It's strange, the last time I went to a prerelease I could only stay for a certain amount of time and didn't have much fun. This time was much different/better, as I found a new great place to play cards, learned a lot about the new set, and even won some prizes.
I showed up to The Grid in Manchester, CT today to do the prerelease (I would have yesterday, but I was in Boston), and the store looks amazing off the bat. Everything you could want: food, drinks, tons of places to play, comics, plenty of cards, etc. I bought 4 Ad Nauseam just because they were a dollar each (how is that possible??), and it was off to sealed.
I won't bother showing my entire pool, rather, I'll just post the deck I made:
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Roight, so I know this list doesn't look like much, because it isn't. My rares weren't great for monetary reasons at all, I got Shape Anew, Tempered Steel, Livewire Lash, Steel Hellkite, Mimic Vat, and Argentum Armor. I'm not really complaining in terms of limited capability, but they're not really moneymakers. So, I constructed the following mess and piloted it to a 2-1-1 record, winning matches on some tight playskill and waiting it out till I found my bombs in Argentum Armor and Steel Hellkite. The rounds went as such:
Round 1: vs U/G
Round 1 was great fun, if it didn't take hella long. The first game itself basically took around 30-40 minutes, and I lost. Not a good start. Basically, the ground got gummed up with creatures, and I got flooded late in the game while he plowed through with Darkslick Drakes. Game 2, my deck did its thang and some golem equipped with Argentum Armor took the game down in extra turns, bringing it to a draw. Interesting note: each game, he got his Sword of Body and Mind, but I killed it twice with some form of artifact hate.
Round 2: R/W
This round was much less fair. This guy's Metalcraft deck was filled to the brim with bombs, and I got to experience it firsthand. First game, I'm not even really sure what happened, only that I tried to poison him out with Blight Mamba, but he crushed me. Second game, I got to experience the unfairness that is Myr Battlesphere. I eventually killed the sphere itself, but the guys it left on the board wiped me out.
Round 3: B/R
This guy's B/R deck wasn't that great at all, which is probably why I was playing him in this bracket. There isn't much to say about this match, I took it down with card quality and some good plays (like removing Kudoltha Phoenix with Mimic Vat-sick).
Round 4: G/R
I basically played the mirror match of my deck in this one, with many of the cards being the same or similar. All 3 games were very tight, with third one being close because I didn't realize some 2/2 creature had infect instead of normal damage, and got 6 poison counters before I realized I couldn't take it anymore. Our decks were small by the time we finished our marathon games, and I barely edged it out in the three game set.
For my troubles, I got a playset of Shards, so I'm pretty happy about that. Also, I found a great new place to play, so I'm even more excited about going back. All in all, it was a pretty good, and very productive, prerelease.
Oh, and watch out for Wurmcoil Engine: That guy's gonna challenge the Titans in terms of power level.
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