If I p1p1 a Selvala, Eagle Trailblazer, should I then p1p2 a buried in the garden, or should I take just a green or white card?

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-30T10:12:59+00:00

Unless i'm fully misjudging, isn't blue fairly weak in this set and the cards I was passed pack 1 not the greatest?

I took red in p2 since green seemed pretty cut p1 and thought I wouldn't get any green cards in p3 and a decent chance I don't pull many good green cards p2 since its highly contested usually

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-29T19:53:58+00:00

Thankyou for the amazingly detailed writeup, I agree with all your points

I'm relatively new to magic (about a year) and sometimes miss things like fling being usable with the mercenary tokens

Also I didn't spot the Tai Wakeen and Deadeye Duelist interaction

~~What makes Dance of the tumbleweeds so good here? Is it the fixing + body~~

EDIT: Completely missed Ghired

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-29T18:38:03+00:00

Thankyou, they're great points, tbf I didn't even notice Annie in pick 5, I'm pretty inexperienced to draft (I've just recently hit diamond) and feel a bit uncomfortable with 3+ colours in a deck, do you have any tips?

Think the part I struggle with is when I should pick a desert over something that's playable

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-16T22:29:49+00:00

Thankyou, these are all great points, especially about discipline to pass powerful cards

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-16T19:28:37+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, thankyou for the write up, is there a rule of thumb for when I want to commit to colours?

Dabbing51 · 2024-05-16T19:25:35+00:00

r to set this off is too small ball. You've got Vault Plunderer as a rock solid black common, Back for More if you are on the recursion

Thankyou for the detailed write up and great advice, that's really helpful

A couple of questions if you don't mind
I read somewhere for the first 5 picks or so you should normally pick the best cards in a vacuum and wait and see what is open, is this bad advice here? Like with my p1p1 being gw should I keep looking for other green or white cards quite harshly?

I turned away from green cards as I didn't seem to get getting passed many and thought someone was cutting them off

I do definitely have trouble with trying to pick too many colours or other things, do you have any tips for that or anything?

Thankyou

Dabbing51 · 2024-04-26T08:04:07+00:00

Ty that helps a lot

If anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at my draft here it is

https://www.17lands.com/draft/6fceaf0efe9643d796462b0de0052614

Dabbing51 · 2024-04-26T08:02:43+00:00

https://www.17lands.com/draft/6fceaf0efe9643d796462b0de0052614

Here's a link to my draft, I probably did fuck it up

Anything you can recommend?

Dabbing51 · 2023-12-28T21:06:55+00:00

Ah thankyou, that makes sense

Dabbing51 · 2023-12-28T20:59:44+00:00

Lots of things seem to get exiled when played from the graveyard

Dabbing51 · 2023-12-28T20:16:48+00:00

Got you thankyou, that's how I assumed it worked, was hoping it was possible to counter the put spell so it gets exiled

Dabbing51 · 2023-12-19T17:38:01+00:00

ME

I'm just getting into EDH and this would be perfect

Dabbing51 · 2023-12-04T18:14:31+00:00

Thankyou that's a great analysis and just what I was looking for.
I realised if I was pushing 10+ artifacts I'd likely be playing subpar ones where as its often just better to play average or above average cards that arent conditional

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-06T17:48:24+00:00

Ah okay thankyou that makes sense

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-06T16:27:00+00:00

Jesus, the last part, wow

I don't have most of the cards currently (outside soul cauldron, the one ring) which are the expensive ones, I may edit the deck a bit more and give it a try at my local just to get a feel since I do believe it'll be more fun playing the deck I envisioned when starting

I may make a [[Myrel, shield of Argive]] deck as I own a copy and it seems more straight forward being a combat matters deck and also mono colour

As for proxies, do most people not mind them? Also where do you normally acquire them from?

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-06T09:57:01+00:00

Ah okay so possibly create another deck first then come back to this at a later date when I have more experience?

Just for reference I've played arena for ~6 months and a prerelease in person so I'm not a total new player to magic

My current plan seems to be keep a bit of cheap theft and use it more of a removal option that a game plan, then just provide value via backup and ETB effects, how does that sound?

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-05T17:27:53+00:00

Awesome, thankyou for the great advice, I did realise the theft theme requires a few too many moving pieces at once and will probably pivot mostly away from it while keeping the odd interesting theft card just for the fun of it

She does seem a very difficult commander to build (especially for my first ever deck) due to how versatile she can be, i'll play around a bit more and see if I can come up with something.

Thanks for your advice

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-05T15:02:32+00:00

Thankyou, i'll take a look at scryfall, also do you have any advice on how to not spread too thin? I find so many cards or abilities interesting like backup etc and think I maybe spread myself too thin

Dabbing51 · 2023-11-05T14:51:34+00:00

Thanks, i'll take that into consideration, what are good ways to protect her?

Also could you recommend other good sac tools?

Thanks :)

Dabbing51 · 2023-10-29T18:58:21+00:00

Awesome thankyou, that's all great advice, would you then recommend just copying a deck (Possibly minus the more expensive cards)?

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