it'll be my first sanctioned event and I think my seeecond? third? time ever playing in an actual game store (previous times were with a big group of friends but I'm GOING IT ALONE this time around)

wish me luck I'm Big Nervous

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hollyhoppet wrote on July 6, 2019 at 4:11 PM

Good luck have fun! My partners go to those all the time and always have a blast

toasthaste OP wrote on July 8, 2019 at 3:14 AM

yeah it was real fuckin fun I would definitely go again

hollyhoppet wrote on July 8, 2019 at 5:47 PM

yay!!! :D

Presidential_Afro wrote on July 6, 2019 at 7:29 PM

remember always go blue

toasthaste OP wrote on July 8, 2019 at 3:13 AM

the packs were on your side and guided me unerringly to Blue

devtesla wrote on July 6, 2019 at 3:59 PM

good luck toast!!!!

Fangren wrote on July 6, 2019 at 7:53 PM

good luck! I sure wish I had a game store near me that I could go to.

musou wrote on July 7, 2019 at 12:25 AM

mtg is great fun, have a good time!

Fangren wrote on July 7, 2019 at 9:10 PM

so, how did you do?

toasthaste OP wrote on July 8, 2019 at 3:11 AM (edited on July 8, 2019 at 3:15 AM)

I won 3 packs and won most of my games! I've never gone to a prerelease(or any sanctioned event) before EVER so I would have been perfectly content losing as long as it was fun matches! But I got to WIN and ALSO have fun matches! Everyone was super friendly but not like, weird about it?

Also I'd never been to that game store before but it was SUPER nice, my friends swear by it and now I see why. It had this HUGE back room for games with tons of people in it playing various things. There was something going on with some miniatures games over on one side, several mtg pods going semi-simultaneously, and then a handful of people just hanging out. overall like probably 50 people in a room with space for like... 200 at LEAST. Just a really great time, I felt welcomed, was kinda thriving in the group environment(turns out I'm more of an extrovert than my anxiety has led me to believe) and am definitely gonna plan to go back for every prerelease for the foreseeable future.

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I wound up with a blue/white flying-ish deck with https://scryfall.com/card/m20/36/sephara-skys-blade and https://scryfall.com/card/m20/52/cavalier-of-gales (which I drew in NEARLY EVERY GAME HOO BOY THAT FELT GOOD). Also splashed black for https://scryfall.com/card/m20/111/rotting-regisaur but I don't think I ever actually got to cast it (or even drew it? I forget). The deck came together really well thankfully, my red and green were both weak as hell so I didn't even have to really waste time considering them (which is good cause I've never had to build a deck on a time limit before, I finished with like one whole minute to spare D:)

I went uhhhh 5 and 2, I guess? I forget how the terminology works. won 2-0 against my first two opponents, then went 1-2 in my last match against this guy with the most ABSURD DECK I HAVE EVER SEEN (HE HAD 2 https://scryfall.com/card/m20/127/chandra-awakened-inferno FOR ONE FUCKIN THING). He was a super good sport though (everyone was) and I mostly just had fun hamming up how outrageous his deck was. And I was responsible for the single game loss he experienced for the entire event so I take SOME pride in that :P

Fangren wrote on July 8, 2019 at 9:59 PM

NICE! Congratulations! :D