Well pretty easy P1p1, snagging the Cavalier of Gales over Murder. With a card that powerful, I do lean blue in the next few picks, taking Winged Words over Flame Sweet, Temple over Chandra’s Outrage. P1p5 of Chandra’s Outrage vs. Bloodthirsty Aerialist was a toughy, and the blue does start drying up. I move into green, reap some blue in pack 2, and put together a decent-enough deck.
Draft Log
The big question here is whether or not I should have committed harder to red earlier. Red was not super open in pack 1, some minor nibbles in pack 2 but then WHAT-THE?! in pack 3. Angrath P3p4 and then three Burning Prophets in a row starting at pick 8! I genuinely do not know how that happens. Looking back it didn’t really cost me, except a passed Raging Kronch. And the panicked P3p1 Huatli’s Raptor. Okay there were some lost opportunities in the third pack, but I just don’t see how I could have foreseen green versus red as my secondary color. Stupid Pollenbright Druids!
Another ugly draft, though so far there seems to be an inverse relationship between how I feel about my draft and how well it performed. A couple early planeswalkers into splashing as I see zero guiding commons. Looking back, I think I should have picked up the Huatli in P3p5 as it’s a higher variance card that could make some of my big butts work better? Not a great draft.
So the very helpful “How to draft 4C Green” from Lords of Limited literally landed 12 hours too late to help me with this pile. Nothing even remotely resembling signals outside of some playable red & green late in pack 1. Unsure if it was clear that I should be the 4C green at this point but I commit early in Pack 2 and get blessed with a wheeling Gateway Plaza. I go nuts with two bombs (Rhonas and the triumphant sequel of Enter the God-Eternals). The P3p2 choice of Ugin’s Conjurant vs. EtG-E is kind of interesting, but the ceiling is just too high and this deck needs variance and a high ceiling. Ride or die with my enormous Lazotep friends!
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)
While you can’t complain whenever there’s a god in your draft, this didn’t feel great. RW seemed like the open seat, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out a way to get there. None of the power red commons flowed. Tibalt P1p4 is late but not egregiously so. 10th District Legionnaire is a signal of sorts I suppose, but what am I going to put with it? Wanderer’s Strike? Feels like I scuffed my way through this.
Hard to share a full draft log of IRL drafting (1/2 pint of Nitro Stout to help lubricate choices though). But here is my pick order (pack 1 on the left, bottom P1p1 to P1p15 on top). Opened a very legit bomb with Finale of Glory and then white was pretty clearly quite open. Did not solidify into green, kept worrying about black, but eventually put together quite a cruel little GW proliferate deck.
Benalish Dad 