Unsealing Shards

LONE_GUNMAN · Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 68

I am goign to GP Kansas City here in a couple of weeks.

I would like to go there with a strategy.

What cards and strategies are worth playing?

[R]Nchamay · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 71

NAYA.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1671

depends on the cards you open.

LONE_GUNMAN · Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 68

there are 3 shards that can use white cardsand it isnt uncommon to open a yoked beast

Grimnos · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 11

I went 4-0 and 3-1 at Shards prereleases, both with Naya, and the only other deck I lost to was another Naya deck. The only colors I see as viable in sealed are good R/G pools with either w or b splashes, but those common mana fixing elves really give Naya the edge.

Nether · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 13

While it is best to go into an event with a deck strategy in mind, RGw/b do not be limited to that. Friend at a pre-release got 3 yes 3 of the 4/4 for 4 gargoyle. He went WUB and did fairly well.

Tschwab · Joined: 16 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

If you have enough fixers, don't be afraid to run a shard splashed with another color. I did this at my pre-release and had no mana issues in all of my games. I went 3-1 with Esper splash green.

Also, white is pretty strong. Exalted is a potent and viable strategy.

ACM · Level 1 Judge Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 155

I've heard Naya is good, but don't be afraid to go with other ideas as well, I played a 5-colour deck with all the best removal, all the best creatures and all the fix in my last release, and went 4-0-1.

Ggerg · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 632

um, GWu can be very good in sealed.

in draft, the best thing you can do, unless you open something amazing, is try to take mono-colored cards in 1 or 2 colors the first couple picks