Mirrodin Besieged Prerelease

My friend Mike and I went to the Mirrodin Besieged Prerelease last night. To those who don't know, this prerelease was done a little different: When you sign up, you had to choose a faction, Mirran or Phyrexian, and then all of your Mirrodin Besieged boosters would contain only cards from your chosen faction. It's a fun idea, but came with a rather unfortunate side effect: The vast majority of Phyrexian cards were black or green, with very few white and almost no red, where as Mirran was the opposite: lots of red and white, little green and almost no black (blue was split more or less evenly amongst the factions). Even though half of the packs were from Scars of Mirrodin and both sets are artifact heavy and don't worry about color as much as others, players were still highly inclined to play either Green-Black or Red-White, depending on their faction. Of the 20+ people attending, I think I saw three people who weren't playing either Red-White Metalcraft or Green-Black Infect. This isn't a bad thing necessarily, but it does make decks very predictable , and once you've seen one Green-Black infect deck, you've seen them all. And while the faction split is an interesting and flavorful idea, there's a lot of synergy between several cross-faction cards that player's weren't able to take advantage of. In the end though, it was a fun time. My Green-Black infect deck did well, giving me 3 wins and 1 loss (The loss was to a gentleman with another Green-Black infect deck, only his had Phyrexian Crusader, Massacre Wurm and Glissa the Traitor. I didn't stand much of a chance.) Here's hoping that I'll have as much fun and do just as well at the New Phyrexia prerelease (and yes, it will be new Phyrexia. I'll be you anything.)

First Post!

So I've been having a pretty rotten week, and I thought, "What better way to cope with my frustration and disappointment than to start a blog! That's what normal people do, right?" Not that this is going to be an outlet for my angst, of course. Even I don't want to read about that. And besides, I'm not a very angsty person. No, this is just going to be a place where I can share my thoughts on all kinds of things, as well as some of my artwork. So yeah, if you're reading this, say hi! I'd love to meet you.