So I joined the 11th Anniversary Phantom sealed event where they give you a boatload of cards to make your deck from. Despite being apt at evaluating cards, I have to say that such a large card pool was challenging.
I go through the usual routine of: check rares => uncommons => colors
I quickly identified that my pool was easily supported in UR and the most powerful card in my pool was Crystal Shard. The second most powerful card in the pool was Stormbind but I ended up removing it from the deck in favor of white which would be more stable and would allow me to play a more defensive game with the cards in the cardpool. Incidentally, there were some white cards with ETB effects to make better use of Crystal Shard.
I quickly identified that my pool was easily supported in UR and the most powerful card in my pool was Crystal Shard. The second most powerful card in the pool was Stormbind but I ended up removing it from the deck in favor of white which would be more stable and would allow me to play a more defensive game with the cards in the cardpool. Incidentally, there were some white cards with ETB effects to make better use of Crystal Shard.
Going in, I was prepared to go heavy on 2 drops which I suspected would be the key to doing well in this format but didn't because I could play a more familiar style with my cardpool. I played the 0/6 wall to create some resistance against the 2 drop strategy.
It was fun to play the event and I came out 4-0 so I am definitely in the positive to try again. I hope I get more time to join another.I did encounter a very sore loser who was going "noob" and how lucky I was despite the fact that he practically handed the game over to me (which I had more than half my mind of scooping at the point where his Greater Gargadon could come in against me when I was fully tapped out and had no blockers).
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