I was wondering if anyone has purchased these decks yet? I will buy them soon because I heard they were released at Wal-Mart recently. I will update this as soon as I get them.
the red precon is pretty stout...can't wait until mtgo switches to the 9th ed. precons in the "practice rooms"......i'll have quite a bit of fun w/ those
They really seem to be packing Black precons chock full of high-quality rares lately. In thelast 2 blocks, we've seen Plunge into Darkness, Yukora, Jitte, and Patron of Nezumi. The best any other color has gotten was...Broodstar.
The good news is that the white one still has Glorious Anthem in it, in case you're like me and never kept your playset because you never believed white would be worth playing again. Not to say white is premier right now, just saying.
They really seem to be packing Black precons chock full of high-quality rares lately. In thelast 2 blocks, we've seen Plunge into Darkness, Yukora, Jitte, and Patron of Nezumi. The best any other color has gotten was...Broodstar.
She's not a rare, but Eternal Witness is worth more than all of those except Jitte, and Magma jet is in the same precon
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Underworld Dreams in a precon... and Wildfire too? Wow, that's pretty hot.
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I planned on buying them from the beggining just cause lately we have been getting a decent to good card in precons. Got kumano in one, jitte in another, gohei in one. I figured I might get something worth while, and now I know I am (wanted underworld dreams since I saw it on the spoiler).
this is awesome, every year we have a sealed deck tournament invitational with the latest set and the top drafters where we go down in life and cards in opening hand to bid on a deck. With these its gunna be so much fun, luckily, im second this year so i get in unless i mess up come saturday and lose all my matches w/o dropping after 0-2.
Wow, the red deck looks mighty nice with all those cards, might just want to pick up 2 or 3 of those, notice how this deck looks consistent compare to the others. The black deck looks good with dreams and nekrataal too. The others are a bit bland though.
I am so pissed off with Wizards! Not one copy of Gift of Estates or Cruel Edict in the pre-cons! This is absolutely rediculous! I can understand why they don't put high profile rares in the pre-cons because they want the money value of these cards to stay high but there is no excuse for uncommons! Screw you Wizards, you money grabbing capitalist pigs! End Rant
I like these better than 8th, but nothing spectacular.
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Basically to show that Artifacts can patch up a color's weaknesses.
Hulk in White: 5-power creatures are pretty rare in white, and tend to be expensive mana+moneywise angels/dragons.
Rod in Blue: Blue doesn't have Tim anymore, so this shows noobs that blue can use arts to pick off weenies you don't want to waste counters/bounce/confiscate on, or as a win condition in a pinch.
Bloom in Black: life-gain to offset the suicidal imp/serp/garg. Course, with robbers and consume in there too...
Scimitar in Red: 5 flying toughness for 4 mana is very non-red (aside from like Rathi Dragon), so this gives players a defensive card if their offense proves too slow (the deck isn't a tourney-ponza after all)
Bottle Gnomes: This is by far the weirdest one. Green has much better creatures and a fair amount of lifegain, so it doesn't teach noobs anything. Rod of Ruin was the one in green 7th/8th iirc, I think they should have left it in green and given Blue the efficient Gnome.
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Overall Id rate the precons in this order
Black(needs to be more consistant though, WAY more consistant)
Red(very impressive)
White(leonin skyhunter would have been perfect but 3 copies of Angel is dead awesome!)
Blue(Meh)
Green(Bleh)
CRRRRAAAAAPPPPP!!!!!! I just spent 20 dollars on a mint 8th edition underworld dreams, and now it is in a 9 dollar precon I can pick up at wallmart! GRRRRRRR!!!!!
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no offense, but why would you spend 20 on underworld, i have never seen it for more then 6 cept some insane people on ebay(or for a foil maybe). Least not for the 8th edition ones, MAYBE a mint legends for 20.
Underworld Dreams in a precon...Phyrexian Gargantua and Highway Robbers are quite fun.
Robbers'll be cool, forgot them. Still have my playset of Apoc gargs tho.
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She's not a rare, but Eternal Witness is worth more than all of those except Jitte, and Magma jet is in the same precon
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White Phyrexian Gargantua
Blue Rod of Ruin
Black Tanglebloom
Red Dancing Scimitar
Green Bottle Gnomes
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You mean Phyrexian Hulk for white.
I like these better than 8th, but nothing spectacular.
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Basically to show that Artifacts can patch up a color's weaknesses.
Hulk in White: 5-power creatures are pretty rare in white, and tend to be expensive mana+moneywise angels/dragons.
Rod in Blue: Blue doesn't have Tim anymore, so this shows noobs that blue can use arts to pick off weenies you don't want to waste counters/bounce/confiscate on, or as a win condition in a pinch.
Bloom in Black: life-gain to offset the suicidal imp/serp/garg. Course, with robbers and consume in there too...
Scimitar in Red: 5 flying toughness for 4 mana is very non-red (aside from like Rathi Dragon), so this gives players a defensive card if their offense proves too slow (the deck isn't a tourney-ponza after all)
Bottle Gnomes: This is by far the weirdest one. Green has much better creatures and a fair amount of lifegain, so it doesn't teach noobs anything. Rod of Ruin was the one in green 7th/8th iirc, I think they should have left it in green and given Blue the efficient Gnome.
With Utopia tree being in 9th, I'm kinda disappointed that it isn't the rare in the green precon.
The black one looks nice with the dreams in it.
What do the 9th precons retail for?
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Overall Id rate the precons in this order
Black(needs to be more consistant though, WAY more consistant)
Red(very impressive)
White(leonin skyhunter would have been perfect but 3 copies of Angel is dead awesome!)
Blue(Meh)
Green(Bleh)
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