Draft log
P1p1: Pretty easy Basri Ket. Into… Glorious Anthem? I think I’m ready to fight for a 10 plains deck with everything I got. And fight I had to do as it was pretty clear that white was not terribly open in my seat. But I got enough in pack 2 to build a reasonably aggressive RW deck.
Summary
Opened with a loss against a very good RU spells deck. I would race them down to 5-7 life… then they would slowly stabilize and then grind me out with fliers. The tap-two for two turns card is just an absolute beating too. Then some bad luck in round 2 that caused me to play a fury round 3 (sitting at 0-2) and ruthlessly curb-stomp an unsuspecting foe when my deck actually functioned.
Interesting Moments
Last two cards? The Annointed Chorister is a decent 1-drop that is more on color where the Igneous Cur/Hobblefiend are probably better aggressive cards but stretch my mana further. I eventually went with the Chorister and was not disappointed (they did the fine, the rest of the deck I had words with).
Benalish Dad 
so let’s talk about lands in this format. where are we at. Is my old mantra that the 18th land is better than the 23rd spell still good?
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Card quality is increasing (aka power creep) so it’s not always true. It has been true in the recent past (I believe war of the spark was a default 18-land format) where there is more card draw/smoothing/scrying. However M21 is 16.5 land format. It is *fast* without a lot of tools to mitigate flood.
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