There are not much special or big time tourney scheduled for this week aside from the fact that the recent Standard banning will be implemented by tomorrow. As I have mentioned in the last blog post, the players have already adjusted their deck setup as the Field of the Dead had already been exiled or left the format. Tomorrow’s Friday Night Magic will be at Pro Rei’s place and to those who aren’t familiar with the location, it is at A3 Bookstore that is in the street between Robinson’s Mabini street wing and Fuentes street.

Just check out on this map screenshot below. It is difficult to explain the details actually.

Here below are the detailed schedule of the tourneys:

October 25, 2019
Friday Night Magic
Standard format, 100php reg. fee.
Top 4 gets an promo packs and regular ELD booster pack prizes
Event Starts 6:15pm.

October 26, 2019
Saturday Standard
100php reg. fee.
Top 4 gets an promo packs and regular ELD booster pack prizes, or beyond that basing on the player attendance
Event starts at 3:00pm.

Kitakits!

Last night’s Standard tournament was held at Nth Dimension: Comics and Games and was attended by 15 players with four rounds of gameplay. This is despite the expected arrival of the typhoon that day and it was a good thing that there weren’t many heavy drops of rain and strong winds that day. I was able to join this time, playing our team’s Mono-Red Aggro deck. My teammate Ace decided to pilot Golgari Explore this time, saying that he got tired of playing Jeskai control in the past weeks.

Anyhow, the tournament started just 15 minutes after the initial schedule and here below is the summary of my matchups.

Rd 1 vs Ruel, Mono Red mirror – won 2-0
Rd 2 vs Mark Anthony, Boros Control – won 2-0
Rd 3 vs Joel, Abzan Knights – won 2-0
Rd 4 vs Philip Roy, Mono Red mirror – draw 0-0-3

It was an impressive performance of the deck as I have expected to be unlucky when I pilot a Mono-Red Aggro. The curve of the creatures was fine and the Risk Factors were right there as needed. Also, I only mulliganed twice in all my games.

One notable game that I would highlight on this tournament was Game 2 versus Mark and his Boros Control. I boarded in my Treasure Maps, Experimental Frenzy, Banefires and Fight with Fires in exchange to Shocks and a few Firebrands. I then drew most of my sideboard cards with enough lands to cast them.

Since I had expected him to be more controllish post-sideboard, it was a good keep as I would have most of his removals blank. I decided to be on the direct damage burn plan and started with a turn three Risk Factor. He took the damage as he had already on a high life total with his Shield Mare pressuring my life total.

I later on dealt with it with Lightning Strike while still not casting a creature. Turns later while continually casting Risk Factor and him taking the damage, my first creature drop was a Runaway Steam-kin, which he immediately killed with Justice Strike. That hinted me that most of his cards were spot removals as he did not yet follow up that mare earlier with another creature. I got my Treasure Map fixing my card draws until I finally flipped it to get 3 treasure tokens. I already have one Fight with Fire in hand and I just wait until he is the range on the ten damage. At Eleven life, I attempted a Jumpstart Risk Factor at end of the turn after he landed a Lyra Dawnbringer. He pondered for a while before finally taking the 4 damage and with only a Plains untapped, I am sure that time that he could not prevent the damage of the kicked-sorcery. I then untapped and showed him the card and the mana to cast it. Good game.

I finished in second placed and got two Standard Showdown and GRN booster packs for the prizes. Overall, it was a good attendance for a Wednesday night despite the storm warnings and I am happy to have the new members of the MTG Iloilo community enjoying the tournament in a competitive fashion. Here below are some of the pics during the tournament.

Tonight will be another Standard Showdown tourney at Nth but I don’t think I will be playing but I am sending best of lucks to my teammates that will be there.

That is a wrap. Until the next post.

For the quick definition, the MTG Standard Showdown is a program aimed at the Standard community and providing a reliable weekly setting for the most popular way to play Magic. For the past years, the MtG Iloilo is only holding this event once a week at Pro Reis Place. This time, we have another Standard Showdown at the Nth Dimension local game store which is already in its third week. The owner decided to be of the same time slot with Rei so the players has two options on which store to play this event. I would not recommend this as I would prefer the players to play two events rather than one. I would have one store to schedule it on a Saturday evening starting at 7:00pm. However, it is still up to the game store’s discretion.

Anywho, here below is the event announcement I have posted at the MTG Iloilo Facebook page.

When: Every Saturday at Pro Reis Place A3 Bookstore & Nth Dimension: Comics and Games, Time depending on LGS announcement.

Format: Standard, 3-5 Rounds based on attendance, no cut to top.

Entry Fee: P100

Prizes: Aside from the usual GRN Booster pack prizes, we have the special Standard Showdown booster packs given out to the Top finishers of the tournament.

I hope to see you guys at these events.

The planned Magic: the Gathering tournaments this weekend will be in the local game stores Rei place and Nth Dimension. Two FNMs will push through tonight with the formats of Standard and Modern. As most players know, Reis will hold the Standard FNM whereas

Nth Dimension will be hosting the Modern one. This Saturday’s Standard Showdown will be at Reis Place with the details mentioned below.

***MTG Iloilo Tournaments this Weekend***

August 24, 2018
Friday Night Magic at ProRei’s Place
Standard format
100 Reg. FNM Promo foils and M19 Booster pack prizes
Starts 6:15 pm

Friday Night Magic at Nth Dimension: Comics and Games
Modern format
90 Reg. M19 Booster pack draft prizes
Starts 6:00 pm

August 25, 2018
Standard Showdown at ProRei’s Place
100 Reg. Showdown and M19 Booster pack prizes
Starts 3:00 pm

See you at the tournaments.

So it has been decided: I will be facilitating on our Magic: the Gathering Iloilo booth at ConQuest 2 over flying to Manila for the Asia Pop Comic Con event. This is just a week’s notice but due to Magic’s not being part of the APCC, I had my doubts already of going there. That is even with a plane tickets I have already bought months ago. It is 2k+ down the drain as I cannot cancel nor refund it due to it being a promo ticket. Anyhow, I would not be that disappointed since I would expect to spend more if I ever proceeded because of hotel accommodations, entrance tickets, etc.

Going back to the ConQuest event, we had already discussed with organizers on the location of the MTG Iloilo play area and booth. It will be on the ground floor of Casa Real Iloilo, in one of the corners inside. I have not yet visited the place so I might check it during the ingress tomorrow night. We will still be having those foldable tables that we used last time during the Unicon event. The organizer said that they will be providing us 2 to 4 tables so we would need about two more to use in the booth area. Chairs will also be provided. If our area would be near the walls, I’ll bring the posters that I’ve printed which were supposedly to be used last Unicon. It is at Rei’s place so it is just an easy grab together with the foldable tables.

As for the event schedule, what is fixed so far are the Standard Showdown on Saturday afternoon, and Sunday’s Modern tournament. I am still trying to have the Core Set 2019 booster draft to push through but there is a time constraint issue at the moment with people having other activities during the designated 11:00am. My other option is to have a Commander and Standard Pauper tournament which I will still work with the corresponding persons.

I guess that is about it for now. I will post updates and tournament schedules once we finalize the place tomorrow night or maybe before that ingress time. Just try to check on our Magic: the Gathering Iloilo Community page.

Until the next post.

Core Set 2019 will hold its Prerelease events this weekend and the local community is excited to experience and play firsthand the cards, the Elder Dragons, the new batch of Planeswalkers, and everything that the set offers. Luckily, we will be having

two Prerelease this weekend for Iloilo City and that is one of each day (Saturday and Sunday) for Pro Reis place and Critical Hit. PR event by Rei’s store is detailed below.

Core Set 2019 Prerelease
July 7, 2018
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: Robinsons Place Jaro (to be confirmed)
Entry: P1,300. This includes one Prerelease kit. This special prerelease pack containing 6 booster packs of Core Set 2019, a spindown life counter, and a promotional foil card.
The prize structure is one booster pack per win
36 slots available.

I am still working with him and Rino with regard to the venue if Robinsons management will provide the tables that will be used for the 36 participants. We are still expecting a high number of attendees even if the announcement was somewhat late.

As for Critical Hit’s schedule on Sunday afternoon at around 1:00pm, they will be holding it at their pop-up store in Festive Mall, Megaworld area. I have yet to visit the store this week.

Core Set 2019 Prerelease
Critical Hit Festive Mall, Megaworld branch
July 8, 2018, 1pm
Prerelease kit Sealed Format
Reg. P1350
One booster pack per win
18 slots only.

See you guys this weekend (although I am having my DURP class but I will try to drop by).

Hey all. For the weekly tournament regulars, please be informed that there will be no tournaments at Rei’s place this weekend as Rei is currently at Singapore to attend the Grand Prix this weekend. Another store (Critical Hit) will run their regular FNM events and for Nth Dimension, it will be their first FNM event so I encourage players to drop by their store tomorrow night. Also, there is a scheduled Dominaria Store Champs at Critical Hit this Saturday afternoon.

Here below are the details for this weekends tournament schedule for Magic: the Gathering Iloilo community:

Magic: the Gathering Tournaments at Critical Hit Atria

June 22, 2018
Friday Night Magic
Standard Format
Reg. 100php, DOM boosters with FNM Promo foil prizes
Starts 6:15pm

June 23, 2018
Dominaria Store Champs
Standard Format, decklist required
Reg, prizes, and time to be announced.

MTG Tournament at Nth Dimension

June 22, 2018
Friday Night Magic
Standard Format
Reg. 100php, RIX Booster pack prizes
Starts 5:30pm

It is quite late to post this tournament schedule but nevertheless, I am sharing the MTG events that our local Magic Iloilo Community will be having this weekend. We start with a Friday Night Magic tonight at around 6 pm and next is tomorrow’s start of the Hour of Devastation Standard Showdown season. The rest of the tournaments are detailed below:

July 21, 2017
Friday Night Magic
Standard Constructed format, 90php entry fee.
The top 4 get an exclusive FNM Promo foil card and HOU Booster packs
Starts 6:00 pm

July 22, 2017
Standard Pauper Tournament, 60 php entry fee.
HOU Booster pack prizes
Event starts @ 11am

Saturday Standard Showdown
Standard Constructed format, 100php entry fee.
HOU Booster pack for prizes, special SS booster packs
Event starts @ 3pm

July 23, 2017
Sunday Modern Tourney
100 entry fee, Modern Masters booster pack prizes
Event starts @ 1:30pm

All of the tournament’s venue is at ProRei’s Place. See you there.