Magic The Gathering - Malaysia

The writer is very apologetic about the really late reports, but a broken down PC has hindered efforts to release the reports as soon as possible. RM500 in replacement parts and many days later, the writer can finally publish the first of several coverage reports. He sincerely hopes that everyone will enjoy reading the top 8 coverage reports, late as it may be.

More to come as soon as possible!

In what looks to be the most prolific quarterfinals matchup, two very well known players goes heads up in the first of three brutal elimination rounds, where the loser gets only consolation booster packs that are worth next to nothing, compared to the return flight ticket to Pro Tour: Kyoto, or the 375USD prize money.



Vincent Gan, very well known local player, just came back from an unfortunately poor performance at Pro Tour: Berlin, is perhaps ready to make amends with yet another Pro Tour. On the other end of the table sits Nico Surindran, who's most recent highest profile finish was at the 2008 Nationals at 4th place. Vincent drafted an aggressive Jund based deck with many removals while Nico drafted an Esper-based deck headlined by a Scourglass and plenty of card drawing and other cards with card advantage generating effects.

PTQ Kyoto @ Manawerx November 9 2008 - Quarterfinals
Nico Surinidran vs Vincent Gan

Both players lament about the draft and their picks both thinking that they have little chance beyond the the quarters. Vincent Gan won the dice roll and chose to start first.

Game 1

Vincent starts off the game with a Dragon Fodder on his turn 2 and attacks for 2 with his 2 1/1 goblin tokens while Nico only has lands to play as Vincent doubles his number of tokens with another Dragon Fodder. A Knight of the White Orchid comes in for Nico, hoping to stop the bleed, but Vincent pushes damage through as a Resounding Thunder kills off the potential blocker and road bump for his offence, hitting Nico for another 4, taking him down to 14.

A deft duelist joins Nico's side of the board while Vincent adds a Skeletal Kathari to his side of the board. While Etherium Sculptor and Tower Gargoyle joins the fray for Nico as the brawl looks set to get ugly. But unfortunately for Nico, Vincent has a Bone Splinters to deal with the potentially game breaking 4/4 flyer. Vincent then plays a Thorn-Thrash Viashino devours a token and becomes a 4/4 while his 3/2 flyer attacks into Nico to take him to 11.


Vincent Gan

Things are not looking good for Nico but he calmly played a Scourglass forcing a desperation attack from Vincent as he attacks with all his creatures before they all get blown up, but taking down Nico to a very precarious 5 life. A lone Sculptor survived for Nico while a Fleshbag Marauder forces Vincent to sacrifice his Skeletal Kathari that he regenerated from the Scourglass while Nico gladly trades off his Sculptor.

The Fleshbag takes first blood from Vincent to take him to 17, while a Skeletonize tries to hit the Fleshbag but Nico bounces it with a Resounding Wave before a Grixis Battlemage joins Vincent's board. An Esper Charm draws Nico 2 cards before he replays his Fleshbag who eats up Vincent's Battlemage and itself. Nico then plays a Courier's Capsule and draws another 2 cards from it. Almost at the brink of defeat, Nico is now greatly refueled and a Vectis Silencers and Metallurgeon joins Nico and they attack Vincent for 2 while he's running on empty. A Dregscape Zombie from Vincent tries to deal with the Silencers but he Metallurgeon regenerates it. Vincent then unearths it, attacks for 2, to take Nico down to just 3, and tries to kill the Metallurgeon with a Bone Splinters but Nico has a Hindering Light to spoil Vincent's plan. A Blood Cultist and later on, a Court Archers shows up for Vincent as he tries to make a come back and steal the game.

Nico attacks with his Silencers and while Vincent blocks with the Arches, the Silencers gets regenerated by the Metallurgeon while the Cultist gets a +1/+1 token from using the ability on the dying Archers as Nico uses the Silencers’ deathtouch ability. A Tar Fiend joins Vincent's board and Nico is forced to lay his troops back as he fears of a sudden lose as his Executioner's Capsule can only look on helplessly at Vincent's black army.



A Sculptor is added to the board for Nico it doesn't change the board position until a Filigree Sages shows up for Nico, allowing Nico to attack with a creature while having more than enough creatures for defense and the option to untap the attacker. Another Grixis Battlemage for is played by Vincent threatens to topple Nico's board position, but Nico simply just presses on with the Silencers, taking another point off Vincent's life totals to 10 as he slowly is bled to death. Nico draws and then plays an Oblivion Ring getting rid of the 4/4 Tar Fiend, giving Nico more breathing space and he attacks with his Sages and Silencers while Vincent blocks the creatures with his Cultist and Battlemage but an Agony Wrap messes up with Vincent's combat math.



Nico then plays a Knight Captain of Eos and Vincent is slowly losing his grip on the game. A Rip-Clan Crasher joins his board which blocked the Knight Captain as Nico attacks with his whole army. Vincent rubs hard for an answer and slam the card hard for an solution to his impending doom but it was to no avail.

Nico 1 – Vincent 0

Game 2

Vincent Gan chooses to play and both players start off happy with their opening 7.

Vincent starts off the game with a Manaplasm while Nico has an Esper Battlemage which promptly gets killed by a Resounding Thunder which allowed Vincent's Manaplasm to get in for 4 damage taking Nico down to 16. A Silencers shows up for Nico's side while Vincent takes his time to consider his options before settling on playing a Grixis Battlemage and Executioner's Capsule to attack Nico hard with a 5/5 Manaplasm, but Nico opts to send his Silencers to block the monster despite not having the mana to activate his deathtouch ability and lays a a Tower Gargoyle on his following turn.


Nico Surinidran

A Blood Cultist comes for Vincent and his Manaplasm attacks again and this time Nico opts not to defend himself from the 4/4 with his Gargoyle. A Scourglass his following turn explains why Nico is reluctant to trade the Manaplasm with the artifact 4/4 flyer and Vincent now has a difficult decision to make. He decides to go for it playing a Rip-Clan Crasher, make the Tower Gargoyle being unable to block by his Grixis Battlemage, and attacks in for the maximum damage he can do before his board gets blown up by the Scourglass, which eventually does allowing Nico's Gargoyle to attack for 4, with Vincent now at 16 to Nico's 6. Vincent plays a Dragon Fodder and Elvish Visionary as he tries to rebuild and decides to use his Executioner's Capsule on Nico's newly played Knight of the White Orchid. A Skeletal Kathari tries to help Vincent stabilize but Nico cycles his Resounding Wave, bouncing off Vincent's 3/2 flyer and dissolving a token.

A Filigree Sages comes in and an Oblivion Ring deals with Vincent's Kathari and it seems all but over for Vincent but he as he draws his card for the turn, laughs, and chides Nico for leaving himself open at a very low life count.

He looks at his card, laughs and taps all his land...

and concedes, showing Nico the Rip-Clan Crasher he just drew.

Nico 2 – Vincent 0

Nico Surinidran wins the Quarterfinals beating Vincent Gan 2-0!

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Here is the last of the GPT Taipei @ Decards top 8 coverage report. Sorry for the really late report. The PTQ Kyoto Top 8 reports are in progress, the writer is really sorry about the delays and how late the reports and can only offer 'busy with other more important commitments' as a shameless excuse.

Decards @ USJ Summit GPT Taipei 2008 - Finals

Clement Lim vs Johan Jamal Yacob



Game 1

Clement wins the dice roll and decides to start first and while he is happy with his opening seven, Johan was not, choosing to mulligan.

Clement makes the first play on his 2nd turn with a Cylian Elf while Johan quickly follows up with a Dregscape Zombie, and although it seems that Johan is ready to trade the 2/2 elf for the 2/1 zombie, Clement clearly is not as he plays Guardians of Akrasa, allowing his elf to attack Johan for 3, taking him down to 17. Johan then plays Dragon Fodder, and using one of the tokens to play Bone Splinters, killing off Clement’s Guardians of Akrasa, clearing the way for Johan’s Dregscape Zombie to attack Clement for 2 taking him down to 18. Clement's elf attacks Johan for another 2, taking him down to 15 while Johan strikes back with his zombie and goblin token, making it even at 15 and plays a Courier's Capsule. An Angelic Benediction joins Clement's side of the board, allowing him to even up the damage race, attacking for 3 with his elf. Johan attacks for another 3 as well, sacrifices his Capsule to draw two card and plays a Grixis Battlemage.



Clement, although light on plays whole game long, just keeps attacking for another 3 taking Johan down to 9, tapping the Grixis Battlemage on it's way with the Benediction, before adding a Rakeclaw Gargantuan to put pressure on Johan. Johan has the solution however, and he plays a Bloodpyre Elemental which gets sacrifices immediately to kill the Gargantuan, before attacking Clement down to a threatening 7. Unperturbed, Clement simply plays a Court Archers, and takes Johan down to 5 with his 4/4 elf, thanks to Exalted.


Clement Lim

Facing imminent defeat, Johan fights back, drawing and discarding a card with Grixis Battlemage, before playing Caldera Hellion, sacrificing all of his creatures to make a 6/6 Hellion, while clearing Clement's side of the board. All Clement could do was to play a Wild Nacatl with just one card in hand as his passes his turn. But Johan has an Agony Wrap to deal with the potential blocker, and he unearths his Dregscape Zombie to have enough lethal damage to put the game away along with the 6/6 Hellion, and Clement with nothing useful in the hand, could only scoop up his cards.

Johan 1 – 0 Clement

Game 2

Clement chooses to start again and both players are happy with their opening 7 and they're off to what Johan would hope to be the last game of the tournament.

After several turns of land-go, Clement tried to Excommunicate Johan's Swamp before realizing his mistake, inciting a round of laughter from all around. Johan then made the first real play of the game with a Death Baron, which promptly gets Excommunicated, as Clement's aggressive deck struggles to get the action started. Johan simply replays the Death Baron, which is followed by a Guardians of Akrasa from Clement. A Corpse Connoisseur from Johan builds up pressure for Clement as Johan searches and puts a Dregscape Zombie into the graveyard. Clement simply passes his turn doing nothing.



Johan trying to take advantage of Clement's inaction, unearthed his 2/1 Zombie, and plays Scourge Devil before attacking with his pumped up army, but the Corpse Connoisseur meets a Resounding Silence, putting away any further unearthing shenanigans Johan might have. His Guardians blocks the Baron, fearing the zombie's deathtouch ability given by the Baron. Clement passes his turn again, and Johan attacks with his Devil and Baron before playing a Dragon Fodder, taking Clement down to 14 to Johan's 20. A Bloodpyre Elemental takes away Clement's sole blocker, and Johan attack further criples Clement, taking him down to 7. Clement only plays a Thoctar (5G 5/5 1R abilty)for defence, but all it takes for Johan to seal the game away was a Bone Splinters, giving him a clear path to victory.

Johan 2 – 0 Clement

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Welcome to the live coverage blogpost for PTQ Kyoto!

Last updated 8.02PM

NICO WINS PTQ KYOTO 2-1, BEATING DAVID.

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Nico manages to tie the match 1-1 after trailing behind the whole game with a brilliant unexpected win.

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Nico is playing against David for the finals, and is how trailing 0-1.

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Nico wins the Semifinals beating Sean 2-1! In the meantime, Nazim is now playing against David in the other Semifinals. David is now leading 1-0.

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Nico and Sean ties their Semifinals match 1-1. Sean is playing a Jund-based aggresive deck with many aggressive costed creatures and plenty of burn.

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Nico wins the Quarterfinals 2-0, beating Vincent Gan! Nico now plays against Sean M La Faber for a space in the Finals.

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The writer is currently covering the Nico vs Vincent quarterfinals match. Currently Nico leads 1-0 with a Esper-based deck sporting a number of artifact creatures, headlined with a Knight Captain of Eos and Scourglass. Meanwhile Vincent is sporting an aggressive Jund/Naya concoction with plenty of fast beats.

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The top 8 has been decided! Sebastian Wu and David Tan leads the standings with 18 points each followed by Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir with 17, while Nico Surinidran, Vincent Gan, Mohamad Nazim, Rajesh Ganessan and Sean M La Faber made it in with 16 points but at the same time it was heartbreak for Chris Lee and Zulkarnain Zainuddin as they both fail to qualify for the top 8 with 16 points because of their tie-breakers.

Top 8 players

1 - Sebastian Wu
2 - David Tan
3 - Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir
4 - Nico Surinidran
5 - Vincent Gan
6 - Mohamad Nazim
7 - Rajesh Ganessan
8 - Sean M La Faber

The players have finished drafting and the Quarterfinals will begin soon.

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Thanks to a nearby wireless connection, I will be attempting to keep the folks at home updated and informed about the tournament whole day long, as long as time and other constraints permits.

More to come as events unfold! Watch this space!

As this is an impromptu experiment, I am unfortunately under-equipped, despite bringing my laptop to help coverage writing, I didn't bring my cables for my camera.

At the moment, I have settled on updating the post as the day goes on.

As for 10.18AM, a large crowd has gathered outside Manawerx, a testament to how healthy and vibrant the tournament playing community is, the popularity of Shard of Alara, and perhaps to a certain extent, the popularity of Manawerx and Michael Toh. ;)

Despite advertised as to start at 10AM, we have yet to start. As I write this, Michael Toh, premier tournament organizer for Klang Valley just announced that the round will start at 10.30AM.

Last updated 4.57PM

Vincent Gan, Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir 16 ponts, 6 x 15 points 5 x 13 points.

It's going to be a tough round for everyone as drawing is now not an option.

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Update: Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, the live blogging attempt is unfortunately a failure. Not only was the writer spending alot more of his time playing than he expected, the network connection was also pretty much unusable through out the whole day. Nevertheless, the writer hopes to put up information about the tournament as soon as he can.

As for 4.40PM, round 6 is under way out of 7 total, and two players with 5-0 results have already drawn in. The rest of the 4-1s is fighting for an easier path towards the top 8 while the rest of the field struggles to keep up with the tournament leaders .

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Decards @ USJ Summit GPT Taipei 2008 - Semifinals

Kuan Khang Jong vs Johan Jamal Yacob

Only two more rounds stands between 4 players and the crown of the tournament as well as 3 round byes to Grand Prix Taipei.



Johan Jamal Yacob dealt with his quarterfinals opponents handily as he utilizes cards from the Grixis shard to great effect as his creatures comes screaming out of the graveyard to torment his opponents with the unearth mechanic, with bombs like Caldera Hellion and Prince of Thralls along with double Death Baron.

Meanwhile, thanks to a lack Esper drafters around the table, Kuan Khang Jong managed to take advantage of all the quality artifact creatures that were undervalued by every other drafter on the table in the top 8, allowing him to assemble a powerful blue-white-black deck which includes double Master of Etherium and 3 Windwright Mage.

As the two players prepare to start their match, a crowd starts to gather to witness the outcome of the clash between what arguably is the two best decks of the top 8 in the tournament.

Game 1

Kuan wins the dice roll and elects to draw first. Johan mulligan and his happy with next next 6 while Kuan is happy with his opening seven.

Johan starts off the game with a Dragon Fodder on his second turn while Kuan plays a Tidehollow Sculler taking away an Agony Wrap from Johan's hand. Johan adds a Demon's Herald and a Courier's Capsule to his side of the board while Kuan doesn't keeps up with the game's momentum by playing a Windwright Mage. Johan, unperturbed, sacrifices his Capsule, drawing 2 cards from it and passes his turn.


Johan has unique tastes for his tokens

Kuan takes first blood, attacking with his Windwright Mage, gaining 2 life in the process before playing another Windwright Mage. Johan ready to start his unearthing shenanigans, plays his Corpse Connoisseur that he used to great effect last round in the quarterfinals. He initially searches out his Scourge Devil but after a couple moment's thought, settles on a Kathari Screecher to put into his graveyard instead.

Kuan then taps 2U to play an Etherium Astrolabe, and immediately sacrifices itself to it's ability to draw a card, and to enable his double Windwright Mages' flying ability thanks to the Astrolabe being the graveyard now and promptly attacks with both of them, which Johan is unable to block. The attack took him down to 14 while Kuan sits comfortably at 26.


Kuan Khang Jong

Not willing to slip any further, Johan fought back, playing a Bone Splinters, sacrificing a token to take back his Agony Wrap by killing the Tidehollow Sculler. He then attacks Kuan for for 5 damage with his 1/1 Goblin token, Demon's Herald and Corpse Connoisseur taking Kuan down to 21 to his 14 before adding a Executioner's Capsule to his side of the board. Kuan attacks with his double Windwright Mage but meets Johan's Agony Wrap, -0/-3 one, while -3/-0 the other, complete nulling Kuan's offense for the turn. Kuan plays a Vectis Silencers but the Human Rogue was sent to the graveyard by Johan's Executioner's Capsule's ability. Johan piles up the pressure, hitting Kuan for another 5 damage on the following turn, adding a Kederekt Creeper to his growing army.

Kuan passes his next turn, doing nothing, although he left his Windwright Mage on defence. Undaunted, Johan attacks with his Corpse Connoisseur and Creeper. Kuan blocks the Corpse, and plays Call to Heel to bounce it, saving it from the graveyard. Kuan then plays a Obelisk and 2 Windwright Mages, and double Windwright Mage. Johan sacrifices his Demon's Herald at end of Kuan's turn, and was disappointed that he couldn't just sacrifice a red, blue and black creature to use it's ability, but 3 separate creatures. He however has enough creatures to meet the requirements, searches and plays his Prince of Thralls.



Johan then unearths his Corpse Connoisseur, freshly sent to the graveyard not too long ago, finds a Scourge Devil to put into the graveyard, unearths the Devil an swung with all his creatures, two of them fresh from the graveyard taking Kuan down to 5 to Johan's 14. Kuan calmly plays an Oblivion Ring to take the Prince of Thralls out of the picture for now, and attacks with his Windwright Mage, gaining
2 life to go to 7 while Johan goes to 12. Johan simply passes the turn which Kuan then attacks with his Mage again. Johan took so time to consider his moves and finally decides to play Grixis Charm, choosing to kill off the 2/2 with the -4/-4 mode on the Charm. Kuan shrugs the slight setback off and plays a Tidehollow Strix. Johan however plays a Caldera Hellion to clear Kuan's side of the board, and was more than enough to earn a concession from Kuan.

Johan 1 – Kuan 0

Game 2

Kuan chooses to draw first again and both players decides to mulligan and both kept their 6 card hand. Johan makes the first play again with another Dragon Fodder on his 3rd turn while Kuan just passes his. The goblin tokes goes in to take 2 out of Kuan and Johan adds a Death Baron to his board. Meanwhile, Kuan flashes in a Etherium Astrolabe, and plays an Obelisk on his turn, passes without any solid play since the beginning of the game. Johan plays a Corpse Connoisseur digging out a Scourge Devil, attacks for 4 with the tokens and the Baron taking Kuan down to 14. Kuan just plays a Cloudheath Drake and passes his turn. Johan unearths the Scourge Devil in his graveyard and attacks with all his creatures with the exception of his Death Baron who he hopes will stick around longer. He hits Kuan hard, taking him down to 3 with Kuan's Drake taking down a goblin token.


Johan Jamal Yacob

Kuan desperate to get back into the game, plays Oblivion Ring, removing the Connoisseur from the game and passes. Johan thinks about his moves, attacks with his tokens and the Baron, which met his fate being blocked by Kuan's Drake, but then it was clear that the Baron was as good as dead anyway as Johan drew his Caldera Hellion which he played and killed Kuan's Drake while his Hellion survives the 3 damage which was dealt to all creatures, being a 4/4 thanks to the 1/1 Goblin token the Hellion devoured. Kuan barely shows any reaction despite losing board position, calmly sacrifices the Drake to his Astrolabe to draw a card while the Hellion's damage is still on the stack. Kuan then plays a Vectis Silencers and Etherium Sculptor. Johan, fearing the Silencers' deathtouch ability, passes his turn without attacking. Kuan sacrifices his Obelisk to draw a card via the Astrolabe again, before counting his mana carefully and attacks with his Silencers, doing his first damage of the game to Johan taking him to 19 to Kuan's 2 before playing a 4/5 5U Steelclad Serpent to hold the fort.

Johan then plays a Grixis Battlemage before passing the turn to Kuan who plays a Sanctum Gargoyle, taking back his Cloudheath Drake and passes the turn, possibly fearing the Battlemage's can't block ability. Johan simply passes his turn and Kuan attacks with his Sanctum Gargoyle, plays his Drake for 3U thanks to his Etherium Sculptor while Johan choose to draw a card and discard a card with his Battlemage at the end of Kuan's turn.

Johan then taps his mana and unearths the game breaking Kederekt Leviathan, demolishing Kuan's board presence, bouncing almost everything back to their owner's hands including returning Johan's Corpse Connoisseur, with the Oblivion Ring leaving play, which allows him put into graveyard and subsequently unearth a Dregscape Zombie and the 2/1 is more than enough to finish Kuan off despite Kuan having a Call to Heel to deal with the Leviathan temporarily.

Johan 2 – Kuan 0

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