What Should you Play at the Lost Caverns of Ixalan Prerelease? | Magic: The Gathering MTG

[@zorglub105]

Not putting "2-mana spells that you're likely not casting on turn 2" in your 2-mana curve is great advice !

[@malachifreedman3975]

I’m really pumped for the prerelease. I have been going to them since All Will Be One (missing Tales of Middle Earth unfortunately) and have had a blast every time! Highlight was doing the Eldraine prerelease at DragonCon, meeting new people and having fun!

[@JasonOshinko]

Since surely someone will ask this question: a token dying is NOT descending, because a token is not a card.

[@Xynic.7391]

But tokens count as permanents, and don't they technically 'hit the graveyard' before the fizzle away into nothingness? Not arguing just making sure 👍🏻

[@filo20010]

Tokens are permanents, they do hit the graveyard, but they aren't permanent CARDS ^^

[@matthewschwartz6486]

@@Xynic.7391They're permanents, they do hit the graveyard before fizzling away. They don't count as "cards" though and descend specifies permanent cards. Tokens don't count towards descending this turn.

[@pugnator2749]

​@@Xynic.7391 is right, tokens, weirdly, DO go to the graveyard before disappearing from the game.

[@severinbender8403]

Very confusing as in WOE the aura tokens counted as „an enchantment put to the graveyard“ for many of the triggers.

[@lkledu2]

Thank you Gavin, saving the humble new players that started playing sealed

[@moorecreativearts2544]

Dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs! If you can’t tell, I’m hoping my Pre-Release sets me up to play Dinosaurs! I’ve already picked up a couple of singles to upgrade the Dinosaur commander pre-con deck when they release.

[@ashdog9235]

I am so exited for Kutzil that type of light staxs at uncommon is sooo good more please

[@estebanhuwha]

Either explore midrange or artifact aggro. I love the pirates and merfolk, but I'll be happy with either. I love the flavor of ixalan

[@boltnabird]

I hope I can notice some of them and be able to put together a good deck. Playing Magic is good, but playing and winning is even better! haha

[@Kazz1187]

I'm excited for exploring again!

[@JacobBos1988]

I'm very hyped for the set. But i have a question. How did you guess settle on descent, descended and fathomless descent? I think these similar sounding abbilities might confuse some players. Was Threshold ever considered instead of Descent?

[@JasonOshinko]

They're similar sounding because they're similar in function. It shouldn't be confusing if you read the card. Threshold only cares about whether or not there are 7 or more cards in your graveyard. It has no knobs to turn.

[@walterwiffles7384]

So excited for tomorrows event. 2 headed giant sealed. With some luck I am going to play green/black or green/white. We will see what we hit.

[@underachiever2092]

Pre-release today. Time to binge a bunch of videos because I haven’t looked at any cards or mechanics

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

I hope I can do black green at the prerelease!

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

I did black green, lost my first round, won my next two. I initially only built out of 5 packs, not 6 lol

[@lorunzo9761]

Woah that’s so crazy, do you go to finch and sparrow, there’s some footage in the beginning and i just realized it’s finch and sparrow

[@kozurai6069]

This is my first mtg draft night, and I’m pretty excited! Do you keep all the cards in your prerelease box? Or do you pass your booster pack down and pull from other people’s?

[@fradjukay]

All the cards are yours for this one! 😊 In an actual draft, you would pull and pass. Enjoy!

[@kozurai6069]

@@fradjukay makes sense, understood. Thanks!

[@BasicandBizarre]

I'm a big vampires fan, so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping to pull some good Orzhov stuff...but it's all luck of the draw.

[@fradjukay]

Big Orzhov fan here as well! And I love the flavor of the vamps in Ixalan being conquistadores 😂 Good luck!

[@photospectrum3726]

I'm excited for Azorius crafting.

[@Dalamr]

Gonna try Red/Blue artifacts.

[@iiii1669]

GW cats aggro is all I want to play in prerelease!

[@Rosta720]

I hope I get to do explore stuff c::::

[@Cjgalvez11]

Ill go ug discover until i take confidence to play golgari or rackdos

[@brendandidycz5480]

I'm pack 1 pick 1'ing caves, no one can stop me.

[@Billchu13]

Timmy plays every big dinosaur in their pool😊

[@aaron9797]

can we make zoyowa ability a villainous choice

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

I love that pfp with that question

[@Cinabiondo]

😊

[@uiopgamer4647]

Hopong i get good synergy with dinos

[@williamsimkulet7832]

Can I play Jurassic Park cards @ Prerelease? Are they Standard legal?

[@poiri]

Considering they’re not in draft boosters it’s gonna be very difficult to get any Jurassic Park cards in your sealed pool. But in case it happens, tell the TO and they’ll replace the defective pack(s). Also no, not standard legal, same as the Transformers cards in BRO.

[@williamsimkulet7832]

You say this like I'm supposed to know. I could play Godzilla cards in IKO. It's almost like the whole enterprise is slapdash or something. LOTR sold well, but they don't think JP will sell well... so they're putting them in collector boosters or something???@@poiri

[@poiri]

@@williamsimkulet7832 well I say it like you're supposed to know since if you're following GMM then you're clearly pretty invested in the game and could easily google the information. The reason JP is not its own set is because it's only like 20 cards and so not really justifiable as a full release. (It'd be like MOM Aftermath, but somehow worse) Why they only made a few cards for JP, idk, ask Gavin. Also yes, they're only in set and collector boosters, same as the Transformers cards.

[@williamsimkulet7832]

I follow spoiler season as much as I can, but this past few years have made it neigh impossible to know where anything is. As for JP being it's own set; are you telling me that between a half dozen movies and hundreds of real life dinosaurs they couldn't have made a set? Nonsense. They made a choice. Why? We don't know. Whatever the reason, this feels either sloppy or predatory. Take your pick.@@poiri

[@bantxc5616]

@@williamsimkulet7832it ain’t that deep lol. Probably not a full release for other reasons than effort lol

[@kitsuefur5147]

Golgari will be. My choice

[@mkdynasty272]

I love RG Dinosaurs

[@vanhelsing00000]

Explorefolk!

[@janmelantu7490]

Finally no Rakdos Sacrifice!

[@angeldoyle859]

ikr?

[@NuclearRaven13]

rakdos sacrifice is the "simic commander that ramps and draws card" of draft archetypes

[@savlassa7752]

SEVERAL WHAT?? :'((

[@Stelios-]

GRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLL

[@jeffe2267]

interesting way to pronounce draught

[@DerpyLaron]

So I know this video isn't quite related, but you talking about the draft archetypes reminded me how baffled I was at the reveal. How come you decide to make a Graveyard Pirate deck that's anti synergistic with all 3 draft archetypes in the colours. Basically why didn't you make a pirates only Marchesa, the black rose and instead used finality counters as if pirates had massive etb effects that we can't have happen again? Is it all because of that one mistake you choose to exclude form the deck called dockside? or did you really think basically taking Commander Legends Pirates and splashing a tiny bit of black is enough. sincerely a disappointed Pirate lover

[@alBoomer19]

Dinosaurs go stomp stomp

[@TheRoland19111]

Will definetly Proxy these cards. I don't buy from Pinkerton suporters

[@Tuturial464]

You need to build a pauper product for new and existing players like an event deck

[@longboy5639]

So, only mono red and legends

[@matthewmagda4971]

Tourach

[@timmyg316]

I'll be playing Pokemon during the pre-release for Ixalan. I can't see Creatures Inc. cheapening the value of their IP for a quick cash grab by adding a Jeff Goldbloom card to the set.

[@alexlogan202]

Cut out the first three minutes of the video