GP London Day 1 - Friday - Lets Do This!

So over the next few days I will be releasing some posts on my experiences from the GP!

So Friday was an early start but arrived at the Excel in London for 9am and waiting outside of the hall was an experience in its self as I was surrounded by my fellow planeswalkers who were chatting, trading and gaming and I have never seen so many of us in one place.

So the hall opens and its mental the free mini masters event is what everyone is waiting for as why wouldn't you want a free pack of Kaladesh! The only downside was it was abit manic but when you have like hundreds of people jumping at the chance to play the judges did an amazing job! So I got through to round 3 of the mini masters with no big noteworthy pulls!

So after a quick tour around the vendors I jumped in on the Last Chance Sealed event and wow the atmosphere was a bit intense, I mean obviously it was going to be as everyone wants to win byes for the main event. But being that the event is single elimination it was extra pressure on building and registering a good deck. So I ended up doing a Black Blue artifact control had only 2 noteworthy pulls one being a the Aethersquall Ancient and the other being Static Orb! which by the way is hilarious to play with I played it 2 out of the 3 games but lost in game 3 due to getting mana flooded and having no action to deal with an ever growing board state!

So after a lunch stop with Steve we ended up getting ourselves into the Channel Fireball Sealed Foiled Again event so firstly I will say the foil promo's were straight up jank sylvan scrying, crumbling vestige and spatial contortion were the foil promo's I received. Oh yes I went 3-0 and I have to say that one card I opened was the reason I got the 3 wins and it was Authority of the Consuls was such a good card. As my opponents were always on the back foot and being a turn behind each time was dragging there decks down a lot hell I am even considering building a prison deck for standard!

So we ended up finishing for the day at 9:30pm so had been playing magic for just under 12 hours which left me feeling tired so went back to the hotel and chilled in the bar having a beer surrounded by magic players playing standard and modern. So keep your eyes posted for my next post which will be the main event.