Last weekend was Prerelease weekend for Guilds of Ravnica, I didn’t attend a Prerelease event (I gave that up for the disappointing Tabletop Gaming Live) but I did get a booster box and the 2 Planeswalker decks.

So I thought I’d share with you some of the cards I pulled got from 40 booster packs in total that I cracked open. I will put a disclaimer here, these may not be the best cards in the set. However they are cards that I liked the art of, or thought I could use in one of my Commander decks. Sadly for this set none of the legendary creatures I saw in previews grabbed me, and made me jump up and want to build a deck around them, or even use them in a deck.

I was chuffed to pull Vraska, I liked the art for this version of the Planeswalker, and the abilities were not bad. I’m half tempted to use her in a Commander deck. But at the moment I’m more interested in having her in the sideboard for my golgari Standard Deck for Store championships. Which was why I was over the moon to get one Assassin’s Trophy (which I think before Prerelease was the most expensive card to buy on preorder. I don’t think the price has dropped since either). Ideally and living in cloud cuckoo land, and having the Magic equivalent of a lottery win, I was dreaming/hoping of more than one copy of this to be pulled. As I said I could dream. I can see it as a Commander card, but this is going to be a strong removal card for my Standard Deck. Chromatic Lantern is going to go into a lot of decks. It’s such a good mana fixer.

Impervious Greatwurm the buy-a-box promo. I saw that in the previews and thought that was made for my big green stompy deck. I can’t wait to find a spot for it and play the deck again. And I love the flavour text of the card, it is so me, and my stompy deck.

Vicious Rumours is definitely a multiplayer game or Commander card. I love the art on it. Definitely think I’ll be using it a deck or two in the future. Another card I really love the art of is Thought Erasure. It has that noir look to it. Very atmospheric.

Never Happened, a more costly Duress? Maybe but it should help to stop that nasty graveyard shenanigans happening. The addition of picking from the hand or graveyard and exiling I think makes the extra cost worth it. I love the art also. The next 2 cards I like for the cheapness to use in a black aggro deck. In fact Hired Poisoner may replace a card in the new deck. The flavour text is cool too.

I know at the top of the post I said none of the legendary creatures inspired me with deck ideas. There was potentially one exception. Niv-Mizzet, Parun. I have another Niv-Mizzet legendary creature. Sooo the idea of building a deck around them and their abilities might be interesting. Or would they fit better in a death and taxes style deck?

Ok Homeward Path isnt from GoR but I thought I’d tag it on to the end because I got it in the post the same day. Forgot how I stumbled across the card, but it was a must have. I hate having my commander stolen, it throws a serious spanner in the game plan. This will be my protection against that.

Did you get any good pulls from the weekend?