You can tell the audio quality has gotten much better in your equipment since 2014. Which is great because I love your channel and content and can hear the value paying off for you and us.
it may be corny, but this video was actually very helpful. I am attending shadows over innistrad prerelease and I have only played limited once before, and that was casually with some friends when oath came out. Only one person in the group had played limited before and he didn't do an amazing job explaining things like the BREAD method. so in conclusion thanks and I should actually stand a chance of winning now
I left the game a few years ago. I was a casual player and only got to play a few times out of the year. I was recently asked to join a playgroup, so, I decided to play again. Since they will be playing sealed and I never played that format before, I needed this video! I knew right where to go! Even after 4 years, this video is still relevant and will help me with my Ixalan sealed deck play. Thanks Professor, and since I will playing again, I have re-subscribed to your channel!
Thank you for this Prof! I’m playing in my first Prerelease event at my local game store for the March of the Machines prerelease next week. Very excited!
Watched your vids and took all of your tips with me to my pre-release event (Khans of Tarkir) at my local store. Was my first time ever attending a club event and playing with random people (Just started playing with my brother) I didn't get to choose my box, ended up with Sultai. Managed to get 8th place out of 60 or so. Went 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss against their champion that won an earlier event. Won 3 packs great value for money, very fun and the experience was invaluable! Thanks Tolarian!
Absolutely incredible that you could deliver so much information in just ten minutes. It went a little fast at times, but I just had to rewatch it and relisten, a few pauses here and there (more than the normal pause spots) very good crash course.
I used this guide for my first draft event, which led me to winning one of my matches! This was a great precursory tool for a new player such as myself. I thank you for making me feel comfortable with trying something I've wanted to get into for a while. I have already signed up for this FNM's draft and am very much looking forward to it.
I'm a new suscriber new player and this was so much help, since I think this works as a reference for any 60 cards deck construction. Thank you. I will train about target dirt.
As someone who is recently getting back into Magic, your videos have been really helpful; concise, to the point, and well put-together. Keep up the good work!
This is a really great video. I took a screenshot of your summary page and have been using it as a guide to build decks. Before seeing this video, I don't think I ever beat the computer. Now I beat it every time! Thanks so much for this video resource.
Professor, I am the moderator of a small gaming group in the Kansas City area and we have decided to hold our first MTG event. I have played since the mid 90's off and on but have recently rediscovered my love of the game. I'm posting your video in our group as a reference for all players to know what to expect at the event. I've been watching your videos like mad the past couple of weeks and wanted to tell you I appreciate all the quality content you have available. I subscribed after watching just one and look forward to many more great reviews and instructional videos. Keep up the great work my good sir!
Can't wait for this Friday!!! it will be my first prerelease at Dragons!!! Thank you for this video I will use your guidelines and hope to have a blast!!
Took a photo of your guideline on my phone so I will have it in hand when I attend my first sealed deck event. Thanks for all these videos I enjoy the academic nature of them with the little bit of humor or flavor on the side :)
I really hope this channel gets bigger...i mean the way this guy puts so much effort in this very informative videos its just amazing. (plus the good editing)
I am going to my second ever pre release in 4 days. this video has been immensely helpful and informative as is the standard of your fine channel. Thank You Sir
Another great video TCC! I love the new direction the videos are taking, combining the voice overs from the last year with you presenting them. Keep it up.
This saturday I'm going to Dragons of Tarkir pre release event. It'll be my first sealed tournament, so I found this video very helpful, because I was looking for a general outline of a 40-card deck. Thank you for making it!
I'm thinking of going to the Khans of Tarkir pre-release and this has gave me a good idea of what to do. Thank you for this video. Keep up the good work!!
Watching this again in preparation for Ravnica Allegiance prerelease. Thank you for your tutelage, Prof! I am quite confident my Simic biomancers will fare a lot better now.
Thank you so much for this video, I've got my first pre-release on Friday! Never played before, but enough RUclips videos can teach you almost anything
This video helped me out with a draft I just did. Went 1-2 in matches which impressed me cause I haven't played a tourney in about 10 years.And I had a blast playing, Thanks for the video
Oh boy; this video as well as the "Beginners guide" video really got me excited too! I started to play mtg when the Magic 2010 set was released with 2 or 3 friends. I think I got in touch with it through a mtg video game that I think was the first duels of the planeswalkers game (maybe?). Yeah, we bought one intro pack each back then, but we didn't know better! At least we bought some boosters with them too and just upgraded them with what we got. We didn't have a mtg shop in our town (small town of 15 000 people deep in the forests of Sweden), so we kept on playing as long as we could. But eventually we got tired of it because of this whole awesome community of events and everything that I now know we missed! I really liked this video! You're fun to watch, inspiring, encouraging and a good teacher! I'm going to bring the summary to all my events where I construct decks until I feel that I got a grip of it. Something I found a bit hard is knowing Why you think some cards are dirt. Sure, I got a few right, but I still think it would be even better if you explained in detail for at least a specific color what you think is dirt and why. I also watched your Fate Reforged and Khans of Tarkir Sealed deck constructing and there you referred to the type of deck (Mardu I think it was called?) that you were going to build. I felt that it was still a little hard to follow since I'm new to the set(s). What's your opinion on Pauper? I think it's fun since it's mostly cheap to play, and I like the idea of Standard Pauper too! Too bad not many other players around doesn't like Pauper enough to play it more. But luckily, YOU opened my eyes for Standard as there are cheap budget decks there too! I'm one of those people that feel proud in Not spending too much money on a CCG game (also don't have a smaller fortune to spend), so more of those Standard budget decks please! It's also fun to get to watch videos about different decks that are cheap but still unique in Standard and gives you a chance like the two you showed in your Sealed deck videos! I recently bought a cheap White-Weenie-like deck for Pauper to get started with my collection and it has emphasis on Jeskai Student etc. I don't think it's too good (strong) and I hope it's not too weak for the casual event this Wednesday! I would also be really interested in buying a functional, good and preferably nice looking game mat and T-shirt from you! I got a really nice bowling T-shirt once (since I play bowling as a sport) and it says "Respect" "Supporting this bowling store" etc. and it looked almost like a professional bowling shirt! If you can make the design of the mat and the T-shirt feel professional, which I'm absolutely sure you will, then I will use them for as long as I can! That is, if you can ship to Sweden at a reasonable price ;) Sorry for writing this in such a long comment, but I felt that it was the way to go now that I have some spare time from university studies. Keep up the awesome work and I would be happily surprised if I got an answer back from you! But I understand if you are busy with life. I also subscribed, of course! Thanks in advance from Sweden! :) -Manny
Professor, I'm coming back to MTG after a few years, and I have found your videos incredibly useful to go and play Guilds of Ravnica Prerelease. Thank you for you amazing content!!!
Excellent video. My son and I just started getting into magic with neither of us knowing a lot about it. I think ill be purchasing 12 boosters for us this weekend and giving this a try.
I watch this video before attending every pre-release I've been to (I play pretty infrequently so I'm not great at the game). Been playing for just over a year now, and this channel has taught me so much. Thanks Prof! Brb off to WAR pre-release now :D
Hi Professor! I used your advice from this video in my first Prerelease event for Magic: Origins and I went 5-0 and came in first place! Thanks for the video and the help!
Hey professor! You guided me since the begining of magic. I would thank you a lot for this! you're the most relaxed and sympatic youtuber ever! thank you a lot :)
I just wanted to come back and thank you for your help. I used your instructions from this video and with the BREAD method i managed to come in 2nd place last night at my first MTG prerelease tournament. Out of the 5 match ups i played i won 8 of the 10 games; losing only 2 and went home with 10 free KTK booster packs. Seeing how i had no hope of winning as i'm still new I purely went to play and have some fun. However I can now say the whole experience was truly amazing and well worth it! Thanks again! Oh and go Abzan! P.S The first booster pack i opened from the prize packs had a Sarkhan, the dragonspeaker in it and i even pulled a Anafenza, the Foremost from them to. Imagine that i pulled 2 mythic rares from the booster box they used to hand out prize packs.
Saving this video as a reminder whenever a prerelease event comes up. I sometimes make the mistake of not adding enough creatures or underestimating the mana curve and I want to be sure I get it right.
Wow I saw this and it's very similar to the process that I used when I went to the born of the gods prerelease shortly after I was introduced to magic. It's nice to know my thought process is validated here!
Well, I do it a little bit different 1.) Sort by color and separate the rares 2.) Sort by creature and spells within the color. 3.) Can I play what I want to play (e.g. GW humans)? Check amount of creatures and the rares. 4.) Where is the removal and interaction? 5.) Remove bulk colors (mostly 2) 6.) Experiment with the rest to: a.) play with/around the rares and bombs (interaction) b.) get 14 creatures (always) c.) get 9 noncreature spells (at least 3-4 removal spells) d.) get 17 lands (always, divided evenly in the colors) e.) always play 2-color if you can
remember, everyone- this is level 0 stuff. this is the absolute basics premise to sealed deckbuilding. There comes a point where you can prioritize archetypes where you see them- putting synergistic cards in your deck to push the power level beyond where it might be if you were just playing your "best 2 colours" mushed into a pile.
if I were to build with the pool from this video I'd do GB graveyard synergy, trade off early creatures readily and then use double gravedigger for maximum value
(Probably) the best sealed deck primer there is. Well-explained and simplified. I've been playing for over two decades now but still need to review every once in a while especially when attending PR events. I feel much more comfortable heading to this weekend's homecoming to Dominaria after watching this. :)
Thanks for this, my friends and I play a lot of drafts and some of the newer players find it hard to know what to do when selecting cards, I'm not great at explaining. Will have to show them this video when we next draft so they can get the best out of their draft time!
thanks for the great and logical advice which i needed in smoothing out my decks,...slivers,soldiers and some im working on and using to teach others to play magic
Just wanted to let you know: I did a booster draft at my LGS's FNM on friday and went 0-3, feeling as though i drafted horribly (even lost my last two matches to cards I drafted away). Yesterday I played a sealed event with a play group I found in my local city, coincidentally, after I reviewed and watched this very video. I ended up building an America deck (R/W/U) and went 1-1, but more importantly, felt the deck was extremely consistent, plus I REALLY feel like I improved! Thank you so much for the tips you provided! I'm hoping that I can do just as well or even better when I play at the Khans Prerelease in two weeks (especially since I'll be recording the event for RUclips xD) Thank you so much for your instructional videos!
Fr492001 Cheers,g lad you felt better about your game. Also, remember that even the PROs lose terribly from time to time. No one, not even the best players, never lose. The trick is to look at your wins over the long run...and also to just have fun.
Professor, Dragons of Tarkir will be my second Pre-Release/Release, and I have got to say that this really helped me in Fate Reforged, and I have no doubt that it will do for DoT. Many thanks, and I also love the podcasts you do with The Manasource. Keep up the good work, Professor! :)
Hi, I would like to thank you for encouraging me to go to my (more or less) local game store. I play MtG since the original Ravnica-Block but never went to any pre-release Events or even Drafts since I didn't know about a store close to my location. Then, even after finding a store, I somehow never managed to go to FNM or other events. After watching your videos I finaly decided to visit the store with a good friend of mine and I played my first Draft ever. I had great luck in picking, so I could build a strong Mardu deck. Even if I went 2:4 and my deck performed a bit inconsistent (thanks to bad mana drawings) I had lots of fun and It was a very great experience. During the draft I was able to pick up a fetchland so it even was worth it from a financial standpoint!. I most likely will go to the store again next week and I have to repeat: I can't thank you enough. If it't not to much of a question I would like to ask you for advice about my Mardu Deck (f.e. which cards you would try to avoid in my situation/next time): my Decklist: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mardu-rush-first-draft/?cat=type Anyway, keep up your excellent work. Best wishes and regards from germany, Lars
Thanks you professor for this video because with your tips I build a black/blue zombie deck in the recent shadow over innistrad pre-release and placed in top 5. This was my first tournament for magic and I got good prizes like tons of innistrad packs and a fat pack..... and again thank for your help.
Thanks for the video! I used your tips when making my deck for the Khans pre-release today and did fairly well. I lost my first match 2-0 because he drew the same 5/9 island walking turtle (I played UGW) in both games and I didn't draw any removal. I won my remaining matches 2-1 and 2-0 :)
Sealed is a fun format. I would always make top 8. 1) Familiarize yourself with cards leaked before pre release so you at least know what cards are strong. 2) Sort by color 3) get rid of dirt 4) build your deck around your bombs and removal. Another deck option might be tempting, like an evasion deck if you see lots of flyers, just make one a sideboard deck between rounds later (if you can still do this). Bread method was great even back in tempest, because if you cant deal with shadow then you got to do more damage with aggro cards. 5) The # of lands you have in your deck is directly related the the mana curve of your deck. Lowest I ever ran was 15 land mono green and my curve was 1-2 mostly with 5 creatures that produced mana. 17 land for 2 colors and 18 land for 3 colors is the general rule of thumb. If all your spells cost 3+ mana and everything is high in mana cost (sometimes really bad luck happens) run 19-20 mana, it is okay. The hardest part is dealing with bad luck and pulling through with what you got. Do know what to do when you strike gold so you can strike it hard.
I've been to 2 prerelease events and both the times the deck building has been under heavy time restraint. Therefore, my deck building looks more like this: Sort by colour. Did I get any particulary good cards? Planeswalkers, Stab Wound, Intimidate etc. Which two colours ended up having the best cards? Go, go, go! Put everything in and then remove the highest costed and worst cards from the 2-coloured deck! Most of my prerelease matches ends up as a gridlock. Packing things that can help me win a gridlock made me fare much better the second prerelease when I knew what to expect. Stab Wound, unblockable, intimidate and sometimes flying can really save you if both of you are sitting on an army of 2/3s and such.
The coffee pour was savage, would have love to see the outtakes lol
You can tell the audio quality has gotten much better in your equipment since 2014. Which is great because I love your channel and content and can hear the value paying off for you and us.
it may be corny, but this video was actually very helpful. I am attending shadows over innistrad prerelease and I have only played limited once before, and that was casually with some friends when oath came out. Only one person in the group had played limited before and he didn't do an amazing job explaining things like the BREAD method. so in conclusion thanks and I should actually stand a chance of winning now
I left the game a few years ago. I was a casual player and only got to play a few times out of the year. I was recently asked to join a playgroup, so, I decided to play again. Since they will be playing sealed and I never played that format before, I needed this video! I knew right where to go! Even after 4 years, this video is still relevant and will help me with my Ixalan sealed deck play. Thanks Professor, and since I will playing again, I have re-subscribed to your channel!
Thank you so much.
First time I played sealed.
I used your guide today at prerelease and played 3/1 with mardu deck
Veitinio Veit That's great! Cheers!
I went 4_2 at my dragons prerelease and that's the best I've ever done! I won PACKS!
Thank you for this Prof! I’m playing in my first Prerelease event at my local game store for the March of the Machines prerelease next week. Very excited!
Watched your vids and took all of your tips with me to my pre-release event (Khans of Tarkir) at my local store. Was my first time ever attending a club event and playing with random people (Just started playing with my brother) I didn't get to choose my box, ended up with Sultai. Managed to get 8th place out of 60 or so. Went 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss against their champion that won an earlier event. Won 3 packs great value for money, very fun and the experience was invaluable! Thanks Tolarian!
Absolutely incredible that you could deliver so much information in just ten minutes. It went a little fast at times, but I just had to rewatch it and relisten, a few pauses here and there (more than the normal pause spots) very good crash course.
I used this guide for my first draft event, which led me to winning one of my matches! This was a great precursory tool for a new player such as myself. I thank you for making me feel comfortable with trying something I've wanted to get into for a while. I have already signed up for this FNM's draft and am very much looking forward to it.
I'm a new suscriber new player and this was so much help, since I think this works as a reference for any 60 cards deck construction. Thank you. I will train about target dirt.
Thank you for supporting Dimir
Years later we are headed towards Guilds of Ravnica, and I am getting so much use out of your content.
As someone who is recently getting back into Magic, your videos have been really helpful; concise, to the point, and well put-together. Keep up the good work!
Your videos are unbelievably professional, and the quality of the content is unmatched, best sub of my life
Was using this as preparation for Dominaria United (09/2022) prerelease. Old but gold. Thanks, Prof
This is a really great video. I took a screenshot of your summary page and have been using it as a guide to build decks. Before seeing this video, I don't think I ever beat the computer. Now I beat it every time! Thanks so much for this video resource.
Professor, I am the moderator of a small gaming group in the Kansas City area and we have decided to hold our first MTG event. I have played since the mid 90's off and on but have recently rediscovered my love of the game. I'm posting your video in our group as a reference for all players to know what to expect at the event. I've been watching your videos like mad the past couple of weeks and wanted to tell you I appreciate all the quality content you have available. I subscribed after watching just one and look forward to many more great reviews and instructional videos. Keep up the great work my good sir!
I'm actually very happy i stumbled across your youtube channel! it made me get back into magic and I have enjoyed every one of your videos!!!
Seeing the Tribe of One trilogy in the background at 0:40 made me so ridiculously happy
Doing my first Sealed with Bloomburrow tomorrow and this was super helpful. Thank you, and keep up the good work!
Can't wait for this Friday!!! it will be my first prerelease at Dragons!!! Thank you for this video I will use your guidelines and hope to have a blast!!
Just re watched this to prep myself for my first ever prerelease this week! Keep up the amazing work!
Took a photo of your guideline on my phone so I will have it in hand when I attend my first sealed deck event. Thanks for all these videos I enjoy the academic nature of them with the little bit of humor or flavor on the side :)
Thank you very much. Getting excited for my first pre release event in a few weeks and this will very much help!
I really hope this channel gets bigger...i mean the way this guy puts so much effort in this very informative videos its just amazing. (plus the good editing)
Buddy, do I have good news for you!
@@CCAndPinkie I still watch to this day 👍
Doing my first sealed event this weekend, this video is exactly what I needed!
I am going to my second ever pre release in 4 days. this video has been immensely helpful and informative as is the standard of your fine channel.
Thank You Sir
Another great video TCC! I love the new direction the videos are taking, combining the voice overs from the last year with you presenting them. Keep it up.
Watching this to prepare for Theros:Beyond Death prerelease which will be my first mtg event
This saturday I'm going to Dragons of Tarkir pre release event. It'll be my first sealed tournament, so I found this video very helpful, because I was looking for a general outline of a 40-card deck. Thank you for making it!
I'm thinking of going to the Khans of Tarkir pre-release and this has gave me a good idea of what to do. Thank you for this video. Keep up the good work!!
Watching this again in preparation for Ravnica Allegiance prerelease. Thank you for your tutelage, Prof! I am quite confident my Simic biomancers will fare a lot better now.
I'm brand new to the game and have watched a ton of your videos. I'm super pumped to go to my first pre-release.
I just came from your casual gaming video and this will be a big help because I've been struggling with trying to design a deck
Thank you so much for this video, I've got my first pre-release on Friday! Never played before, but enough RUclips videos can teach you almost anything
Going to my first magic event this weekend (dominaria pre-release) and this has eased my nerves so much.
This video helped me out with a draft I just did. Went 1-2 in matches which impressed me cause I haven't played a tourney in about 10 years.And I had a blast playing, Thanks for the video
Oh boy; this video as well as the "Beginners guide" video really got me excited too!
I started to play mtg when the Magic 2010 set was released with 2 or 3 friends. I think I got in touch with it through a mtg video game that I think was the first duels of the planeswalkers game (maybe?). Yeah, we bought one intro pack each back then, but we didn't know better! At least we bought some boosters with them too and just upgraded them with what we got. We didn't have a mtg shop in our town (small town of 15 000 people deep in the forests of Sweden), so we kept on playing as long as we could. But eventually we got tired of it because of this whole awesome community of events and everything that I now know we missed!
I really liked this video! You're fun to watch, inspiring, encouraging and a good teacher! I'm going to bring the summary to all my events where I construct decks until I feel that I got a grip of it. Something I found a bit hard is knowing Why you think some cards are dirt. Sure, I got a few right, but I still think it would be even better if you explained in detail for at least a specific color what you think is dirt and why. I also watched your Fate Reforged and Khans of Tarkir Sealed deck constructing and there you referred to the type of deck (Mardu I think it was called?) that you were going to build. I felt that it was still a little hard to follow since I'm new to the set(s).
What's your opinion on Pauper? I think it's fun since it's mostly cheap to play, and I like the idea of Standard Pauper too! Too bad not many other players around doesn't like Pauper enough to play it more. But luckily, YOU opened my eyes for Standard as there are cheap budget decks there too! I'm one of those people that feel proud in Not spending too much money on a CCG game (also don't have a smaller fortune to spend), so more of those Standard budget decks please! It's also fun to get to watch videos about different decks that are cheap but still unique in Standard and gives you a chance like the two you showed in your Sealed deck videos!
I recently bought a cheap White-Weenie-like deck for Pauper to get started with my collection and it has emphasis on Jeskai Student etc. I don't think it's too good (strong) and I hope it's not too weak for the casual event this Wednesday!
I would also be really interested in buying a functional, good and preferably nice looking game mat and T-shirt from you! I got a really nice bowling T-shirt once (since I play bowling as a sport) and it says "Respect" "Supporting this bowling store" etc. and it looked almost like a professional bowling shirt! If you can make the design of the mat and the T-shirt feel professional, which I'm absolutely sure you will, then I will use them for as long as I can! That is, if you can ship to Sweden at a reasonable price ;)
Sorry for writing this in such a long comment, but I felt that it was the way to go now that I have some spare time from university studies. Keep up the awesome work and I would be happily surprised if I got an answer back from you! But I understand if you are busy with life. I also subscribed, of course!
Thanks in advance from Sweden! :)
-Manny
Professor, I'm coming back to MTG after a few years, and I have found your videos incredibly useful to go and play Guilds of Ravnica Prerelease. Thank you for you amazing content!!!
Excellent video. My son and I just started getting into magic with neither of us knowing a lot about it. I think ill be purchasing 12 boosters for us this weekend and giving this a try.
My first pre release will be War of the Spark and this video is so helpful! Thanks!
I watch this video before attending every pre-release I've been to (I play pretty infrequently so I'm not great at the game). Been playing for just over a year now, and this channel has taught me so much. Thanks Prof!
Brb off to WAR pre-release now :D
Watching this for my first prerelease for RNA. Great video
Getting ready for Amonkhet pre-release, my first one! Thanks, Professor!
Such a big help, thank you. Dominaria is going to be my first, so stoked!
Christo Lupo good luck my dude I have just returned to Magic after a year break
Hi Professor! I used your advice from this video in my first Prerelease event for Magic: Origins and I went 5-0 and came in first place! Thanks for the video and the help!
The Oath of the Gatewatch will be my first pre-release, and this helped ALOT. Thanks!!
Re-watched and took notes in outline form to prepare for Shadows Over Innistrad pre-release. Thanks Professor! ^-^
this is not my first time watching this video. studying for pre-relese. it really helps!!!
just getting back into the mtg after a several years and i find this really helpful, tnx a lot
Your videos are so helpful, especially to someone like me who's just getting into it! Thank you for all of the quality, helpful videos.
Hey professor! You guided me since the begining of magic. I would thank you a lot for this! you're the most relaxed and sympatic youtuber ever! thank you a lot :)
I just wanted to come back and thank you for your help. I used your instructions from this video and with the BREAD method i managed to come in 2nd place last night at my first MTG prerelease tournament. Out of the 5 match ups i played i won 8 of the 10 games; losing only 2 and went home with 10 free KTK booster packs. Seeing how i had no hope of winning as i'm still new I purely went to play and have some fun. However I can now say the whole experience was truly amazing and well worth it! Thanks again! Oh and go Abzan!
P.S The first booster pack i opened from the prize packs had a Sarkhan, the dragonspeaker in it and i even pulled a Anafenza, the Foremost from them to. Imagine that i pulled 2 mythic rares from the booster box they used to hand out prize packs.
I absolutely love and adore the way you present information
Watched this video again just now. It's great. I'm headed to my first pre-release in a little while so the advice is great :)
Thanks professor! this will be my 5th prerelease coming up and I always have a hard time building a sealed deck.
Saving this video as a reminder whenever a prerelease event comes up. I sometimes make the mistake of not adding enough creatures or underestimating the mana curve and I want to be sure I get it right.
Wow I saw this and it's very similar to the process that I used when I went to the born of the gods prerelease shortly after I was introduced to magic. It's nice to know my thought process is validated here!
I finally get to go to my first prerelease tomorrow! thank you for helping me review professor.
thanks for the outline prof.! I'm going to Ixalan pre-release next week and this video was perfect for a beginner like me!
Thanks for this video, I'm attending my first pre-release soon and its also my first tournament of any kind. This will help a lot.
i refer to this video every PR day to refresh my memory. many thanks, Professor!
Very helpful especially as I have the kaladesh pre release today
Well, I do it a little bit different
1.) Sort by color and separate the rares
2.) Sort by creature and spells within the color.
3.) Can I play what I want to play (e.g. GW humans)? Check amount of creatures and the rares.
4.) Where is the removal and interaction?
5.) Remove bulk colors (mostly 2)
6.) Experiment with the rest to:
a.) play with/around the rares and bombs (interaction)
b.) get 14 creatures (always)
c.) get 9 noncreature spells (at least 3-4 removal spells)
d.) get 17 lands (always, divided evenly in the colors)
e.) always play 2-color if you can
remember, everyone- this is level 0 stuff. this is the absolute basics premise to sealed deckbuilding. There comes a point where you can prioritize archetypes where you see them- putting synergistic cards in your deck to push the power level beyond where it might be if you were just playing your "best 2 colours" mushed into a pile.
if I were to build with the pool from this video I'd do GB graveyard synergy, trade off early creatures readily and then use double gravedigger for maximum value
wow... watching these 3 years later... the quality has gotten much better
(Probably) the best sealed deck primer there is. Well-explained and simplified. I've been playing for over two decades now but still need to review every once in a while especially when attending PR events. I feel much more comfortable heading to this weekend's homecoming to Dominaria after watching this. :)
Rewatching for WAR prerelease! :)
yeessssss
Thanks for this, my friends and I play a lot of drafts and some of the newer players find it hard to know what to do when selecting cards, I'm not great at explaining. Will have to show them this video when we next draft so they can get the best out of their draft time!
Wonderful. I still have trouble with these and enjoy playing this format.
it's really fine how you removed the "advanced" stuff and still making a good guide for newer players!
Thanks for the guide with everything in one shot at the end.
The cheese is strong with this one. Love your videos !!!
Thank you for this video Khans prerelease will be my first sealed event and this helps very much
Trying my first prerelease. Thanks for the tips
I'm going to be re-re-rewatching this video while I prep for the Dominaria prerelease!
Fantastic breakdown. These principles can apply to basic deck construction as well.
thank you for the help with the breakdown of how to build a deck @prerealease. I will remember this. thank you for your time for this video
Playing my first sealed event tomorrow! This video helped a lot. :)
The sound improvement in your new videos is really noticeable. Good job!
Reviewed your video as I prepare for Ixalan prerelease next weekend.
Thanks for the advice Professor! I'm more prepared now for Ixalan Prerelease.
thanks for the great and logical advice which i needed in smoothing out my decks,...slivers,soldiers and some im working on and using to teach others to play magic
Just wanted to let you know: I did a booster draft at my LGS's FNM on friday and went 0-3, feeling as though i drafted horribly (even lost my last two matches to cards I drafted away).
Yesterday I played a sealed event with a play group I found in my local city, coincidentally, after I reviewed and watched this very video.
I ended up building an America deck (R/W/U) and went 1-1, but more importantly, felt the deck was extremely consistent, plus I REALLY feel like I improved! Thank you so much for the tips you provided!
I'm hoping that I can do just as well or even better when I play at the Khans Prerelease in two weeks (especially since I'll be recording the event for RUclips xD)
Thank you so much for your instructional videos!
Fr492001 Cheers,g lad you felt better about your game. Also, remember that even the PROs lose terribly from time to time. No one, not even the best players, never lose. The trick is to look at your wins over the long run...and also to just have fun.
Can't wait for dragons of Tarkir, my notes from this will really help, thanks prof.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm planing to go to my first GP in Orlando, FL. It is sealed Khans of Tarkir.
watching this preparing for Amonkhet, love it
TYSM!!! I watched this before going to my first pre-release, and I got second place! Thx!!:)
Reviewed your video as I prepare for BfZ prerelease this weekend.
Professor, Dragons of Tarkir will be my second Pre-Release/Release, and I have got to say that this really helped me in Fate Reforged, and I have no doubt that it will do for DoT. Many thanks, and I also love the podcasts you do with The Manasource. Keep up the good work, Professor! :)
Great insight to this format. And I shall use these tips for my hour of devastation release tonight.
I´m going to play fate reforged prerelease and it will be my first try in the format. your video was so helpfull. cheers from Chile.
Hi, I would like to thank you for encouraging me to go to my (more or less) local game store. I play MtG since the original Ravnica-Block but never went to any pre-release Events or even Drafts since I didn't know about a store close to my location. Then, even after finding a store, I somehow never managed to go to FNM or other events.
After watching your videos I finaly decided to visit the store with a good friend of mine and I played my first Draft ever. I had great luck in picking, so I could build a strong Mardu deck. Even if I went 2:4 and my deck performed a bit inconsistent (thanks to bad mana drawings) I had lots of fun and It was a very great experience. During the draft I was able to pick up a fetchland so it even was worth it from a financial standpoint!.
I most likely will go to the store again next week and I have to repeat: I can't thank you enough.
If it't not to much of a question I would like to ask you for advice about my Mardu Deck (f.e. which cards you would try to avoid in my situation/next time):
my Decklist:
tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mardu-rush-first-draft/?cat=type
Anyway, keep up your excellent work.
Best wishes and regards from germany,
Lars
Thank you for making this video. Sealed decks can be very intimidating.
Thanks you professor for this video because with your tips I build a black/blue zombie deck in the recent shadow over innistrad pre-release and placed in top 5. This was my first tournament for magic and I got good prizes like tons of innistrad packs and a fat pack..... and again thank for your help.
Thanks for the video! I used your tips when making my deck for the Khans pre-release today and did fairly well. I lost my first match 2-0 because he drew the same 5/9 island walking turtle (I played UGW) in both games and I didn't draw any removal. I won my remaining matches 2-1 and 2-0 :)
i love your keane painting in the beginning
After Viewing this video again,
i feel prepared for Ixalan.
Thanks Professor.
Sealed is a fun format. I would always make top 8. 1) Familiarize yourself with cards leaked before pre release so you at least know what cards are strong. 2) Sort by color 3) get rid of dirt 4) build your deck around your bombs and removal. Another deck option might be tempting, like an evasion deck if you see lots of flyers, just make one a sideboard deck between rounds later (if you can still do this). Bread method was great even back in tempest, because if you cant deal with shadow then you got to do more damage with aggro cards. 5) The # of lands you have in your deck is directly related the the mana curve of your deck. Lowest I ever ran was 15 land mono green and my curve was 1-2 mostly with 5 creatures that produced mana. 17 land for 2 colors and 18 land for 3 colors is the general rule of thumb. If all your spells cost 3+ mana and everything is high in mana cost (sometimes really bad luck happens) run 19-20 mana, it is okay. The hardest part is dealing with bad luck and pulling through with what you got. Do know what to do when you strike gold so you can strike it hard.
I've been to 2 prerelease events and both the times the deck building has been under heavy time restraint. Therefore, my deck building looks more like this:
Sort by colour.
Did I get any particulary good cards? Planeswalkers, Stab Wound, Intimidate etc.
Which two colours ended up having the best cards?
Go, go, go! Put everything in and then remove the highest costed and worst cards from the 2-coloured deck!
Most of my prerelease matches ends up as a gridlock. Packing things that can help me win a gridlock made me fare much better the second prerelease when I knew what to expect. Stab Wound, unblockable, intimidate and sometimes flying can really save you if both of you are sitting on an army of 2/3s and such.