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12/05/2026

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31/03/2026

24/03/2026

Steam Spring Sale is up! Very short window but enough!
Enjoy the discounts!

24/03/2026

Love is a choice and we make the choice everyday.

Rj X Audrey

26/02/2026

Ravnica: City of Guilds was released in 2005. The set introduced the "Shocklands". These lands were some of the most powerful lands in the game, as they produce two colors and have 2 basic land types so they can be paird with lands that look for a basic typing.

2020: is where i was able to get 1 each to pay homage to the original set.
2026: 3 more left, Temple Garden, Breeding Pool and Hallowed Fountain.

To all those that really helped me in this journey, i give you my heartfelt appreciation!

24/02/2026

Lorwyn Eclipse Store Championship, Magus Games.

Feb 21, 2026
21 Players.
Deck: Dimir Shobadidoo (Excruciator)

4 Watery Grave
4 Doomlake Verge
4 Restless reef2
2 Underground Sewer
1 Agna Qel'a
1 Realm of Koh
1 Temple of Deceit
9 Swamps

3 Intimidation tactics
3 Requitting Hex
2 Three steps ahead
3 Avarice
3 Bitter Triumph
3 Stock up
2 Winter night stories
3 Harvester of Misery
2 Deadly Cover up
4 Superior-Spider Man
3 Deceit

Compared to the NG storechamps, i was less prepared for this SC. Friday night i tried another Dimir list but it was more geared towards graveyard recursion and moved more towards midrange. Thanks to sir Sean for that list.
Playtesting with that list. Started the evening of Thursday at Magus and had a mini tournament on Friday with team Gogi/TD. It felt good but was not 100% sold on it. Also the fact that I did not have a 4th copy of Deceit and the 3rd one arrived really late was good points of concern. But i pressed on. I was adamant to play that list because the power of Overlord and Superior was too much to ignore.

Unfortunately, events that transpired before the actual event was working against me. Mostly personal reasons. I messaged Jesse, the tournament organizer and my team who did the right thing and went to the venue hours in advance. I was also happy to have passed parts and pieces to fiends who wanted to lend parts from me to my team the night before.

R1 - Jerick (Izzet Elementals)
LL. He probably consented to lands in front.

I had to concede round 1 because i couldn't make it on time. I messaged him ahead of time as well.
Jerick is a good friend and a fierce competitor so it was unfortunate i wasn't able to play him. GG the most Jerickest of Chias

R2 - Anson (Temur "Last Five Turns" Harmonizer)
WW - Consented to lands in front.

Playing with Mr.Dr. Anson is always a treat, because no matter the outcome I will always be entertained.
G1 mulliganed first hand as it was 6 lands and a Superior-Spiderman (SSM) not a good start to my actual first game of the tournament. Mulliganed to a keepable 6 and we were off.
The game started as we were fighting for resources, Opp was trying the whole game to do the combo. But i was able to disrupt through discard, removal and counter spells. Opp did have a lot of counter magic as well through SpiderSense and Spell snares. But when i saw that he was out of gas, i was able to cast a SSM to copy a Doomsday Excruciator (Shoebadidoo) and take the first win.
Game 2 was weirdly short, opp was able to get his combo out early.
Game 3 was a roller coaster of emotions. Turn 4 for the opp looked like he was going to combo early. He warped the harmonizer and i was about to just throw my hands up because i had nothing to stop the combo. Then opp just dropped a Ba Sing Se and i breathed out the most deepest sigh of relief.
The game then dragged on as me and the opp were trading resources and trying to stay afloat as much as we could. We then went to time. But it did not matter because the opp tapped out. I was able to cast out a Shoebadidoo and win the game. Thanks always MrDr Anson for your entertainment!

R3 - Fitz (Rakdos Goblins)
LWL - Did not consent to lands in front.
I was not sure what deck tito Fitz had for today But the turn 1 Cavern of souls naming goblin made it very apparent . Hhahahaha
Game 1 was bad for me as my opening had did not have the right removals needed. The early Hexing goblin did not help me at all. The three steps ahead in my hand was useless and i started flooding. G1 went to Opp
Game 2 was an example of a Godhand. T3 Bitter Triumph discarding Shoebadidoo then T4 SSM. Opp scooped.
Game 3 was very interesting. I had a really good hand. Removals onto of removals but i had only 1 land. I really asked for a minute to think, we had like 25 or so minutes left for a G3 so my opp let me think. I decided to gamble.
And my i did not pay off. I was delayed a couple of turns because i didn't have the 3 and 4th land Opp was smashing with Hexing and searslicers. By turn 4 of the Opp, he dropped the Boggart enchantment. (When a goblin dies, opps lose 1 and you gain 1) i was down a very low life total and i had a sweeper in hand. The sweeper was a no go because if i sweep the enchantment will kill me. Looking in my hand, i had a stock up and a withering torment and a SSM. SSM was my only option because i also had a harvester of misery in the gy. So i used the Torment to kill the enchantment, dropping me down to 4 life and all i need was an untapped land to get back in the game. Opp had only one card in hand and was tapped out. So it was a Hail Mary to get that untapped land.
For a bit of flare, i showed my Opp the SSM and the players next to us were watching and cheered to just slam the next card……… It was a requiting hex. I extended the hand. And checked the next 4 cards… all land. Opp had a land in hand as well and nothing up for the next cards. Well that's the gamble.

R4 - Fritz (Sultai Reanimator)
WW - Consented to lands in front

Rounds 2 and 3, Opp was next to me, then in round 4 we finally meet up hahaha. By this point we both knew what our decks were and we were prepared.
I lost the die roll but was lucky to pick up an intimidation tactics on the drew. Check the hand and saw a stacked hand. Overlord, misery and Ardyn. I got the overlord out of the hand. From there opp had nothing going on. Didnt draw anything relevant and hand no other draw effects. I was doing much of nothing as well because there was nothing to interact with. Opp then, because he had nothing else going on, casted a Awaken the honored dead, even if i had no nonland permanents. I was thinking he wanted to mill and fetch a creature later, that was fine. Then i topdecked a Shoebadidoo. Decks had 6 cards left in them, then the 2nd chapter of Awaken triggered, milled him. Then we both chuckled realizing what happened. On to game 2.
For game 2, we both had discard spells. So both our hands were disrupted he got my Shoebadidoo i got his bookworm. Then he casted his other bookworm and was looking to gain advantage, he unfortunately did not get there. I also had good draws because i drew 2 Tidebinders. I silenced the bookworm with one TB and started attacking.
I drew a winternight stories and was happy i could dig deeper into the deck. Drew 3 lands. Wow. Other than those two creatures we had nothing but empty topdecks.
Then i drew a Soul Guide lantern and decided to save it when a relevant targe would fall there. He ended up playing he's own SGL and exiled the stories. I played my own as well just to make sure he doesn't combo me out of nowwhere.
The next turn he removed the tishana. And attempted to draw with his lantern, i stopped him thinking if it was worth to Tidebind. I decided not to and countered the end step trigger of bookworm.
We continued drawing nothing and answering what ever else we resolved. I finally dropped a Shoebadidoo and had a restless reef ready, Opp extended the hand.

R5 - Dino (Izzet lessons)
WLD - Consented to lands in front

Judge vs Judge!
The last time i played Dino he was playing Izzet Vivi. This time another izzet deck.
Knowing i have a slight disadvantage against this deck because of Blue-Black difficulty answering enchantments and artifacts. But as long as i had him covered i was good.
Early G1 was the rise of the Grandma. I removed the GranGran more times than he had attacks with it. But the one that stuck did help smooth his draws. gave me an easy Shoebadidoo because Opp was somewhat unfamilar with the match up and did not know what to expect. Another win for Shoebadidoo.
G2 was another slogfest. Early Deceits and some Three Steps held the early game. But the tides turned when the opp resolved a Ral. Unfortunately i couldn't answer the Ral the turn it came in, but luckily i had a Tidebinder ready. Casted it and it silenced the Ral for now. I was also able to resolve a SSM that copied a Deceit and remove some draw spells from his hand.
When i untapped after resolving tishana’s, i was thinking where i will attack with my 2 creatures. Will i Hit face or kill the Ral. I attacked the player, which was kind of a bad move down the line. I started chipping away at his life total. Then Opp did something unexpected.
He casted a Torpor Orb, a card that totally turns my deck off. I didn't mind, it was par for the course. Then he casted a Quantum Riddler. Everyone around did the "huh" meme. "No Dins! thats not how that works! Thats not evoke. Warp is tied to it being casted as warp, its not a ETB trigger!" The laughing held for a while then we got back to the game.
Opp then tried to resolve a monument, I countered it. The second one resolved and i started to worry because my life total was getting really low. So i had to answer something. Unfortunately Opp was able to kill the Tishana that was keeping the Ral silent. Opp then used the minus ability of Ral (Draw 3 discard 2) and he choose draw and 3 damage. So i was really on the ropes. Then to make matters worse, Opp casted the riddler from earlier and i was down to 4. I had no out and extended the hand. Then time was called and we got a draw.

Endstep.
Finished 12th place. Not the best but all things considering (highly considering the R1 loss) it was good enough. I really enjoyed the Shoebadidoo deck from the past rotation and this iteration was just as enjoyable. Really appreciated the team effort as well. The deck was really modified from the first iteration of Dimir Midrange, to a modified version of the ProTour list. But seeing my teammates and other community friends win it was just great. Thank you for the games as well Jerick, Dino, Anson, Fitz and Fritz!

Special shout out to team Gogi/Td Kamiko, Ranz, Aaron, Patrick and special shoutout to Joao and Jp for getting 3rd-4th place!
Joao - Izzet Lessons
Aaron - Orzhov Midrange
Patrick - Jeskai Control
Kamiko - izzet Prowess
JP- Dimir Doomsday

Also my thanks for those that really helped complete the deck. Thank you tito Glenn for facilitating that one Deceit from manila and thanks to sir Sean for shipping the other Deceit!

Thanks to Magus Games and team for facilitating this Store champs!

12/02/2026

Upload alert! Our Lorwyyn Box opening is now up on the Youtube!

Another day another opening! This time around we are opening Lorwyn Eclipse Collector Booster box! Special thanks to Jon H. for allowing us to open on stream...

09/02/2026

Neutral Grounds Cebu Lorwyn Eclipse Store Championship Tournament report

Feb 7 2026, 34 Players
Golgari Midrange

Overgrown Tomb 4
Wastewood Verge 4
Blossoming Marsh
Ba Sing Se 2
Soulstone Sanctuary 1
Restless Cottage 3
Swamp 2
Forest 2
Great Arashin City 1
Realm of Koh 1
Llanowar Elves 4
Mosswood Dreadknight 4
Demon Wall 3
Tragic Trajectory 2
Inn Keeper's Talent 3
Surrak, Elusive Hunter 2
Preacher of the Schism 2
Mutable Explorer 3
Firdoch Core 1
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber 3
Mealstrom Pulse 1
Shoot the Sherriff 2
Strategic Betrayal 1
Sentinel of the Nameless City 1
Agonasaur Rex 2
Disruptive Stormbrood 2

Prep Stage
Honestly i really wanted to play a different deck. But some parts were lost in translation so was not able to get them. so i decided to get back to my roots, BG rock.
The deck is highly inspired by my good friend Justin Malana. I made a few tweaks with adding the F.Core and 2 rexes for more protection and a random 5 mv 8/8 threat.
Based on testing, the initial test was 22 lands, which was really lacking. So we pushed it up to 23. The last inclusion was the Mutable explorer, a new card from LE. The additional ramp and a changeling for annex was really helpful.
I also made sure to be early as part of an ongoing new years resolution, and it really helped. Also made it a point to hydrate through out the event.
Me and the rest of team Gogi was shocked to learn that there were 34 players! Good 6 rounds of mtg fun!!

Round 1 Izzet Lessons (Kamiko) LL
Consented to Lands in front
Unfortunately i wasn't able to test with classic Izzet lessons. G1 was a slog but the opp was able to set up with an early a.talent and later monument.
I really wanted to have a removal for the t4 or so Gran-Gran but it never came. Opp was able to toss a lot of damage through the endurance.
G2 was a really bad flooding situation could not get a leg up at all. fell to 1 monument and copied with a three steps. Lost right after.
I would like to take this opportunity to say my thanks for what a great guy this opp is. hahaha crazy, unhinged and totally genuine friend. Safe skies back to Japan you crazy bastard!

0-1

Round 2 Izzet Looting (Ace) WW
Consented to Lands in front
Next up, another Izzet deck. At first i really thought it was something like a Jeskai deck. but the new borderless art of Steam vents made me think it was a white-producing land. So i really thought i was against jeskai control. When i saw there was a duelist of the mind, i really had no idea what i was up against.
With beats from a demon wall with a counter from Innkeepers talent, opp couldn't do anything. so took a quick game 1.
During Sideboarding i was so clueless on what the opponent was. It was only after the tournament that i realized it was Izzet Looting. haha But really had no clue what to side for. I just assumed Izzet lessons and placed GY hate.
G2 was rather quick as well as i had a T1 elf into T2 Surrak, game was over before i knew it.

1-1

Round 3 Izzet Lessons (Patrick) WW
Consented to Lands in front
Seeing the a turn 1 Spirebluff was another shock to the system. "Izzet again!!!"
Yes 3 straight rounds of Izzet. But we push on.
This was another game where i could really lose if my opp can set up before i do. I was fairly confident because i had mainboard answers to enchantments and artifacts with the Stormbrood dragon so i believe i was just fine. Opp did set up A.Talent and monument, but actually ran out of cards. So with the Knight and a mutable explorer i was able to take the W for the game.
For game 2, i had the same anti-gy sideboard at the ready, vacuums, ooze, additional S.Betrayals. So game 2 i was ready. So we both started the game managing resources. And early Innkeepers talent came down and i was very happy i doded a spell pierce and/or spell snare. There were turns where his grangran was online. Luckily the next turn i had a S.betrayal to answer both threats. Incrementally i felt i was getting ahead as he was struggling to get more resources that i did. Even with a t3 momuement, he did not have a lot of resources left. At one point he casted abandon attachments with no other cards in hand. With his lack of resources, I went to 5th gear and attacked as much as i can to get the life total to zero. I think my opponent had enough as i noticed he started munching on a snack he brought. Haha. He extended the hand.

2-1

Round 4 Izzet Elementals (Jp) WW
Consented to Lands in front
I was able to sight this deck a little bit from the previous rounds so i had an idea for my game plan. Also, the 4th deck in a row that running Steamvents and spirebluff canals! Izzet elementals focuses on dropping a sunderflock and returning all of the opps creatures, really powerful but weird if against opps who play elementals as well. But for me i have no elementals in my list and i just need to focus on killing their crabs or heath elementals so that they cant cast a discounted sunderflock. The card i was really concerned about was the spell snare that they have because my game 1 opening hand had 3 2 manavalue cards. But because my opp (who played first) tapped out, i was able to resolve an innkeepers. then with t3 a surrak. The next turn i tried to push for a demon wall, but got hit for the aforementioned spell snare. Opp was able to drop a Heath elemental which i was saving a removal for. We went to game 2.
Sideboarding was kind of weird for me because i really felt i was overthinking. I was thinking about putting more removal or focusing on putting more gy hate. So i put both. just to ensure coverage.
For game 2 there was only 1 clear mvp, Scavenging Ooze. I was able to resolve an ooze turn 4. i purposefully did that so that i would have mana up to to be able to clear the gy. I also kept up a origins of metalbending just to make sure that the Scooze survives. opp got to 6 mana and i was already thinking that they might go for a hard cast a sunderflock. But the life total was really low already and opp couldn't stabilize. He showed me his hand and it had all crabs and heaths. The Scooze really did a number on his game plan.
It was still a good game and enjoyed playing with Jp! Thanks bunch preee!

3-1

Round 5 5-C Allies (Fitz) WW
DID NOT Consent to lands in front hahaha
I was not totally sure on what the opp deck was. But all deceit was gone when a secluded courtyard naming Allies. haha. I was like.... oh. hahaha. So opp started with the Great Divide Guide which helped ramp and color fix. I did not have the removal for it unfortunately. I placed some blockers in the form of the Explorer and mosswood. But those died quickly to Allies at last. Very potent removal spell especially when youre casting it for a discounted rate. Also by turn 4 opp dropped a Hakoda. I was like. Luhhhh what a creature. I felt that game one was out of reach but the follow up Earth Kind Lieutenant solidified the fact that I was gonna lose game 1. But then a ray of sunshine came out. Opp attacked with the Hakoda. I tossed to creatures on it because it super needed to die. I was in the low life total but once the Hakoda died i took the opportunity and rolled with it. Annex and a F.Core was helping me regain the life lost and when the demon from annex came out it was enough to turn the tables.
Sideboarding was less of a hassle because it was a creature fight so i had no worries.
G2 opening hand was one for the books. I opened with 2 forests, 1 Ba Sing Se and 4 removal spells. Looking at the opening hand i took a little longer to decide. Hands like this for me are always super risky and i am not a lucky person as a default. So this was the riskiest of risky hands. But a voice inside told me "Believe in the heart of the cards" I was on the draw so i felt it was going to be fine. So i kept. Opp started with a land no creatures. I drew, wasn't a black source, and played the ba sing. Opp dropped a land and started with the Divide guide. I was like... oh noooo, here we go. Then, que the Egyptian music. TOPPED DECKED A OVERGROWN TOMB! We actually got there!! Removed the creature and the next 4 creatures. Another surrak came down and with an innkeeper backup was able to drop the life to 0 in a few good hits. Opp extended the hand.

4-1

Round 6 Temur Harmonizer (Paul) LL
Consented to lands in front
I dont want to type about this game. I hate you Paul. Joke lang.
My biggest misplay of the day. I lost because of lack of deck knowledge. I did not know that my opp was Harmonizer. I spent 5 turns developing my board and i was lining up to put him on a two turn clock. I tapped out for a preacher. Then he combo killed me. got 28'ed out of nowhere. I had absolutely no idea what opp was playing as i wasn't able to observe any of his previous games. I was kicking myself because i had instant speed removal in hand and i was at a full 20. Goodness the pain.
Sideboarding was rough for me. I did not have enough instant speed removal to deal with the decks wincon. The one off The End should be enough but I was the most anxious the whole day.
Game two opening was better because i was able to push out an early annex, a little foreshadowing, that annex would eventually kill me. A demon wall got spell snared, the annex demon token was bounced. Also the early llanowar elf and sideboared Sunset Saboteur got caught by a Pyroclasm. Opp played an icetill and i couldn't answer it. When i was at single digits, opp tasted blood in the water. Earthbended a land, sacrificed his two escape tunnels to make the 2 creatures unblockable, and swung with Full bore and spider-sense back up. Died a painful death. Still hate you Paul.

4-2

I was very anxious that i could not get top8. Especially that i have another teammate that got 4-2 as well. So there was a moment where we realized that one of us might not make it. It would really depend on the breakers. When Top8 was called, i barely made it to Top8!! YWEAAHHHHHH butttt the bad thing is ill have to fight another Team mate, greg. Whos using my other deck.

Top8
"Quarterfinals" vs Justin (Dimir Mid)
He needed to go home so free win

"Semifinals" Greg (Dimir Mid) LWL
I did not expect to have an emotional game. Me and Greg are good teammates and we both fight hard when we are serious. Game 1 was very one sided as i had really bad draws. Every comeback i tried was countered, removed, answered. G1 was a massacre.
Sideboarding was fairly fine. Was hoping to get to some Nissas and out resource him.
G2 was fairly fair. We traded resources and made sure that we were fairly fair. The early Sentinel was enough to skew the advantage my way. Opp had no removal for it and it eventually became a 6/7 (eeehhhh memes) opp conceded.
G3 was an early advantage on my end with an early Annex. it helped draw cards. But unfortunately i could only get a singular The End. Timming the opp dropped a kaito. So i Ended it on my turn. saw that he had another in hand. so he drew. My issue was there was a singular Requitting hex in hand. and all the creature i had left were land creatures. I was really trying to play around it. But an end step curiosity was the end of my run.
For some reason Greg was so emotional for this match. He really didn't want to be paired against me. Really appreciate the gesture. (He did end up winning the whole thing.)

Endstep
Over all 4-2 in swiss and reaching "semifinals" was overall a good run for me. Winning is the better outcome but finishing strong for me was good. There was a lot of time for me to prepare and all the nights of theorycrafting and balancing the protection, removal, and the land base. And i am truly satisfied with the outcome. Really happy that Team Gogi was supporting each other and the fact that 3 of us got into Top 8 was more than enough.
Also a footnote it was amazing i was able to get my head in the game WHILE answering judge calls hahahahahahahah.
Giving my thanks to Team Gogi/Topdeck, Ranz (StockUp6), Aaron (Deck of the G*e), and Greg(BorrowedDeck.deck). Also thanks to those that were supporting us in spirit, Patrick, Dave, Jon, Pringles Arnold and Joao. Thank you very much for the support and the gameplay practice.
Special thanks to Justin for the decklist and for the help in theorycrafting. Most importantly for showing me the power of Muta-paking-ble explorer. Thanks so much Tito!
Special thanks as well to Tito Patty and Sir Tyrone for the Sleeves.
Also special thanks to Neutral Grounds Cebu and Sir Rod for hosting. Always be happy to assist during events.
And GGs to all the players
Of course thanking my fam and my lovely wify for the undying support!

1st Greg - Dimir mid
2nd Richie - Dimir doomsday
3-4 - Paul Temur harmonizer
3-4 - Carlo Golgari mid
5-8 - Jest UW control
5-8 - Justin Dimir mid
5-8 - Stavros Red deck wins
5-8 - Ranz Sapa Jeskai control

03/02/2026

Join us for some Lorwyn box openings!

23/12/2025

Steam's Winter Sale is here! until the 5th of January!

Will do my shopping later and will share my hauls!