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Pack 1
Pretty easy pick 1: animation module goes almost anywhere with any deck (fabrication, Thriving, etc.) Hunt the Weak is perfectly acceptable removal, though a bit conditional, and Embraal Bruiser needs the aggressive black deck. The Prism is fine fixing, but definitely not what I want to be doing with P1P1.
Pick 2
Feels similar to above with removal and fixing. I really like Servant of the Conduit, it can be one of the best cards in the Temur energy deck. But I like blasting creatures more. I take Harnessed Lightning.
Pick 3
What the? I mean, sure I'll speculate on Panharmonicon. Don't have to twist my arm.
Pick 4
Pretty uninspiring. I probably should have taken the goggles or Pyrohelix given how I had a red ard (and the helix is... fine) or stayed open. I take the Thriving Rats for reasons not entirely clear to me.
Pick 5
I consider this pack to be my first "signal". Fateful Showdown isn't a bomb by any stretch, but it can be a powerful situational card mixing removal and refreshing a stale hand. A below average case would be 4 mana to deal two damage and loot two lands. I'd pay that.
The rest of the pack goes very straightforward, with nearly a straight playset of Thriving Grubs (two drops are valuable!) an
Pack 2
I'm not sure if there even is an Inventor's Fair deck (B/U control artifacts?) but what I have isn't it. Start Your Engines just isn't that great and I have zero vehicles. Aethertorch is fine but the wrong kind of three drop. So it's between the Weldfast Monitor and the Glint-Sleeve. both fine three-drops. I get greedy and go with the Glint, hoping that the white (which was SO EMPTY being passed to me) might be wide open coming back to the right.
Spoiler: it didn't work. But I wonder if it was worth the risk?
The rest of the pack is pretty straightforward with just good artifacts and red cards until I see a Fretwork Colony at P2P7. Black as a second color it is!
Pack 3
Yeah okay, sometimes you get lucky.
Mistakes
P1P4: As mentioned, the Thriving Rats shouldn't be the pick here. Either the universal C of Inventor's Goggles or a second piece of decent/mediocre-ish red removal is a better pick.P2P5: Reckless Fireweaver is just not the 2-drop I want, especially with an Eager Construct RIGHT THERE.
P3P4: Yet another Reckless Fireweaver! I think the Syndicate Trafficker is a better pick here. I shied away from it because it really needs servos to eat to shine, but even barring ANY servos, it's still a 3/1 vanilla. Better than a 1/3!
P3P7: I probably should have grabbed a fifth (!) grubs instead of a fifth 4-drop. I might have been over-counting my lame Reckless Fireweavers as 2-drops I wanted to run.
Draft: http://draftsignals.com/draft/-KYqSo3XRZsg5uDsi2UX
Deck
I'm cautiously enthusiastic about this deck. Curves out nice creature-wise: 7x 2-drop, 4x 3-drop, 4x 4-drop. One good trick, 2 good pieces of removal, some strong vehicles and a Treason finisher. I wish I had another good three drop (and anything other than the damn reckless fireweaver). 16 lands is definitely the right place. I would consider dropping to 15 if I didn't have the 5-drop beef. But I do so I don't.
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