Most recently, this past weekend I attended the prerelease for the new set, Kaladesh at our local midtown comic shop, Big Brother. This is my preferred comic shop, which recently moved to a new location after a fire. The new location is great, and they had a good room for the tournament.
I did poorly at the tournament. To qualify for a prize, you had to, at least, win 2, lose 1 and draw 1. I won one game, and lost three. One of the losses came against my friend Ghost, who also didn't qualify for prizes. This made me feel better. While I was disappointed I didn't do better, it was not a lasting feeling.
I find this new set interesting, but I didn't get a good set of cards. My two best rares were in completely different color sets. Depala, Pilot Exemplar and Nissa, Vital Force I actually opened two copies of Depala, but only one vehicle card! And it was a bad vehicle. Nonetheless I chose to build my deck around Depala, because I had about 6 other dwarf cards, and I felt that was enough. It almost was, but not quite. I am excited to play this set some more, most likely in Magic Online. But maybe in person at a Friday Night Magic event.
My biggest goofup of the day was when I tried to play a second Depala, forgetting that I could only play one copy of a legendary creature at a time (also forgetting that Depala was Legendary at all). My opponent graciously let me take that move back. After that, I decided that I would prefer to have fun, so I joked around a lot with my opponents. My first opponent was pretty serious, but my following opponents were more relaxed, and I was able to make them laugh. And lose. But I don't mind so much.
All in all, I enjoyed myself, got to interface with the Magic community outside my usual kitchen-table friend group. And I was not disappointed in the community. I can't wait for the next set Who knows, maybe I'll even attend a Friday Night Magic.
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