So after following my own advice from a video I have done on sealed deck building, I built a White Blue deck reasons why in red and black colours I have little creatures and removal and between the 3 remaining colours I have decent creatures and decent removal, counters and combat tricks but my deciding pull was my last pack when I pulled the planes walker Dovin Baan.
OMG how OP this guy is! So my deck went through a couple of variations in the day with being more creature heavy to having a few more spells but its safe to say that he was by far very over powered with his +1 ability giving a creature -3/-0 and cannot activate abilities. Now most of the time if your opponent drops a planeswalker in a game it becomes a priority to be destroyed as you generally do not want getting its ultimate or using any of its abilities for a lengthy period of time. Now Dovin was fantastic I got to ultimate him once in a game, in several others I got lots of value out of his card draw and general +1 messing up a lot of my opponents attacks and abilities.
So what else I learned from pre-release was flyers matter in this format more than previously as this set has a lot of creatures with higher toughness than there power making excellent blocks on the ground so look for flyers to get over those pesky ground troops. Or you could do what some people where doing (myself included) and crew the Adara Express with a Gearshift Ace (and another creature) and let the 8/6 Menace First Strike hype train do its thing!
Next major thing I took away from the pre-release is that this format is pretty slow, so being an aggro deck in my opinion can make the best decks so best options for this would be Red White or Red Green decks! As I did see several people in games going against theses decks and were struggling to stop the early game damage!
So now that's the pre-release come and gone its time to focus on proper 6 booster sealed rather than 6 boosters and one extra rare which can make all the difference.
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