So I'll stay off by saying it was fun but there were a few problems.

My first round I played was vs kci and the opponent was obviously a veteran of the deck. The problem was Ive never seen it played before and didn't know 90% of the cards.

He was all float mana this, draw card here, sacrifice these things. It was all really fast and I didn't have a hope in hell to understand what he was doing.

There was one point where he tries to explain a 'really old and convoluted' rule that makes this work. Where he casts a card without paying its mana cost, sacs a few artifacts to kci to play that card, then sacs that card and gets all 3 back plus some from the graveyard.

He could have cheated(not saying he did, saying he could have) because of the speed he was playing at and complexity of the deck that no one could give me clear rules on.

On top of that, game 1 he won turn 3 before I could play my 3rd land. Not much fun. Game 2 I counter his kci, I abrade his next kci, then he proceeds to draw 10 cards, 2 ancient stirrings to look at the top 12 cards and pick ones he wanted. It just was the least fun game I've had in a while.

That deck seemed pretty dumb, confusing and i felt completely helpless to do anything.

The only other problem I had was when my girlfriend was playing to see if she could get top 8/prize money. And her opponents deck was entirely Russian cards, so he had to explain what every card did evrytime he played, and even had to have some on lookers correct, 'well that card does this thing too....' what is the point of this? I feel like someone who does this is just trying to use the rules to take advantage of people who don't know every card in the format by their picture. It seemed really unfair.

The rest of the night was good I saw alot of mardu pyromancer, goblins, jeskai control, and some brews. But the problems I mentioned really stuck out as bad games that neither of us enjoyed playing at all.

Overall it was fun, but if we can't understand half the decks being played, I'm not sure we'll go to another one soon.