A while back I decided I was going to start a YouTube channel for MTG that focused on product openings and I figured the best way to attract viewers was to open older and more valuable sealed product. I bought a whole bunch of modern and legacy booster boxes and fat packs in my excitement. But then I got busy with other things and scrapped the idea of the YouTube channel. That left me with a bunch of sealed product. I would rather use it than just open it by myself and catalog it away. I went especially nuts on Zendikar, Worldwake, Rise of the Eldrazi, Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor and Eventide booster boxes and fat packs and those blocks function differently than others I've played in limited. I know RotE was drafted by itself and the mechanics differ from Zendikar and Worldwake so does RotE work well with them in limited? And Lorwyn/Shadowmoor are like companion mini-blocks, but do they function well together in limited? And what would be the best way to distribute packs from each set?
RoE would be appallingly bad is Zendikar block, because landfall would obsolete the entire set.
Similarly, Lorwynn/Shadowmoor would also be bad since Lorwyn is all about a bunch of stupid tribes specific to their sub-block, and Shadowmoor is about mono-coloured decks due to hybrid mana.
Something I've always wanted to do with SHA/EVE is to backdraft them, or whatever the correct word is for each player picking the worst cards possible and each round handing the pool to the opponent, letting him build the best he can, and dueling. The idea is that hybrid mana makes it very difficult to create a pool that feels unbuildable. Normally when you backdraft you take advantage of colored mana stress, prioritizing cards that have double or triple colored mana costs to screw the opponent. You can't do this so much when there is hybrid mana everywhere. This makes backdrafting more fun because you make more decisions based on the interaction (or lack thereof) of the cards you pick instead of playing the game of mismatching awkward mana costs. Plus it's more likely that different opponents will have different builds if you spread the junk evenly - people may have different judgments as to how to assign the hybrid mana in their deck.
The best way to draft Zendikar block is to open all your Zendikar/Worldwake packs without drafting them, then draft triple RoE. Zen/Zen/Worldwake is one of the most hated draft formats of all time because the optimal strategy is to pick aggressive 2 drops over anything else. Triple RoE, on the other hand, is among the best draft formats of all time.
The best thing you could do with your packs triple Rise of the Eldrazi drafts. The worst thing you could do with your packs is squander your packs on some unholy mix of RoE and Zendikar in the same draft.
Similarly, Shadowmoor block is best enjoyed without the Eventide packs -- even the lead designer of Eventide has admitted that Eventide messed with Shadowmoor draft too much and hurt the draft format. Triple Eventide is also notoriously bad, mostly due to the mimics but also because there's nothing good about it. Go triple Shadowmoor.
For Lorwyn, conventional wisdom says go Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide because that's the official format and it's a good format and you have the packs. That said, triple Lorwyn is more popular by a small margin (you can make Elvish Handservant decks), so you might want to go triple Lorwyn. I've played Morningtide sealed before and found it to be fun (I had 2 Bitterblossoms, of course I found it fun) but prowl decks are probably overpowered in triple Morningtide. I'd say you should go Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide to get the most out of your packs, but also consider 3xLorwyn.
Sell all your non-RoE packs and use the money to buy more RoE.
More seriously, though, your Worldwake packs are likely to be quite valuable to sell because of the existence of JTMS, and they didn't really contribute to a very fun environment. Better to sell them to somebody willing to play the lottery by opening them. I personally also loathed Shadowmoor block for draft and wouldn't bother drafting with them.
Lorwyn was a fun set to draft, though. Merfolk and Giants are both cool decks that do unique things, and Rogues in Morningtide play interestingly also.
They offered RoE, WWK, Zen drafts online for while. The format is fine. You'd be better off drafting the formats as intended, but all three packs will give you plenty of playables if you do combine them.
Regardless, you're probably going to have fun either way. Yeah, you wouldn't want to draft Shadowmoor/Lorwyn 20 times, but doing so once would probably be fun.
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Similarly, Lorwynn/Shadowmoor would also be bad since Lorwyn is all about a bunch of stupid tribes specific to their sub-block, and Shadowmoor is about mono-coloured decks due to hybrid mana.
The best thing you could do with your packs triple Rise of the Eldrazi drafts. The worst thing you could do with your packs is squander your packs on some unholy mix of RoE and Zendikar in the same draft.
Similarly, Shadowmoor block is best enjoyed without the Eventide packs -- even the lead designer of Eventide has admitted that Eventide messed with Shadowmoor draft too much and hurt the draft format. Triple Eventide is also notoriously bad, mostly due to the mimics but also because there's nothing good about it. Go triple Shadowmoor.
For Lorwyn, conventional wisdom says go Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide because that's the official format and it's a good format and you have the packs. That said, triple Lorwyn is more popular by a small margin (you can make Elvish Handservant decks), so you might want to go triple Lorwyn. I've played Morningtide sealed before and found it to be fun (I had 2 Bitterblossoms, of course I found it fun) but prowl decks are probably overpowered in triple Morningtide. I'd say you should go Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide to get the most out of your packs, but also consider 3xLorwyn.
More seriously, though, your Worldwake packs are likely to be quite valuable to sell because of the existence of JTMS, and they didn't really contribute to a very fun environment. Better to sell them to somebody willing to play the lottery by opening them. I personally also loathed Shadowmoor block for draft and wouldn't bother drafting with them.
Lorwyn was a fun set to draft, though. Merfolk and Giants are both cool decks that do unique things, and Rogues in Morningtide play interestingly also.
Regardless, you're probably going to have fun either way. Yeah, you wouldn't want to draft Shadowmoor/Lorwyn 20 times, but doing so once would probably be fun.