This report goes into detail a different way than before. It was a pretty easy read on the table that BG was the place for me and that RW was open but not the right place for me. (Sidenote: the first deck I ever played was BG with a Force of Nature and a Lord of the Pit)

I want to touch on some solid cards and then get into draft deck talk. Here we go!

I have listened to the reviews on Limited Resources and read some articles over at channel fireball. I think things are starting to emerge.

  • Commons and Uncommons – link
  • Everything else – link
  • Channel Fireball – link

Taking that advice influenced me to rank a few cards higher than I had before.

These pieces fit nicely into a BG deck along with a couple other very nice pieces. I was pretty good on my read of these three but I was timid on the Ghast. NO MORE!

The one thing I wound up in trouble on was removal. I had to run two Eyes of the Beholder instead of something more efficient.

I’m not gonna get greedy and demand a Power Word Kill, but I’d take it! I will say the instant speed on the eyes is nice.

Overall I thought it was solid and had the major components I’m looking for right now.

  • Early action plan
  • A plan to win
  • The ability to handle big butts

There’s more of course but right now that serves for basis of conversation. Let’s drill into the ‘plan to win’. The format is young and in flux. The meta isn’t decided and drafts are going to fluctuate. You can put too much into it yet. There are open questions:

  • Which archetypes are weak/strong?
  • Which archetypes are aggro/mid range/control?
  • How much do Bombs matter?
  • Do people realize how easily treasure let’s you splash? – link

With all of that said, they way I go forward is to look for deck lists and see if I can draft that list. It’s tricky because early on in the format a lot of nonesense. As that frenzy decays we will see what decks are possible to draft. And then start to think, “Ok, I’m drafting BG and I have these pieces but I am missing X”. Once we get there, it is showtime, the format is mature, and we can begin to play magic.

ps: you may be wondering how the draft went. I was disappointed. It went 4-1 and then I went loss loss to finish on 4-3. Those last two losses were particularly tough because in each game I finished by drawing consecutive 5 lands and 4 lands respectively. They were tight games but I gotta feel that flooding out on both cost me at least one win and then I’d still be going.

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