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I think Hasbro wore me down with so much product. I haven't really looked at the set nor been excited to play. It's just too much shit to keep up with.

My prerelease promo was Maha. I had enough lizards to run the BR lizard ~~snow~~fireball. I won the event without losing a game. In one game, I kept a hand of just five lands and Maha!

I also had a very interesting game involving Iridescent Vinelasher. I had it and the offspring copy out alongside Flamecache Gecko. Late in the game, I burned out my opponent by discarding the castable cards I topdecked; I actually wanted to draw lands so I could play them for 2 damage every turn.

Lost every game to Boros aggro. Can't complain tho, it was fun.

Went 2-1-0 with blue green blink. I was afraid it would be too slow to get going, but I had enough removal to keep the aggro decks in check. Special mention to the 3/3 reach that bounces a permanent when it enters, getting to use the bite effect on hunter's talent several times felt amazing !

Mtg be too much for me these days (hope not over for good though) but I gotta say that's some beautiful box art!

Ended up with blue-green frogs, primarily. My prerelease box didn’t really get many of any one creature type, but frogs was closest and the other cards I had in blue green made it reasonable. I didn’t really bounce much using the frogs but they reduced the cost of my two polliwallops enough to give me the edge in most of my matches. Went 2-1-0.

Takeaways:

• Seems like a lot of decks make it to 6+ mana reliably in this set
• Lots of synergy in creature type so if you don’t get many of the same type, you need to get creative with deck builds
• Pawpatch Recruit is really good value for 3 mana and makes it really annoying for your opponent to play around
• Treeguard Duo is awesome
• Spellgyre is expensive for a counter but holding a counterspell and then surveil 2 draw 2 is very nice.

Mostly Birds(UW) (promo was Kastral) with a splash of green for the first two matches, then dropped the green and put in some of the white rabbit stuff. 3-0

Did a 2HG on Sunday, didn't have a partner but had a pretty good one. I ended up running BR and he went for UG. It was more gameplay synergistic than typal, allstars were the frog that draws you stuff when it bounces and Innkeeper's Talent. We also had the elemental snake but it was either immediately removed or just winmore. 2 of our opponents also had the snake which was way harder when I didn't seem to draw any of the 8 removal spells I was packing. Ended up going 3-1 overall, and I pulled a Three-Tree City and a Ledger Shredder special guest which is great! Though I am a little jealous that my partner even managed to pull a Winter Three-Tree City!

Kinda looks like a box of tea.