Tuesday, September 12, 2006

:interlude - Magikero rankings in the DCI as of sept. 13, 2006:

Jeff Java - Limited: 648 ; Eternal: 113
JC Yatco - Limited: 718 ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Excel Vasquez - Limited: 612 ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Joseph Abrigo - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Windsor Salazar - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Christian Capiral - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Marvin Pacia - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Nroman Tan - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Edgardo Cunanan - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED
Paolo Cabe - Limited: NOT RANKED ; Eternal: NOT RANKED

Sunday, August 07, 2005

chapter 1

Chapter 1: The "ravemaster"

Jan Christin Yatco, commonly known as JC, started out as the infamous "sharedeck boy", borrowing decks from his colleagues whenever he wants to play. But in a forunate occasion during his second year in highschool, he crossed paths with a man namaed Nicolet Anza who was retiring and nedds to pass his "powers" to someone. He found JC and thus his Goblindeck came into existence. Next came this guy who was also retiring and needs to find someone to buy his Madness deck to buy food, JC was not hesitant to buy this deck and yet another one was added to the collection...then came 2 sliver decks.

Third year came, he fell in the Computer Technology shop where he found more players of this game, started playtesting...and he got even better. Bragging aside, this guy was one of the feared names in the grillhouse, with his playing style and proficiency with the two earlier decks I mentioned, he was automatically accelerated to the rank of "topseeder" in the school along with his batchmates who used different decks such as MUC, MBC, Animator, and shooter.

His mastery with these two decks didn't last long when the "Age of Metal" arrived. He constructed a deck along with yours truly as the co-engineer when we were riding a bus going home. With these ideas "deus ex machina" was born, a deck with the capability to run an "infinite" loop. But like his first two decks, his masery with this didn't also last when he netdecked the RavAtog, a deck used by the world champion that time. After the banning of the main components of this deck, he made another one...a deck that became more powerful when the Kamigawa block was introduced, "Tooth and Nail".

I was not surprising for us that this is another top class deck because the deck is made with pure money, the components are expensive and only people with so much money can buy its components such as "Eternal Witness", "Boseiju, Who Shelters All", "Kiki-Jiki Mirror Breaker", etc.

epilogue

Epilogue:

"You going to the grillhouse this lunch!?" - this was a common line for the Comtech students who play Magic: The Gathering. "The Magic boys" often as they are dubbed by their classmates, in this account stories of 12 yong men will be told. Their history, deck origins, contribution to their local campus metagame, their rise and fall.