I attended a Two-Headed-Giant PreRelease for Secrets of Strixhaven last Friday. Great Set! The seeded packs dictated almost all decks. Some people did not get PreRelease Packs as they did not register, but the TO tried to be supportive anyway and gave them normal packs. One team dropped after round 2, because their decks were a lot weaker than the opponents, which lead to unfortunate buy in round 3 and 4.
My team played a Witherbloom life-gain matters deck and a five-color mostly-Quandrix Converge deck.
My Witherbloom deck did not work to well, but my friends five-color deck worked surprisingly well. We mostly anticipated a fun but not coming together deck, but an unanswered Wildgrowth Archaic was quite strong and we needed a lot of dice.
We still only finished 2-2.
The amount of removal spells - at least in the decks of our opponents - was quite substantial, which in one round lead to the rather unfun play pattern of not sticking one creature.
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