Romantasy (Patreon)

I ended up playing in the Edge of Eternities prerelease on Sunday. I made a black/white beatdown deck. I didn't really have any bomb rares or mythics, but I opened a crazy amount of removal--9 creature kill spells between black and white! We played 3 rounds of Swiss, and I ended up going 2-1 in matches, 5-3 in games. In each of the 3 losses, I drew 10 lands, while in the 5 wins I completely steamrolled my opponents. The funny thing is I never drew a rare card in any of the 8 games. I would just play a creature early and then steadily kill everything they played while attacking with small creatures. One game my opponent played three 6 drop rares in a row and I was like, Vote Out, Gravkill, Banishing Light, you're dead.

Overall, I think the format is going to be pretty decent. All the color pairs have interesting strategies, but there are good synergies and overlap between them. For example, I think the landers played especially well, ramping people, pulling lands out of your deck, providing sacrifice fodder, and even producing artifacts for the artifact strategies. I never stationed any of my spacecraft because my deck was too fast, but it seemed like people liked those cards as well. I'm looking forward to trying some drafts once EoE is out on Arena!