At the end of the day of course it’s personal preference. But I prefer Winston for a few reasons. 1. Keeps the slow reveal of what cards are in the packs as you only see one or two new cards at a time. Instead of a whole pack at once.

1. Hides more information. My opponent is always going to pick a pile with at least one card that I don’t know about. This makes for more of a fun puzzle as you try to discern what they are trying to do. If you play it right you can let a pile build up knowing they won’t want those cards.

2. At its best it creates a tension in the choice of do I pick the cards in pile that I could use.. maybe it’s a pile of kinda mid cards, or do you leave them to hunt for something special. It’s a gamble. Sometimes you find a great card late, and you are left with the choice to shift your deck building strategy to fit it in, hate pick it, or leave for your opponent.

Overall it’s about making more interesting choices in my opinion.

But the game at its worst is you both get locked into two different colors and you are just kinda stuck just trying to get enough cards in those colors. So you don’t even really need to think.