Sep 28

Shards Prerelease Day 2

dastels @ 11:18 pm

Another day spent at Superstars and the Shards of Alara prerelease. I was in two flights today, an individual and a 3-man team event, both sealed deck… what awesome fun. I got to play with the new cards, collected up a handful of rares for my collection, including a few of the new mythic rares. To boot… I came out with 5 of the foil prerelease Ajani Vengeant card.

I learned a few things:

  1. Big Green Monsters are very, very effective,
  2. BUT.. you need white lockdown and/or black removal to manage the early game and clear the way for your monsters,
  3. Having your lands removed from the game isn’t a pleasant feeling,
  4. You can’t convince your opponent to add counters to your Feral Hydra.

So that was roughly 10am-8pm for two days. 20 hours of magic. Nice.

Next week is the release. Guess where I’ll be.