Well here in Melbourne packs are around $5 - $6 (Though have seen a store at $7 which is excessive in my opinion) and a box is $150. If prices increase anymore it will probably mean some kids will be driven out of the market. It's already difficult for beginners to continue playing when u tell them that certain top decks have cards in the high $$ range and most of the time boosters are not even worth half the price u pay for them.
I so hope that prices will not go up for the sake of the newer players in the game.
Pre-release in Melbourne, went 4-0 and ended up getting 8 booters as prizes,
All i can say is that Scry is one of the best abilities in M11 as you can pretty much stack your deck legally with cards like Crystal Ball and Foresee and with flying, packs a real punch. Opened Jace and Frost Titan along with the Angelic Arbiter as my bomb cards so ended up playing U/W/r (splashing 2 Lightning Bolts and a Fireball with tonness of flying - 3 Augury Owls!!, It played out like a shaky control deck
Though the deck had problem with rush as flying creatures tend to be frail and thankfully I didn't see many Pyroclasms it did great against decks with a slower curve, overall a pretty good experience compared with other pre releases.
One interesting thing to note, out of 14 boosters, there was not one Preordain or Doom Blade but 3 Lightning bolt..hmmmm
Hellion Eruption
Deathless Angel
Dorminant Gomazoa
Momentous Fall
Khalni Hydra
Kargan Dragonlord
Gelatinous Genesis
Baneful Omen
Student of Warfare
Gigantomancer
Repay in Kind (Foil. Near-Death Experience)
Coralhelm Commander
Middle
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Gideon Jura
World at War
Splinter Twin
Mu Daya Channelers
Nomad's Assembly
Angelheart Vial
Tajuru Preserver
Devastating Summons
Recurring Insight
Deathless Angel
Umbra Mystic
RHS
Lord of Shatterskull Pass
Hendron Matrix (Foil.Vengevine):o
Training Grounds
Surrakar Spellblade
Thought Gorger
Tuttuk the Explorer
Consume the Meek
Gravitational Shift
Echo Mage
Spinx-Bone Wand
All is Dust
Mortician Beetle
In addition to this, Each row had a booster which began with these commons:
Mmmm I attended the pre release in Melbourne, Australia and went 2-2 and ended up with 4 boosters which was pretty satisfying considering the contents.
I opened a Gideon in my first booster and automatically locked myself into white and ended up having to use almost all my white cards due to the fact that i seemed to open very little white after that.
White had a few levellers to play around with such as Kabira Vindicator, Ikiral Outrider and Knight of Cliffhaven and together with a Oust and Smite formed a nice offensive suit
The trouble I had was picking a second colour and ended up playing red before switching to blue with splashed red due to 2x Staggershock and a Flame Slash. Mnemonic Wall turned out to be one of my best cards as it was able to return alot of valuable removal or the draw cards needed at just the required time.
The most epic moment of the game came when I was blown out with a Disaster Radius for 9.....
The problem i found was that levelling was simply too slow.. to many times, I was under pressure from early green beats such as Nest Invader or having my levellers removed before they could provide any assistance. Eldrazi for me at least wasn't too much of a problem mainly due to me using Gidon to bait them then blocking with a Eldrazi of my own or just chumping with a spawn before using -2 to finish it off. It was definately one of the slower formats i have played but it was still very fun : )
Had a reasonable good time at it, 4 wins 2 losses ended up coming 5th out of 36 people. Can't say i'm too disappointed. Got an Emeria Angel, Mordant Dragon and a Raging Ravine but dropped the red green deck after one round to go green white with allies subtheme due to the absolute lack of red cards - and RRR is pretty difficult to splash.:-/
Had some of the weirdest luck going around including my opponent not dropping a land when he had an Eternity Vessel out set on 20 and then another opponent killing me in extra time with zero cards in his library due to a Surrakar Marauder with an explorer scope successfully hitting land for about 6 times in a row - Guess what goes around comes around
Overall it was fun except 6 Rounds started taking its toll late in the day with a few misplays seeping into some people's games.
Hmm looks good at first glance but i assume it'll be very hard to protect and let it generate the tokens - Love the art though seems to capture the mood/going ons of the card
I think it's pretty nice in limited but outside limited maybe not as good - blue has better options such as counterspells in constructed. In the pre-release I attended i noticed that it was an annoyance to many people example on a DSC but at the same time not impossible to remove ie. ping damage and equipment
I started playing magic in the Kamigawa block just before Saviors was released. I frequently browse this site but hadn't really felt like joining until now =P.
I was introduced to magic by a few friends to pass time. My favourite colour in magic is white and my favourite card at the moment is Elspeth
I so hope that prices will not go up for the sake of the newer players in the game.
Also.. NOT good for EDH
English - Purchased In Australia
LHS
Mitotic Slime
Nectotic Plague
Time Reversal (M)
Magma Phoenix
Sword of Vengeance
Knight Exemplar
Serra Ascendant
Clone
Nantuko Shade
Chandra Nalaar (M)
Traumatize
Protean Hydra
Middle
Mystifying Maze (Foil: Fauna Shaman
Phylactery Lich
Frost Titan (M)
Angelic Arbiter
Leyline of Anticipation
Birds of Paradise
Vengeful Archon
Leyline of the Void
Stormtide Leviathan
Jinxed Idol
Fauna Shaman
Drowned Catacomb
Right
Fauna Shaman
Mass Polymorph
Sunpetal Grove
Wild Evocation
Elvish Archdruid
Captivating Vampire
Dragonskull Summit
Ajani Goldmane (M) <--- Miscut with crumpled square bottom right edge
Hoarding Dragon
Destructive Force
Dark Tutelage
Platnium Angel (M)
Odd box.. 3 Fauna Shaman in a box.. was hoping for more titans though meh.. Hopefully this helps with mapping a little
Left
Merfolk Sovereign
Knight Exemplar
Serra Ascendant
Clone
Nantuko Shade
Chandra Nalaar (M)
Mass Polymorph
Sunpetal Grove
Time Reversal (M)
Angelic Arbiter
Leyline of Anticipation
Mystifying Maze
Centre
Fauna Shaman
Stormtide Leviathen
Obstinate Balaoth
Vengeful Archon
Cyclopse Gladiator
Jinxed Idol
Drowned Catacomb
Temple Bell
Captivating Vampire
Mitotic Slime
Magma Phoenix
Sword of Vengeance
Right
Honor the Pure
Captivating Vampire
Destructive Force
Rootbound Crag
Triskelion
Liliana Vess (M)
Overwheling Stampede
Necrotic Plague
Leyline of Sanctity
Goblin Chieftain
Conundrum Sphinx
Leyline of Punishment
Pretty sure it was the worst box I've opened lol ... No Titians .. No Baneslayer...:-/. Might have to get another one to make up for it (if possible)
All i can say is that Scry is one of the best abilities in M11 as you can pretty much stack your deck legally with cards like Crystal Ball and Foresee and with flying, packs a real punch. Opened Jace and Frost Titan along with the Angelic Arbiter as my bomb cards so ended up playing U/W/r (splashing 2 Lightning Bolts and a Fireball
Though the deck had problem with rush as flying creatures tend to be frail and thankfully I didn't see many Pyroclasms it did great against decks with a slower curve, overall a pretty good experience compared with other pre releases.
One interesting thing to note, out of 14 boosters, there was not one Preordain or Doom Blade but 3 Lightning bolt..hmmmm
LHS
Hellion Eruption
Deathless Angel
Dorminant Gomazoa
Momentous Fall
Khalni Hydra
Kargan Dragonlord
Gelatinous Genesis
Baneful Omen
Student of Warfare
Gigantomancer
Repay in Kind (Foil. Near-Death Experience)
Coralhelm Commander
Middle
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Gideon Jura
World at War
Splinter Twin
Mu Daya Channelers
Nomad's Assembly
Angelheart Vial
Tajuru Preserver
Devastating Summons
Recurring Insight
Deathless Angel
Umbra Mystic
RHS
Lord of Shatterskull Pass
Hendron Matrix (Foil.Vengevine):o
Training Grounds
Surrakar Spellblade
Thought Gorger
Tuttuk the Explorer
Consume the Meek
Gravitational Shift
Echo Mage
Spinx-Bone Wand
All is Dust
Mortician Beetle
In addition to this, Each row had a booster which began with these commons:
Zulaport Enforcer
Skywatch Adept
Phrophetic Prism
Champion Drake
I opened a Gideon in my first booster and automatically locked myself into white and ended up having to use almost all my white cards due to the fact that i seemed to open very little white after that.
White had a few levellers to play around with such as Kabira Vindicator, Ikiral Outrider and Knight of Cliffhaven and together with a Oust and Smite formed a nice offensive suit
The trouble I had was picking a second colour and ended up playing red before switching to blue with splashed red due to 2x Staggershock and a Flame Slash. Mnemonic Wall turned out to be one of my best cards as it was able to return alot of valuable removal or the draw cards needed at just the required time.
The most epic moment of the game came when I was blown out with a Disaster Radius for 9.....
The problem i found was that levelling was simply too slow.. to many times, I was under pressure from early green beats such as Nest Invader or having my levellers removed before they could provide any assistance. Eldrazi for me at least wasn't too much of a problem mainly due to me using Gidon to bait them then blocking with a Eldrazi of my own or just chumping with a spawn before using -2 to finish it off. It was definately one of the slower formats i have played but it was still very fun : )
Had some of the weirdest luck going around including my opponent not dropping a land when he had an Eternity Vessel out set on 20
Overall it was fun except 6 Rounds started taking its toll late in the day with a few misplays seeping into some people's games.
I'm MD, I am a university student in Australia.
I started playing magic in the Kamigawa block just before Saviors was released. I frequently browse this site but hadn't really felt like joining until now =P.
I was introduced to magic by a few friends to pass time. My favourite colour in magic is white and my favourite card at the moment is Elspeth
Hope to see you around the forum.
-MysticDragon (MD)