Dragon's Maze Prerelease

How did everyone do??

2-2-1 with a pretty rough pool of cards. I pick selsyna and got paired with orzohov. I got decent removal but hardly drew enough of it. I ended up having to splash blue because quality of creatures was crap. I had a great time though.

I did decent in the first PreRelease, went 3-2 after going Rakdos, got Boros as an ally. Insanity happened later that night though. My girlfriend and I decided to play 2HG, I went Boros and she went Rakdos. This is the most disgusting thing ever, we're handed our guild packs and lo-and-behold! Both of them contain Rakdos/Boros. As in we got 2 Rakdos guild packs and 2 Boros. Our decks were so insanely aggressive it wasn't even funny. The fact that both players trigger Batallion also is just gross. Haha, Skull Rend is MVP in 2HG 😂

Moral of the story is we took first, and beat the two reigning 2HG champions.

I chose selesnya and got paired with orzhov. I had a decent card pool, but no bombs really in any color. I did however get 7 guild gates,  Transguild Promenade and 8 clue stones. Plus a  Putrefy  Grisly Spectacle and 3  Ubul Sar Gatekeepers. Along with  Far // Away and  Turn // Burn. So I went 5 color and pulled second out of ~20 players. Only games I lost were in my final match against a boros deck where I didn't get any 2 for 1 cards. Just gotta thank  Gruul War Chant for helping me close games and  Zhur-Taa Druid. 2 costing pinger is awesome!

I milled a couple out with  Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Most ridicules thing ever someone did 3 prereleases and pulled 2 shocklands first time
1 shockland second time and 2 shocklands thirst time
And me I pulled 0 shocklands out of 2 times and tide for first with me and 4 people second time so got 8 packs and no shocklands

After one of my matches I was walking around and I saw an  Obzedat, Ghost Council facing down a  Ral Zarek. Bummed me out since I didn't get any cards worth more than $6.

After one of my matches I was walking around and I saw an  Obzedat, Ghost Council facing down a  Ral Zarek. Bummed me out since I didn't get any cards worth more than $6.

No kidding!  There was one guy with a Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and an Obzedat, Ghost Council and then another guy with double Advent of the Wurm.  Me and my Rubblebelt Raiders and Havoc Festival were not amused  

Now that I think about it, the only rare I played was the Raiders.  And I took them out last game, I think.

Went 2-1-1, gruul with izzet :/

Notable cards:

Gruul war chant
X2 zhur-taa druid
Armed // dangerous
Mugging
Borborygmos enraged
Skylasher.

Prize support was 3 packs (placed 23rd outta 65) pulled a blood scrivener, another skylasher, and a notion thief.

Horrible failure with Golgari/Simic. My cards were okay, but I was so tired from lack of sleep that I just couldn't do it anymore and burnt out. So I went home early, and passed out on the couch. All in all, this was a super fun weekend! And getting 38 prize packs made it a tad sweeter. I can't decide at what pace to open them!

Hope you all had great weekends too!

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 ;/

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 ;/

Quote for truth, and to emphasize the don't lie part. It was only possible to have a single copy of an RTR or GTC card in your pool - not even possible to get foils for a double. Let alone a playset of anything.

If you had a playset of even a Dragon's Maze common, it would be fishy

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 ;/

That's obviously a lie. I got azorius allied with dimir and my unlucky self pulled a mind grind and a palisade giant. In my packs I got so lug neutral stuff that it was horrible and azorius, as Gorzo said before was dead last in the maze. It was said that dragons maze was going to slow the block down, I definitely didn't feel it at all.

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.

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.