Harley thinks I'm bad at pre releases

After today, he couldn't be more wrong.

Today, myself and Warren went down to Guf Brisbane for the pre release of the latest set for the My Little Pony CCG, Canterlot Nights. There were quite a few familiar faces down there as well for a Magic tournament, though I didn't hear any of the details. I'm sure if you're interested you could ask Harley how things went and he'd be happy to vent about how badly he did tell you all about it.

People tend to refer to pre release tournaments as great equalisers, but no other pre release I've been to has given such a vibe as this one did. For starters, every participant was given one of the two theme decks and required to use that for the day. Naturally many a mirror match was in store, but everyone was on the most equal ground possible by using the same decks. That mean the results came down to equal parts skill and luck, and not who has the best cards.

I myself chose to use the Princess Luna/Rainbow Dash deck, more for the fact that my pre ordered Princess Celestia/Rarity deck showed up in the mail yesterday and I didn't want two copies than any actual tactical choice (admittedly some of the more competitive players there believed Luna was better anyway). I used Luna herself as my mane character in the first round and switched to Rainbow Dash for the second, deciding that RD seemed to fit my play style better and opted to keep her in charge for the remainder of the four rounds.

By the end of the day, I had three wins out of four. Lady Luck didn't want to give Warren the same treatment though, unfortunately seeming to prefer a swift kick in the nuts with four losses. In true Cardhousian spirit though he kept up the sportsmanship, having fun regardless of results.

Lady Luck seems to want me to play this game more though, at least in comparison to other games. Not only did I manage a solid 4th overall for the day, one of my prize boosters contained an ultra rare Granny Smith card (pictured above) and I even won the prize raffle for a bag of extra goodies. Now if only Primal Origin would behave in a similar manner and give me that last Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon instead of my umpteenth Bujinki Amaterasu...

All in all a great day was had by every participant, including several newcomers to the game. I'll admit that it didn't seem to run quite as smoothly as if it were a Card House held event, but that's only a small matter. Remember if anyone is interested in learning how to play you can always ask me, and I'll be happy to show you.

On that note I'll probably not have to say much about ponies for a while now (and I'm sure most of you are tired of me waffling on about it anyway), so I'll leave this post here. I don't expect too many people who are gonna be at the Card House tomorrow for the Pokemon event at 11am are reading this anyway, but anyone who is I'll likely see you all there if work doesn't decide to call me in.

The Pokemon Professor, Troy