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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2704928" data-attributes="member: 907">There are also "Limited" tournaments where you get cards supplied at the event and have to build a deck out of those cards. Limited events come in two varieties:"Sealed Deck": You get one "tournament pack": 45 spells (3 rares, 9 uncommons, and 33 commons) plus 30 basic lands (6 of each) plus two "boosters (1 rare, 3 uncommons, 11 commons), and build a deck out of what you get."Draft": Eight people sit down around a table, each with three boosters. Everyone grabs one of those boosters, open it, select one card, and pass the rest of the booster to their neighbour. The neighbour selects another card, and passes it on - this keeps going until you're out of cards. Then you grab the next booster, repeat the process, but passing the cards the other way. Finally, you repeat it again with the third booster, passing the cards the first way again.In each case, you then build a deck with a minimum of 40 cards using the cards you got plus any amount of basic land (generally provided by the tournament organizer). In most cases, you want to have 16-18 lands in your deck, and thus 22-24 other cards (out of those 45-75 cards you got).Limited events are in one way an equalizer for those who don't have money, since everyone starts with a similar amount of cards (though thanks to the luck of the draw, some will have gotten better cards than others). On the other hand, they're kind of expensive in the long run since you need new cards for each event.A week or two before the release of each new set, many stores hold "prerelease" events, which are usually Sealed deck tournaments using the set which is just to be released (and likely the sets that came before it, if the new set is an expansion of those sets - we'll get to that later). These are usually good times to try the game out, since the cards are unfamiliar to everyone, and since you don't need to have a ton of cards in order to play. The rules are also not enforced as heavily - if you forget something essential you're likely to be allowed takebacks and stuff. The prerelease events are partially designed to attract n00bs to playing. I think the next set (Guildpact) is released in February, so the prerelease is probably going to be held the last weekend of January.</blockquote>

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