MARCH: Counting one to ten with The Epic Storm

Since January 2016, I've been so active playing UR Pyromancer Ascension in different modern tournaments  around the metro, and almost forgot that I also need to gird for Grand Prix Chiba. So on March 20th, I decided to start my preparation for the said big event by sleeving those 75 cards again. Preparing many months before the big game is way too early. I know that. Trust me, once you are there, a format that you're so much into, it will bring a different kind excitement you never had. And if that excitement gets over you, this will surely cause your campaign. So in order to avoid that unhappy feeling, especially if you're bringing a storm deck in that high level of competition, it is very important to know the right card combination right off the bat.

Duel for Duals Legacy Tournament

Kicks Engine

Cubao Expo, Quezon City

20 March 2016 

RD 1 Lands

Game one, lost this one due to this land destruction combo - Crop Rotation, Wasteland, Life from the Loam and Exploration. For games two and three, a mob of goblin gets there in two swings.

1-0   (2-1)

RD 2 BURG 

Games one and three, 18 goblins are better than a team of delver, Vendilion Clique and an active Deathrite Shaman. I lost game two to his ton of counter magic.    

2-0   (4-2)

RD 3 DnT

I won games one and three on turn two spell chain into Burning Wish into Tendrils of Agony. Game two, 18 goblins is no match to his Batterskull, Serra Avenger and Phyrexian Revoker. 

3-0   (6-3)     

Did an intentional draw for RDs 4 and 5. 

3-0-2   (6-3-2)

I lost in the quarters to BURG. Game three, despite my repeated cantrips and fetches, no tutor nor wish came to my aid. Vendilion Clique ate all my life points. 

Before ending this post, my calendar for March and April. 

March 26 GPT at Wabshaq (modern)

March 26 GPT at Neutral Grounds Centris, Quezon Avenue (modern)

March 27 Easter Modern at Neutral Grounds Examiner

April 9 Legacy at ARJ Molino, Cavite

April 9 GPT at HobbyPro Central BF Homes, Parañaque (modern)

April 10 GPT at FQ Mandaluyong (modern)

April 16 GPT at Scrappy Coco (modern)
April 16 GPT at Got Game (modern)
April 16 GPT at Neutral Grounds Examiner (modern)
April 23 Modern Mayhem at PC Butlers
April 24 GPT at Madcap (modern)

April 24 Regran Open (modern)
April 30 GPT at R4 Zapote Road (modern)

Did I forgot someone's GPT modern? Let me know. 

Thank you for reading guys!

I wish you all a safe Holy Week vacation!

-Paeng

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MARCH: Boros Burn (Modern)

After that MTG donation experience, I decided to give my pet deck UR storm a break and settled for a Boros deck. Here are the 75 cards that I sleeved.  

TJB_Boros_Burn 

by Paeng_4983

Lands 19

12 Red Fetches

4 Sacred Foundry

3 Mountain

Burn Spells 29

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Rift Bolt

4 Lava Spike 

4 Lightning Helix

4 Boros Charm

4 Skullscrack

3 Searing Blaze

2 Forked Bolt

Creatures 12

4 Goblin Guide

4 Monastery Swiftspear

4 Eidolon of the Great Revel

Sideboard

4 Ensnaring Bridge

4 Path to Exile

4 Wear / Tear 

3 Kor Firewalker

Report:

Scrappy Coco, Carmona, Cavite

PPO's Modern Series Second Leg
March 5th

RD 1 Infect  1-0   (2-0)

out: 4 Skullcrack

in: 4 Path to Exile

RD 2 Infect   2-0   (4-0)

out: 4 Skullcrack

in: 4 Path to Exile   

RD 3 Eldrzi   2-0-1   (5-1-1)

out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Lava Spike
in: 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Path to Exile

RD 4 BW Tokens   2-0-2   (5-1-2)

ID into top four. Now that I successfully put my name in their list of invitees for their year end party, I immediately concede and went home with packs. 

Friday Quest Hobby Shop
Mandaluyong, March 6th

Every first placer from all FQ's Sunday event will serve as the winner's invite for their qualifying leg of its own version of modern series. This lured me to go there and play. 

RD 1 Tron   1-0   (2-1)

out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel

in: 4 Wear/ Tear, 4 Path to Exile

RD 2 UR Storm   2-0   (4-0)
out: 4 Skullcrack, 3 Goblin Guide

in: 4 Wear/ Tear, 3 Kor Firewalker

RD 3 GW Boogles Aura   3-0   (6-1)

out: 3 Searing Blaze, 2 Forked Bolt, 3 Goblin Guide   

in: 4 Wear/ Tear, 4 Ensnaring Bridge

RD 4 Scapeshift   4-0   (8-2)
Winning in front of a Leyline of Sanctity without any answer to it - achievement unlocked!

What I did was.

out: 4 Goblin Guide   

in: 4 Path to Exile

This is base on my experience, but I was wrong.

What I should have done.

out: 4 Goblin Guide

in: 4 Wear/ Tear

RD 5 Tron   4-0-1   (8-2-1)

At the end of the day, boros burn secured me a ticket for their qualifying leg which will be sometime in April.

A few days after playing from FQ's Sunday event, I checked my calendar and saw this exciting list of MTG legacy and modern tournaments:

March 12 GPT Modern at Madcap  

March 13 Regran Open Modern

March 19 Last PC Modern at Madcap

March 20 Legacy at Kick Engines
April 2 Legacy at ARJ

With those positive results, I planned to perdure on the same list for the remaining  modern contests.

Madcap, San Pedro, Laguna

GPT Modern
March 12th

RD 1 GW Hatebears    1-0   (2-0)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Lava Spike
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge

RD 2 BGw Coco Melira   1-1   (3-2)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Lava Spike
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge

RD 3 DnT   1-2   (3-4)
Eldrazi Displacer + Flickerwisp, very nice combo against whatever deck in their way.
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Lava Spike
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge

RD 4 Eldrazi   1-3   (4-6)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

RD 5 UW control  1-4   (4-8)
I gave the win to my opponent and went to Hobby Pro to play another modern tournament.


HobbyPro Central
BF Homes, Parañaque
March 12th

RD 1 Affinity   0-1   (0-2)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Lava Spike, 4 Monastery Swiftspear
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

RD 2 Eldrazi   1-1   (2-2)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

RD 3 Merfolk   2-1   (4-2)
out: 4 Lava Spike, 4 Goblin Guide
in: in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge,

RD 4 Eldrazi Tron   2-2   (5-6)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear


Regran Open
Regran, Quezon City
March 13

RD 1 Infect   0-0-1   (1-1)
out: 4 Lava Spike
in: 4 Path to Exile

RD 2 Eldrazi   0-1-1   (1-3)
out: 4 Goblin Guide, 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

RD 3 Eldrazi Tron   0-2-1   (2-5)
out: 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear, 4 Goblin Guide,
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

RD 4 Eldrazi   0-3-1  (3-7)
With three straight Eldrazi decks, I miss my UR Storm.
out: 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel, 4 Monastery Swiftspear, 4 Goblin Guide,
in: 4 Path to Exile, 4 Ensnaring Bridge, 4 Wear / Tear

I dropped from the event and went home empty handed. To those burn players reading this, I hope you will not be discouraged by my results. I still believe that burn is still in the position to win. 

Well, I'll just do better next month.

Until then, thanks for reading!

See you guys this coming saturday

The Last Paeng Cup

Modern Format

Madcap Gaming

San Pedro, Laguna

Rafael Lagasca
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March: unable to count to 20 with Red & Blue (modern)

January and February 2016 yielded positive results for UR Pyromancer Storm. Let me check if it will give the same result for this month. Let me begin my hunt on the first FNM of March 2016.

FNM at Neutral Grounds

Glorietta, Makati

March 4th

Two of the ten registered players were my teammates. Sadly, I got paired against one of them.

RD 1 DnT

I knew what he is on, and I am pretty sure he does the same. I lose miserably because he had all the necessary hatebears (Dryad Militant, Thalia GoT and Leonin Arbiter) on his table to make my storm life unlivable. I wish him luck for the remaining games. 

out: 1 Thought Scour, 2 Faithless Looting, 1 Past in Flames, 1 Pyromancer Ascension, 1 Gitaxian Probe

in: 4 Lightning Bolt, 2 Echoing Truth  

0-1   (0-2)

RD 2 Eldrazi

My lone win came at the expense of the eldrazi. Game one, a turn five win thanks to an online Pyromancer Ascension. Game two, a turn three win thanks to that discount giving goblin.

out: 1 Thought Scour, 1 Faithless Looting, 1 Gitaxian Probe

in: 3 Blood Moon

1-1   (2-2)

RD 3 Jund

The game went in a deciding one in which he won by shredding my hand with disruptions and his Scavenging Ooze ate all the key cards in the graveyard. 

out: 1 Thought Scour, 2 Faithless Looting, 1 Past in Flames, 1 Pyromancer Ascension, 1 Gitaxian Probe

in: 3 Empty the Warrens, 3 Blood Moon

1-2   (3-4)

RD 4 Eight Racks

I lose this one as well. Too much disrupt spells plus multiple copies of the The Rack were enough to hand me my third loss of the night.

1-3   (3-6)

out: 1 Thought Scour, 1 Faithless Looting,

in: 2 Echoing Truth

A very bad day for my ace troop. As my friends say it, this experience is also called MTG Donation.
Php 200, you will surely be missed!

I'll try to do better in my next modern contest.
See you guys in the following modern tournaments this March.

March 12
GPT Modern
Madcap, San Pedro, Laguna

March 13
Regran Open
Regran Hobby Shop, Quezon City

March 19
The Last PC
Madcap, San Pedro, Laguna

-Paeng Paeng