Initial thoughts on LOTR limited

What have people thought about the limited format today. Seems interesting, but brand new formats almost always do. I ran a sealed and 2 draft pools. Made an abzan sac deck with my sealed pool with Smeagol and went 3-3 with it (nowhere near enough bombs).

Draft 1 was an unfocused GW deck where I had a bunch of ring tempts you payoffs without enough ways to trigger it and went 2-3 predictably

Draft 2 was a BW legends and tokens deck with the WW anthem, the White pump 1 drop and the 4 mana put counters on all your creatures. Went 7-2 with it.

Saw lots of cool decks. The halflings deck seems strong if you can get the food producers. The GU scry deck also seems highly synergistic. All in all this seems like a high synergy set from my initial assessment. Drafting around mechanics seems like a better plan than drafting purely value cards.

What are your thoughts?