Prereleases are an exciting time for Magic players – you can get your hands on the latest cards (or in Core 21’s case, the latest reprints) and get to dabble in creating a small, yet immensely fun deck. 
I love the whole concept of prereleases, how it encourages players all to meet up to see what the new set is going to get and is a brilliant way for all levels of Magic players to come together. Whilst I appreciate that they are a fun and positive event for most, my one bad experience has ultimately made me apprehensive of going to my local game store for future pre-releases.
Flashback to 25th January 2019, 5 days before my birthday. Ravnica Allegiance is just about to come out and myself and my partner decide that after getting back into MTG a few months prior that we would go down to our local LGS and join the prerelease.
I will admit I was a little confused at first, I was new to the game and wasn’t 100% sure about card synergies, mana curves – I was just a very new player looking to learn how to play MTG properly. The first deck that I made was a Simic deck with the idea of getting lots of tokens on my creatures and being honest I thought the art on the Simic cards looked pretty cool! Read More »
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