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I played in three events (two sealed and one draft) and I have a few good ones:

Day 1 - Sealed

I played RGw, splashing for Rebuke and Angel of Flight Alabaster. My deck had some werewolves, Splinterfright, two Geistflame (one foil), two Blazing Torch (one foil), and Falkenrath Marauders (also foil - must have been some kind of sign).

Round 1 my opponent is RGwb.

In Game 1, he plays Bloodcrazed Neonite on turn 2 and i Geistflame it during his next combat phase. This allows him to play two Caravan Vigils back to back in his second main and ramp up to 6 mana on turn 4. I lose to Falkenrath Marauders (yep, he got one too).

In Game 2, he plays an early Curse of Stalked Prey. After a few turns, he blows up the board with Blasphemous Act and drops a Tree of Redemption. I hold back a Geistflame so I can play it and flash it back when he drops the Falkenrath Marauders again. I play my own Marauders and get him to use up his tree before it gets killed by some removal spell. I drop Splinterfright when we're both fairly low on life and it's getting late in the game. Splinterfright activation mills two lands, and I topdeck a Blazing Torch to clear a blocker and attack for the win.

We start Game 3 with 3 minutes left in the round, and I win in extra turns because he never draws a 3rd land.

Round 2 my opponent is BR. Game 1 he draws too few lands, Game 2 he draws too many. He showed me his deck afterwards and it looked unbelievably solid - Bloodgift Demon, removal spells, and Falkenrath Marauders (seems everybody's got one today).

Round 3 my opponent is UB.

Game 1 is fairly intense and I think there was one turn where I spent a good 3 minutes just thinking about whether to attack or not. One thing that's great about Innistrad limited is there are some really interesting play decisions that go on because of the mechanics of the set. Eventually I win game 1.

Game 2 he is using Dream Twist to mill my library and again its a fairly tight game. I drop a Splinterfright, which is now quite large thanks to his Dream Twists. He has no answer for it and that's game.

Round 4 we ID and collect our prizes (8 packs each).


Day 1 - Draft

Seems like red and green were popular at our table. My first pick was Endless Ranks of the Dead, and that was the only black card I took as the green and red was just strong.Pack 3 gives me a 1st pick Balefire Dragon and I end up buildling a GR deck with that, lots of werewolves, 3 Hamlet Captains, but not much removal.

Round 1 my opponent is BR.

Game 1 he's putting pressure on me and plays - you guessed it - Falkenrath Marauders. It gets up to 6/6 when I play land #7 and drop Balefire Dragon, which I need as a blocker. He topdecks Into the Maw of Hell and swings for the win.

Game 2 I keep a hand of 6 lands and Hamlet Captain. I think my first 2 draws were land and Balefire Dragon. I hold out until turn 7 and drop the dragon. Next turn I hit him with it to wipe his board. He then topdecks Into the Maw of Hell again. Eventually he's threatening lethal damage with fliers, possibly including Falkenrath Marauders, and I draw into Spider Spawning. I play it thinking I'm dead, then realize the spider tokens have reach when on his turn he's thinking about his attacks. Eventually he gets through for the win. By this time I had drawn 14 of my 17 land.

Round 2 my opponent is RG werewolves with a very aggressive curve. I don't remember too much about the match other than I lost. He used that curse that makes my creatures attack every turn and Full Moon's Rise to regenerate his werewolves, plus that red sorcery that makes my creatures unable to block this turn.

Round 3 my opponent is GW. I don't remember much about this match either except him having a 5/5 Avacyn's Pilgrim thanks to some Travel Preparations at one point, but I won both games and earned a pack for my troubles.


Day 2 - Sealed


I open 2 copies of Evil Twin, Bloodgift Demon, Dearly Departed, Geistflame, Harvest Pyre, Corpse Lunge, and Stensia Bloodhall. I have decent cards in 4 colors and have no idea what to play.

Round 1 my opponent is a friend of mine and he's playing UX.

In Game 1 I play BRu. He's using several cards to mill my library, but the board position is pretty even, until I Unburial Rites a Bloodgift Demon into play and win.

Game 2 I transform my deck into BWr and he drops Mindshrieker on turn 2. That thing is a pest and it goes the distance.

Game 3 I transform yet again into RWb and manage to win through yet another Mindshrieker.

Round 2 my opponent doesn't show up. I use this time to eat something and rebuild my deck in UBr (I know, I'm nuts).

Round 3 my opponent is GWU.

In Game 1 he has Orchard Spirit and some 1/1 flying spirit tokens that do early damage. I'm have Evil Twin in my hand when he drops a Daybreak Ranger. I play other spells and he eventually passes his own turn to transform the Ranger into Nightfall Predator. I drop land #8 and play both Evil Twins, copying the Predator - that's 2 spells, so his transforms back, but mine don't because they're copies (yes, I knew about this before playing them). I also have a mountain in play so I can fight his creatures and wreck his board, eventually winning with Pitchburn Devils.

In Game 2 he drops a Geist of Saint Traft and equips it with Runechanter's Pike. He attacks, not accounting for me double-blocking to kill the Geist. The game is pretty tight and goes into exta turns, and he wins on extra turn 4 thanks to his flying spirits.

Round 4 my opponent's ride has shown up and he has to leave, so I get another bye.

They cut to top 8 and I lose horribly to a UR deck with insane werewolves and - wait for it - Flakenrath Marauders. Doesn't help that I drew no swamps in game 2. Since prizes were only given to Top 4 that day, I go home empty-handed.


And that's my prerelease weekend.

Awesome story! It makes for a great reminder that players make sure they don't focus too much on one part of an ability. Those things you overlook can give you the game.

Round 1: I have 8 creatures and one is a Geist-Honored Monk. My opponent is beating me until a draw a Cackling Counterpart. I copy the Monk twice to get 3 14/14 creatures with vigilance. I keep attacking until my opponent has no blockers and attack for 42 damage.
Round 3: I have 7 1/* creatures and a Voiceless Spirit. Most of them have flying, my opponent's only flyer is a Screeching Bat.I draw a Rally the Peasants. I cast and flashback it to give all of my creatures +4/+0 and attack for the win.

round five and going for placings. I'm in BUW and my opponent is RW. We end in game three. He has 18 life and I have 7. I drop a delver of secrets and a Grimgrin, corpse-born, sac the delver and end with a 6/6 untapped grimmy. My opponent kills one of his creatures, and uses the one red burn spell that does 5 for three with mrobid (obviously I don't know the name) Targetting Grimgrin. But he forgot that he had a +1/+1 counter. Grimgrin survives, and I swing for 9 (I had a 3/X of some sort). He draws into balefire dragon, and concedes because he has no blockers. I win, go 3-2 (as usual) and get 3 packs. I bust snapcaster mage and the red mythic that gives target instant or sorcery flashback till EOT (can you tell Idk any card names?)

Traded those two, the WB dual land and some junk rares for a verdant catacombs, a gilded drake, a consecrated sphinx, and a bribery. MY edh me was very happy.