Draft

Opened the mass manipulation! Only to not catch the faintest WHIFF of blue for the entirety of the draft. Powerful card, but also impossible to splash. You need a lot of blue. After that I took some Radkos, but a surprisingly late Sauroform Hybrid tuned me Jund-ish. Then some early gate payoffs had me go ham into flexible, gate-y, control-y, something-something. Really defined by the two Gate-payoffs in pack 2.

Deck

Results

Game one beat up a pretty easy deck. Game two I got FLATTENED by a vastly superior gate deck going all the colors with all the bombs (Gates Ablaze, the Colossus, Deputy of detention, &c &c)
Game 3: Lumbering Battlement + Blade Juggler feels really unfair. Fought through it though and eventually gatebreaker. But eventually just ground him down.

Learnings

Taking a random gate early (like my Orzhov Gate in P1p4) worked out when the gate payoffs flowed to me. I would have missed it more than random replacement level cards. Beyond that, I just got some more confirmation bias that it’s never good to fall in love with your first pick.

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