Dragon's Maze Prerelease

Quote from: Opticarrow8 on April 29, 2013, 12:13:22 PM

Quote from: Vyse on April 29, 2013, 05:59:59 AM

Quote from: Opticarrow8 on April 28, 2013, 10:49:08 PM

5/0, signed up for dimir, got dimir/azorious. Esper control in limited was great. In the sidepacks i got 2 supreme verdicts and a playset of detention spheres. Along with a couple of hard to block/unblockable stuff buffed with etherial armor, games went really fast and easy.

That's impossible. You could end up with either a single  Supreme Verdict or  Detention Sphere, not more than one, you only get one rare in the guild packs, and the "side packs" only contained dragons maze cards. Don't lie friend ;/

I'm not lying... My packs had them in there. The guy next to me got trostani and zegaba in 1 pack. Dont tell me what i pulled.

Now you are just making wildly untrue claims. It is not possible to get a foil in the guild packs, they only have one rare in them. The guy next to you did not pull both trostini, selensyas voice and prime speaker zegana in the same pack because A:they are from different guilds and B: they are from different sets altogether. As to your original comment you claim to pull 2 supreme verdicts and a full playset of detention spheres. That alone is six rares, and you only get six packs, only one of which, the azorius guild pack, would contain a single copy of either supreme verdict or detention sphere. Again, stop lying dude, it's not impressive.

Lul, why would one lie about a prerelease for magic? Haven't you evolved to talking about how big your 🍆 is?


My prerelease was my first sealed event ever, I actually just got my first DCI #

Went with Boros, was paired with Azorius
My rare for Boros was an awful molten primordial and my pulls for packs were pretty bad also as far as my guild went. I got a lot of simic/Dimir splits and the Dimir legend in my DGM packs, got one White rare (4/4 w 1/1 flyer token + populate) thats a better choice for selesnya, but he ended up saving my games a few times.

Like I said, ive never done limited/prerelease so building a deck was interesting, it initially started as 50 cards + mana and after my first round i cut it down. Fortunately with AZ as my sister guild, I was able to scoop a really decent pauper/uncommon deck.

Match 1: lost first game, played against a regular of the store who was geeked out, second round the izzet 1/4 defender + azo flash/return target to hand kept me in the game, we almost ran out of time, if he wasn't using extort I would have won for sure, once he pulled out Teysa though, I couldn't stop him pecking me down. Never pulled any removal...
So I lost that. (orzhov)

Match 2:  played against a person with a 40 card deck. He won both pretty fast, gave me some
good advice on deck adjustments, I redid my deck build and dropped it from ~75 to ~50 cards  (izzet)

Match 3: shouldn't have mulled first round Great hand, just 1 plain.... Many plays locked by one mountain not being avail. Second round adjusted some mana, then locked with a great hand, just no islands. Lost that one. I did manage to exile a clue stone on turn 6 or 7... (azo/orzhov)

 It was gettin late and I was going to drop out, but friendly conversation with some of the other players and a bowl happiness and I stayed for the rest.

Match 4: Finally got a great hand with mana and cards, my decks synergy finally all came together, and I pulled some fast damage. Round 2 my opponent dominated with his rakdos aggro creatures and took me out pretty fast. Round 3 went into overtime, our life totals fluxing between 4 and 10 for a bit, I finally pulled through with flyers and pecking him to death. I finally won a match! We were both excited to finally play the game, as opposed to just laying land and then being dead. (rakdos)

Match 5: it's 5am, my brain hurts and I'm resting my eyes in between matches. I am out of weed and I can barely speak due to cotton mouth and not wanting to pay $1.50 for some water. I went to 7-11 already dammit! My opponent felt the same way, we had a good time chatting, first round, I got a quick battalion out and started ruining him with flying tokens. Second round his Dimir deck pulled out a nice combo and he extorted me to pull in a win. Third round was a beast, my saviors were azorious detainer, the flash azo gal, and the 3 riot controls. Constantly flashing my defenses in and out I pecked him down once I got my flyers and battalion out. The niv missed 1/4 defender proved a really good wall, in addition to the 2 cast 0/5 wall. I had about 9 life for most of the match and slowly took him down for the win. (Dimir)

So 2-3 for my first sealed, not bad, learned a lot, really pulled some great plays. Now I wanna draft another 😁

Welcome to limited, muggy! Glad you had fun, hopefully the prerelease got it's hooks into ya. Limited is such an extremely fun format of magic to play, and drafting is (in my opinion at least) even more fun than sealed - try it some time!

but yeah, i recommend you be as close to 40 cards as possible. 17 land and 23 spells is what you want. Consistency! I know how hard it can be to cut cards out, and when I first started playing limited I played 45~ cards. Over time, and with help and advice of the regulars, I learned just how big of a difference it makes to have exactly 40.

Esper control FTW! Orzhov paired with azorius in 2hg, partner ran naya beats, went undefeated!

Went 4-1 with Golgari/Simic with a red splash and ended in 3rd in the first of 3 I went to. Then went 3-1 and ended in 5th with Selesnia/Orzohv in the second one. And went 4-0 and tied for 1st with Golgari/Dimir once again splashing red in the third prerelease I went to.