Flush from the 3-0 earlier, I plunged back into the queues. I think it’s good to do this because humility… comes swiftly with Magic.

Draft

Draft Details

This was a very, very tricky draft. Three skittering surveyors?! What do I do with the bounty of fixing? Panic apparently. Pretty sweet to veer from red, to green, to black, to blue, to white. All in one draft! That takes dedication my friends. In my defense, I think esper was the color-combo I was my seat and having three great pieces of fixing helps make it possible.

Notable Picks

The Grow from the Ashes P1p6 distracted me a lot, trying to make the four pieces of splash work. But green was clearly not open in pack one. P1p12 Sanctum Spirit is quite late, and made me think (correctly) that white was underdrafted at the table.

P2p5 Ghitu Chronicler was just a mistake. I was overly looking at my Shivan Fire and redonkulous fixing and forgot that the kicked version of Ghitu is RR. I should have taken Fungal Infection in that choice.

P2p7: Precognition Field. Hmmm, let’s try it! I had a lot of splashing so I could take a lot of powerful spells.  Later in pack 2 I took some available white and some super late Tolarian Scholars (P2p13 & P2p14. Huh?)

Deck

You’ll note that this isn’t my deck, rather an ENORMOUS pile of cards. I eventually said a tearful farewell to Slimefoot, Whisper, Shivan Fire, Grow from the Ashes etc. I trimmed to Esper, had a white splash for On Serra’s Wings, Invoke, & Call the Cavalry and sort of dithered around from there.

Learnings

Drew was right precognition field isn’t great, not when mildly behind at least. I never had a stable board state where I could use the 3: exile top card of my library to go digging or looking around. The mana base worked out fine. I had sub-par luck and the deck wasn’t THAT good. 1-2 feels like a very reasonable outcome.

Though On Serra’s Wings on the Cold-Water Snapper DOES feel great. Soulmates!