Draft with special guest star: Chris!

We have a very special episode of magicanotes here for you today! Coming down from his lair on Cap Hill we have our very own Chris Gabble co-piloting a draft with us. Team C-Jed (the portmanteau 'Ched' was vetoed as we draft with too many Chads) has a strong track record of drafting ridiculous aggro decks with the occasional rare-draft thrown in for spice.

But it's like, $30!!!1!

So how did we do?

http://draftsignals.com/draft/-Kx6dz97QH0-wvU8QZfl

Holy SHIT what the hell happened? A weak P1p1 but you can start a draft with a cutlass and not feel TOO bad. Running black removal and then Wanted Scoundrels feels pretty good. Then the playable black cards completely dry up and we start taking some decent white, thinking vampires. Then we get a fair signal:

Pack 1, Pick 7

Flavor text win too.

Great card and we move into red. Above average playables (a late Sure Strike, Fathom Fleet Firebrand, etc.) continue to flow late so we feel okay about this. We got some options in pack 2. Given how little black we passed and how early it dried up, we're thinking that we'll get hooked up in black on the backswing. Loyal reader, for whatever reason, this didn't happen. We got tricked with some early decent black (pick 4 Scoundrels!) and we mentally committed to red black aggro. Then the black completely dried up and the white flowed like wine. So many passed Hammerskulls. So many!

But still, we can make this work. We got the tricks! The removal!

Everything, it turned out, but the creatures.

Yup, that's right, the rarely seen 15 creature aggro deck. Still, we could have some pretty nutty draws with this thing. Some great removal, some great tricks. Will the shuffle gods cooperate?

Nope!

Sometimes shit happens. I think that the player on our left made a bold move into black for... reasons. Maybe they opened a Vraska in pack 2? This left us with a dinosaur deck but we were in black, not white, and the oomph just wasn't there. Fun draft though!

Same as the old boss

Let's draft!

http://draftsignals.com/draft/-Kwco-biCfxSy7ijmweC

Pack 1

Pick 1

   

Ixalan Binge Drafting

I had a nice window of opportunity when my wife ran off with our child to get some grandma time in New Jersey. I sat by the window, mournfully looking at the rain beating down while a piano plays in a minor key.

No, I tell a lie. I binged drafted all week. Woooo!

Ixalan Draft #2

Wife took the baby to go get some grandma time in New Jersey. MASH THAT DRAFT BUTTON

http://draftsignals.com/draft/-Kvly_yoTu0EGs_Vc4Ai

Pack 1

Pick 1

  

Inaugural Ixalan Draft! 10-1-17

Got the morning to myself when my wife took Helen to breakfast. HOW FAST CAN I DRAFT AND PLAY THREE ROUNDS?! GO GO GO GO.

 

http://draftsignals.com/draft/-KvO7EoAYu6woZ1r9X3O

Pack 1

Pick 1

   
Well that's not the rare you want to see but that IS the mythic uncommon you want to see! The Monstrosaur (not... not a great name R&D) is a pretty easily windmill slam. The Huntmaster is pretty good but you want to get those to power out your Monstrosaur.