{"id":2143,"date":"2022-11-03T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2022-11-03T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:35:21","slug":"refining-dream-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/refining-dream-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining Dream Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest article by I\u00f1aki Puigdollers from Spain. Enjoy! \/ Martin<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/h1>\n

Back in late June 2022, I decided to go to the European Championships. What should I play? I had four months to get ready but my time was very limited due to my personal situation. I had two options\u2014either go play a top tier deck or go and \u201cdo my thing\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Common sense and <\/span>PVDR advise<\/span><\/a> say big tournaments are not for innovating, but rather to play what you play well and what has been proven consistent in the current metagame. So, if I had to play an established deck, first I had to figure out what the meta would be, not only to see what my options were, but also to prepare and playtest against the expected field. After checking data from recent IRL tournaments (online leagues are not a good indicator of how big IRL tournaments will look like), some Facebook posts and interesting discussions with some peers (mostly Nacho Barrachina and I\u00f1aki Jim\u00e9nez, we will come to the props on them later) this is the list of decks I considered as well-positioned and well-represented in the current metagame:<\/span><\/p>\n