BFZ Prerelease Rants: The Event

The first day of BFZ's prerelease already swooped in yesterday, and it's amazing! My local game store hosts the sealed tournament twice in one night, so most of us got two BFZ prerelease packs, and of course a lot of loot! My biggest loot was the Promo Ob Nixilis, and three other mythic. I managed to win four out of six matches so last night was a blast for me.

When I learn of BFZ's full spoiler, I know that Battle for Zendikar will reward you for playing synergetic strategies, and I love it. Magic Origins limited was simple and it was sweet, but I feel that BFZ's limited will be more than "choosing an available color", rather, you will be challenged to connect the dots and build a strategy that will completely blow your opponents.  BFZ's sealed was very fun, but I am eager to know how the draft will shape. For now, my mindset for doing a BFZ's limited is "choose an open strategy" rather than "choose an open color" and I hope I can pull that well.

Although I managed to win four out of six match, my two losses was the result of my inability to play magic in a higher complexity level, especially since that was when I was paired with another player who also does well in their first two matches. BFZ reveals a lot of areas of my gameplay that I can improve and I am excited to do more limited!

Lastly, I am starting to consider (just considering) playing standard, seeing how exciting it was to play BFZ's strategy-centric limited environment. Another reason was that BFZ's event deck seemed really cool as it was packed with powerful rares. I might try those when I got some profit from selling cards. 

Oh, another thing that I love is that I never felt that I really get mana flooded, like some writer said, between landfalls and eldrazis there are a lot of things that your lands can do. And battle between Eldrazi *is* a thing. I punched an opposing Bane of Bala Ged with my own Ruin Processor, and that, after all my experience playing monsters printed on top of cardboard paper, felt awesome as hell.

Well, see you next time!