Hmm... based on what I've seen so far I think I'm probably going to end up UG-based, so I don't really want either Banner. I quite like Despise as a card, but I think I'd prefer to take a Green card even with double coloured mana.
Pretty happy with mono-Blue for now. Most likely P2P1 or P2P2 will provide me with something powerful enough to motivate a second colour, but right now my main asset is flexibility and I see no reason to abandon that approach.
If what you like is archetypes then Draft is probably the format for you, but Sealed has its own skills along slightly different lines.
In Draft, you only make a relatively small number of picks before the cards you already have start to influence your picks from subsequent packs. The more you know about what you're playing, the easier each pick becomes. In Sealed, by contrast, you have to do something you never do in Draft: evaluate two completely different decks and decide which is better.
Sideboarding in Sealed is also very different from Draft and again there are considerations which don't arise in Draft. In particular, sometimes it can be correct to sideboard into a completely different deck!
There's definitely a lot of depth (and consequently skill) in Sealed. I know this because, as with Draft, I've played far more Sealed in some formats than others and got better results the more I played.
Ooh, Throttle looks like an option. On the other hand, I quite like Force Away too and I want to keep things cheap since I seem to be heading for some kind of race-with-fliers strategy.
I don't know how good Mindswipe is, but it looks a bit slow. Debilitating Injury would be nice, but that's effectively a UBG card for me. Tempted by the Dismal Backwater, but it's allied colours so maybe a bit speculative.
I loudly declare that logically, this time, I should get five evens; it's a statistical certainty. I promptly roll five evens and collect my extra turns, and bash for exactsies with Celestial Colonnade. It was pretty funny.
I don't know about statistics, but the laws of comedy MUST BE OBEYED!
There are a lot of strong contenders for different reasons, but I think the overall winner is probably Warp World. At first glance it looks like a typical overpriced Red random-stuff-happens card, but actually it's a powerful and subtle weapon that has led to a lot of fun games as well as a lot of fun deckbuilding.
I don't think this is close.
4 Soul Summons
2 Ethereal Ambush
4 Congregation at Dawn
4 Momentary Blink
4 Through the Breach
2 Ixidor, Reality Sculptor
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
etc.
My Pick: Tusked Colossodon
Seeing that is a very nice surprise! Seems late for an enemy dual.
Pretty happy with mono-Blue for now. Most likely P2P1 or P2P2 will provide me with something powerful enough to motivate a second colour, but right now my main asset is flexibility and I see no reason to abandon that approach.
In Draft, you only make a relatively small number of picks before the cards you already have start to influence your picks from subsequent packs. The more you know about what you're playing, the easier each pick becomes. In Sealed, by contrast, you have to do something you never do in Draft: evaluate two completely different decks and decide which is better.
Sideboarding in Sealed is also very different from Draft and again there are considerations which don't arise in Draft. In particular, sometimes it can be correct to sideboard into a completely different deck!
There's definitely a lot of depth (and consequently skill) in Sealed. I know this because, as with Draft, I've played far more Sealed in some formats than others and got better results the more I played.
My Pick: Force Away
My Pick: Crippling Chill
I don't know how good Mindswipe is, but it looks a bit slow. Debilitating Injury would be nice, but that's effectively a UBG card for me. Tempted by the Dismal Backwater, but it's allied colours so maybe a bit speculative.
My Pick: Scaldkin
Not a great card, but seems like acceptable filler at worst.
Such a light coloured mana commitment on a solid card seems like a good way to open a draft.
Wow - that manabase! It's like a Cube deck!
(I'm supposed to create a thread, yes? I can't see any instructions anywhere.)
Although I haven't played as much of the format as I expected, so might suck a bit!
I don't know about statistics, but the laws of comedy MUST BE OBEYED!