I just want to share today my Guilds of Ravnica Prerelease report since it has been a while since I played in a Prerelease event due to my DURP classes were held mostly on Saturdays and even Sundays last Summer semester. Anywho, it was a good thing that there is a second game store in your area with a Sunday schedule for these types of events. The venue was at Critical Hit’s new shop location in Festive Mall in the Megaworld area. It was also my first time going to that mall, months since its opening. Manol.

I arrived at the game store just passed 12 noon just to make sure even though I made my reservation online via a bank payment. There were only 20 slots for the Prerelease and obviously I would choose the best guild based on the money cards, Golgari. Ace was the TO that time and there already people building their decks ahead of the actual start time. Anyhow, the lady assistant handed to me the reserved PR kit and as I rolled the cover while trying to smell the new cards, I took a peek on the foil card on the seeded pack. I almost jumped in excitement as the revealed card was the most chased rare of the set, Assassin’s Trophy.

I then opened the rest of the seeded pack and the Black Green strategy looks possible. I proceed to open the five regular boosters and the Rares weren’t that relevant aside from the Beast Whisperer. The uncommons were good spot removals of the guild and was supported by some Black Dimir cards.

I ended with this build below, a Black Green splashed White compacted with seven removals.

Here is the summary of the matchups decks and results.

Round 1 vs Naya Aggro, won 2-1
Round 2 vs Sultai Control, won 2-1
Round 3 vs Boros with Blue Aggro, lost 0-2
Round 4 vs Selesnya, lost 1-2

The mulligan and land screw were the causes of these losses even though I think I have s,huffled the deck enough. Maybe the next time I should go with a new kind of shuffling ritual, lol.

Overall, I enjoyed playing in a Sealed event again and of course experiencing the cards from the new set has opened my already brewing ideas of new build types for the Standard format.

That is a wrap of this tournament report. Lastly, here below are some of the pics I took during the Guilds of Ravnica Prerelease at Critical Hit.