Draft

Holy cow, that was a MESS. Should I have been Rakdos? Never a clear black signal of any worth, though there were a lot of Plague Wights that wheeled around. But the playable strength smeared across Temur seemed fine after I calmed down afterwards. I removed my bizarre black-splash for Rakdos and just played a generic beater of a deck.

Draft Log

Deck

Results

• Round 1: got whomped with the messy, possibly-too-greedy black splash. Won the second game on the back of Trollbred Guardian. Then game 3 with the Trollbred bringing home a victory. Consistency is good!
• Round 2: Esper control, deck that I run over with a coup de grace Act of Treason (not a good card, but can win games). Game 2 is the opposite, he builds out his board and just wrecks me. Third game I have NOTHING but 2 and 3 drops, but I curve out aggressively and successfully go real wide. I cannot believe this deck is 2-0.
• Round 3: Opponent reveals Sphinx of Foresight, so that game went quite predictably. Game 2 I keep a shaky 2-land hand, don’t draw land, and lose to Angelic Exaltation and Sphinx of Foresight. Again. Kinda felt like the better deck won TBH.

Learnings

Focused is good. No need to panic too much when a draft goes awry as the playable count is high enough.

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