Had a great time at my local stores pre-release party. Unfortunately I will probably end up missing the release event.

It was a refreshing change to do an event and a draft without the Scars of Mirrodin block. Been a while since I could just take out one life counter for life and not another for the abundance of poison present in the SoM block.

I was able to run a hybrid white / black deck for the sealed event and came in 2nd. For the draft I went 82.5% black with a splash of white. I ended up throwing in 5 plains to run a pacifism and life link. I unfortunately was not able to draft an o-ring for the second event. However, I ended up coming in 2nd place either way.

Gotta love free packs, especially full of new stuff!

How many free packs you earned?

In from Brazil, and because of customs, we didn't had the release... maybe it will happen next weekend, maybe not..
:-(

lombas wrote:How many free packs you earned?

In from Brazil, and because of customs, we didn't had the release... maybe it will happen next weekend, maybe not..
:-(

I think I got like 12 free packs or something like that.

Our situation here in Brazil was kinda sad. In Belo Horizonte ( where i live ) the "pre-release" is going to be this weekend. Kind of absurd considering its hard enough to find players as is. Still, 12 packs is sweet and grats on second place!

Yeah, magic here in Brazil was giant back in 1996... Today only some people continue. The people sealing Magic never really tried to build something on magic... they just sold as hell... Maybe they tried but failed because didn't do a good job.

Championship was never big... to much disinformation back in the day... Internet was a dream back in those days...

Today, with the internet, things would have been different.. I am sure more people would have remained playing.

Besides that, the price never was good enough.. Instead of 2 dollars for a booster, we pay the equivalent of 7 dollars for the same, with bad translation to portuguese.

I actually don't really care about having to wait 2 or 3 weeks.. It doesn't matter for me.

I just wanted to be able to pay less to be able to play the standard constructed tournaments.. I have mostly cards from 1996... so even if there were Vintage and Legacy tournaments here in Brazil, I wouldn't have a good enough deck because I don't have cards from alpha, beta, unlimited, and revised.

Maybe I'll try to buy just the cards to build my deck to play in standard in the future. Right now I'll just play the sealed deck M2012 for fun...