Today and tomorrow is the Prerelease for Eventide, Magic: The Gathering’s latest expansion pack. I would love to go. However, there are only 3 Prerelease events in California. California! That’s a lot of miles between venues. I wanted to go, cuz I like Sealed, and this is apparently that format: one Shadowmoor starter deck and 3 Eventide booster packs. Also, it’s all new cards! But, I don’t know anyone locally who wanted to go and I also didn’t want to go by myself. So, I missed this one.
There is great news for future Prereleases, at least as far as proximity goes. In their effort to make it easier for people to start playing Magic, (this is the year of acquisition), Wizards has decided to expand the number of Prerelease venues. They will let individual stores host Prerelease events. This is great for me cuz I’m half way between LA and Santa Clara, the 2 nearest venues this weekend. 200 miles is a bit prohibitive.
I’ve gone to Santa Barbara, and would go there again. That’s only 2 hours away. Of course, that means it’s 65 mph * 2 hr = 130 miles / 25 mpg = 5.2 gallons * 2 way trip = 10.4 gallons * 4.60 $pg = $47.84. Ouch! And that’s only to SB. Definitely want to get a group to carpool.
If Captain Nemo’s in SLO hosted an event, I could walk to it! That would be so sweet. Plus, it would bring out more of the local Magic community into the light, or at least to a place I could meet them.
So, until then, I won’t get
Mad Auntie, I’ll get Eventide. Or at least I will after it’s officially released.
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