Building a Modern Horizon 3 Prerelease Pack Sealed Deck, Start to Finish! | Magic MTG 

This video and the archetype intro yesterday was a perfect combination. Im a returning player after many years of not playing and I don't have a lot of limited experience either. Im super excited for the pre-release and now I feel like I have enough background to be much more of a competent limited builder than I would have been. Thanks Gavin!

In a non-energy deck I'd probably count that Electrozoa more as combat trick removal than an actual creature

Making a number of piles that will contain all the cards, e.g. [W, U, B, R, G, Multi, Colourless] and sorting once from top down is faster. Ask any programmer they'll tell you this problem is provable and solved. An easy way to prove what you're doing isn't optimal is to cut the deck in half do what you're doing for half the deck then the other half, it will be quicker (plus it'll be easier to hold in your hand). Taking this to the extreme is 1 card piles, but this is the same as sorting one card at a time from the top down.

I believe it's faster to separe all the colors at once into a few piles, maybe 7 piles

limited deck that costs as much as a normal commander precon 👀

My LGS owner knows a lady that makes bags out of the booster pack wrappers. So we try to open the packs nicely and make sure to get them out of the way early so that he doesn't need to go around too often.

Im going to skip this Prerelease and wait until BloomBurrow

Super helpful as well as the last video, ive been to the draft events before but this is my first time doing the pre-release event. Super excited to try out the new cards!

I do something similar. I will pull all mythics/lands and set them aside. Then just place them down in piles of mono colors, multi colors and colorless. Then look at the higher rairties to get a general idea of my "strongest" cards and build from there.

Batch processing is ALWAYS slower than processing as you go.

I’d love to see you play this out with someone to see how it does! I need a part 3!

Dude why did you sort it like that in the beginning it’s so inefficient 😂

Just going through once and sorting into all the color piles simultaneously is massively faster. There really is no comparison on the speed front. It is also more accurate and helps with speeding the card pool analysis as you are paying attention to the individual cards more during the sort. You should have dropped Copycrook in the final deck for the 1 drop Transmorgrant. Copycrook is double B and frequently without a decent target while Transmorgrant is a recurrent creature that combos with other cards in the deck and it gives you something to potentially do on the first turn, which you are otherwise lacking entirely. You were making a similar analytical mistake by counting the 1 drop goblin as a 5 drop removal spell while analyzing the Red... that is the fail case not the primary use.

Always appreciate the insights into limited since I rarely get to play it

Do you ever consider synergy with your bombs when you build your sealed deck? The transmogrant and the connive knight looked to be real nice with arna

insane deckbuilding 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks for the video. The reflections were little annoying.

That prerelease is way to expensive! Who has that kinda money to spend on a prerelease...?

Yeah, a timed sorting video would be fun!

I would've looked at RUG Eldrazi. Yeah, the removal might not be as strong as with black, but I think it'd be fun.

Why you guys don’t make Pauper Challenger decks? Isn’t that a good profit for wizards and good for pauper reprints?

I like the time trial as a short

really nice rare pulls to come together into a deck

Distracted by the shiny bear LOL

This is always so great learing video! Please next time try to hold the card more in vieuw with out moveing so fast haha love these videos!

i think going green/blue and splashing red for some other eldrazi and removal would be good too, not sure

This is going to be my first draft and pre release ever. Excited!; kinda nervous tbh. How fucked am I? I just have little exp with pre cons in standard and edh. Overall what I get from this set watching yt is very overwhelming. Price and power level. Its intimidating as a newcomer 😮. I expect to have fun and meet ppl that like mtg :). Love from Mexico

Reef Worm 10:14 . Carrion Feeder, Phyrexian Altar (gets your mana back at same time) turn 3, Spawning Pit.. etc. Any card with: Sacrifice a Creature: blah blah.. Instant 9/9 for turn 4 with the right cards out. Playing for fun combos, 60 card decks. Mix with double token copy cards too.. and the copies stay in play. Dam that card made me think for a second.

Orim Chant is before your time, it’s super strong

I heard we can not use Wastes from outside the packs. Is that true?

Nice video. Very informative. The glare on the cards is quite annoying though. Maybe invest in some better lighting solution?

can u keep the cards on the table and zoom in on them when we're supposed to be able to read them? You talk with your hands a lil (same tbh haha) and it causes glare at random times when I want to be reading the card (to explain the card!) as you talk about it

After I think your all will be one Pre-Release video. I started opening all of my packs at once and have never looked back.

I wish wotc wasn't charging out the ass for this set and mtg in general as of late, I would have loved to have drafted this set.

Now I'm curious: how many unopened packs do you have in your closet?

Rares called for esper, but temur eldrazi or abzan mod creatures was also open Good luck with prerelease everyone🎉

gruul smash hehe

gavin why do you hate omo so much its a 3 mana 1/5 in limited that mana fixes.

I feel stressful when the foils are being "shuffled" in the beginning not even knowing what's in there....

The way this made me not excited for pre release 💀

That glare is rough. Use fill lights.

What do you do with a drunken sailor?

Will the store have Basic Wastes?

This sealed environment will definitely be tougher to build than standard sets.

I keep seeing people say $70? $90? How much is your LGS charging for this prerelease (including tournament)? Mine in Florida are $60, $50, and $40 (with different bonuses affecting price)

Love these introductions but please do something about the cards constantly reflecting your lights. the constant white glares makes this hard to watch and read the cards

I always go to the prerelease at my LGS, but with these "premium" sets I don't because the price is too much, even if I can afford it.

Electrazoa taps if you don't have the energy, so trading isn't guaranteed

Im happy my lgs is only charging 50

Do you get called into your supervisor's office when they see you do stuff like lay out the cards in WGB R U order? In all seriousness though, do the time trials of sorting as a video!

I mean it is obvious that Gavin has never opened up packs for any store to sort them out to piles as quickly as possible in order to stock up singles quickly :)

WHY IS REEF WURM AMD UNCOMMON!?

$70 Happy for your shareholders!

I wish i could have went to pre-release but $80 was too much for me :/

Cool vid, shame I can’t afford a prerelease. Or most of magic for that matter.

Why's the MH3 prerelease 70 dollarydoos That's too many dollarinos, friendo

Wow that kit was awful for how expensive it is

Great guide, but at 70$ per prerelease I am glad I watched this video and the financially mediocre pulls (props to Gavin for not being given a stacked batch on purpose). This was the last nail in the coffin for me - even though I love prereleases the price is not justified in the slightest.

*notices the GBWRU* #Justice for GURWB (gurwub)

the glare from the light is horrible

step one pull Chthonian Nightmare step two win

The pre release kits were all duds at my lgs. No one pulled anything out of it

Garbage etiquette? Liked video.

$70 worth of packs being sold for $100? You’re doing great work Gavin (power creep could be discussed some more) but your shareholder bosses are killing the game.

this is my first prerelease i didnt realize that $70 wasnt the norm. it seemed like a bit much but i was excited.. i hate capitalism

How to build a MH3 prerelease deck: STEP [1] Grow a money tree STEP [2] Harvest the money from the money tree STEP [3] Come to terms that money trees aren’t actually real STEP [4] Skip the MH3 prerelease altogether

The glare is pretty unbearable at times, might look into your lighting a bit.

Ban nadu

can u guys have a launch once at year at least with a msrp so i dont haft to pay random prices for precons like wtf 180 canada for the eldrazi deck like wtf is goin on why dose wizards do this u make it so hard to spend money its a mess like figure this out plz

Who can afford a pre release event that cost 100 bucks per event I understand I’m from Canada but it’s meant for new players who can afford that I miss my 45 dollar pre release

Kudo makes me angry, Ayula is a strong, independent woman who don’t need no man. I’m building him in Commander but in my lore he’s King of another forest

lol 20 dollars worth of cards, pre release cost you 60 dollars

Too expensive lol

All the poors in the comments complaining about the cost 😂

We just throw the empty packaging on the floor, the girl there gets paid to clean up after us

idk but i felt disappointed after watching this video .

I love how now all the sudden you care about "the store" by giving them all the trash at once. Come to think of it, quite ironic as Wizards has been treating the LGS like trash. Pretty poetic if you ask me. That's all i got from this video. Stop making these.

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