Aaron Maenpaa

New Phyrexia Pre-Release

I went to the New Phyrexia Pre-Release at Jim Hanley's Universe yesterday. It was crowded and kind of janky (very NYC), but I got a promo copy of Sheoldred, Whispering One, some New Phyrexia boosters and to play Magic all afternoon. I went 2-2, which I'm pretty happy with considering it was the first time I've played in a Limited event and the games included such crowning moments of awesome as multiple perfectly timed Sunblast Angels and copying my opponent's Platinum Empirion with one of my Phyrexian Metamorphs while I was sitting at 1 life1.

Here's my final fourty:

The Final 40

Other Spells

• 1 Apostle's Blessing
• 1 Arrest
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Disperse
• 1 Mutagenic Growth
• 1 Stoic Rebuttal
• 1 Tempered Steel

Lands

• 8 Island
• 9 Plains

Creatures

• 1 Alloy Myr
• 2 Darksteel Myr
• 1 Ghalma's Warden
• 1 Immolating Souleater
• 1 Impaler Shrike
• 2 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Salvage Scout
• 1 Shattered Angel
• 1 Slash Panther
• 1 Sunblast Angel
• 1 Sunspear Shikari
• 1 Vault Skirge
• 1 Wall of Tanglecord

I was really impressed by the way the Sunblast Angels cleared the board (and in my favour more often than not), how Tempered Steel turned my Myr into threats and how Slash Panther was this awesome threat out of no where (especially when Tempered Steel is on the table). While the Phyrexian Metamorphs saved my bacon a couple of times, they're a little problematic in that they don't really work unless there's something bomby on the table. All in all, I had a blast and it prompted me to dust off my Tempered Steels and Sunblast Angels and build a deck2.