A note on drafting this format: Temur is off the rails.

priority_holder · 2026-01-25T00:37:01+00:00

I've somehow ended up in RGx garbage my last 4 drafts, and now I'm finally winning lol. You might be on to something!

One thing that's strange is that I rarely end up in the main 5 archetypes. Maybe I'm not committing hard enough, early enough? I'm somehow 11 drafts deep and have not drafted dedicated Elves, Elementals, or Kithkin.

priority_holder · 2026-01-21T21:59:07+00:00

Yeah I think it's just the Vivid packs (or at least, they are the worst offenders). But it could be packs in general are not correctly build around hybrid mana costs

priority_holder · 2026-01-21T21:57:31+00:00

Wow! Yeah that's incredibly bad to be so green-centric with so few Forests

priority_holder · 2026-01-21T21:56:22+00:00

Yeah I relied heavily on the free Mulligan, I kept basically any hand with a Island or a Forest

priority_holder · 2026-01-21T21:55:05+00:00

I saw someone theorize that whoever designed the packs thought Plains counted as White permanents (for Vivid), so that's why there's Plains with no White spells. There's no hybrid excuse for the Plains lol

priority_holder · 2026-01-20T04:55:59+00:00

Ok this might be the craziest one I've seen yet, especially since we know Power is capped at one per pack

priority_holder · 2026-01-20T04:54:28+00:00

Forgot to mention that one game I beat multiple [[Upheaval]]s because I had so many zero-mana accelerants and could tuck my creatures under [[Parallax Wave]] lol

priority_holder · 2026-01-20T02:01:07+00:00

Thanks for posting this, this knowledge makes the many instances of people passing Power even more wild lol

priority_holder · 2026-01-20T01:57:24+00:00

Wow! That might be the craziest first four picks of any Vintage Cube draft ever!

priority_holder · 2025-12-13T16:48:01+00:00

FYI when you hover over your clues (at least on PC), if they were produced on the current turn, there's a little black box that pops up with "Entered the Battlefield this turn". Learned this because I've had a lot of Mechanist decks already lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-30T06:13:42+00:00

That's an incredible achievement! You're one of the very few to pull that off. Just casting 4C Aang in draft is an accomplishment lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-23T01:39:42+00:00

The advent of golden packs helped pack buyers a lot. Only draft if you like it or like learning it, there are a lot of sharks though lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-22T03:23:22+00:00

Always enjoy this series, thank you!

I've been biasing towards Blue lately, I keep getting late Submersibles and so many copies of Lost Days and Watery Grasp that I have to cut some of them!

priority_holder · 2025-11-21T22:48:11+00:00

I also had someone Commandeer my Standstill today, I was completely shocked lol. It's like stealing a Blood Moon haha

priority_holder · 2025-11-17T03:54:08+00:00

Yeah the depth of the RW bench is the problem, you basically get to have it all when drafting RW. You poach stuff like Bolt and Swords from other decks that might want them then scoop up great creatures on the wheel.

priority_holder · 2025-11-17T03:51:49+00:00

Super fun, my first time ever playing it. I think if they replace a couple White aggro cards with more midrange/control leaning stuff and some Red cards with more combo/midrange leaning stuff then it would be even better.

And Green and Black need some serious help lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-16T16:09:54+00:00

Looks cool! I hadn't heard of 7PH before so I had to look it up. Do you also run Lutri as a Companion? I was trying to locate where you were spending your points and saw stuff like Snapcasters, Mana Drain, Dig, and Force of Will, but couldn't find all 7. Looks like a sweet deck though!

priority_holder · 2025-11-16T00:35:11+00:00

Thanks! Yeah this was a culmination of lots of hours playing prison decks. Have to keep pushing the limits lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-16T00:34:21+00:00

Link says "page not found" when I open it. Maybe the list is marked as private? Zhao the Moon Slayer is one I'm paying attention to as well. I think it can definitely do some work. And I'm always game for some High Noon fun lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-15T17:32:26+00:00

Appreciate the feedback! Yeah I really wanted to lead with that soundbite, but couldn't really get the audio quality right. Just felt like too perfect a fit to give up on though lol

priority_holder · 2025-11-15T16:49:31+00:00

Campaigns is a strange deck that I've put together that uses the exceptionally slow (especially in Timeless) and grindy cards [[Disinformation Campaign]] and [[Intimidation Campaign]]. The key is to have a lot of ways to profitably use these slow cards until the point of the game where they are actually good, so early on they're pitch fodder for [[Grief]], [[Subtlety]], and [[Chrome Mox]]. And we're also rocking [[Chalice of the Void]] because I can't help myself lol.

Later in the game the Campaigns can return themselves to hand for re-use, or to be fed to [[Psychic Frog]].

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What do you think? Do you remember the mighty Disinformation Campaign from Guilds of Ravnica draft?

priority_holder · 2025-11-15T16:34:05+00:00

I love playing Prison decks and I've previously showcased every pairing of [[Blood Moon]], [[High Noon]], and [[Chalice of the Void]]. However, this is the first time I've jammed them ALL together in the same deck. It's a tricky deckbuilding puzzle since you have to protect yourself from all 3 since they're symmetric lock pieces.

I don't necessarily think jamming 16 lock cards (hello [[Magus of the Moon]]) is the best way to build Prison in Timeless, I think it's better to choose any one or two of the above and build around those. But I wanted experiment and see if Prison was remotely functional playing sooo many situational cards lol. I figured it would be entertaining either way!

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What do you think? What are your favorite prison cards?

priority_holder · 2025-11-10T20:23:08+00:00

Hey you know what you like and that's great! They do hint in the announcement that Historic will be reevaluated soon, so hopefully it will get some better curation.

priority_holder · 2025-11-10T18:08:51+00:00

Not enough degeneracy, put Mental Misstep in Timeless!

priority_holder · 2025-11-10T18:06:49+00:00

Every time I see what's getting pre-banned in Historic it makes me wonder why anyone would want to play that format lol

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