Priest over bonds. We have a lot of other cards that depend on a high creature count. Also, the priest has some advantages over the enchament, despite being more vulnerable: it can always hit the most important threat, and can "double tap" when the time comes to break a board stall.
Close pick between armored skaab and the Thraben sentry, but the sentry is more powerful.
The skaab has a lot of synergy with our deck: it fuels our stitched drakes, haunted fen, moorland haunt, and flashback spells. The body itself is a great shape, holding down the ground while our flyers close the game. But ultimately, it's just an upgrade over one of our midnight guards, and our deck needs some powerful cards like sentry to stay competitive in races and against "big" green decks.
No matter what we pick we're hate drafting, and I'll hate the bell. Memory's journey only goes in a narrow band of self-mill, but ghoulcallers bell goes in all of them. Maximizing the hate.
I'm perfectly happy with the grotto as the pick. If I were at a table drafting my own deck, though, I'll admit I'd take ghostly possession in case I ended up in a mill deck. UW is the best color for it, and wheeling ghostly possessions is the way to make it work (that, and a few of the blue curses).
I'll hate the Hamlet Captain. The GW deck can be nasty, and would probably run us over with a good draw.
...and that's 23, with 15 creatures and a low curve.
I'd really like to avoid splashing. We're already definitely playing one colorless land, and maybe a second.
The skaab has a lot of synergy with our deck: it fuels our stitched drakes, haunted fen, moorland haunt, and flashback spells. The body itself is a great shape, holding down the ground while our flyers close the game. But ultimately, it's just an upgrade over one of our midnight guards, and our deck needs some powerful cards like sentry to stay competitive in races and against "big" green decks.
I may be wrong, though. The skaab is quite good.
Moorland haunt, and we suddenly have a great deck.