After four picks the cheapest Card was four shards. Afterwards I tried to only pick 1. Creatures and 2. low cost Cards. Games went surprisingly fast, I always felt like controlling the board. 7-0.
Before I tried an Elysian Amplify deck that worked great but only made it to five wins because I was Mana screwed twice.
My personal feeling: Forge seems to have become a little easier and more playable than a few weeks before when AI got out of control permanently.