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We were 12 which is really surprising for a thursday, but there was a couple who bought the welcome set thing and were trying the draft together.
Opened Plate of the Slayers with Town Gossipmonger as another potential first pick. Never played with the Plate so I decided to go with it, try to collect humans, and close games with 5/3 flying spirits if nothing else.
Ended up in BW, Red hilariously often made the wheel twice before getting picked up with Fiery Temper and Voldaren Duelists running around, Arsonists ended up the last card in a pack twice, etc.
I had 2x ghoulcaller's accomplice, 2x Nearheath Chaplain, Open the Armoury for Plate or Censer, Thraben Inspector, 3-4 pieces of removal, Accursed Witch, Avacynian Missionaries, and banking on the wheel got 2 Abandoned Sanctuaries that'll be of use in my standard deck.

I ended up facing the woman match 1, she remained stuck at 2 mana for most of the first game so it was pretty one-sided. She was on UG clues which seems hard for a beginner since it doesn't have a clearly-defined wincon, and her right neighbour was in UB so he kept most good U cards from her.

Match 2 was against said neighbour, who got passed Startled Awake pick 2. He had lands, bounces (so Vessel of Ephemera useless) and Startled Awake in hand game 1 and proudly announced I'd be dead by turn 7. Because of a mull I actually only lost on turn 9 and joked that I had a moral victory. Game 2 he drew it turn 2 so the same happened, although I was on 2 lands the entire game and with a 3rd one I'd probably have won (he played kinda arrogantly and took a lot of damage, I had a censer out, and with the 3rd land I could activate vessel again, or turn Nearheath Chaplain into tokens, or just Angelic Purge the creature side away then finish him in a couple turns).
Not really a match with such hands.

Match 3 was against the man of the couple, who was on GW (my left neighbour) and had just defeated his girlfriend with a mix of delirium payoff (Soul Swallower, Ooze, Moorland Drifter with Hope Against Hope attached). Gave them a bit of advice (especially her, who held Broken Concentration with open mana but never actually countered the Swallower nor Ooze).
I won partly because I drafted some removal and managed to trade life for his creatures (chumping cult then killing it with Pale Rider + madness'd Murderous Compulsion pretty good swing for 4 mana), and partly because he couldn't deal with the ton of tokens I could make. I killed him with only 1/1 flying spirits game 2 because Moldgraf Scavenger is annoying to bypass and I traded for his actual creatures pretty aggressively.

So every match was kinda one-sided, although the 2nd against the woman and the ones against the man were more interesting in a "help a newcomer wrap his head around the game fashion", and everyone was globally friendly. Of course our table was the low level one too, which helped.
Missed Jace, Ulvenwald Hydra and GW land, but picked up another Thalia's Lieutenant and Startled Awake.

If the couple comes back I'll give them the 120 or so excess SoI cards I have instead of getting to 200 then selling it for some €. It's all draft chaff but if they're newcomers it'll help them for kitchen table.