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7.12.2011

M12 PreRelease Video

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

As promised, we have for you the video from the Magic 2012 core set prerelease just this past weekend, but first a few small notes . . .

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Next up - some news from the trenches.

Several brick 'n' mortar stores have already been working hard towards welcoming the next set, Innistrad. To ensure suffucient product, they have pre-ordered ahead. During the ordering process through the Wizards Event Reporter Software (WER), it was learned that the Innistrad Buy-a-Box Promo is named "Devil's Play". Speculate away on this folks - think colour, type of spell, and possible card text, then put your prognostication in the comment thingy below.

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Finally, the video.

We attended OMG! Games M12 PreRelease here in Barrie on Sunday - we like Sundays as there tends to be a little more elbow room at the tables. Anywhoos, we're kinda glad we did, store owners Rick and Josh indicate record-breaking attendance tournouts with about 48 at the Friday midnight pre-release and around 65 during the next two flights on Saturday. Sunday's event was limited to about twenty or so due to lack of product.

We went 3-1 with a black / white build and took home a store voucher for six packs of M12 prizes as the store shelves we almost bare. Righto - enough yattering, onto the vid . . .



First things - here are the rares puled -
Personal Sanctuary, Djinn of Wishes, Time Reversal, Cemetery Reaper (this card won games), Archon of Justice, and a Sun Titan.


But altough its great to have expensive chase rares, that will not always (or even usually) win games in a sealed format event. Cards which pushed hard to win games in this pool were removal spells such as Oblivion Ring and Doom Blade as well as evasion creatures for which I had a few nice white flyers.

Anywhoos - tell us your pre-release stories - did your pool suck rotten eggs or take you to glorious victory? Also tell us of some interesting plays you may have seen.
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7 comments:

  1. Tezrael7/12/2011 11:38 AM

    I had a Gideon Jura and a Gideon's Avenger. fun combo was fun. throughout the whole day I only lost 2 games total in round 4, ending up 4 and 1 in the end(beating each of my opponents but round 4 2-0 lol),putting me in 3rd place

    White-red seems really nice in this core set.

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  2. pipboy7/12/2011 11:45 AM

    played in both flights on Saturday got a foil jace, and a chandra in the first one, that pretty much won games only went 3-1 though still opening a foil jace made it worth it

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  3. buh-roken7/12/2011 2:13 PM

    I went on Saturday and opened a foil giddeon, a grave titan, and a solemn simulacrum, however the rest if my black was pretty bad so I went white red and finished 3-2.

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  4. penguinxcrossing7/12/2011 3:24 PM

    I went to our saturday flight and got 1st of 31 with a 4-0 record. what really won me the games was the garruk i pulled. i ran green red. had good removal and i also had in my sideboard 3 plummets for those pesky fliers. but the second that garruk hit the field it was game each time.

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  5. Anonymous7/12/2011 7:25 PM

    I cracked a Gideon, Aegis Angel, Sphinx of Ulnox, and Mind Control. 2 Mana Leaks, 2 Ponders, and 2 Divinations in blue, 1 Pacifism, 1 Oblivion Ring, 2 Gideons Lawkeepers for white made my 4-0 matches(8-0 games) a pretty profitable release.

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  6. ctplayer7/14/2011 3:30 PM

    opened inferno titan, jace, phantasmal image, mesa enchantress, warstorm surge, and reverberate.
    wanted to go blue/red, but aside from inferno titan, had very few good red cards (no shocks, or any other direct damage), so i went white/blue and splashed red for inferno titan and 2 goblin fireslingers. jace was a game ender if he hit the field, and inferno titan almost guaranteed victory as well, especially when copied with phantasmal image

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  7. Bizzerker7/16/2011 9:57 AM

    I drew a Personal Sanctuary and an Aegis angel, but then drew a Cemetary Reaper and immediately built a removal deck around that, and used cheap tactics to prevent the Reaper from dying himself.

    I managed to hold on to a 3-1 W/L ratio, and only lost to a mill deck when my powerhouse cards kept getting removed

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