It's a bother because it not only affects you but your opponents too. Imagine opening Scroll of the Masters while your next opponent opens a Dromoka. That's a double whammy. But don't just take my word for it; pros like LSV have chimed about this too.
But magic is still magic. It's just by their very high standards in delivering KtK, we get a small hump of a wave in FRF. The MaRo/Lauer combination exceeds that of the rest by far.
Granted it's a small set versus big, but as a set that's to be redrafted again come DtK, FRF NEEDS to be deeper than it is.
The only card I feel like is completely unbeatable in a parody board state is Citadel Siege because enchantments don't typically draw main deck hate. However, it is our job as Magic players to adapt to metagame, which means cards like Disdainful Stroke, Return to the Earth, and Abzan Advantage should now be considered for slots 22 and 23 of your decks.
I've lost and won games with these cards on the table (from either myself or my opponent). Citadel Siege is the most unfair card in my opinion, but there is only 1 pack of Fate Reforged, so I rarely see it.
I am enjoying FRF-KTK-KTK drafts. Yeah most everyone gets a first pick bomby card, and often a somewhat bomby uncommon, and a few get left out in the cold without any bomb in FRF, but to me that's mostly the same as other formats in which a few getting bomby stuff while others do not. Not getting a bomb with the first pick is not a kiss of death, either, as even almost all of the bombs can be dealt with if you don't waste removal on an earlier creature, and deck flow (curve, etc.) can be just as important as number of bombs.
I could see whateverfor's point about sealed, though. I play limited partly because I enjoy when we all have to use mostly mediocre cards but in sealed if most everyone has several bombs then games can became too much about who gets their bomb out and can the opponent answer right away ... in other words, too much like constructed for my tastes. I have not played any FRF sealed, though, so I'm just speaking generally.
I haven't played enough sealed to have an opinion, but multicolor sets sealed deck tends to be pretty miserable. The people who get the fixing to play 5 colors just win.
I think FKK is a good draft format. KKK had a playability rate that was well above average, and maybe too high? The fact that FRF brought it down a notch actually made me like the format better, and the fact that FRF is pretty full of playable removal means the added rare-ness of the format doesn't really bug me much. It does mean that at a low-skill draft, it's easier someone to just run the tables, though. The fact that a lot of cards in FRF look worse than they play means that, for example, I can be passed a Torrent Elemental and an Elite Scaleguard and just do unfair things at an FNM.
In Sealed, I think it's a genuine problem because sealed doesn't self-balance the way draft does. But eh, I hardly ever play sealed, so I'm not much affected by a lackluster sealed format.
I play mostly sealed so it bothers me a lot. It's important to remember that sealed is 50/50 KTK/FRF, so it's materially different that way too. Three packs of FRF == many many bombs.
Let's make it a little more concrete: I just simmed random 6 KTK and random 3 KTK/FRF. Looking at the KTK rares, we have Narset/Empty the Pits/Vizier/Sage of the Inward Eye/Sultai Ascendancy/Grim Haruspex. There's quite a few good cards here, but none are particularly unbeatable and most require heavy color commitments. I'd expect to play two to three in my sealed deck, and I could expect to win without drawing them or lose even if I cast them and they aren't removed.
Now, for our FRF/KTK rares: Avalanche Tusker, Vizier, Sultai Ascendancy, Wildcall, Dromoka, Archfiend. If I'm G/B splash u/w I can play four to five rares, two of which are deal-with-me-now or win bombs. If my opponent kills one, I can just slam another. I've played a few too many opponent casts Dromoka -> I kill Dromoka -> Opponent casts Archfiend/Ojutai/Silumgar/Second Dromoka games. None of those are hypothetical, all have happened to me. Four bomb decks in sealed are fundamentally different than one bomb decks, and there's way too many four bomb decks in FRF-KTK.
I think you may want to consider taking the next set off for Sealed as well. I have a hunch that the set "Dragons of Tarkir" is going to be pretty bomb heavy
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But magic is still magic. It's just by their very high standards in delivering KtK, we get a small hump of a wave in FRF. The MaRo/Lauer combination exceeds that of the rest by far.
Granted it's a small set versus big, but as a set that's to be redrafted again come DtK, FRF NEEDS to be deeper than it is.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
The only card I feel like is completely unbeatable in a parody board state is Citadel Siege because enchantments don't typically draw main deck hate. However, it is our job as Magic players to adapt to metagame, which means cards like Disdainful Stroke, Return to the Earth, and Abzan Advantage should now be considered for slots 22 and 23 of your decks.
The other best cards can be defeated by general removal that your deck already should have like Torrent Elemental, Whisperwood Elemental, and Dromoka, The Eternal, and Brutal Hordechief.
I've lost and won games with these cards on the table (from either myself or my opponent). Citadel Siege is the most unfair card in my opinion, but there is only 1 pack of Fate Reforged, so I rarely see it.
I could see whateverfor's point about sealed, though. I play limited partly because I enjoy when we all have to use mostly mediocre cards but in sealed if most everyone has several bombs then games can became too much about who gets their bomb out and can the opponent answer right away ... in other words, too much like constructed for my tastes. I have not played any FRF sealed, though, so I'm just speaking generally.
Citadel Siege doesn't play fair for sure. I think it should have costed 5.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
In Sealed, I think it's a genuine problem because sealed doesn't self-balance the way draft does. But eh, I hardly ever play sealed, so I'm not much affected by a lackluster sealed format.
Let's make it a little more concrete: I just simmed random 6 KTK and random 3 KTK/FRF. Looking at the KTK rares, we have Narset/Empty the Pits/Vizier/Sage of the Inward Eye/Sultai Ascendancy/Grim Haruspex. There's quite a few good cards here, but none are particularly unbeatable and most require heavy color commitments. I'd expect to play two to three in my sealed deck, and I could expect to win without drawing them or lose even if I cast them and they aren't removed.
Now, for our FRF/KTK rares: Avalanche Tusker, Vizier, Sultai Ascendancy, Wildcall, Dromoka, Archfiend. If I'm G/B splash u/w I can play four to five rares, two of which are deal-with-me-now or win bombs. If my opponent kills one, I can just slam another. I've played a few too many opponent casts Dromoka -> I kill Dromoka -> Opponent casts Archfiend/Ojutai/Silumgar/Second Dromoka games. None of those are hypothetical, all have happened to me. Four bomb decks in sealed are fundamentally different than one bomb decks, and there's way too many four bomb decks in FRF-KTK.