Prerelease! How did you do?
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Posted on Sept. 23, 2017, 10:40 p.m. by Leon9358
I went 3/0/1 and got 6 packs with a B/U pirate deck. My friend pulled a hutali, Carnage Tyrant, and a Foil growing rites of ilmoc. I'm jealous of him.
emrakulinsmugglers says... #3
2-2, played mardu vampires. game 1, I played against a control deck. What I lacked was tribal support in vampires (save for a Vanquisher's Banner, yet i either had not enough cards in any other tribe, no explore, or in the case of dinos, a ton of support but not a single actual dino card). Thanks to a Star of Extinction i went 1-2 that game.
Game 2, I played against some BlackGreen deck. It wasn't the best one, it was capable of beating my vampires with luck, but with skill, and the general higher power of my deck (because of Sunbird's Invocation), my deck had the natural advantage. I went 2-0 that game, the first game, the guy managed to pull out vraska while i was slowly killing him (having removed most of his creatures). the fcker cast a few creatures and +2 vraska to get a pirate until he used his ultimate (i was at 30 life, how dare he), and made me lose 1 life off of this trigger. game 2, he got out a flier early and i had no answers to it.
game 3, I played against merfolk, but for some reason, the guy seemed to have ran out of cards after I played Sunbird's Invocation and Vanquisher's Banner and kept chaining vampires together. this happened both games, went 2-0.
game 4, I had the worst matchup possible. I was playing my crappy vampires, and he had a very good dinosaur deck. He had the planeswalker, some support, and actually had some dino cards (which i didn't have). luckily, in game 1, after using some removal spells and getting rid of the dinos, he got flooded and lost. game 2, he got mana screwed after his third drop, and enviously watched me discard lands to a Rummaging Goblin to draw into a Vanquisher's Banner, which, like before, won.
Overall experience felt worse than amonkhet block. Like always, my prizes had exactly what I needed during the event. My pack had 5+ dinos, which would've helped me in my naya dinos. I built that deck after the event was over.
Felt bad not being able to win using an Insult / Injury or with Hazoret the Fervent. now that was a blast.
September 25, 2017 12:23 a.m. Edited.
played BW mostly vampires and splashed for green because of a couple good dinos. Mainly Carnage Tyrant and Ripjaw raptor
I went 2-4
First game, I lost. Horribly. Guy just pulled so much better stuff and has played magic since unlimited and I have only been playing since Theros.
Second game. I was able to get all of my good low cost creatures out. Kitesail Freebooter was almost always in my opening hand since I had 3 in my sealed pool. Let me get rid of early threats against my creatures. second round i lost. He actually started drawing everything. Third round all he drew was lands so I won.
Third game: Guy pulled a Vraska, Relic Seeker and a foil Jace, Cunning Castaway and the support to play both. Only reason I know he pulled both and didnt have friends hand them to him is because I was sitting next to him when he pulled both.
Fourth game: I won. First round. all he drew was lands and nothing to spend it on. second round, was really close. I could have blocked, and stopped myself from getting down to only 2 life. He was a three. I had Blight Keeper on the field and only 7 lands. Took a chance and hoped to draw a land. I did. I then used the activated ability and won.
5th and 6th games. My sleeves had gotten a lot of gunk and grease and sweat built up onto them, was using a play mat and KMC Hypermats and stuff started sticking together and either just drew lands or just drew spells.
Suns_Champion says... #2
I went 4-0(8-1) for the first time!!!
I ran B/W vampires+pirates.
Turn 1 Duress is killer. Call to the Feast and Rallying Roar won me 4 games.
Removal package was insane: Walk the Plank, Vanquish the Weak, and 2x Contract Killing, along with the Duresses and more discard than you can shake a stick at!
All in all a powerful combo of life gain, discard, removal, and tokens!
Also pulled 2 Carnage Tyrants. Good weekend.
September 23, 2017 11:06 p.m.