Story Time - SOI Prerelease
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Posted on April 2, 2016, 7:51 a.m. by TheHroth
How did everyone do at midnight prerelease? How are people hoping to do at upcoming prereleases? Share your stories!
My pool at the midnight prerelease was pretty trashy. I built some kind of Abzan Werewolf midrange thing. Finished respectably with a 3-1-1 record.
I did OK I went 4-1 with a black red aggro ish deck. Call the Bloodline is THE best card in the set for limited that card was so busted every time I played it just insane. The format was not as slow as I expected especially not with all the flip were wolves those things hit hard. Green is very good were wolves are broken and black is also very good.
April 2, 2016 8:30 a.m.
Can confirm, Call the Bloodline is insane. My friend built the perfect R/B Vampire deck with it, Falkenrath Gorger, and Olivia, Mobilized for War as his promo.
April 2, 2016 8:40 a.m.
Anyone else got tips or tricks for SOI prerelease? Im going tomorrow. What cards are good? What cards are bad? Traps? How fast is the format? Does tribal Work? Please help!
April 2, 2016 8:50 a.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #6
Accursed Witch Flip is fantastic. Also, I saw someone get killed by Triskaidekaphobia and it was the most glorious thing ever.
April 2, 2016 10:21 a.m.
Yeah one of my friends won 3 games with Triskaidekaphobia.
I played Naya Humans. Red was added because almost all my removal was Red. I had Always Watching and Sigarda, Heron's Grace. Always Watching and Cryptolith Rite were good together. But it was a combo that barely was needed.
April 2, 2016 10:46 a.m.
Honestly it was terrible. My pool was so bad I couldn't put together anything decent. Nothing synergized in my pool and I cracked nothing good. Not even any limited bombs. Ended up dropping after round one because there was no hope whatsoever. This isn't the first time it's happened either. I think I'm done with sealed because it literally comes down to who pulls the best cards.
April 2, 2016 10:55 a.m.
Hootiequack says... #9
Slayer's Plate. I didn't lose a round (5-0-1 in Swiss,then split at top 4 out of 71 or so),and it was almost exclusively because of this card. I had 2 copies and an Open the Armory made it effectively 3. So I could just play value creatures on curve and turn any creature into a threat.
I also got to see a rakdos vampire madness deck go off, and that was a pretty sight. A lot of people I saw had a couple of madness cards splashed in with little impact, but if you have the cards, play them. Mad Prophet is out of this world here.
April 2, 2016 11:29 a.m.
I didn't pull anything that was worth while. I did a B/W tokens thing with Call the Bloodline and few things that produced tokens. The deck was eh, but i did achieve 2 things that i wanted with the deck. Kill or get killed by Triskaidekaphobia, which the later happened and kill my opponent with the Westvale Abbey Flip demon.
April 2, 2016 11:56 a.m.
Madness and delirum are much harder to pull off than I expected. Not only did I opt to not try it, but I didn't see anyone else try to do it, either. In fact, I didn't see a single delirium trigger the whole night from anybody, despite almost everyone running a few delirium cards. Draft will probably be better, but sealed simply lacks the card pool to pull these things off.
Despite pulling an Avacyn and an Odric, I went 1-3. Even ignoring them, the rest of the card pool forced me to go white and green, with not fixing to splash a third color.
Clues are actually really useful, as they turn every spell with them into a delayed cantrip, and popping them was never a hassle. The only problem is that they kinda undermine blue's drawing power; you can't play against an aggro deck assuming it will run out of cards; even a slight splash of clue cards can give it significant staying power.
April 2, 2016 12:40 p.m.
iBleedPunk says... #12
Went 3-2 with a G/W Geist build. Ended up pulling Thing in the Ice Flip as my box promo as well as 2 Arlinn Kord Flip, 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, and quite a few other gems
April 2, 2016 2:46 p.m.
Went 4-0 with a tempo spirits with two spectral shepherds an several blue rares. Conclusion flyers are good do nothing new and removal is good also not new.
But in one event to of us pulled 7 mythics including prize packs
April 2, 2016 6:27 p.m.
Went 1-1-1 with a trash pull. Sealed is all about skill, not luck.
Orzhov control is really strong and so is gruul werewolves. Won all my games on the back of commons.
April 2, 2016 6:38 p.m.
Played every single pre release my store did and didn't sleep on Saturday, so this may just be that talking.
Red is ridiculous in this set. Like, there's a legitimate argument for picking Fiery Temper over Jace, Unraveler of Secrets.
In the end, my best performance came on the last Saturday prerelease, with me going 3-1, with GW Humans/Werewolves. My loss was to Startled Awake Flip + Geistblast. I wasn't even mad.
April 2, 2016 7:03 p.m.
Thatdrafting857 says... #16
I went 2-1 with a solid BR Vampires/Madness deck.
April 2, 2016 8:12 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #17
Best part of the event: seeing a guy's reaction to learning the price of the pack-foil Arlinn Kord Flip after he played five rounds with her UNSLEEVED.
I was cringing the whole time, and nobody had extra sleeves to lend him.
April 2, 2016 9:10 p.m.
going to two headed giant prerelease tomorrow. Ill share my experiences!
April 2, 2016 11:29 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #20
The event was at my University, so we didn't have access to a fully stocked gaming store. The vendor that ran the event forgot to bring sleeves among his goods.
April 2, 2016 11:46 p.m.
Oh NOOOOOOOO :(
Did nobody have one of the DFC card identifiers to lend him so he at least didn't have to shuffle her?
April 2, 2016 11:48 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #22
Oh yeah, but he stored her in his pocket between the first few rounds until he found out her value...
My opponent in the last match opened a date stamped Westvale Abbey Flip. This was his first time playing in paper (he had only played DotP) and was astonished when I told him that it was going to pay for the event and then some.
It was an interesting event as I'm not used to playing with multiple very inexperienced players. They did very well though.
April 2, 2016 11:52 p.m.
HE PUT IT IN HIS POCKET??????????????????????????????????
April 2, 2016 11:57 p.m.
I love prerelease because there are always many new players. I often sit down with them and look over their pool and will occasionally make comments on how to improve their deck. They also really appreciate being given leftover commons/uncommons, and I could not be happier to put those cards to a good home. No point having them waste away in boxes.
April 3, 2016 12:02 a.m.
Pull a promo Arlinn Kord
Flip and the G/R wolves to back it up. Had Ulvenwald Mysteries to help fuel the late game. Splash a little 
for a couple Expose Evil. Went 3-1 cause i got flooded out against a W/G delerium deck.
April 3, 2016 12:24 a.m.
BorosEvendur says... #26
I had a sultai deck and actually got second by being able to curve out against Aggro decks. Sultai is faster than vampires and werewolves??????
April 3, 2016 9:29 a.m.
BorosEvendur says... #27
My friend had a promo Traverse the Uvenwald, 2 Westvale Abbeys, a normal traverse the Uvenwald, and a relentless dead.
April 3, 2016 9:32 a.m.
BorosEvendur says... #28
Oh yeah, Sage of Ancient Lore / Werewolf of Ancient Hunger is a bomb. I know that what I just said was obvious, but it surpassed what my Gitrog Toad did.
April 3, 2016 9:37 a.m.
Went 2-1 at my 2HG event. My R/B aggro deck included 2 Olivia, Mobilized for War, and my friend played a mean G/R werewolf tribal. Also pulled a promo Thing in the Ice Flip. In my second prerelease, I was forced to play R/W from a very trashy pool. Basically, I sleeved up mono trash. I took that to another 2-1, but only because I kept drawing my promo Always Watching on curve. My main takeaway from these events is that red is insanely powerful, and that white and blue are two of the lesser colors in the set in terms of power level. Super excited for another event today!
April 3, 2016 11:46 a.m.
Went 2-2 with a W/B Tokens/Weenies List in 2HG. partner was using OK U/R deck. Slayer's Plate and Call the Bloodline really do work. Oh yeah, and Morkrut Necropod is insane!
April 3, 2016 9:51 p.m.
Went 3-3 with a Abzan Triskaidekaphobia deck. That's right, I lived the dream. Basically, I opened a pool that was strongest in G/B for creatures (both Mindwrack Demon and The Gitrog Monster, plus some C+ level creatures), but it was kinda grindy, and Throttle was my only removal. I did have Anguished Unmaking and Angelic Purge in White, so I went for the splash. I included Triskaidekaphobia on a bit of a lark, but it actually performed rather well, winning several games on its own. Realistically, the deck was like 5% off of being good. Something as little as one more Watcher in the Web (and a little tighter play) might have taken my deck from semi-jank to solid.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #2
How slow is the format? Which cards were better than expected? Worse?
April 2, 2016 8:12 a.m.