Prerelease tournament. Thirty six participants composed of old and new players gathered at the venue in Robinsons Place Jaro, the latest Mall here in Iloilo City. I decided to be a facilitator this time and helped Rei in assisting the players with the Kaladesh card rules and stuff. I also took pics during the course of the event and here they are below:

It is Kaladesh Prerelease weekend. Here is something I built based from the core Esper control components and combined with the new cards from Kaladesh. Blue White Control is still a viable strategy for every new rotation metagame. The list below:

Lands
4 Meandering River
1 Blighted Cataract
6 Plains
4 Island
4 Prairie Stream
4 Port Town
2 Evolving Wilds
1 Westvale Abbey

Creatures
1 Bruna, the Fading Light
2 Gisela, the Broken Blade
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
2 Archangel Avacyn

Spells
1 Blessed Alliance
1 Skywhaler’s Shot
2 Spell Shrivel
1 Insidious Will
2 Fumigate
3 Dovin Baan
2 Declaration in Stone
3 Anticipate
1 Negate
1 Planar Outburst
1 Whirlermaker
1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
4 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Cultivator’s Caravan
3 Stasis Snare

The recent Magic: the Gathering expansion Kaladesh will held its Prerelease events and so they have showed in the mothership site the full spoiler of the set. As for my usual role in every new expansion, I look for the patch files to update the Magic Workstation software. It was an easy Google search this time and I easily found one text file from the MTG Salvation forums.

You can download it by clicking here.

As for the procedure on patching your MWS, here are the steps:
1. Add the new set via the Add/Remove sets under the Tools tab with expansion initial KLD, edition name Kaladesh.
2. Click the Get data from the text spoiler and then path it to the location of the file downloaded.
3. Press Next and then Add Edition.
4. After that, click the File tab and then Save Deck/Library.