So we finally bought our Origins fat pack, which means that this week's pack war comes with a bit of an unboxing video as well, and a little bit extra at the end. Check it out!
So the pack war probably would have been more interesting for me if I'd gotten a red source earlier in the game, but as it stands, it was pretty fun. Origins being a pretty flat powered set makes for "fair" pack wars, unless someone gets a prickleboar down or something.
Please join us next week when we'll be cracking an extra special pair of packs for our pack war, and don't forget to check our our Draft this Friday!
Tams and I finally went to our first large tournament, along with our good friend John-as-always of The Mana Leek fame. The reason we needed to invite a third player? It was team sealed!
Mana Deprived puts on their "Super Series" every year, and part of that this year was a Team Sealed event. If you've never done a team event, I want to convince you to give it a
try. It was one of the most rewarding magic experiences I've ever had.
To start with, you get twelve packs for a team sealed event, and you have to build three decks for your team to use. For a more in depth discussion on team sealed, check out the Limited Resources archive episode 245. For now, check out this video where I go over the sealed pool and breakdown of the three decks.
I was piloting the green black deck, and in the first round I had a very abrupt awakening. I was well on my way to a 2 game victory when I heard that, due to a mixture of deck tempo and mana issues, my teammates had lost. I still finished the game, but my victory was a bit hollow since I knew it count for anything.
In the fourth round, however, the tables were turned. I lost quickly and was able to advise my teammates during their games.
One thing I absolutely love about team limited is that you get to share full information with your teammates. Everything from deck construction to side boarding, right up to mulligan decisions you get a second, and even third opinion on. Of course, you have to trust your team. It helps to find people who share your mentality, which Tams, John, and I do.
Our final record was 4-2, which put us in 9th place and unfortunately just out of prizes, but it was still well worth the price of entry, and I'd do it again in a heart beat. If you ever have a chance to check one out, you should. Just find a couple of friends, and go. The worst that could happen is adventure!
I know this is usually draft day, but with the problems I've been having with our processing computer, our ability to draft is temporarily hampered, and since we're going to a team sealed event with John-as-always of The Mana Leek this weekend, I decided to just slide the pack war into the Friday release slot.
We should have a post tournament report for when we're back from the event in Toronto, but for now, please enjoy this, our pack war for Modern Masters 2015.
It wasn't as fun as the original Modern Masters, but it was still interesting. I feel like domain cards would have been fairly good in this format, but so would all the artifacts. As it turns out, a set with a lot of synergies is not that great to pack war with, because the synergies are very hard to set up in a single pack.
Regardless, we hope you've enjoyed this, and we'll be back with another Origins pack war, as well as a draft, next week.
