2009 May

• Regionals 2009: Finest Hour *Top 8*

  Last Friday, I was still unsure what to play at Regionals this year, having decided to nix Five-Color Control. Given the cards available, I could easily assemble RDW/Blightning or Chapin's 5-Color Blood. But in the end, I gave in to the hype surrounding Tommy Ashton's PTQ-winning decklist, Bant with Finest Hour: However, due to card availability issues, I didn't have any Dauntless Escorts and only 1 Noble Hierarch. I moved cards around and tried to fit in Vendillion Clique, which would serve as an additional evasive attacker on top of Shorecrasher Mimic and Jhessian Infiltrator, plus a little extra disruption.

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  Mon, May 18, 2009, 10:59 p.m. / Roy Tang / blog / #mtg / 💬 5 / Location: Robinsons Galleria / 979 words

• Alara Reborn Release

  Alara Reborn is finally available locally! For a while I thought about heading to Baguio for the King of the North tournament, but the fact is I have no standard deck ready at the moment. Besides, I wanted to practice sealed deckbuilding for the upcoming Bangkok GPTs, so this morning I was sleeving up a 40-card deck at Robinson's Galleria. Lands 1 Jungle Shrine 3 Plains 6 Island 5 Swamp Creatures 1 Cloudheath Drake 1 Master of Etherium 1 Fleshbag Marauder 1 Viscera Dragger 1 Sharuum the Hegemon 1 Tower Gargoyle 2 Ethersworn Shieldmage 1 Glassdust Hulk 1 Sanctum Plowbeast

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  Sat, May 9, 2009, 8:38 p.m. / Roy Tang / blog / #mtg / Location: Robinsons Galleria / 865 words

• Alara Reborn Prerelease (for real this time)

  And so, our delayed prerelease. My sealed deck (at least after initial tweaks -- it varies slightly from my submitted list):

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  Sun, May 3, 2009, 10:44 p.m. / Roy Tang / blog / #mtg / Location: Robinsons Galleria / 515 words