My LGS hosted a kick off event for Ixalan- a sealed event. About 20 people showed up, and that's pretty good for the shop. Four rounds complete with door prizes- mostly packs. I actually won the second to last door prize- an FNM Fatal Push promo. Yes, I wound up getting three of them for various events at the store. I still have 2 of them.
Sealed is a fickle beast, mostly luck, some skill... and more luck. I was somewhat lucky in which I had a decent pool for R/W dinos. Turns out, it was pretty darn aggressive for the format. I was done my matches in pretty darn record time. I cleaned the board with the first two opponents in plenty of time to do some trading. w00t.
My third round proved otherwise, he had dinos and a slightly better deck... also, his lands showed up appropriately, mine did not. Mana screw is always a threat, but nothing much you can do about it but sit back and admire your playmat.
Fourth round was a bit tricky. I was playing a guy who was 3-0. If he won, he would have been first place... so we made a little decision to see how the games went. I wiped the playing field with him. Good grief... we played a third game for grins, and my lands disappear again.
In the end- I got 3 packs, a FNM Fatal Push, and some ok pulls from 6 packs. My 3 winnings got me a nice $7 rare to be traded off.
The bigger factor were the trades. I got myself a Dark Depths finally... the guy did want more things I had, so hopefully he is there again Friday so I can throw some more of my recently found collection his way to get another Dark Depths off him.
There were other possible trades, but the other person couldn't find the cards they wanted.... it happens.
Lastly, I decided to put my Leovold, Emissary of Trest up for trade. Just realized it can do me more good with other cards than I could ever use it in some random deck I will likely never really play outside of kitchen table games. Turn that $40 value in to usable stock!
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