Generally Sealed refers to format where each player brings 6 Draft boosters and use the cards drawn from them to create 40 card decks. For me this is a format that I best know from playing Preleases. I’m certain there is many other variants to the format, for example Chaos Sealed.
Compared to draft formats Sealed ia easier in a way that no extra time is taken to draft the packs, it does make the random element a bit higher as you are stuck with the cards on your boosters.
I will demonstrate here using a DnD Prelease Pack How Sealed genericly works in Prelease element.
Now in a store genericly players are given roughly 1h time to create a 40 card deck from these, so lets open them up and see what do we have.
Then after opening the packs
Now looking at the pool of cards, I’d say my first idea would be to go WG, maybe with a splash of Red, so lets see how that could turn out.
We got 16 Creatures, 1 removal, 3 non creature spells tbat draw cards, I cut out Flumph as I dont see it benefitting this deck. Now lets see how this deck would appear if we make it 3 color, or even splash of red.
So we got a 3 new cards that are red, 2x Dragon’s Fire, because removal is really important in limited, and Targ Nar, Demon-Fang Gnoll
Now to try out different Variantions with this Sealed Pool as I have no time limit, I’ll be checking out other combinations as well.
Red Green here hits the heavy end on Mana curve, While pool has some 1 drops they dont seem like a fit
With White Red I went with Equipments, I’m not sure of it wouls run well as there is only 1 Bruenor but as long as there is vreatyre on battlefield Equip cost on most of equipments are relatively cheap.
Black and Green packs some power and would like to Venture, not sure if it would work though, I kinda liked other options better.
Red and black combo gives most removal from the options and might be the best one yet.
The White black has some lifgain, some card draw, bit of removal and even evasion. But I think it isn’t as good as Red Black.
Now lets see how the deck would have been if we wouls have used blue with another color
On White Blue we are bit thin on options on what creatures to play, I can see how this could work, but it isn’t optimal.
Blue and black is quite solid, I left out Dungeon Crawler as I think this deck would rarely go through complete dungeon. But this could be a real option.
Blue Red looks like fun dice deck, but lack of good 3 drops really hurt the mana curve.
Amd blue and green seem to be missing enough playable creatures.
Personally, while rares were White and Green, after looking through my options I don’t think White rares work that well with this limited pool, not enought ETB effects for Teleportation Circle. I
I personally think the best xeck to play with this pool would be Red-Black, as it has 5 cards of removal, 3 at inatant speed, and 2 at sorcery speed, I would drop out from original picture the Djngeon Crawler for another Clattering Skeleton, while this deck has 6 Vemture cards I don’t think it has high propability of seeing Dingeon Crawler more than once.
Now while I totally could create 2 decks out of this pool and see which one is stronger, Selesnya (White Green) vs Rakdos (Red Black) this post is long enough and I’ll leave the playing to you guys when you get to Sealed event.
What deck would you have played with this pool?
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