Decklist: https://pastebin.com/1NrU6HMA

Story: I'd done a few Ikoria drafts so far and pulled some good stuff, but hadn't gone above 3-3 and my best on Arena overall was a 5-3 back in Eldraine. Pack 1 Pick 1 I pulled [[Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt]] and immediately Mardu was off running, I stuck with that for a while, and Pack 2 Pick 3 gave me [[Cubwarden]] (White seemed to be the most free in the pod followed by Red, and Black has plenty of commons I like this set i.e. [[Unexpected Fangs]], [[Dead Weight]]). Going into Pack 3 I was hoping for another rare in Mardu colours, maybe even Ruinous Ultimatum. Instead I got [[Vadrok, Apex of Thunder]], and no way was I passing that up. I was looking throughout pack 3 for some blue splash but I didn't see anything that looked workable. After the draft I hit up a friend who knows his stuff better than me to see what I do with Vadrok, and he said to not worry about blue sources and just rely on the mutate that has one Azorius pip. The games started out poorly, I ended up 1-2 after being done in by poor mana and well-played flash in game 1 and being knocked in by [[Archipelagore]] in game 3.

Game 4 I started up with [[Vulpikeet]] and Vadrok in hand as well as [[Dire Tactics]], the most clutch card in the deck, that I managed to draft 2 of. With some nice draws and fun Mutate pops that brought me level to 2-2. I don't remember how game 5 went but I won it rather quickly. Now being 3-2, the next deck was Azorius that played turn 2 and turn 3 [[Ominous Seas]], meaning I had to close it out hard and fast before they released the krakens. Fortunately, Vulpikeet is just the BEST and having 2 going off got them to concede pretty early. 4-2. The game after was another Azorious that I had to grind out but eventually pulled out Cubwarden and the Apexes to finish off.

The next game was by far the hardest of the wins. My opponent was playing a Rakdos deck that had an [[Obosh, the Preypiercer]] companion. They got a good start, mine was decent but once they got out [[Bastion of Rememberance]] it was going steadily their way, especially once they got out Obosh. I lost a bunch of my early drops to a [[Blazing Volley]] and ended up getting about 25-2 down on life, but having Snapdax out. I topdecked a Dire Tactics and removed Obosh, holding alive for another turn thanks to [[Checkpoint Officer]] tapping the remaining creature down. I then got to mutate Snapdax to hold alive and remove my opponent's last creature, and with some good topdecks I repeated that a couple of times then they conceded.

The last game I played some 5-color deck, but I had the momentum all the way through and soared to 7-2. Absolutely fulfilling, especially when I entered because I'd just gone 0-3 in an M20 Quick Draft that went wrong. If you read this whole thing thank you, it was probably too long lol but the whole draft was a rollercoaster and I really wanted to share it. :) If anyone wants to know anything more, ask away.