How did you all get on at your prereleases?
Looks to be a synergy set as despite opening Lumara, Maha, and almost one of each of the reanination spells in the set I went 2:1. =ł ah well.
Matched up against a fun deck blinking Head of the Homestead with the token class enchantment. Luckily it doesn’t do well against Vren the Relentless.
On the other hand it turns out that Azure Beastbinder is a top tier threat, and synergy can beat power.
Still I can’t complain about opening chase cards. What about all of you? Any fun interactions or moments from your prerelease?
Lost every game to Boros aggro. Can’t complain tho, it was fun.
Glad you had fun.
Did the mice do anything special, or any tips for others facing them?
Mtg be too much for me these days (hope not over for good though) but I gotta say that’s some beautiful box art!
This set as a whole has some gorgeous art.
Its worth a look through a card gallery, just be careful about the crack’s claws.
Cool. Thanks for the tip!
My prerelease promo was Maha. I had enough lizards to run the BR lizard
snowfireball. I won the event without losing a game. In one game, I kept a hand of just five lands and Maha!I also had a very interesting game involving Iridescent Vinelasher. I had it and the offspring copy out alongside Flamecache Gecko. Late in the game, I burned out my opponent by discarding the castable cards I topdecked; I actually wanted to draw lands so I could play them for 2 damage every turn.
Yeah, lizards looks scary good at burning people out from a variety of angles.
Congrats on the clean sweep.
And nice little burn package.
Ended up with blue-green frogs, primarily. My prerelease box didn’t really get many of any one creature type, but frogs was closest and the other cards I had in blue green made it reasonable. I didn’t really bounce much using the frogs but they reduced the cost of my two polliwallops enough to give me the edge in most of my matches. Went 2-1-0.
Takeaways:
- Seems like a lot of decks make it to 6+ mana reliably in this set
- Lots of synergy in creature type so if you don’t get many of the same type, you need to get creative with deck builds
- Pawpatch Recruit is really good value for 3 mana and makes it really annoying for your opponent to play around
- Treeguard Duo is awesome
- Spellgyre is expensive for a counter but holding a counterspell and then surveil 2 draw 2 is very nice.
Nice details, and good to see frogs doing well. I too saw Treeguard Duo putting in a lot of work, even outside of frogs.
Its probably the archetype I’m most excited to try along with lizards and bats.
I think Hasbro wore me down with so much product. I haven’t really looked at the set nor been excited to play. It’s just too much shit to keep up with.
I feel you, luckily I don’t enjoy EDH or Modern so I can ignore all non standard sets.
Went 2-1-0 with blue green blink. I was afraid it would be too slow to get going, but I had enough removal to keep the aggro decks in check. Special mention to the 3/3 reach that bounces a permanent when it enters, getting to use the bite effect on hunter’s talent several times felt amazing !
Nice bouncing and glad you had a good time with the frogs. I’m looking forwards to trying them out myself.
Mostly Birds(UW) (promo was Kastral) with a splash of green for the first two matches, then dropped the green and put in some of the white rabbit stuff. 3-0
Nice open, Kastral is a strong one. Congrats on the 3-0.
Did a 2HG on Sunday, didn’t have a partner but had a pretty good one. I ended up running BR and he went for UG. It was more gameplay synergistic than typal, allstars were the frog that draws you stuff when it bounces and Innkeeper’s Talent. We also had the elemental snake but it was either immediately removed or just winmore. 2 of our opponents also had the snake which was way harder when I didn’t seem to draw any of the 8 removal spells I was packing. Ended up going 3-1 overall, and I pulled a Three-Tree City and a Ledger Shredder special guest which is great! Though I am a little jealous that my partner even managed to pull a Winter Three-Tree City!
@MysticKetchup @Semjaza 2HG is awesome, but random partner is definitely a mixed bag, you never know how it is going to go.
Hopefully not paired up with someone that is anal about ending the day with perfectly equal value split of the cards that were opened.
Wow I’ve never run into that. I’ve just assumed everybody would keep whatever they opened. I’ve even lucked out twice with partners who are really only interested in limited and will only keep the cards they can immediately flip for another draft
@MysticKetchup um, 2hg is one card pool for the team, you don’t really on open cards individually.
In all the ones I’ve done we each opened our own prerelease kit and then loaned each other whatever cards we needed for our decks. But that’s just my experience 🤷♂️
@MysticKetchup I’ve always cracked into one pool and built from there. But then the bulk I’ve done were pre prerelease kits.
Solid run and solid pulls all round. Congrats to you both.
Man, I’d love more 2HG engagement where I am. The odd little tweaks to power and synergy really make for interesting subtly different gameplay.
I imagine the gift/exile-bounce spells does a lot better in 2HG.
Yeah I drafted 2 Teapot Slingers specifically for 2HG. They really pack a punch especially when they stack. Run Away Together was another allstar
