Share Your Prerelease stories!
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Posted on July 18, 2016, 12:35 p.m. by CheeseBro
Now that EMN prereleaases have stopped firing, its time for everyone to tell share your stories! Tell us about your good pulls, decks, or combos, or just how you did.
Heres mine:
I did 2HG prerlease. I was overjoyed to when i opened the box to see a foil promo emrakul staring back at me. My teammate then got another emrakul in a pack. I made a decent BG delirium deck and my teammate made a decent UW tempo/control.we went 1-2, but it was still a great experience. Also, for those of you who think Emrakul is bad, i can tell you she is INSANE!!!
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GoldGhost012 says... #3
My pool was mediocre. My most powerful pull was my promo, Docent of Perfection Flip and my playables were all over the place. Initially build GBr "goodstuff," but got blown out in match 1 and all my testing games. So I built WU with essentially the rest of my cards and finished 2-2, placing 13th (guess I got there!).
Did have a couple great moments though. In match 1 I managed to 4-for-1 my opponent with Clear Shot when he tried to transform Voldaren Pariah Flip. Then in match 3 I completely wrecked my opponent by taking out his only good creature with Blessed Alliance in both games 1 and 2.
July 18, 2016 12:49 p.m.
I pulled 2 mythics in my 6 packs, but it was a Goldnight Castigator and a Deploy the Gatewatch; my promo was a Spirit of the Hunt, so no value opened.
I had a difficult to build pool and played 42 card deck with 18 lands. UW control/midrange with Collective Brutality and Dark Salvation and Kindly Stranger Flip, all insane bombs in Limited.
Dark Salvation and a foil Epiphany at the Drownyard, featuring Ongoing Investigation and fliers were the major highlights. Salvation is a top tier bomb in all regards, A+ on that one. Epiphany was better than expected and drew 3 cards for 6 mana a couple of times, which is nice. Ongoing investigation, even without the green in the deck, was 100% worth it and has dug me out of tough binds. Managed to do the flavor win of emerging a Wretched Gryff out of a Dawn Gryff.
I went 3-1, finishing second, and collected 3 packs for my troubles, losing only to a very fast WR deck, one of which had an Elder Deep-Fiend, so finally some value opened in nearly 10 packs.
July 18, 2016 12:56 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #5
Guess I'll re-post what I wrote in the spoiler thread since it's more appropriate here:
I didn't open anything great. Went 3-2 at my pre-release, placing 10th out of 32 players. I built a URw spells matter deck with Niblis of Frost, Identity Thief (my promo), and some other stuff. Those two are monsters in limited. In my last round, I ended up discarding Avacyn's Judgment to Mad Prophet for X=12 and swung in for the rest. My opponent was speechless for a few minutes.
One of the newer players opened a pack foil Liliana, the Last Hope
and didn't have sleeves. It was painful to watch.
As I was leaving my 1PM event, the 7PM event attendees were arriving. Among them, a girl, who went up to the judge and said "Hi! I registered for the prerelease. Can you teach me how to play?" She had a basic grasp of the game, but boy that was going to be an awkward time for her.
July 18, 2016 1:13 p.m.
I won my pre-release on one card, Startled Awake Flip. I also drew 2 Murder 2 Fogwalker, Mausoleum Wanderer and other control ability spirits. A few other removals Boon of Emrakul, and what saved me as at 5:30am, as I was at 2 life opponent at 17, he gives a human flying of 2 for the kill. I hit with a Summary Dismissal. Next turn Persistent Nightmare Flip hits and I mill the remaining of his deck. I am still amped. A control wins on limited...WHAT
July 18, 2016 3 p.m.
iBleedPunk says... #7
Went 2-3 on a mediocre box and had Summary Dismissal as my box promo. Played Sultai Control with kinda decent pieces to Sideboard in that made it Grixis Aggro when I didn't like my match up. Started out great but G/W Humans shut me down consistently with evasion and Lifelink towards the end of the pre-release. Not one of my favorite limited environments by far
TL;DR: Pulled shit, did eh
July 18, 2016 3:53 p.m.
An opponent had to discard due to lack of mana, so he discarded his highest CMC card; Emrakul, the Promised End. Well, on my turn I cast Rise from the Grave and reanimateed Emrakul. He conceded there and then :)
July 18, 2016 4:51 p.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #9
I opened a prerelease promo Bruna, the Fading Light and a second regular version. Best moment- casting Bruna to get back Bruna to make one die, getting one extra death trigger off my flipped Pious Evangel Flip for lethal.
I mean, sure I coulda just attacked. But where would be the fun in that?
July 18, 2016 5:25 p.m.
Sunday I got a promo Gisela, the Broken Blade and the second prerelease I got a promo Bruna, the Fading Light. So I'm pretty happy
July 18, 2016 6:39 p.m.
My pulls sucked. My promo was Liliana, the Last Hope and I pulled Spell Queller and Tamiyo, Field Researcher. Trash. /s
July 18, 2016 6:41 p.m.
Faceless_Being =D I've never had a box that good. Over $100 worth of cards. Sold Liliana for $60 lmao
July 18, 2016 6:47 p.m.
AwesomeOctopus says... #14
Unlike last time I had a very hard time picking between 4 colors and had to scramble to put something together after deckbuilding time was called.
In red was a Mirrorwing Dragon which is a nice bomb as well as decent 3 drops and 4 drops, and good removal on the low end. but to take advantage of the mirrorwing I needed good combat tricks and all I had was Distemper of the Blood and a few mediocre ones like Survive the Night in other colors. Red also had a total lack of playable 2 drop creatures.
White had Thalia, Heretic Cathar as well as 2 Ironclad Slayers a Courageous Outrider, 2 Fiend Binders, and a Subjugator Angel as a finisher.
Green had a Rabid Bite and Prey Upon, several good werewolves (that also count as humans) and importantly Hamlet Captain that would give me really strong synergy with the white humans.
Black had a Murder 2 Boon of Emrakuls (which my ironclad slayers can return), and a Certain Death, as well as 2 Graf Rats and the Midnight Scavengers for a sweet meld combo, and pretty decent playable creatures across the curve.
I hurryedly stuffed all the white and black creatures + black removal into sleaves so that I wouldn't keep my opponent waiting too long in match 1.
I lose match 1 because it went to turns from me sleeving and shuffling and we rolled for it an I lost (felt like I would have won :().
I get the bye and use the time to critically think about my deck and decide to switch to G/W humans (almost all my white creatures were human and that hamlet captain looked so sweet) but splashed black for the Boon of Emrakuls and Certain Death (had to cut murder because of the double black) using the very limited color fixing green gives in this set to pull off 3 colors.
I steamroll round 3, but I think the guy was on tilt, he dropped after.
Round 4 I get blown out by U/R spell slinger deck that efficiently removed my 2 and 3 drop creatures.
Overall had fun but I really want to know if I made the smart move with my deck, do you guys thing I should have build it differently?
July 18, 2016 7:28 p.m.
AwesomeOctopus It's hard to make that call with limited knowledge. There are so many other cards that could sway the decision. I think GW, BR and BW were the strongest color pairings for prerelease. Something that may help you (you may already do this) save yourself time in deck building is to always take out the rare/mythic, look at it and move on. Sort everything from that pack into color piles. Move onto the next pack and do the same. After you have opened all your packs, look at your rare/mythic for any must play bombs. Then move onto each color pile and look for the key cards. Efficient beaters, removal, combat tricks, etc.
Just something to think about, but when I do this, I usually have about 40 minutes to decide on how I want to build the deck. I use the first 10 minutes to open and sort, 10 minutes to sleeve whatever cards I'm playing, and the last 30 minutes to build the deck and test/remove cards as needed.
Hope this helps! You may already do that, in which case, ignore my advice!
July 18, 2016 7:36 p.m.
So, it felt like my box just wanted to go in every directions.
My promo was a Spell Queller. Pretty good, I thought, but my first rare was a Alpha Pack. Now I was there, already split on 3 colors. Then I suddenly opened a Bruna, the Fading Light and a Sanctifier of souls. Now I had to go white. The question was if I should go blue or red. It was then decided by me drawing Relentless Dead. Looking at my pool, I had a lot of good Commons and uncommon in black (Murder...), so I ended up going W/B. My last rare was a Port Town, but I simply couldn't let go of black.
I had about 6 removal spells in my deck and Bruna as my finisher. It was not too great. The thing I did not have was any 6 drops. None. Often, I would just sit and look at my opponent, bring able to do nothing, because I simply lacked stronger creatures.
At the end, I did go 3-2-1 and I won 4 boosters. Not bad with the pool I had. However, I did get to meld my Graf Rats 3 times throughout the pre-release. That made me real happy.
July 18, 2016 8:14 p.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #17
Played 2HG with my partner. In the last round we were up against a combo deck. Specifically Soul Separator + Thermo-Alchemist + Tree of Perdition . Nasty.
They Soul Separated the Tree in our endstep - I had 
up and a Dual Shot in hand. They conceded.
We each won 6 packs, so we went home, and played more sealed deck. =)
July 19, 2016 1:02 a.m.
LimitedManaDrop says... #18
Attended the Pre-release for Eldritch Moon and uploaded a video to YouTube. I show all the cards I opened, the process in which I decide what cards to choose, and the final outcome. Take a look for yourself.
MTG - Eldritch Moon Pre-release Sealed Deck Assembly https://youtu.be/FnFx6OL1weA
July 19, 2016 8:47 p.m.
Did two prereleases, Saturday and Sunday.
I felt really good about the Saturday pool, got a Bloodhall Priest, promo Hanweir Garrison and an assortment of beatdown and burn/removal. They were doing 6 rounds with a cut to top 8, who would then draft. After 5 rounds I was in 10th place with 3-2, but in seat 5 with another 9pt vs 9th at table 4 (and two more at 6-7). I win my match, but get leapfrogged by the guy who won at table 6 by less than 1% OMW to finish 9th.
Sunday, my pool was fairly removal light and I ended going GW with a lot of humans, Sigarda, Heron's Grace and some tricks, with a light sprinkle of Delirium thrown in. Turned out to be super reliable, and I finished 5-1 (and the loss very well could have been a win, but I conceded game 1 at about 30-35 minutes into the round when my opponent was at 35 life and I was at 6, but I had thoroughly stabilized, but it was a gamble. If the game went 10 more minutes and I lost, I wouldn't have time to get two more games in. It was probably the right call in general, but afterwards I looked at the top two cards of my library and they were Prey Upon and Faith Unbroken, which would have let me crack the board open enough to start doing big chunks of damage, and still keep the shields up. That's why you never look. Nothing good can come of it). Anyway, good enough for 4th place and 12 boosters in prizes.
Now the ultimate tale came from a friend of mine. He pulled both Tree of Perdition and Triskaidekaphobia and he got to live the dream and just up and kill somebody with them. He only got it once all day, but the TO had promised him a pack each time he could pull it off (though I don't know if he actually paid up).
July 19, 2016 11:13 p.m.
Arachnarchist says... #20
So first off, pulled an Emrakul, the Promised End which is always a good start. Also pulled a Coax from the Blind Eternities.
I ended up playing a blue-red deck with a minor splash for green and an emerge sub-theme. Had a couple good emerge facilitators (Enlightened Maniac and Exultant Cultist). I had a Vexing Scuttler and a couple Lashweed Lurkers. I decided to play the Coax from the Blind Eternities and keep a Lashweed Lurker and Emrakul, the Promised End in the side board to wish for as needed.
Well in one round my opponent exiled my Vexing Scuttler. Later in the game, I drew the Coax, used it to get the scuttler back, cast the Scuttler getting the Coax back which I then used to get the Emrakul. Which prompted a concession from my opponent.
July 23, 2016 8:53 p.m.
AwesomeOctopus says... #21
yeah the thing i dont get about coax is why you wouldn't just run whatever eldrazi you already wanted to run in your mainboard
July 24, 2016 12:08 a.m.
Arachnarchist says... #22
Because Emrakul, the Promised End costs (most likely) 10 mana, or 9 in the best case. By playing the coax you basically get an Emrakul, the Promised End/other Eldrazi split card.
July 24, 2016 9:56 p.m.
AwesomeOctopus says... #23
Not disagreeing with that statement but I would rather just play the other eldrazi card. playing Coax just seems like 3 mana you wouldnt have to have paid otherwise
July 24, 2016 10:27 p.m.
Arachnarchist says... #24
Yeah. That's fair. But it's a prerelease and emrakul is awesome!
July 25, 2016 7:09 p.m.
Dredge4life says... #25
Did terribly for value in my first two, which really discouraged me. However, on the 3rd my luck changed for the better. I pulled a stamped Bedlam Reveler, an Olivia, Mobilized for War and a foil Ishkanah, Grafwidow! I won that prerelease, and pulled an Ulrich of the Krallenhorde Flip and a Mirrorwing Dragon in my winnings.
PepsiAddicted says... #2
i always attend a midnight prerelease and this time i fell asleep during match 3. my oponent didnt really know how to handle that
July 18, 2016 12:39 p.m.