Pre-Release Countdown . . .

  Okay gents and ladies,
We are 2 hours away from doors opening, and 2.5 hours from the fun beginning. Do I get butterflies before these events? You bet I do. Especially with the secrecy of what my second guild might be.
   Grrrrrrr, I am SO torn!! If I go Gruul, I have a 50% chance of scoring Golgari or Rakdos. Of course, I have the same chance of scoring Selesnya or Izzet, neither of which will pair well in my opinion.
    But of course, if I choose Golgari, then I have chances at Gruul, Orzhov, Simic and Dimir. Of which Gruul and probably Orzhov would pair the best. Maybe Simic . . . either way. This is gut wrenching for me.
     So will be updating this post or just posting new posts throughout the night and might even get up a decklist if I have time between rounds, depending on how bad I kick butt or get mine kicked.
    See ya at the games . . .

    Okay, so showed up at 11:35, the place was packed as usual, and there were about 54 contestants I believe. They began by introducing everything and explaining how the implicit maze worked and what the prizes were, blah blah. Those of us who had been researching this for the past 2 months now already knew all that, but okay.
   Then they began calling off names and asking what guild you wanted to represent. About 20% played Gruul, which I decided on. (I wanted that button) I paired with Izzet, the only one I didn't prepare for. The guy across from me pulled Selesnya with Gruul as his main.
    For my Rare in my Izzet guild pack I pulled Counterflux, which all in all isn't a bad card. Not really what I would have liked though. For my Rare in my Gruul guild pack I pulled Call of the Conclave, which is a pretty dynamite card. In my Dragon's Maze packs, the rares were Sire of Insanity, Melek, Izzet Paragon, Blood Baron of Vizkopa and Volroz, the Scar Striped. All in all, excellent rare pulls. Looking back now, I probably should have built a Gruul/Golgari deck, but I did have a lot in the form of Izzet, Simic and Gruul that I played with.
    That is all for this post, I will get on to my decklist and other pulls in my next post. Along with how the night went. I went 2-4 on the night. Both of my wins were 2-0 wins, and all my losses except 1 were 1-2 matches. I only got skunked the first matchup of the night, and that was because of making a very stupid mistake.

Cheers!