M13 Prerelease

On Saturday, I went to a local shop prerelease and the people count was abysmally unimpressive. With a total of 17 players of which a majority were casual players, I was not very impressed.

My pool was less than impressive with the highlight being the 2 ironic cards staring at me;



My only playable rare was Krenko the Goblin maker so it was generally not very strong.
M13 was more core set like compared to M12 and all the useful "core skills" were easily utilized to good effectiveness.

I went 2-0 easily against the newer players but round 3 I won one, got insanely mana flooded with 7 lands in hand and 5 lands in hand when the game ended. Last game I got crushed by the card quality of my opp. Let's just say his 3/3s cost 2 mana while mine costed 4 mana.
Round 4 was decent but I stopped drawing gas and a Primeval Hydra said hi. I obviously said bye.

Here are some cool playmats I took pictures of:





I left the place feeling a little down. I guess whoever said that local shop prereleases were better than the large collective ones should be shot. Just so underwhelming compared to the older prereleases. I am sure that I had a better experience with kamigawa (no idea why people hated the block).