A Pre-Release mini tournament report

Violent adolescents and their adult violent offenders future selves must have parts of their brains wired in ways that prevent them from reconsidering smashing a beer bottle over some bro douche's head when he looks at them askew, regardless of the fact that bro douche was giving a head bob to his friend who just walked in throught the door. He shouldn't have nodded at that door with a psychopath standing between him and that exit. I make it a point to never look towards an exit in a bar. When you look to exits you alert every honorary Cobra Kai member you are a flight risk when shit goes down. Never show weakness. GRUUL never show weakness.

Saturday I played in the Gatecrash pre-release. My box was pretty good to me. It is my Gruul mindset. I knew it'd cough up the goods or else. Inanimate objects have this fear or my rage. I make VCRs work by yelling at them. Their clocks bow to my will. Back to the box. What was in the GRUUL box? Well, lets start with the guy who was the all star for my first 3 rounds:

The Magic GAWDS were obviously smiling down on me. GRUUL was the best choice to win! Snatched him from the final pre-release pack I opened. That just about made my day. A foil Godless Shrine helps, too.

So, I at least left the party with about $40-$60 in value for my rare cards. 

Orzhov is such an ungodly pain to play. I played them twice in swiss. It came down, both matches, to me trying to make an akpha strike around the time I get 6-8 mana and they're at 20-25 life. I'd swing with 1-3 dudes, and bloodrush 2-3 times on top of that. Seriously, playing against Orzhov is THE WORST.

I finished swiss at 3-1-1, probably should be 4-1 but the guy i played in the last round wanted to draw and hope we both drew into top 8. I didn't want to be THAT GUY so I said okay. Then we played ot our match and a steam rolled him 2-0. My inner Gruul was mad. We both made Top 8 and EVERYONE decided to just pool prizes. Divvying up the loot gave each top 8 member 7 packs. I turned into THAT GUY by saying I wouldn't join in the split unless they named me winner of the oturnament. They did, and that is how I won my Pre-Release, by holding the rest of the Top 8 hostage. THAT is so so Gruul!

I've been developing metrics for Creature power and toughness, recently. This is more for limited uses, until I get a big enough database of Standard creatures. I want to determien which creature are aggressively cpsted, defensively costed, and have surviveability against the average of each creature within their shared mana costs. It's...going along. I've got Gatecrashes White, Blue, and Black creatures in my database already. I'll share what my formulas are tomorrow and hopefully name some names wednesday.