Dark Ascension Non-Report
I will be posting an unusually short Dark Ascension pre-release tournament report this time around. I’ve been offered (although still confirming) a writing gig for an up and coming Magic site and I don’t want to get ahead of the possibility of writing an article based on my experience at this event with my 10-year-old son. Stay tuned!
The long and short is that I went 2-1-1. My sealed pool was basically without bombs and almost completely devoid of “removal.” I don’t have good luck with sealed pools, but I can usually build the best deck in there and get good mileage on nuts and bolts technical play and combat tricks. I built a UW deck, which is pretty deep in both Innistrad and Dark Ascension, and doubled down on fliers and bounce spells with a Silver-Inlaid Dagger for value and a late game Sudden Disappearance.
I won the first two rounds, with the second round being a fast 2-0 win against my arch nemesis Serge (just kidding) who always loses to me in limited with significantly better cards and decks. This time, I beat Geist-Honored Monk in both games, for example, with my durdle 2/2 fliers and combat tricks. My loss came in round 3 against an opponent who had Esper colors. The wins went to either player according to which one had to mulligan. And, unfortunately, it was me in game 3 with a mulligan, keep a two-lander, draw a land and then brick on land #4 for 6 turns in a row and die. In the last round, I played against Vish and we agreed to a draw. Where we play, the pre-release prize support is generous and there’s little value in the last round for beating someone. It basically results in one person up a pack and the other one down a pack. Then we played for funsies and I swiftly 2-0’d him.
Highlight of the event: someone opened both Sorin and foil Sorin and then promptly went 1-0-3, triggering the first ever payout of prizes for this record in the shop’s history. Lord of Innistrad, my ass.
This card is very good:
And blue is pretty deep. More on this in my theoretical future semi-pro article.
How’d you do? What cards did you like?
