Chuck a few deck boxes in your bag and figure out what you want to play when you arrive
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The retro cards omitted from the draft packs (allegedly to help the draft environment) are: Aetherize Creeping Chill Darkblast Enter the Infinite Gigantoplasm Karn's Bastion Magewright's Stone Maze's End Narcomoeba Niv-Mizzet Reborn Pack Rat Perilous Forays Pithing Needle Rest in Peace Shambling Shell Shattering Spree Sphere of Safety Supreme Verdict Thespian's Stage Turnabout Wilderness Reclamation The alternate art anime borderless cards also appear in both Draft and Collectors Boosters
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker The first Nicol Bolas planeswalker card, and an 8-mana card at that, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker is still worth having in your deck, especially in lower Commander Brackets
Cycling also allows you to play those more narrow out cards you typically try and cram on a dork or a charm without giving you dead cards or seriously hurting your consistency
Then we got powerful designs such as Appa, Steadfast Guardian, Summon: Knights of Round and Solitude to even things out
