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Jumpstart in general was a lot of fun... but why they made packs of 20 cards instead of 30 is asinine.
I think they could have done more with bigger packs, but at the same time limited players are used to 40 card decks (at least for draft and sealed).
But in an fnm draft or sealed environment you cannot play a jumpstart. And outside of a jumpstart event a 40 card jumpstart deck is useless. But a 60 card jumpstart deck you could play in an fnm standard event. Be it a new player, or someone forgot a deck, buy 2 or 3 packs and you have a deck.
I think Jumpstart is best played against other Jumpstarts. I see it as it's own format. It might be cool to easily have standard decks, but they'd have a pretty low power level. I like that there's so many themes and you can jam a bunch of quick games with different decks.
I think even when Jumpstart was recently released, they weren't standard legal. Pretty sure the upcoming Avatar Jumpstarts won't be. But for some sets they did have Jumpstart packs that were standard legal, so it could have been a thing!
This was true of the first JumpStart and the 2022 JumpStart, but all of the others were standard legal.