There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
A bit of background, I don't really like Eldritch Moon. I think the set is sort of meh, but I guess I need to lower my expectations for cards that are being printed in this new 2 set per block meta. (Wizards please reprint the off color fetches and give us a better Liliana :D ) However I really enjoyed shadows! It was a refreshing change after the BFZ - eldrazi heavy block - and gave a much needed buff to my favorite archetype, white weenie.
So! What did I play over the prerelease?! RB Vampires! A bit of a departure from what I normally play, I love playing Selesnya and I really wanted to play a Bant deck but unfortunately the only mythics that I pulled were Ulrich of the Krallenhorde, Tree of Perdition, and Decimator of the Provinces (Tamiyo, you will be mine). The guy next to me pulled a prerelease Gisela in a kit that I passed to him so I was a little salty when I started building. I started off with a GR werewolves deck but my green pool was really meh, and my red had no werewolves or wolves so I pivoted to RB with all my vampires. The biggest reason I moved in was due to the fact that I had 2 Stensia Banquets and 3 of Olivia's Dragoon which was a card that I was not originally impressed with. As it turns out, having a madness enabler that doubles as a really efficient flyer can do wonders.
I'll post pictures of the entire deck later tonight, I liked it but I think GW is still the strongest in limited even with all these new Eldritch additions. I ended up going 2-1, losing to a GW deck :) Great prerelease on the whole, but not as good as SOI imo!
Now, let's see those pulls and your decks!