MTG Salvation

Agreed, Benthic Giant isn't bad.

Now this is more like it!

I'm torn between Marauder and Ordeal though. Normally I'd say go with the creature, but we don't have that much devotion to black, and more blue permanents are better for Master of Waves and Thassa (though it doesn't look like we'll ever get enough to trigger Thassa).

Hey look, now green's open!

With us being three colors, and looking like we're going to be somewhat evenly split between the colors, I'd rather take the Unknown Shores fixing. We actually have a fair number of playables, and Crackling Triton isn't overly exciting to me.

I agree with Thassa, and I'm glad we took Nimbus Naiad last pack.

We're gonna end up BUr or BRu, probably split pretty evenly between red/blue. Our mana base won't be great... but I think we'll do okay-ish. Glad that we picked up Burnished Hart.

We are going to be really stretching for playables, but I can't resist cheap removal. Lightning Strike.

Ack, reasonable blue cards.

I like Aqueous Form, but it doesn't look like we have any creatures that work well with it, and we're stretching for consistent playables. Omenspeaker sounds good to me.

Fellhide Minotaur. It's better than Scathe Zombies!

Agreed on Swan Song, pretty sure the card was designed with constructed in mind.

Pharika's Mender is another possibility, but it doesn't look like we're going to be in green (and haven't seen much green in the last few packs either). We're also lacking a little in early drops, and already have a 5drop with Gorgon, so I'm good with Returned Phalanx.

Yeah, it's weird. Only other thing I can think of is there were a lot of blue bombs and a few solid blue cards in the first packs, so a lot of teams got set on blue at the start.

Switching to black looks like it was a good idea though, Pharika's Cure is pretty solid. Hopefully we aren't cut too hard in pack 3.

I'm leaning more towards Nylea Emissary. Black definitely wasn't open, and I may be wrong, but Blue didn't seem to be too open either, while there seemed to be a lot of green and red (and a bit of white). I'm just worried that, if we're in strong UB, For pack 3 we won't see anything in our colors.

Signaling kinda gets confusing for me though, so I'm willing to defer to Phyrre and go with Lash. Both Lash and the Emissary are splashable, but I feel that we're in a stronger position to splash Red than black atm, even with Lash.

(Is colossus not worth taking? I have to admit, I don't quite have a feel for the tempo of this format.)

What in the world is Rage of Purphoros doing at pick 9?

Fate Foretold isn't bad, but I really don't want multiples. Shredding Winds is a nice sideboard card, but honestly we're almost as much in red as we are green, and Rage of Purphoros is definitely the better card.

Also haven't really seen any black in these last few packs.

Psychic Intrusion can take cards from the graveyard too. It's a cute card, and I'd love to have it in our sideboard against slow decks that are medium-heavy on removal, but I don't think we could justify taking it.

Warrior's Lesson goes quite well with Agent of Horizons, but still, I think I agree with Phyrre that it isn't really justifyable without heroes. Coastline Chimera isn't a bad card.

I'm a little worried that we aren't seeing any real blue signals. Then again, the past few packs have been weak in general.

For me, it's between Agent of Horizons and Cutthroat Maneuver. Cutthroat Maneuver is good if we get a few good heroic guys, but probably isn't worth running if we don't. Agent is good if we switch to green, and is reasonably splashable even if we stay UB.

I think I'd rather take Agent of Horizons and leave us open to switching to green. Nothing in this pack is exciting.

Fate Foretold? I dunno, this pack is pretty weak.

Scholar is probably the strongest card in the pack, and might not be a bad idea to take in case white opens up.

I've never been a fan of counterspells in draft/limited, as it always seems like it's difficult to really keep your mana open at the end of your turn.

I'm leaning towards Returned Phalanx, though I wouldn't mind Burnished Hart. Early defenders are kinda needed against Heroic/aggro decks, but we also aren't totally sure yet that black is open.