Preparation for a New Generation

Mario here, noticed how my title rhymed? It's a beautiful piece of art!

Anyway tomorrow I am attending my first Sneak Peek tournament ever and it's obviously for Generation Force. Between Jon and I these are the cards absolutely required from this set:

2x Leviair the Sea Dragon
2x Steelswarm Roach
2x Orient Dragon
1x Elemental Hero Nova Master
1x Vision Hero Adoration
1x Vision Hero Trinity
1x Mask Change
1x A Hero Lives
1x Masked Hero Goka
1x Masked Hero Vapor

I believe Jon also wants some of the fish stuff. However this is the list of cards we absolutely need. The troubling part of this list is the fact that most of these cards are absolutely expensive, particularly the top 4 cards of the list. I've been checking Ebay the last few days and these prices have been really high.

I'm really hoping I pull some of these cards in the packs at the beginning because I'll enter deep-shit phase afterward regardless. Unfortunately I have had no luck pulling any decent cards at Regionals when you get the 5 packs at the beginning. One of two scenarios is going to happen at this Sneak Peek:

Scenario A - I will open my packs and pull nothing decent and then the people next to me will all pull Roaches, Sea Dragons, Orient Dragon and Hero fusions. I will then enter crying phase.
Scenario B - I will open my packs and the only really rare cards I will pull will be Number 17: Leviathan Dragon and Wind-Up Zenmaster (The tin promos that I will end up having lots of). I will then enter crying phase.

Hopefully my luck changes for once and these scenarios do not occur. Anyway I hope I can use my skillful intellect to manipulate people into trading me these expensive cards for a smaller value than they are worth. That's the only way I can see myself picking up these cards.

The other thing about this Sneak Peek that I will have to deal with is the miniture tournament where you can play a main deck of 20 cards + a 15 card maximum extra deck exclusively with the cards you pull. I'm unsure whether this tournament is mandatory or not but I would rather take the opportunity and trade a good amount with strangers I've never met before. The tournament aspect doesn't interest me at all.

The next time I post on this blog (in a day or two) I will post the events that occured at this Sneak Peek. Afterward I have a list of topics I can write about. These topics include the Heavy Storm vs Giant Trunade debate and the "Laquari + 2 backrow" situation in a format where Heavy Storm is legal. I also have neat little posts planned on "bad" players and a surprise tech card that is doing remarkably well. Please let me know what you want to see and I will pick the topics in order of most popular to least popular. Thanks for reading.