Draft

Well that was a bit of a yikes draft. No signal that I could divine, so I veered around Temur for a bit. The big question was speculating on the Ral in P3p1 vs. the more sure thing of Burning Prophet. I don’t think Ral worked out, just not enough spells, but the upside of the potential ceiling is worth it? Just how few cards.

Got some good feedback from the LoL Discord. They recommended taking the P1p5 New Horizons to try and settle into 5c green. Agreed that there wasn’t a clear lane (so I feel better about not having missed a signal)

Draft Log

Deck

Results

• Round 1 vs. Bant: I try to rush out of the gates, but Tolsimir & Arlinn is pretty good, because they gain the life and fight with EVERY wolf made. Game 2 I stick Ral and repeatedly forgot about his minus because I’m locked into not having enough spells. But the opposing Erratic Visionary pulls him ahead and I was doomed anyway.
• Round 2: I keep an all mountain hand but playables, needing only a forest to turn on Domri. We stall out , but his Amass token grows and grows and I miss an opportunity to sacrifice Domri to kill off the return of his Flux Channeler. Game 2 I draw planeswalkers but no support and die pretty swiftly. I do pull off a duplicated Heartfire which was sweet.

Learnings

This was definitely all about the draft and I didn’t draft well. I take some solace in that it was a hard draft, but having the fallback plan of 5c green is pretty important.

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