Foundations Prerelease

Today I played Magic: the Gathering with real cards on an actual table for the first time in about twenty years.

I'm not going to make a habit of it, but I did find that I still enjoy prerelease events. This one, anyway. The new set, Foundations, is basically equivalent to a core set, except that it does have some themes and synergies; in this case some obvious one are Landfall effects, effects that trigger when you have creatures of power 4 or greater, and +1/+1 counters. It seemed to lead to a style of play that reminded me of playing with my friends when we were all just learning to play; quick, simple games with big creatures and not really any combos or super efficient strategies.

Anyway, here's my deck:

Lands	Creatures
5 x Forest 5 x Mountain 6 x Plains 1 x Rugged Highlands Spells 1 x Banishing Light 1 x Broken Wings 1 x Burst Lightning 1 x Garruk's Uprising	1 x Battlesong Berserker 1 x Beast-Kin Ranger 1 x Burnished Hart 1 x Cathar Commando 1 x Courageous Goblin 1 x Dragon Trainer 1 x Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen 1 x Elfsworn Giant 1 x Elvish Archdruid	1 x Felidar Savior 1 x Giada, Font of Hope 1 x Goblin Boarders 1 x Llanowar Elves 1 x Prideful Parent 1 x Resolute Reinforcements 1 x Ruby, Daring Tracker 2 x Serra Angel 1 x Shivan Dragon

When it worked, my deck got out a couple of angels and/or dragons and smashed straight through, but it was just a bit too slow and inconsistent so I ended up getting one win and two losses (2:0, 1:2 and 1:2) with a really close game at the end that came down to whether my Flying/Menace dragons could get past my opponent's Reach/Deathtouch spiders. Turns out they could not.