Last night's draft was a rather enlightening. I've been saying for some time that I don't like blue/black in this format, so it was high time that I got schooled. Luckily, I was on the right end of the lessons. Here it is, my very first Silumgar draft deck.
Our draft pool was made up of twelve, which made for a very strange draft. Besides that, I think I was just plain lucky when it came to my draft picks. I don't think anyone else was in blue/black at the table, as Soulflayer came to me fourth to last pick, but whatever brought me this fantastic deck, I was more than happy to run it.
One thing I want to mention is that my pack one rare was actually a Silumgar's Command. I decided to take the Youthful Scholar instead to stay open, and for a while it looked like I might have gone blue/red or black/red, but when I was passed a Sage-Eye Avengers third pick in the third pack, it became too hard to resist.
What I want to make clear is that even if I knew I was going blue/black from the beginning, I still consider Youthful Scholar a better pick. It might not have the same power, but in limited, creature always beats non-creature, and drawing two cards on turn five or six is just about perfect to stay ahead of the curve.
My final record for the draft was 3-1, which put me in second, so apparently blue/black works well enough.
Heads up, our sealed league started today at the store, so look forward to both Tams and my reports on that coming soon.
Thanks for reading,
-Step.
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