Dragon's Maze Prerelease

Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on April 27, 2013, 11:44:50 AM

Quote from: Raiderrob on April 27, 2013, 11:24:06 AM

Nice! Where you guys able to pick your ally?

It's a random ally

I've heard some places are letting people pick. I think it should be totally random. Not sure how my lgs is doing it, he had no clue what was going on.

Really? Do the guild packs show which random ally is on the inside? Or maybe they just removed the ally packs from the guild packs and made their own, idk.

Walked out with 2 Obzedat Aid and Ral'Zarek.

Picked Boros, got paired with Rakdos, built an Esper deck....went 2-2. Long night.

Quote from: Raiderrob on April 27, 2013, 12:01:50 PM

Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on April 27, 2013, 11:44:50 AM

Quote from: Raiderrob on April 27, 2013, 11:24:06 AM

Nice! Where you guys able to pick your ally?

It's a random ally

I've heard some places are letting people pick. I think it should be totally random. Not sure how my lgs is doing it, he had no clue what was going on.

Really? Do the guild packs show which random ally is on the inside? Or maybe they just removed the ally packs from the guild packs and made their own, idk.

it shows on the back of the guild pack.

Yeah, we got to pick. My friend went Boros/Rakdos and I went Rakdos/Gruul.

How did you do? What ended up dominating?

I got terrible pulls (Havoc Festival?  Really?) and I ended up using Jund.  Rakdos beat out the other guilds by far.  Granted, there were like 4 or 5 rakdos players out of the ~20 that were there.  I went 2-2 and placed 8th. 

My friend went and got 7th.  I don't remember how many he won/lost though. 

I got terrible pulls (Havoc Festival?  Really?) and I ended up using Jund.  Rakdos beat out the other guilds by far.  Granted, there were like 4 or 5 rakdos players out of the ~20 that were there.  I went 2-2 and placed 8th. 

My friend went and got 7th.  I don't remember how many he won/lost though.

Mmmmm boros gave me  Molten Primordial

😲

Mmmmm boros gave me  Molten Primordial

😲

That one seems like it would've been a limited bomb!   I know I got an Act of Treason and it did incredible.  And my friend beat me a couple times with those stupid red gate guys that let you steal a creature.

Speaking of limited bombs, I played against a guy who pulled 2 Advent of the Wurms and he used a Give // Take on it.  8/8 tramplers are not an easy thing to deal with with limited resources

Edit: Traitorous Instinct, not Act of Treason

With my luck, I'll pull a Maze's End in one of my actual packs.

With my luck, I'll pull a Maze's End in one of my actual packs.

I DID pull  Maze's End in one of my actual packs... Sigh

Went 3-1 with rakdos/gruul. Lost the one match to bad draws. Got very lucky with my pulls  Dreadbore ,  Putrefy, and  Auger Spree. The removal alone let all my haste creatures roll right in. Was a good night and placed top 8 out of 40. Cant wait for theros pre-release.

Participated in my first prerelease tonight I choose Gruul as my guild and my other guild I was paired with was Selesnya and took 11 out of 32 yielding 2 prize boosters
Notable cards I pulled and played with in prerelease are
Unflinching Courage probably one of my greatest assets especially having this on  Centaur Healer and then using armed (see below)
2 Armed // Dangerous - mainly used it for armed, only one time did I have enough mana to use both armed and dangerous. it works extremlywell when you have lifelink.
 Skylasher was probably my favorite creature I pulled Especially throwing unflinching courage on it and hitting them with armed
 Wayfaring Temple you are familer with this creature probably
 Blaze Commando he was just a good creature for me and didn't really use the ability
 Zhur-Taa Druid great for the mana and the 1 damage very solid card
 Advent of the Wurm everything you ever thought about this card is true
Foil  Flesh // Blood this card ended helped me end games only once did I get to use bothe flesh and blood mainly used it for blood
 Warleader's Helix is a great card lifegain plus removal or straight damage is solid
 Gruul War Chant a huge asset especially if its out by turn 4
 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch I splashed black to run her because she was my only champion I pulled I got her out twice and WOW she is good especially if you can unleash her and then put unflinching courage on her and then doing an armed ended a game for me

Those are all my notable pulls from my deck I also pulled a  Ral Zarek but didn't use him

My prize packs I got a  Reap Intellect and a  Ready // Willing

Came so, so close to clinching 2 first place prereleases in a row tonight. I only lost one match this time, and I didn't lose to my opponent, I lost to epic mana screw. Even my opponent was disappointed that I got mana screwed. We played for fun after, and my deck (once it got land) crushed him. He went on to take 1st, with a very solid orzhov/Azorious deck.

I had fun though, and still took 4th place out of just under 50 (I think there were 48?). I picked Rakdos again, and laughed when I saw I was paired with Dimir again. I played my Dimir cards this time, however, as I pulled Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, Deathcult Rogue, and Gridlock. Gridlock + Rakdos = game over. My Rakdos pack gave me Desecration demon, who I saw twice the entire night, and some goodies like Guttersnipe and Gorehouse Chainwalker then my dragon's maze come along and say "Hey, we like you. Have this Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch, Turn // Burn, and all sorts of on-color removal and tricks!" It was a crazy deck, I had a ton of fun tonight.

Tomorrow: something different. I try Golgari. Fingers crossed for Scar-Striped and a bunch if those 2/5 gorgon ladies! I am really enjoying this prerelease!

I'm going to have a pretty hard time then i guess, my prereleases have over 100 people.

Came so, so close to clinching 2 first place prereleases in a row tonight. I only lost one match this time, and I didn't lose to my opponent, I lost to epic mana screw. Even my opponent was disappointed that I got mana screwed. We played for fun after, and my deck (once it got land) crushed him. He went on to take 1st, with a very solid orzhov/Azorious deck.

I had fun though, and still took 4th place out of just under 50 (I think there were 48?). I picked Rakdos again, and laughed when I saw I was paired with Dimir again. I played my Dimir cards this time, however, as I pulled Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, Deathcult Rogue, and Gridlock. Gridlock + Rakdos = game over. My Rakdos pack gave me Desecration demon, who I saw twice the entire night, and some goodies like Guttersnipe and Gorehouse Chainwalker then my dragon's maze come along and say "Hey, we like you. Have this Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch, Turn // Burn, and all sorts of on-color removal and tricks!" It was a crazy deck, I had a ton of fun tonight.

Tomorrow: something different. I try Golgari. Fingers crossed for Scar-Striped and a bunch if those 2/5 gorgon ladies! I am really enjoying this prerelease!

After reading this, I'm really hoping that someone backed out of my prerelease for today. I couldn't make the other ones and when I signed up there was only azorius and izzet available. I took my chances weigh azorius hoping get paired with Orzhov. We'll see, but I really want to play Rakdos now!!