MHIII, a pre-release

 

I was slightly excited for this pre-release. It was pricey- don't get me wrong. However, I want to like this set. I did some research, but not much. (basically watching some of the LRR pre-prerelease) Otherwise, I was hoping to just open a card or two I wanted to put in a Legacy deck. [read: green post]

As an aside, I had recently fleshed out a one of each type Alpha basic lands. So- with that in mind, I sleeved up all the Alpha basic lands I had, filled out the rest of the lands with Betas- and off I went to Gamer-Corps. It had been a long while since I went there- months and months. Hit my winter duldrums, and just didn't feel like drafting the sets they had out. 

The event was sold out- so good on them. I was shocked at how many people were picking up setboxes, and even collector packs at $35 a pop. 

My deck list came together fairly quickly as black, red, and blue were not solid enough. I could have sprinkled in any one of them due to some mana fixing, but I didn't feel it was worth it. 

Here is my deck list from the event.

    Good god it slapped. I had synergry. I had a singular bomb that just wrecked the game. I had some light recursion. I had A LOT of tokens.  I had removal that felt better than just Bolt- it kept my creatures about and got me things (life, counters, etc)  I knew it was gonna be a good night when I kept an opener with two Flare of Fortitude and didn't cast them in that game.
    I wound up going 3-0 and 6-0 in games. I think the lowest life total of the night was 9. Just everything clicked. Example- I was tempted to remove a flier they had with Fowl Strike, but waited. Turned out the good call because they moved the equipment to another creature which I then killed when it flew instead. Another- I cycled my Warped Tusker, and they admitted they were hoping I cast something because they played a creature/force spike combo. Just zoinks.

I picked up 2 more packs because of store credit I had floating about, and got 3 packs for "my troubles."

    In my pre-release kit I got very little value. The Ajani was the most "value" I found. The credit packs showed me a full art Ajani. Really? Really?

    In my winnings packs I had a killer pack with both a foil Necrodomiance and Psyhic Frog. In the third pack I opened my THIRD Ajani. I get it... you want me to have cats. Noted. 

Prize pack 1

Prize pack 2

Prize pack 3