This deck is short a couple playables. We'll end up needing to play some combination of manor skeleton, break of day, night terrors, and gravepurge. Also, our early game is a little weak, and either our demons or our chapel geist will end up tough to cast, depending on how we build the mana base. That said, we have an extremely powerful deck, with bombs in our five and six slots, and great value creatures in the four slot.
reaper from the abyss is the pick, although this pack is so good us... It's one of those packs where you'd rather just take the whole thing than keep drafting.
To take a step back: mask seems good when you have a high creature count (this is important for any equipment) and high-value creatures that don't need stat boosts.
Drawing equipment and no creatures is a disaster; we all know that. But mask is even narrower than that: giving a random 2/2 dork hexproof doesn't matter much, because they're not going to shoot your 2/2 anyway, and giving it +1/+2 isn't enough to make it a problem in combat. If I was paying one or two mana for that, sure, but three? That's too much. That's a bad card.
On the other hand, it's great on a civilized scholar, lab maniac, requiem angel *cough*, bloodgift demon *coughcough*, and fliers that can attack through a stalemated board *coughcoughcough*... any time where you'll win if you can get your creature to sit on the board and generate value.
TL;DR: Most decks in this draft exercise don't want mask, but this one does.
We're a little low on playables (14, by my count), but at least we have 10 creatures and a reasonable curve. Let's try to pick up removal and efficient creatures next pack.
Walking corpse isn't incredible, but it's better than the competition (manor skeleton), fills the curve, and enables zombie synergies (ghoulraisers and ghoulcaller chants, essentially).
This isn't a ghoulcaller's bell deck.
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This deck is short a couple playables. We'll end up needing to play some combination of manor skeleton, break of day, night terrors, and gravepurge. Also, our early game is a little weak, and either our demons or our chapel geist will end up tough to cast, depending on how we build the mana base. That said, we have an extremely powerful deck, with bombs in our five and six slots, and great value creatures in the four slot.
Pretty thin packs so far. We shouldn't expect to wheel much, so let's make sure we get the last four or five playables we need.
Mask of avacyn is definitely in the deck at this point.
To take a step back: mask seems good when you have a high creature count (this is important for any equipment) and high-value creatures that don't need stat boosts.
Drawing equipment and no creatures is a disaster; we all know that. But mask is even narrower than that: giving a random 2/2 dork hexproof doesn't matter much, because they're not going to shoot your 2/2 anyway, and giving it +1/+2 isn't enough to make it a problem in combat. If I was paying one or two mana for that, sure, but three? That's too much. That's a bad card.
On the other hand, it's great on a civilized scholar, lab maniac, requiem angel *cough*, bloodgift demon *coughcough*, and fliers that can attack through a stalemated board *coughcoughcough*... any time where you'll win if you can get your creature to sit on the board and generate value.
TL;DR: Most decks in this draft exercise don't want mask, but this one does.
We're a little low on playables (14, by my count), but at least we have 10 creatures and a reasonable curve. Let's try to pick up removal and efficient creatures next pack.
This isn't a ghoulcaller's bell deck.