Theros Event Deck Review! Super impressed??

Nothing new has been spoiled yet as of today, but I made a discovery over the weekend. I recently just got my buddy into magic last weekend and this is how it happened.

Considering many of my friends don't play standard format, I wanted to organise a little tournament at my house that included booster packs as prises! Considering it was my birthday on sunday, I guess it would make sense if this counted as my birthday party. I would up organising this on the Friday of that weekend.

To make a long story short, I wound up inviting some of my friends that didn't play magic... I had an XBOX to entertain them. However, one of the people that I had invited was curious about our tournament. I told him about the game, how it worked. He was instantly interested. Later that day, my buddy, Brennan, lent him a deck to play against us.

After learning the more simple rules, he had already made plans the next day to go pick up some cards so he could get started...

iz so hapy

 

 



Without really knowing the contents of it, I suggested him to buy the Theros Event Deck. This would get him started quickly and it would allow him to participate in standard format events. So, all I knew about this deck was that it was Blue-White. Knowing the colours of the deck, I wasn't too crazy about it, but I was still interested. That interest me led me to wind up going with him to the store to pick this deck up.

So... the next day, we got to the store and saw this sitting on a shelf.

There it was... wait... with 10 rares?



Then we saw this .

 

But... more importantly... we saw these...

the 2 above the card means that there is two of them..

 

Counting all the rares, according to TCG Player's medium prices for all of these cards, all of these rares come up to around 24.40$. Considering this deck is going for 19.99 in the USA, that's incredible value. In Canada, the deck is 24.99, but still, you get the other 65 cards outside from these 10 rares! Incredible value and.... an actually incredible deck to get started with.

Here's the entire decklist:

• 2 Ascended Lawmage
• 2 Banisher Priest
• 3 Battlewise Hoplite
• 3 Dryad Militant
• 1 Fabled Hero
• 1 Frontline Medic
• 3 Hopeful Eidolon
• 2 Imposing Sovereign
• 1 Lavinia of the Tenth
• 3 Lyev Skyknight
• 1 New Prahv Guildmage
• 1 Precinct Captain
• 1 Skymark Roc
• 1 Soldier of the Pantheon
  Other Spells
• 2 Dauntless Onslaught
• 2 Detention Sphere
• 2 Gods Willing
• 1 Ordeal of Heliod
• 2 Ordeal of Thassa
• 2 Pacifism
  Lands
• 4 Azorius Guildgate
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 5 Island
• 14 Plains
  
• SIDEBOARD
• 2 Arrest
• 2 Gainsay
• 2 Gift of Orzhova
• 2 Glare of Heresy
• 2 Negate
• 3 Solemn Offering
• 2 Triton Tactics

If you want to see a more "visual" version and if you don't know what many of these cards do, check out Wizards of the Coast's article: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1329

Me and my buddy had played several times while he used this deck. He would usually beat me if he went first. You have to take into consideration, too, that I payed about 110$ for my deck while my buddy payed 25$. Isn't that crazy? With a little more work added onto the deck (Fixing sideboard, getting better removal), this deck is IDEALLY the perfect standard budget deck in my opinion.

 

From this experience, it looks like I'm going to be buying the "Born of the Gods" event deck too... only if it's as good as this one.

 

Alright, in terms of telling you what I'm going to talk about next week, I'm afraid I will be unable to do that until at least SOME spoilers are released. Therefore, as of now, next week's article will be a random topic.

 

Thanks! Counter some spells!