6000 gold -> 1300 gems + 3 packs

Self-replicating Cranial Plating (Improvised Arsenal) is a good card, to the surprise of nobody (but not Nobody). North Wind Avatar usually grabbed either Retro-Mutation or my backup Bot Bashing Time.

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Impact Tremors
Secret Lair Drop
Art by Zoltan Boros & Scott Okumura

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Past in Flames
Secret Lair Drop
Art by Brigitte Roka & Clifton Stommel

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Salvatorre Zee Yazzie

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Village Rites
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Art by Igor Kieryluk
EDHREC Rank: 197

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I attended a Two-Headed-Giant PreRelease for Secrets of Strixhaven last Friday. Great Set! The seeded packs dictated almost all decks. Some people did not get PreRelease Packs as they did not register, but the TO tried to be supportive anyway and gave them normal packs. One team dropped after round 2, because their decks were a lot weaker than the opponents, which lead to unfortunate buy in round 3 and 4.

My team played a Witherbloom life-gain matters deck and a five-color mostly-Quandrix Converge deck.

My Witherbloom deck did not work to well, but my friends five-color deck worked surprisingly well. We mostly anticipated a fun but not coming together deck, but an unanswered Wildgrowth Archaic was quite strong and we needed a lot of dice.
We still only finished 2-2.

The amount of removal spells - at least in the decks of our opponents - was quite substantial, which in one round lead to the rather unfun play pattern of not sticking one creature.
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Terror // Terror
Secret Lair Drop
Art by Sidharth Chaturvedi & Scott Okumura

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Brain Freeze
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
Art by Benjamin Ee

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