Scars Pre-Release

[ezio]

hey since i am new to playing sealed events i thought i'd post a thread askin all you good guys at DC whats a good way to build a sealed deck more so the fact that with this being an artifact type set and i very rarely if ever use artifacts.

whats should i be doin prior to a prerelease??

[browncoat]

Building a sealed deck is simple. First sort out all your cards by color with another stack for artifacts. Then look at your cards and try to cut at least 2 colors. You want to keep colors that have solid removal, evasion guys and bombs while cutting colors that are not deep or have few playables. In Scars with all the artifacts you are less tied to colors but have to figure out which artifacts are worth playing in your deck. Your colored cards will probably dictate to some degree what general idea shapes your deck making what artifacts to keep easier. Otherwise just remember to have fun and enjoy seeing a new set before its release.

[ezio]

i enjoyed my pre release today got loads of cards and eneded up woing thru at least 2 deck builds thru the day but all in all considering there was 60+ people there it was good fun

[Hobojackal]

Just got back from my SoM Pre-Release,

Of the rares i got, i pulled: Mox Opal, True Conviction, Venser's Journal (foil), Mimic Vat, Lux Cannon, Precursor Golem and Razorvine Thicket.

I decided to go into Blue/White artifact aggro, and did fairly well. I lost the first round against a mono white deck that had the new Masticore in it, which killed a lot of my flying dudes before they could hit. I probably would have won this round if i had attacked with my Precursor Golem and his tokens on my second-to-last turn.

I won my next two rounds, the first against a Green/Black poison deck. I went 2-0 against this deck, because i was able to use Mimic Vat to make sure i had a blocker for his infect creatures.

I cant exactly remember what i played against in the the third round, but i did win that one as well, leaving me at 2-1 before lunch.

After lunch i came face-to-face with a red/black infect deck, that had Skytherix (or however it's spelt) and a Koth in it, and after 3 long games, i lost to the flier.

Round five went better, it was a mirror match, although my opponent had Tempered Steel which i would have LOVED for my deck, but didnt get one. I won this round 2-0, attacking with a pair of 5/5 creatures.

The last round put me in contention for the top 16, which is actually the best i have ever done in a pre-release, and again, it was against infect. Both games were very quick, and i was pretty much destroyed, leaving me at 3-3.

Overall, i think the sealed environment is a lot of fun, and actually rather easy to make a deck for this format, as i looked over my boosters, i could pretty much tell that Blue/White would be the best colours to play, even going into the draft, having my knowledge of the spoilers, i could tell that UW was pretty crazy, and i was right. I didnt get to see who actually won the event, or what they had in their deck, mainly because i was rather tired and also in a trade with someone... Wooo! Playset of Windbresk Heights!

Ill stop my jabbering and go flump now, tired....

Hope this has been interesting.

Jackal

[ezio]

in my pre release there was about 60 of us in total (the shop was barely able to fit us all in)

the rares i pulled in my pool were: spikeshot elder,memoricide, grindclock, ascenticism (foil), argentum armor, precursor golem and a wurmcoil.

i started the day running R/G/artifact aggro but lost my first three matches. i cant rememeber what i played against in the first round but lost 1-2, the second round was a W/U art control deck i lost 0-2 to this deck, round 3 was mono brown with splash of colour (cant remember his colours for this round) but it was a very close round this time losing 1-2 round four i got a bye so rebuilt my deck goin B/G/artifact
round five i lost 1-2 but was nearly a 2-1 win if it wasnt for my oppent playing a similar deck but ran the black creature which had swampwalk and an artifact that when another artifact was played on their side of the field it became a 2/2 flier till end of turn and i had nothing to block his flier, round six i cant remember what they ran but a got killed 0-2

all in all i had fun and look forward to the release event next weekend