Bronze to Mythic | Foundations | Draft 21 | Platinum 3 Start

[@thelifedragon2156]

27:41 risky play. to quote Jim Davis "number one rule: dont get blown out" this is a fine trade as it is and your risking getting two for oned by casting a trick defensive. up side is if he goes for a trick you can trick in response and it will most likely be a one for one, or two for two and you wont lose tempo from trading a 3drop for a trick. 30:23: small thing here. block and bonce with the pup is a fine little play but i think its alot more mana efficient to just play pub and block with it. 41:21, could be a little more defensive here. op is winning the race ever so slightly here and so blocking with angel on scavenger to keep him from looting more is good enough. the stab was unfortunate, reasonable to play around it but you also need to block with something. block with the lord and the cat shrinks but you block with the token you can get blown out. tough choice 43:35 yeah woe is also i nice one i didn't mention, reasonable choice as well 45:27 yeah, rebuke again here, but sire is soo good its hard to take anything else. tough choice 47:08 make your move is a fine pick too, dont love it but mid way though the draft, no removal, its reasonable tough games, didn't really see anything you could have done to change you win loss outcome. your draws weren't the best and your opponents had some strong decks

[@half_pump]

You definetly win some and lose some. Overall, I agree that the play was pretty good all around (with some definite area's of more optimal play available) and just ran into some great draws from the opponent and not so great draws from myself. One thing I am really trying to keep in mind is you really can't control the draw so what I need to focus on is ringing out as much value as I can out of ever card and interaction as possible. It really is a game of percentages.

[@lethalillusion2799]

Pretty cool to see the dedication. Watched almost every foundations episode, hopefully you can finally get to mythic. Dang just saw the draft, unlucky.

[@half_pump]

Thank you! I will be finishing AT LEAST a draft per day in December so more to come!

[@absentahc3007]

i agree, the curve was too heavy in 3s and very light in 2s, and black was the colour to pair with your good white cards BUT i think that picking dazzling angel over arbiter was the right pick at that point. and rallier is probably the most undervalued white card, a mana sink with card advantage, especially in this format: sign me in

[@half_pump]

Doing those reviews when I don’t get 4 wins is super helpful in learning the format quickly and gets you familiar with the stats on the cards. It has also helped me take a step back more during actual drafting and find the open lane. Counted!

[@xiofacts]

wow sir

[@half_pump]

Wow, indeed!

[@absentahc3007]

dang, those angels decks were really tough, not a lot of chances of beating them, keep doing your best ;) also, as a good practice i think you should consider not playing spells before combat unless they give you some kind of advantage for combat. you make opponent's life much easier when they have better/perfect info ;)

[@half_pump]

The angels ran me over in this run for sure. The precombat spells is an Aggro player habit where you generally cast your spells before combat to clear the way. It’s not optimal (even in Aggro but it just doesn’t matter most of the time) and a habit I need to break.

[@thelifedragon2156]

p1p1 really tough one. lots of great options. i think i just one of the black removal spells. can be hard to pick up later. i don't love the 2/2 angel as it can be hard to get a lot of angels but it can be strong so i don't dislike the pick either. p1p2, angel or rebuke p1p4, angel or rebuke this is kind of why i don't love the 2/2 angel. this format is not really a strong synergy set. it can come together but often its more of a secondary thing. there's just not that many cards that go with any given synergy in the set with maybe the exceptions of the black sac theme and the white black life gain theme. but overall cards like the 2/2 angel kind of forces you into taking certain cards. the angels you took are strong cards, but removal is just harder to get. so i value them over other cards of similar win rates. i don't think these picks are bad but it could bite you later in the draft p2p4 unicorn could be a nice option. the land isn't going to work the way you want it to, as it needs to enter as an angel. but its still a fine pick up when you don't know your second color yet p2p5, second unicorn yup. p3p1 you do need removal but bushwack doesn't really do that job very well. so id think id just take the angel. you want removal but you want your removal to be strong too. bushwack is often going to either not kill what you need it to or it will, but it will two for one yourself in the process. p3p3 you still need removal very badly, so id just take bite down, very tough though, the cat is very strong. if you had been taking removal more highly you could get away passing one up. taking cat isn't wrong per say but its a risk 19:48 so yeah, you basically only ended up with 1 and a half removal spells, very light, this is going to be a tough one. unfortunately you just didn't see a lot of good removal after pack 1 in your colors. and you passed one up late. so that's the moral of the story for this one i think. just have to prioritize them a little more. (mostly the strong one like rebuke. cards like make your move, blast, and witness protection, to a lesser extent. you can usually pick them up late anyway and you dont want to run them unless you have too) the curve is also a little wonky but it happens, not something you can always avoid. deck should do ok though. i could see 3 wins for one

[@half_pump]

This was a tough draft in general. A lot of instances of coin flip choices or area's where I really needed to be decisive but had a hard time doing so. The removal was definintely an issue. Your comment on synergy is something that I really need to keep in mind. This set HAS synergies but they are not as strong as other sets. I think I am a little biased in this area because I really started drafting with Bloomburrow and that was a super strong synergy based drafting format. I am definitely playing catch up on how to play without traditional synergies. I feel like I might have forced angels a bit and that was likely what made this tougher than it should have been.

[@thelifedragon2156]

@@half_pump yeah, this set was basically a core set. so its more the mind set of "synergy is a bonus". that being said most limited sets are very synergistic. in particular. Bloomburrow was even more so than normal but yeah mentally prepare to return to "synergy is very good" next set. (id say for synergy sets. you want to draft the cards that are synergistic but also at least decent on their own. the 2/2 angel is a good example of that) the angel 2/2 is very strong if you pull it together but its also just fine by itself so yeah, didn't need to go super hard on it