Final Fantasy TCG Dreamlike Oceans Prerelease 2 - March 23rd, 2026

 Today was the second of two Dreamlike Oceans prerelease events that I was planning to participate in. Well, sort of a prerelease event at least.

In lieu of running a Sealed event in which we each purchased a prerelease kit and built a deck out of our packs within, each of the 6 of us who showed up tonight split the cost of four prerelease kits, from which we divvied out 5 booster packs to each player. From there? We drafted, which was a lot of fun to do.

The one problem was that myself and one other player were both fully planning to draft heavily from the MBM Category. And we happened to be sitting right next to one another. This impacted both of our pulls to some degree.

Regardless. As I said, I drafted heavily into MBM, as that was my plan going in for the day. My priority for picks went in roughly the following order:

1. Category MBM Cards
2. Anything else in Water and Lightning
3. Things I was particularly unwilling to see across the table from me
4. Anything that didn't fit into those three categories.

I managed to nab a fairly decent collection of MBM cards, including notably a copy of Ashe for my LB - the only LB card I played. That said, I didn't manage to pull quite enough to go fully MBM - none of the copies of Penelo that the table saw ever made their way to my hands, for instance - so I had to add in an additional package of Category II cards, as I pulled two copies of Maria, two copies of Firion, and four copies of Leon.

I proceeded to go 2-1 in our event tonight after we finished drafting and building our decks. I lost round 1 against a player who drafted Mono-Fire, giving them six Gunbreakers and four copies of Brute Bomber. They also had a Barret who, turn 1 or 2, wiped out the Maria and Firion that I had played on my own turn. That gave them the momentum to keep ahead of me, though I did manage to at least take them to four.

My next two games I managed to win against Earth/Wind and an Ice-heavy deck with six Remnants, including a Kadaj that I thankfully never saw hit the table.

All in all, it was a ton of fun, though drafting might not be something I want to do regularly with the FFTCG. I did manage to get ahold of most of what I need to finish my playset of MBM cards for the deck I would like to build, with me at this point only missing one copy of Vaan, which is a bonus for me.

If you can get some friends together to draft Dreamlike Oceans, I would highly recommend doing so.