Its pre-release time! One of my favorite times of year... you can read about the set, you can faux draft/sealed the set, and can watch all sorts of videos on it. However, as I have found out, you NEVER know how it is actually going to play. For the pre-release constructed is a big gamble on the card pool. Even the best player will be hampered by a bad card pool.
As I watched the Loading Ready Run pre-pre-release, there was one deck that was just bonkers. It had two of the planeswalkers, just answers for days, and synergy. It was just amazing. That deck would completely wreck sealed anywhere.
In the end, I am just hoping to find some good synergy. Not even hoping for great pulls... just want to play some competitive games.
One of the, pointless, questions I had going in to this pre-release: which set of pre-sleeved lands to take along? The options are:
- Full art Zendikar and BFZ
- Beta basics
- Revised, all same picture
My experience with pre-releases has been 50% of the player base are not super regular players. They show up to these sorts of events with just fun in mind... they didn't read up on the mechanics, they don't know what mythics to expect, they likely not to have even drafted Magic in the past 3 months. They other 50% splits out in to somewhat regular and regular Magic players. The higher end expect to take home packs. If not go undefeated if things go well with their pool. They are grinders and Spikes. They might appreciate the Betas. They would also know I meant business, which is not my goal.
The other slice, where I fit in likely, is regular players but not super competitive. White bordered basics might cause them to laugh. That's a good thing.
However, I am likely going to take the Zendikar lands with me. They look nice, some are shiny/foil, and basically relay a certain "I care" about the land base I am using. The not regular Magic player might notice, the semi-serious would understand they are cool, and the spikes might consider them ok.
Honestly, if I didn't give a flying rats butt about any of this- I go out of my way to pre-sleeve random lands from all different sets. That would be fun.
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Trade update- I finally found someone to help me downgrade my MM Force of Will to an Alliances version. Rather have the extra value out of the card than a newer version. Still not sure why one is worth about $9 more than the other... but whatever. Value is value
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