This may sound corny, but for Eternal formats is always encourage people to play a deck that they enjoy. The top tier options are all good decks. EW is a huge tournament, you can’t play a deck you hate for 9-11 rounds. https://twitter.com/oliverjuqsmtg/status/1314876323811201026

If you’re brand new, start consuming content now. Watch streams and play through VODs, not just articles. In Legacy you need to know you opponent’s decks almost as well as your own.

Getting punked by a Daze or Aether Vial are mistakes your make once, don’t make them at EW.

Brainstorm will invite a lot of small decisions to be made. This can lead to small mistakes, it can also clean up other mistakes and totally save a game.

Control decks are full of easy binary choices: does this kill me? What’s my best answer? However the games will be longer.

Delver is the “best” archetype right now. RUG is the best shell.

Delver requires tons of micro decisions, walking a razor’s edge of applying pressure while keeping the opp off balance. If you can do the proficiently you’ll be rewarded.

RUG Delver is my advice for winning EW.

Combo decks will play shorter games, but many of your decisions will be life and death.

Show and Tell is the most forgiving combo deck, has the best protection, and easiest to rebuild if you get stopped.

TES is the “best” combo deck but requires serious reps to proficiency.

Non-brainstorm decks are all harder to play than bstorm because your decisions matter more and nothing is coming to clean them up.

Maverick is a very good deck if you can plan ahead and sequence perfectly.

D&T is the hardest deck to play, it’s Maverick turned to 11.

Loam decks (lands and 4c) are good against Delver, which makes a strong meta call. However they are extremely difficult to play. Knowing when to Loam, when to draw, when to combo, when to prison, how to SB, how to beat SB hate, it takes a lot of reps to get good.

I think Elves is a great deck right now. Allosaurus Shep is a game changer and there’s relatively few Plague Engineers out there.

It is a non-brainstorm combo deck though. There’s a lot of tricky on-board interactions, sequencing is essential, get your reps.

I’ll add thoughts as I have them, but my biggest advice is to watch real games. See the decks in action, listen to experts play them. Then get that god account active on Monday and start playing. There’s a LOT of mistakes you’ll make 1 time, try to make them before the event.

Since I hyped watching play throughs so much, I should probably plug.

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