Trends in sealed of any sort

[Phlyinice]

Has anyone noticed any particular trends in the Sealed tournaments? Like, what style of decks are winning, what strategies seem to work the best, what cards are most effective in drafts/popular? Also, what types of balances in trades do you notice? Three trades with mono-threshold, on trade with double threshold and the other with 2+ threshold, for example.

I know most people suggest strong emphasis on removal in both sealed and draft events, and most everyone I know will select which trades they'll be playing specifically on that.

I've also seen a really good player who consistently uses two trades with around 2 threshold and a third trade with one threshold consistently do well at sealed tournaments. His decks are always interesting, and look random at first, but when you see them in play it all clicks.

[Jokerde]

This was only the second time I had ever played the game but I picked up on it rather fast and made top 8 out of 16. I choose Rage, Greed, and Elitism. All of my Elitism cards were 2 threshold so I started with those two and put in 7 Greed and 7 Rage which was probably too much for a 45 cards deck. It worked out fairly well. I did not have the right cards to make a good obsession or rogue deck. You really just have to play with what you get which is where the experience comes in. Only hint I can give you is if you only have 2 threshold of something then start with those two and put multiples of the other resources in your deck and hope for a nice draw and mulligan to get all the necessary resources to meet threshold for every card in your deck.

[J Caster]

Playing to your removal is a good start when initialy inspecting your pool.

Next is which color has the best bodies.

Then evaluate any other synergies/combos/bomb cards that you may have pulled.



I'm no expert, but what I usually do is form 15 piles, 3 rows of 5, when I look through my pool:

a b e r w
Removal row [] [] [] [] []
Character row [] [] [] [] []
"Other" [] [] [] [] []

"Other", is anything not a dude or dude removal, sorted by trade.