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He seems like a possible nice addition to chapin's PT deck.

Yeah he obviously wants to be in a heavy creature deck. Also I'm good with most planeswalkers being playable but wanting specific sort of decks to be good. Not every planeswalker needs to be format warping.

That sorin is not bad at all. He's a 4 drop planeswalker that immediately goes up to 5 loyalty. That's partially how he protects himself. If you have a creature at all to chump block their biggest guy, they aren't taking him out quickly. Just doing his -2 twice is pretty decent value. 4 mana for two 2/2 flyers is fine.

In a token/weenie deck in some combo of B/W/R, he's even better. t1: Soldier of the Pantheon/Bloodsoaked champ/tormented hero/etc.. Turn 2 Raise the alarm, t3: Spear of Heliod, t4 Sorin gives you a ton of power that is hard to deal. Gaining 10+ on the swing just immediately wins any type of race. He also ults very easily, much like Kiora. Two turns of +, then ult. That's a very narrow window for an opponent to find an answer.

That's rough.

Our local shop does the top 8 of their pre-releases as Draft, in part to filter out the people cheating by adding stuff to their decks saturday/sunday, in part because the owner loves draft. Half of me is like "yay, no cheaty decks," the other half of me is "oh sweet merciful mother of crap these people are going to build their draft decks at random."

Got stuck between two people who hadn't even looked at spoilers before the tournament, was pretty miserable. Luckily 5-Color Goodstuff With 12 Nonbasic Lands was enough to get there. Casting Flying Crane Kick while you have 3 attacking Clan Leaders is a good feeling.

Such an awful draft deck.

Having a set of nonbasics at each rarity makes some packs really weird. I had just a stack of them in my pool with more than one pack having four. With nonbasics potentially eating up so many slots and general pack distribution there are going to be some drafts where a color can't even support two players or the amount of playable cards is just critically low soeveryoneis splashing all kinds of stuff.

I ended up judging the midnight release and didn't get home until 6am. Didn't even get time to trade.

I just sorta raised my hand to volunteer because the venue has 86 players and only 2 staff members, so I'm not even sure I'll get compensated for it. Oh well.

It was nice to open two Siege Rhinos (one was the promo). It was not nice to face down Surrak + Sagu Mauler + Savage Knuckleblade in the same damn pool. That game ended with us both at 1 life before his Mystic of the Hidden Way (the 3/2 unblockable) finished me off. Never drew my direct removal.

If it makes you feel better my two pools combined had five fetch lands, Sorin, foil Afensa, foil Rattleclaw Mystic, foil Seige Rhino, and Sidisi.

That's the thing with a prerelease. It's so random you just have to be satisfied with what you open up. It's one reason I generally skip em.

I might go play one today. There's a few places with packs held back for Sunday and I kinda want to go.

It's all really grindy. Outlast makes matches last forever once that lifelinker hits the table.

I had the nuts outlast deck but got some of the worst mulligans and draws to go 3-2. had 8 dual/tri lands too was pretty disappointing. Fun event at least.

Played Sultai just now, opened foil Sorin + End Hostilities. 4 color success.

man.. I had a completely different take on this set then almost everyone I guess. With all the people getting blinded by the 'zomg gold cards' I just threw every bear I possibly could together, and picked mardu for the midnight release for that reason. 2-0'd everyone within 20mins of each round. My bombs were Sarkhan and Butcher, but honestly they rarely even got played. Sarkhan won one game, butcher traded with another butcher in the one game I played him. It was all the war name aspirants, jeskai students, mardu skull hunters, valley dashers, etc.. that won all my games. Opponents were always too far behind by the time they got their game plan going.

I tried out Jeskai and Sultai, won both of those events as well but they were smaller fields and I tend to clean up at my shop in smaller events anyways. They were clearly weaker then Mardu, but I wanted to handicap myself a little. Sultai is the real 'ramp' deck in sealed, not Temur, imo. I was busting out Necropolis Fiend (my promo) on turn 4, or murderous cut + unmorph the 3/4 flyer on turn 6. I often won with like 3 cards left in my library, but I won damnit!

Jeskai is fun, but definitely fragile and the weakest clan. You need very specific cards for it to work, but I luckily got some of those in my pool. Jeskai Ascendancy and Dragon twins pull off some sick kills out of nowhere. Any prowess guys get crazy with ascendancy. Best play of the weekend was responding to opponents winter's flame that was tapping my dragon twins and shooting jeskai elder for 2, by using feat of resistance on elder, to then loot into icy blast that cast for 1 to tap down their remaining blocker and untap dragon twins so they could attack. Dealt 20 in a single turn there with those two creatures. 2 prowess and 2 ascendancy triggers, lulz.

Honorable mention goes to using my Clever impersonator on a Sorin.