Last night was my first Release Party at the local store. Even though I wasn't prepared for decklists, I had a great time! It's much more relaxed there than it was at the Regional Prerelease. More people are starting to know my name, so I get to see those familiar faces and meet some new people every time. It's a good balance. Plus, everyone is super friendly.
The Regional Prerelease was way different. There were three times as many people, no one seemed interested in open dueling, and there were a lot of good players in the tournament (once it was finally time for my flight to start). I was surprised at how well people seemed to know the new cards, since it was the first time anyone had actually played with them, and the absence of decklists made it super easy to trade out cards from previous flights between rounds -- I only entered one flight, so I'm not talking about me here. I'm just saying that some people had suspiciously good decks that day.
The regional Prerelease was my first time in a sealed format, so I'm disappointed but not surprised that I had zero wins. A fourth-round bye was a nice finish, though! They were a bit behind schedule so we were only given 30 minutes to build our decks. My stragety was way off, too. I opened all the packs and sorted them by color then sifted through them to find the "best" color choices.
For the release event back at the local store, I was ready to take a different approach and take the first best card out of every pack, then the second best card, the third best, and so on -- kind of like a six pack personal draft. So yeah, decklists threw that theory right out of the water becase we didn't get to keep the pool we opened.
I did find a lot of fliers, and when they were on the board they were a force to be reckoned with. Getting them out there was the tough spot. Final score last night was 2-2 (with another fourth round bye... can you believe it!)
Next week: draft techniques.
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