What to sealed (?)?

[Mlerner12]

I'm going to Sealed tomorrow night, and it'll probably be 2 M14, 2 DGM, and 2 RTR or gatecrash. I was wondering what to really look for, and what was strong here. Help, please!!!!

[Crapshooter]

Um wow, weird sealed, look at your bombs, color support and removal and or control.

[Gorzo]

Sealed is kind of hard to give advice for, as it's the format that relies the most on the luck of the packs. There's no method, skill, or strategy to building your card pool, you simply get what you get and you're stuck with them. And what you get determines what you play. If you got amazing Red, play Red. If you got great Green, play Green. If your White cards are terrible, don't play White.

The only advice I can give considering I can't see your cards is to stick with 2 colors. You will, almost guaranteed, get 2 strong colors that you can build into a good 2 color deck. Typically, don't go 3 colors, even if you have good cards in a third color. It's not worth the consistency issues. Similarly, a sealed pool will usually not have enough of a single color for a mono color deck. If you try to put together a mono deck in sealed, odds are you're including some really bad cards to make it work. Adding strong cards in a 2nd color is a better idea, and a 2-color deck won't hurt you with consistency the way a 3-color one will.

[Mlerner12]

Sealed is kind of hard to give advice for, as it's the format that relies the most on the luck of the packs. There's no method, skill, or strategy to building your card pool, you simply get what you get and you're stuck with them. And what you get determines what you play. If you got amazing Red, play Red. If you got great Green, play Green. If your White cards are terrible, don't play White.

The only advice I can give considering I can't see your cards is to stick with 2 colors. You will, almost guaranteed, get 2 strong colors that you can build into a good 2 color deck. Typically, don't go 3 colors, even if you have good cards in a third color. It's not worth the consistency issues. Similarly, a sealed pool will usually not have enough of a single color for a mono color deck. If you try to put together a mono deck in sealed, odds are you're including some really bad cards to make it work. Adding strong cards in a 2nd color is a better idea, and a 2-color deck won't hurt you with consistency the way a 3-color one will.

It looks like {R}{G} aggro is good in DGM and M14, should I try to make that?

[Gorzo]

Like I said, it depends entirely on what cards you open. You simply can't go to a sealed expecting to force a certain color scheme or archetype. Work with what you get. Sure, green red can be good, but you might open bad green and red cards but good white and blue. It would be foolish to play the bad cards instead of the good ones because you have yourself tunnel vision towards those colors.

[Mlerner12]

Like I said, it depends entirely on what cards you open. You simply can't go to a sealed expecting to force a certain color scheme or archetype. Work with what you get. Sure, green red can be good, but you might open bad green and red cards but good white and blue. It would be foolish to play the bad cards instead of the good ones because you have yourself tunnel vision towards those colors.

I know, but RG seems more likely.

[Agarrita80]

You cant just assume to use red green without seein what you get. You might get really strong cards in another color. Find your bombs then build around them. Gorzo is right to stik with 2 colors but sometimes it's hard to do that. If you are going to do more than 2 colors use mana fixing.