Well, since tomorrow is the Pre-Release of the highly anticipated Time Spiral set, and the official unveiling of the purple cards, I figured I would ask:
Who here is going to a pre-release for Time Spiral and which one are you going to?
I, like always, will be judging in Syracuse. Although the location for Saturday is the Syracuse OnCenter as opposed to at How You Altered the Name. Sunday will be held there, however.
Old Fogey
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If I can get Herbig down here and his GF gives the OK, I'd like to go tomorrow. Either way, Rich you should pick me up in the morning before you go.
Yup, I'm going.
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Team Necro will be going to the one in Conneticut on Sunday.... Rob Alexander signing fetches and duals FTW? I want him to draw little Goblins on Wooded Foothills somewhere.... that would be the tits.
Team Solo
Originally Posted by Peter_Rotten
CT, first Pre-Release at a location other than Syracuse as player or judge since before Invasion. It will be a little odd, to say the least. Oh well, working until midnight the night before should provide the same experience as driving to Syracuse and sleeping in someone's living room :) for proper ambience, of course (and I remain grateful for all the living room space provided over the years, thanks onlyone & jander).
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A casual stasis deck? You must not really like your friends. Do you play it before or after you pull the wings off of flys and microwave the neighbor's cat? - EwokSlayer
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Old Fogey
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It's been 3 years since I've played in a real magic tourny. I think it's about time I started again. Some people might call me an addict and I call those people losers.
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I'm in...but out here in Portland. Still, good times.
I wish I had Solidarity built....I love playing 1.5 decks at Prereleases. Oh well, at least with Thresh or GrbSA other players get to play.
InfoNinjas
Me me me me me! I'm going! I'm going to Pre-Release!
In Richmond.
Thanks....I think ;) It is gonna be weird, hopefully good, but definitely not the same. Got so we knew what everybody was doing & how, it is a good crew.
TL,DR: if you think Saito is ok, check your moral compass. It may be broken. - Spikey Mikey, amen brother
WE know what the price of progress is (often 8-10 life). - Cait Sith
A casual stasis deck? You must not really like your friends. Do you play it before or after you pull the wings off of flys and microwave the neighbor's cat? - EwokSlayer
Well I'm going on Sunday. Anyone got a price on drafting?
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How'd it go? Anyone?
$18 if you don't play in the main event, $15 if you do.
Old Fogey
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3-2 overall, no prizes! Lame. I opened Teferi and Magus of the Disk, but had a lot of trouble building a deck to support them. Other rares: Lotus, the Green Eureka card, and something else bad in this format. I went BRg, with lots of removal (including Stormbind).
Anyway, I realized when I got home that I got severaly ripped off trading. I did not do a great job looking up prices ahead of time, and I do not know what I was thinking, but I traded an Ohran Viper ($15ish) and an Adarkar Valkerie (7-10ish) for an Asian Haunting Echoes (what, 15ish?). Grr. That's why I don't trade all that often. Yes, it was my fault. No, it does not make me feel any better about it.
InfoNinjas
i went to the san antonio pre release along with a ton of other people. everyone was whoring over the pre release lotus blossums. i happened to open a foil mystic snake and i say a foil tormods crypt being opened, it looked quite sexy by the way. i wonder what the prices for some of these card will be.
I went today; bought some new sleeves (my old ones were awful), some Unhinged Islands, and a pair of FoWs. Played in some team sealed, and used some terrible U/B deck rife with suspenders and Paradox Hazes; our team went 0-3 first match, byed the second, and went 2-1 in the third (the final match was me in Game 3, so I cracked a fortune cookie beforehand; somehow, that was the one game where my deck worked really well instead of absolutely miserable. Fortune cookie FTW!), so we pulled a few packs.
The set seems removal-light, so creatures tend to stick for a while in Limited. Shadow's also huge, and Dauthi Slayer hasn't lost anything in the past nine years.
Oh, and my inner Vorthos died today when I had to surrender a foil Ur-Dragon after pulling it during a casual draft (the pack sucked regardless). Coolest-looking card I ever saw, and I had to give it up to the winners.
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Well, I opened a Psionic Blast, Wheel Of Fates, and some other junk, but I had Rob Alexander sign all our duals, Fethces, and Shock Lands! He even doodled on AoD's Armegeddons. Its sick lookin now!
Team Solo
Went 1-2 drop in the bonus flight saturday, but I won 4-0 sunday ^_^. Of all things Slivers won the day. Sedge Sliver + Bonesplitter Sliver won me so many matches, it was unreal.
I played Two-Headed Giant, my favorite non-Legacy format. We cracked a ridiculous black-blue removal/bounce/draw suite with GHOST SHIP FTW and a bunch of other really good flyers. I had some aggressive suspend green/red guys with some support white. Our rares included Teferi and Lim-Dul, both ridiculous bombs. We went 2-1 losing only to ridiculous huge guys in round one, the Kraken that was given pro-blue so we couldn't bounce it (and having two bounce at the same time was not working) and the suspend 10 9/7 that's ridiculous. A 9/7 haste on like turn 4/5 is solid. All in all, we didn't get anything ridiculously Constructed playable, but I really like this new set and I think limited is going to be great. Rob Alexander also signed my duals and fetches and drew a Godless Shrine on my playmat. That was pretty badass. I'll try and get a scan in the pimp thread if I remember tomorrow.
I couldn't go, but I'm dying to know how the purple-symbol "Timeshifted" cards are distributed with Time Spiral. Anybody figure the distribution scheme at the pre-release? EDIT: They just updated wizards.com with the answer to my question: one Timeshift card replaces one common slot in each Time Spiral booster pack.
On a side note, I heard here (via mtgsalvation) that foils will always replace commons now, regardless of the foil's rarity.
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