Bolas’ plans have drawn to completion:
Alara Reborn Prerelease is at hand
April 20th, 2009
Booster pack artwork, card artwork and background artwork © Wizards of the Coast
Remember when Mircea’s prophecy of a golden set? Well, the rumo–err..–prophecy was actually true! The new set is made of only golden cards! But that’s not the only thing to make it so exciting! Did you drop by the Visual Spoilers lately?
Event details
Registration is open for this Saturday’s prerelease event. We’re playing in Amnesia Crem Caffe, once more our usual location. Registration starts at 11:40 for 20 minutes. Deck building starts at 12:00 for 30 minutes. If everything runs smoothly, we should start the first round at 12:40.
Please do not to bring more than what you need to the event. Bring only basic lands, a deck box, sleeves and dice. Pen and paper for keeping score is also recommended, unless you’d use something else for score-keeping.
We’re playing Sealed Deck with 3 Shards of Alara booster packs and 3 Alara Reborn booster packs each (as depicted above). You can add any number of basic lands to your deck, and any of the unused cards act as your sideboard. Your deck must have at least 40 cards, including lands. Trading is not permitted until the tournament is over: you are not allowed to exchange any of the cards received in the booster packs, except for basic lands and tokens.
Prizes
The best part about prereleases is the extremely generous prize support. Not only do you win many booster packs, you obtain booster packs that aren’t even up for sale yet! How would it be to earn 8 Alara Reborn booster packs one week before they go up for sale? Sweet wouldn’t it be?
Yes, we’ve tweaked the prizes for this prerelease. We’re following Wizards’ recommendations and we’re giving 8 booster packs* for the first place, 5 for the second and 2 for the third. Wizards say 4th place should get 1 booster pack, but we’re funkier than that. We’re having the rest of the participants draft the last booster pack in the order of the standings after the last round. Sounds lovely!
And don’t forget: everyone gets a foiled complimentary promotional card, ready for play once Alara Reborn hits standard! And it’s quite a meanie, if you ask me!
Six boosters packs are worth 90 lei. A foiled prerelease card and having fun with friends discovering a new expansion: priceless.
Tags: Sealed, Tournaments
