The consensus I keep seeing about this event is that it was very fun.
Was the mistake trying to make Brawl a multiplayer casual format instead of a 1v1 competitive gateway drug to Standard? It seems so for me.
I think it can play both roles depending on how you want to play and who you want to play with.
Balance between the decks is god-awful in 1v1 on Arena.
UWB Fairies is cheap, has draw engines, two wraths (Massacre Girl and Kaya's Wrath). The commander is the cheapest one and almost all of its creatures are flyers. If you can't deal with the commander the first time it enters the battlefield during your next turn, you'll be smothered under a pile of fairies pretty fast. And all decks are lacking kill spells. Except for thzt one, which has several O-Ring-like effects, and even an aura to transform the enemy commander into a vanilla 1/1, literally turning off their commander for the remainder of the game...
I had the complete opposite experience. Every match I played was pretty fun and there was a lot of smart decisions to be made through each one of them. Additionally, my Commanders kept getting hit by removal because I believed that the decks were low on kill spells as well... until I found that I was mostly casting my commanders around 3 times a game because most people I fought bomb them on sight.
I think it can play both roles depending on how you want to play and who you want to play with.
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries
I had the complete opposite experience. Every match I played was pretty fun and there was a lot of smart decisions to be made through each one of them. Additionally, my Commanders kept getting hit by removal because I believed that the decks were low on kill spells as well... until I found that I was mostly casting my commanders around 3 times a game because most people I fought bomb them on sight.
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries