This Saturday I’m going to play the LCV (Catalan Vintage League), finally! The guys from Igualada have prepared an excellent tournament with an awesome prize support, so I couldn’t fail to their effort. I hope the turnout of the tournament goes as they expected!
I expect a metagame with tones of Golem MUDS and Fish (Noble [...]
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Today testing, tomorrow LCV!
Legacy comes to Magic Online
Ladies and gentlemen Legacy is on fire! GP Madrid has beaten any previously attendance record and that’s something Spain is really proud of. Well, we (eternal players) should all be proud of! Every now and then, the attendance records gets beaten but that ain’t new. What’s new and surprising is that GP Madrid was played [...]
Altered Swamps by Ron Spencer
Ron Spencer has always delighted us with his excellent Yawgmoth’s Will alterations, but he does other cool stuff worth watching and commenting. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen from Ron Spencer are his playsets of altered swamps. What makes these swamps special is that they usually connect one to each other to create [...]
Dan Frazier is visiting Spain!
On the weekend of Grand Prix Madrid (epic report) I was told that Dan Frazier was coming to Spain. Where? – I asked!
I found the answer to that question in a matter of minutes! A guy around there was handling these fliers:
The card reads:
Freak Games I – 10th & 11th of April
Saturday: 600+€ Standard tournament. [...]
Anthony Francisco is in da house!
When one of my regular dealers mentioned that he would have the chance of getting some cards signed by Anthony Francisco, I told him if he had 2 Tezzeret the Seeker and an Inkwell Leviathan in stock. How could I doubt about him!
These two are going straight to my Vintage deck!
I might be selling my [...]
The GP Madrid epic report! Part III
Chapter 3: The rise of the golems.
So it’s finally Sunday, our last day in Madrid, and we are heading again to the GP with brand new objectives. I still need to visit Mark Poole to get some stuff signed & altered, and I’m planning on conquering the Vintage side event that starts at 9 am.
So, [...]
Decks from GP Madrid 2010 Top8
The lists from the Top8 players from the GP Madrid were known for quite a while already. Buf if you missed them, you can now find them here as well.
Can’t stop laughing at Ruben’s T-shirt! He’s wearing it the other way around!
By the way, I’ll hopefully have the 3rd part of the report finished later [...]
Yawgmoth’s Will altered by Ron Spencer & Terese Nielsen
I was going to post this card within the third chapter of The GP Madrid epic report! (Part I + Part II) but I believe this deserves its own post.
I’m very, very, very proud to show you my ultimate acquisition (thanks to Angelo) at the Grand Prix Madrid 2010: A Yawgmoth’s Will altered by Ron [...]
The GP Madrid epic report! Part II
Chapter 2: The assault
It’s finally Saturday and the biggest GP of the history of MtG is just about to begin. Once there, we see huge queues to register again. Luckily for us we don’t need to queue anymore so we move inside and wait, and wait, and wait, and w…
When 2220 people show up in [...]
The GP Madrid epic report! Part I
2010’s Grand Prix Madrid has been an EPIC and LEGENDARY weekend. It isn’t easy to explain everything that happened this past days. There’s too many stories, too many great moments, too many friendly moments, too many people!!!!
I’m going to divide this report in three chapters. Each chapter represents one day: Friday, Saturday and Sunday (How [...]
You can’t beat GP Madrid!
I’m back home from Madrid. WHAT A WEEKEND! We’ve had one of the greatest mtg parties of all times. Insane amount of people, including the new World Record of attendance in the history of mtg (2220 players); excellent organization, who solved quite well all the problems generated by having 2K+ players; tournaments ran very smooth [...]
[Video]: LCL3 February @Ripollet (Barcelona)
The February tournament of the Third Catalan Legacy League (LCL3) was held in Ripollet (town near Barcelona) with a turnout of 92 players. As usual, Enric Luzán has released the videos of the Top8 games. So far there’s the quarterfinals and semifinals. The videos from the final will come up shortly. You’ll find the decks [...]




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