Eldrazi MiniMaster

So today was quite the day of Magic for me. I opened 2 boxes of ROE that i picked up on Friday, and split them with friends. There were 5 of us that had a small mini-master tournament. Mini-master is a very odd, but fun format. Basically you open 2 booster packs, then make a deck out of the cards you just opened. Then you play your round against an opponent. After the round is over, everyone opens up 1 addtional booster pack, adds it to the previous pool of cards to put together a new 40 card deck. Basically you start with a 5 color deck and try to cut one or two colors as fast as you can to build as stable a deck as possible. While i have only ever played this format with Eldrazi, i think it would be easier than Zendikar-Worldwake because ZW has a lot of non-basic lands and could force you to play every single spell in your first 2 packs. ROE, on the other hand, has only evolving wilds, which fixes your mana, and eldrazi temple, which powers out your eldrazi, and doesn't come into play tapped. Also, there are many powerful colorless spells tht can fit any deck build in ROE.

Because there were only 5 of us, we thought playing 1v1 games would be awkward, so we played a format called star. This is fairly confusing, but essentially is an open 5, and to win the 2 people opposite you must lose. I personally would up being the first one out each time, but thats probably because I made enemies by attacking with small creatures as soon as i could, and failing to finish off my opponents before they dropped silliness in the form of Artisan of Kozilek and co.

While I had a ton of fun playing in the minimaster, I had a ton of fun cracking packs in general. I have opened up 33 ROE packs to date, and have hit some nice bombs. I opened Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, Gideon Jura (later traded for Emrakul, the I Win Lols), 2x Eldrazi Temple, Momentus Fall (later traded for another), among others. My friend opened up the greatest pack I have ever seen with a Sarkhan, The Mad and a foil guy that was sweet but i will add later when he reminds me of what it was. I was sad to have not seen any vengevines opened. There are however 9 more packs waiting to be cracked by my buddy whose coming down next week to hang out. If he opens it im sure he will be laden with gifts from everyone opting to trade for it.

I'm thinking about getting a playset of polymorph and putting together a simic morph deck that has been gaining popularity with the Emrakul i traded for. I'll post some results and a dramatic play by play next time. Until then, have a wonderful day