Time Spiral prerelease
Sep. 27th, 2006 05:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoI went to the prerelease tournament for Time Spiral over the weekend. It was wacky fun. In addition to the wacky fun of new and interesting cards that no one had ever seen, Time Spiral also features "timeshifted" cards, which are reprints from older sets, complete with old borders and old art. Some of the timeshifted cards were things that I never would have expected Wizards to reprint, either because of power level (high or low), not matching the current idea of the Color Wheel, or simply because they were weird enough that they were unlikely to make it into a basic edition of the game, which is where reprints usually appear. The things that most made me blink in surprise were Psionic Blast, Arena, Sol'kanar the Swamp King, and Nicol Bolas, though that's hardly an exhaustive list. I pulled 2 copies of Akroma, Angel of Wrath, and am delighted to find out that Akroma goes for decent money on eBay right now, so I can recoup some of the cost of playing.
I went to Midnight Madness, so my first tournament was at midnight Friday night. I won the first 3 rounds, and went for an intentional draw for the 4th round since I was getting tired and starting to make mistakes. That got me 6 packs as my prize, which already put me ahead in terms of cost vs reward, so that was nice. I did substantially worse in the second tournament that I played on Saturday afternoon, but still had some fun. On the way home from Worcester on Sunday I stopped by to play the two big time tournament players that were there. If you could beat them with your sealed deck from the tournament, you won a booster pack. I played crappy against both of them, partially at least due to tiredness, so I didn't win anything else. Even now I'm in disbelief over one decision that I made. I can't imagine why I thought it was a good idea at the time. Other things were mistakes that I could understand making, but that one choice was just plain awful.
I was greatly pleased to open a Stuffy Doll as one of my cards in the first tournament. I had sort of wanted one ever since it appeared on the previews for the set, and it was fun to play with at the tournament. I also had great fun with Greater Gargadon, which I had almost dismissed as unplayable when I first opened it, but which won me at least 2 games.
I definitely hope to make it to the actual release tournament so I can recapture some of the same type of fun. Thumbs up to Time Spiral.
I went to Midnight Madness, so my first tournament was at midnight Friday night. I won the first 3 rounds, and went for an intentional draw for the 4th round since I was getting tired and starting to make mistakes. That got me 6 packs as my prize, which already put me ahead in terms of cost vs reward, so that was nice. I did substantially worse in the second tournament that I played on Saturday afternoon, but still had some fun. On the way home from Worcester on Sunday I stopped by to play the two big time tournament players that were there. If you could beat them with your sealed deck from the tournament, you won a booster pack. I played crappy against both of them, partially at least due to tiredness, so I didn't win anything else. Even now I'm in disbelief over one decision that I made. I can't imagine why I thought it was a good idea at the time. Other things were mistakes that I could understand making, but that one choice was just plain awful.
I was greatly pleased to open a Stuffy Doll as one of my cards in the first tournament. I had sort of wanted one ever since it appeared on the previews for the set, and it was fun to play with at the tournament. I also had great fun with Greater Gargadon, which I had almost dismissed as unplayable when I first opened it, but which won me at least 2 games.
I definitely hope to make it to the actual release tournament so I can recapture some of the same type of fun. Thumbs up to Time Spiral.
