Let’s start with the easy ones. We called these cards the god level rares, since all the 5 gods were included. You will be picking those over any common or uncommon so you don’t really need to know which one is better. (It’s , though 😏)

P1P1 you should always pick any of those, but P2P1 things can get tricky. Most of these cards have power level to make you change colors, but I would say that the power level in this format is so high that you might be better staying on track and get rewarded with good commons and uncommons coming from your neighbors.

We were successful with Sultai based control decks and we found it easy to splash the 3rd and the 4th color, so take that into consideration when opening one of these. The mana fixing is not at it’s best in this format, but the format is slow enough that many decks will give you enough time to go over the top with that strategy.

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We considered Blue the best color by a fair margin. Not only we felt it was the most deep in terms of commons and uncommons, but we also felt like the best archetypes were Blue-Red and Blue-Black.

We ranked and as the best non-god level cards. would have been a strong contender if we didn’t feel like Blue-Green was not in a good position for this format. It wasn’t very aggro like Green-White or Green-Red and its midrange components were easily trumped by the strong control decks.

and were considered as the best commons. It is still very difficult for us to understand which of the 2 is better, but ultimately, we felt like the deck can support any number of Avens and the caps at 3, with the 3rd being already on the high end.

The Blue-Black cards were good, but somehow replaceable ( for and for , for example), so not worth to commit to Blue-Black right away.

Lastly, I want to refer how much constantly overperformed for us, by being a solid blocker that will provide you board state in the beginning and trade for some extra when the game goes long.