Draft is NOT sealed. I’m telling me, not you. In sealed deck events, you get to go for power, big drops, and a slower game. In a draft format where there are fine to good-as-hell two-drops you may want to keep your curve a little lower.
It’s fine. It attacks, it trades.
But this just scares the hell outta me.
I started out greedy, with two Staunch-Hearted Warriors and a Heliod’s Emissary, then a couple Leafcrown Dryad and a couple combat tricks – I even tried to keep an eye out for 2-drops to make sure that I didn’t have too slow of a start. Unfortunately, I think I fell into a trap.
I really wanted to play the same GW deck that I played at the prerelease. That made me miss out on what in hindsight would have been amazing picks, I passed on 3 Omenspeakers – thinking i didn’t have anything to dig for yet, and maybe if blue was still open, I could get a couple later… maybe nobody wanted them. WRONG. Blue was just plain old open, and I shoulda jammed them. Tried to grab some blue later in pack two, but it was too late. But I stayed the GW course.
My curve wasn’t awful, and I was consistent with creatures on the board by turn 3, but one of the biggest hurdles I think I have to watch out for is the greedy play, like sandbagging a dryad so I can maybe get a T4 bestow. Pair that kind of thinking with the fact that I was drafting at 8:30 in the morning (I got monday mornings off) and I wasn’t at peak mental focus? Bad day.
What I DID see this morning was that I passed all those Omenspeakers to the same guy, who then scried and scried and scried so he always had an answer. I also saw that I need to keep my past experiences from seeing new possibilities. I saw that Theros can be a mid-to-fast format, and games can get lost super fast. Especially since the removal suite is so limited (no pun).
I think I’m going to get back to BREAD and try to get a handle on Theros drafting. It’s a great set to go deep on.
I went 1-2, by the way. No gloat, lol.