Member of the orange team here (who is not playing the matches so doesnt care about spoilers): looking at the packs its funny how few cards there were for RB vamps in pack 3. I was convinced by pack 2 that we were the only RB drafter in the table after the 8th pick olivias bloodsworn and 12th pick neonate, so I thought that things went horribly wrong in pack 3 when we had to take a bunch of wolves early on in the pack. The 7th pick bloodseeker reaffirmed how we were the only RB drafter at the table though, so we were definitely in the right deck.
Interesting picks:
P2P1: arlinn kard vs throttle: the team actually wanted the arlinn, but none of us bolded our choices, so throttle was randomly chosen since I argued it being the safer pick, since we were pretty committed to RB at that point. Arlinn would have worked out better since we did actually see a good amount of jund mana fixing, but that was the only real point for us to pick up a throttle effect in the draft so ended up working out.
P2P4: indulgent aristocrat vs incorrigible youths. Youths is normally the pick in a madness deck, but we were already up to 7 vampires at this point with a call the bloodline. It looks like we probably would have wheeled the aristocrat, but it ended up being much more important to the deck than the youths since we ended up with 3 twins.
Ahhh we were curious about the Kord pass. @P2P4 We'd have picked the Aristocrat P2P10 had you passed it, it was playable with our own Call the Bloodline. And that Aristocrat was a key player in one of your wins against us, it broke a board stall Youths would have been irrelevant on.
Light Purple here. We were blessed with the classic "P1P1 a bomb, people around you aren't in that color". I think we had three mistakes, all early picks from when we didn't know the format well.
P1P2:Triskaidekaphobia vs Nearheath Chaplain. At the time, we thought this pick was super close Bomb vs Bomb pick. Close enough that we ended up breaking based on the signal we'd be sending to the left (passing two situational black vs three good white), which is super marginal. I've since cooled off Phobia — the card is strong but kind of situational — and I'd definitely pick the always strong Chaplain today.
P1P3:Throttle vs Reaper of Flight Moonsliver vs Ghoulcaller's Apprentice. This should have been Reaper, Ghoulcaller's and especially Throttle are weaker than we thought they were.
I wonder how much those two choices affected the draft, the P3 Chaplain -> P4 Reaper pushed Dark Purple pretty hard into white.
P1P5:Crow of Dark Tidings vs Stitched Mangler. My pick post:
Love me some Crow of Dark Tidings in GB, probably not that much worse in UB.
Turns out Crow is that much worse with a color that has no delirium payoffs (Black itself only has two good delirium payoffs and only at uncommon, oddly enough). Mangler is awesome in any blue deck and was 100% the correct pick.
Man what a weird draft. Red team, not playing here. We started off with 2 good removal spell in RG, but it seemed to dry up (despite us NOT being cut at all -- although the top pick Wolves did go elsewhere). Tried to branch into B for delirium but that went nowhere fast and just sort of cobbled together a RG deck.
I see where your P2P2 was coming from (late vessel+Scavenger, Scarecrow P2P1), but Necropod > Fiery Temper was still weird. Red wasn't so cut that I'd ever hesitate on that Temper, you saw SOME late-ish red in P1 (Howlpack P1P6). And I do like Necropod, but an early one isn't a reason to switch colors/archetypes in of itself.
There's a consistency argument for picking Abbey, which is uniformly "good" in every deck. But we felt Jace was a larger enough payoff to justify the small-ish risk of not playing him.
Hey guys. I may be a bit more talkative going forward as I will have more or less constant internet presence which has NOT been the case for the past 10 days.
Since the people in this thread have seen the lists, I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion that the DFCs created. Nearly everyone wondered what happened when Arlinn and (even more!) the Abbey were passed.
Having said that, the Byway Couriers and the Heirs of Falkenrath both drafted amazingly consistent decks from a drafting perspective. They may not have played consistently, but it was quite interesting all around.
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I'll see if I can find the thread again when I get back from Europe.
Interesting picks:
P2P1: arlinn kard vs throttle: the team actually wanted the arlinn, but none of us bolded our choices, so throttle was randomly chosen since I argued it being the safer pick, since we were pretty committed to RB at that point. Arlinn would have worked out better since we did actually see a good amount of jund mana fixing, but that was the only real point for us to pick up a throttle effect in the draft so ended up working out.
P2P4: indulgent aristocrat vs incorrigible youths. Youths is normally the pick in a madness deck, but we were already up to 7 vampires at this point with a call the bloodline. It looks like we probably would have wheeled the aristocrat, but it ended up being much more important to the deck than the youths since we ended up with 3 twins.
Light Purple here. We were blessed with the classic "P1P1 a bomb, people around you aren't in that color". I think we had three mistakes, all early picks from when we didn't know the format well.
P1P2: Triskaidekaphobia vs Nearheath Chaplain. At the time, we thought this pick was super close Bomb vs Bomb pick. Close enough that we ended up breaking based on the signal we'd be sending to the left (passing two situational black vs three good white), which is super marginal. I've since cooled off Phobia — the card is strong but kind of situational — and I'd definitely pick the always strong Chaplain today.
P1P3: Throttle vs Reaper of Flight Moonsliver vs Ghoulcaller's Apprentice. This should have been Reaper, Ghoulcaller's and especially Throttle are weaker than we thought they were.
I wonder how much those two choices affected the draft, the P3 Chaplain -> P4 Reaper pushed Dark Purple pretty hard into white.
P1P5: Crow of Dark Tidings vs Stitched Mangler. My pick post:
Turns out Crow is that much worse with a color that has no delirium payoffs (Black itself only has two good delirium payoffs and only at uncommon, oddly enough). Mangler is awesome in any blue deck and was 100% the correct pick.
(Also I'd have P1P1'd Chaplain over Temper)
The vote was 1:1 for Necropod and Temper and I "won" (haha, since obviously temper is way better in our final deck).
Chaplain vs. Temper was quite close as well. I think I am fine with that decision, although a month ago I think I underrated Chaplain a little.
Since the people in this thread have seen the lists, I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion that the DFCs created. Nearly everyone wondered what happened when Arlinn and (even more!) the Abbey were passed.
Having said that, the Byway Couriers and the Heirs of Falkenrath both drafted amazingly consistent decks from a drafting perspective. They may not have played consistently, but it was quite interesting all around.