Draft log
Murky draft. Silverquill looked underdrafted at the table yet there wasn’t enough black or white to make a deck of it. Ended up in this weird Mardu hybrid.
Strange pick 4. No real clear signal so I’m not really sure what to take here. I think Karok is the strongest card in the pack but I had a decent start elsewhere. A definite shrug moment.
deck
So, Mardu with limited fixings. I built three separate decks. Mostly Lorehold, mostly Silverquill, and then embracing the third color.
The feedback from Discord was to investigate a more silverquill deck… but I’m just too nervous with my main source of Learn being my splash color. So the bottom option was to put in the stronger black cards (two Humiliates and Closing Statement) since those are fine to cast on turn 4/5. Interestingly, for the final round I switched out a Pillardrop Rescuer for a Bibliophex Assistant. The Assistant is a weaker card in a vacuum, but triggering magecraft ( with an Enthusiastic Study ideally) was simply always better than recycling in a 3-drop on a stalled board.
Keep or mull?
Really interesting keep or mull here. Thanks to the Campus Guide to Guiding Voice to Environmental Sciences, it’s only one land away from functioning. So I… went for it! And drew… a Campus Guide! But then got a land and the deck was off. On the draw, I was 72% to get a land in the first two draw steps, so that’s a keeper.
Benalish Dad 
ok, let’s talk about learn. on basis I hate stuff like this. “from outside of the game”, as gross as “the stack”
that said, the ability to cycle or whatever the discard/draw is called is fun and as long as it doesn’t involve more suffling it’s ok
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It’s *incredibly fun*! Basically it allows you to reach out and grab something from your sideboard. So a key lesson card is (3) Search your library for a basic land and put it in your hand. Obviously this would be a weak card on its own, but when you can choose to go get it at any time, that means you can get it when you need it (enable a splash, help mana shortage) or ignore it if you don’t. It reads awkward but plays REALLY smooth.
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