I just played a couple games of Coldsnap Sealed. It's...eh...I don't really like it that much as a Sealed format. I mean I tried this green deck and I lost (in one game I got a triple Surging Might, but my opponent had Surging AEther and wrecked me, so that was sad). And I tried this white-blue deck and won the first game, lost the second game, won a really close third game--I sideboarded into a BR aggro deck because my clock was low and I had to win fast, so I played a T2 Goblin Furrier and my opponent played a T2 Sheltering Ancient, and he kept putting counters on my Furrier and trying to play snow creatures to block it, but I kept killing his snow creatures and getting in, and eventually I just barely won the race with him at a few seconds on the clock. It was intense.

That being said, it's pretty disappointing opening a Sealed pool and never getting any sweet multiples. Draft is better because you can try to be the guy who has the deck with 12 Surging Dementia and be like, "Turn 2, land, you discard six cards, go." Or at least I assume it's better. I've never played a Coldsnap draft. I'm in an 8-man queue right now, but it's not firing so far. Been waiting for like an hour and there's only three people.

I've been doing a couple Shadowmoor drafts in MTGO and I keep losing. Maybe I'm just bad at this format. I had this UB deck that I thought was okay, but I got crushed in the first round. Then there was this mono-red build that was...meh. Got clobbered. I don't know. I never played this block when it was current, so I don't really know what I'm doing.

There was this one game where my opponent was like, "Recumbent Bliss your Boggart Ram-Gang," and I'm like "Enchant it with Power of Fire." Nice Pacifism, right? They had to use a bounce spell to get rid of the aura, and then I replayed the Ram-Gang and went right back to swinging. I lost, but it was good times.

And there was this other game where I had a Silkbind Faerie and my opponent attacked with two 2/2 dudes, leaving his 2/1 back. He had a black untapped. So I'm thinking, "Well, he could have Scar, but if he did, he would have attacked with the 2/1, wouldn't he? So he must not have it." And I block and feel very clever until he plays Scar and kills my guy and I lose the game in short order. Next-leveled?

The Beta client's interface is [REDACTED] with this format because [REDACTED]. I figured out that I can [REDACTED], though, which lets me [REDACTED]. And Shadowmoor sealed is always a nightmare anyway, so I'll just stick to drafting.