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Chaplain's Blessing, Inspiring Captain, Vessel of Ephemera
Explosive Apparatus

Dance with Devils, Fiery Temper, Insolent Neonate, Senseless Rage, Stensia Masquerade, Tormenting Voices

Deny Existence x2, Niblis of Dusk, Press for Answers, Silent Observer, Stormrider Spirit, Trail of Evidence, Uninvited Geist, Forgotten Creation, Vessel of Paramnesia, Thing in the Ice

Call the Bloodline, Dead Weight, Accomplice, Ghoulsteed, Grotesque Mutation, Heir of Falkenrath, Farbog Hound, Indulgent Aristocrat, Kindly Stranger, Liliana's Indignation, Merciless Resolve, Murderous Compulsion, Pick the Brain x2, Rancid Rats, Sanitarium Skeleton, Twins, Vessel of Malignity

Bolded is the stuff I had in my deck (no duplicates though).

Pack 1
I open Thing and take it. On my next 5-6 picks, I have the Inspiring Captain, Dance with Devils, Stensia Masquerade, Stormrider Spirit, Murderous Compulsion.
At this point I'm just hoping I can move into the UR deck since I haven't been able to play it yet, Thing slots well and yesterday gave me some insight about how you can use tempo.
After that I see basically no blue at all though. Some green, but mostly black cards, so I start picking them.
By the end of the pack, I'm disappointed, but it looks like I've been forced into BR by my right neighbours (one of them gave a Recruite to his neighbour so I know somebody's prob green).

Pack 2
I open Silverfur Partisan, but the first 3 packs I see have multiple decent to very good blue cards, and I'm disheartened that somebody cut me so hard from it. I pass Reckless Scholar, Sleep Paralysis, Ongoing Investigations, etc. and start picking some vampires and generic B cards, including a mid-pack Call the Bloodline.
What surprise me is that somewhat decent U cards are making the wheel (Just the Wind, another Niblis, etc.). I'd really rather try and play UR or UB at this point and I'm thinking that if there's hope people aren't picking that much of it I may be able to play a mostly black UB or something. Near the end of the pack, I decide to try and pick some blue and see where things go.
This was probably a mistake, and I should have went as hard as I could into BR vampires/madness. However, cards were often mangled together so that I'd get packs with no picks of note (such as when I took the black vessel) and then packs with Bloodmad Vampire, Senseless Rage, Indolent Neonate, etc. without even counting the B cards.
I'm really uncomfortable because the end of the first pack shoved me out of one of my colours, and the second pack made it so I saw a lot of good cards in all 3 colours and always together so a good half of my pool feels like garbage/filler at that point.

Pack 3
I decide here to take blue cards if I see them, screw the others, because not many red/black made the wheel despite the loaded packs, while blue did. Of course the quality becomes scarce fast, and I don't get any card as good as what I passed pack 1. Meanwhile red seems almost empty too, partly because when there are decent cards it's pack 2 all over again with everything stacked in the same packs. Black's still open so I get to pick a bunch of stuff.

In the end, from left to right it went UB, G-something (W I think?), UB (me), UR, UWg (he got passed Always Watching, Tenacity and other cards like that pack 2 by the UR guy so he switched from UG to UW).

Clearly, I should have tried BR vampires. Masquerade + Call + Heir and a Neonate could have made for a potentially very explosive deck.
On the other hand we didn't have any Youths, the Gorger never reached me and somebody picked the other Heir a bit ahead of me, most of the removal (saved for tricks, Adrenaline Rush x2 and Senseless Rage x2 that I saw) was already taken elsewhere too... dunno how it'd have fared, although Call+Indulgent Aristocrat could have been nuts.

Instead I had people look at me funny and seem really annoyed when my turn 3 plays were Pick the Brain (3 lands, Declaration, Purge, Odric; the other time I exiled Corpse Trawler over Prized Amalgam because Thing can block a 3/3 but deathtouch is a deal breaker), or Deny Existence (on Amalgam this time).
Would they have liked it more had I played actual good 3-drops in my colours instead? Uh. It tells you your opponent has a weak as fuck deck when he needed that to fill his 23 spots, rejoice instead.

Did you spot the kidney bean in a tutu having a seizure?

This is kind of ruined by the kidney bean being plainly visible in the background before you even press play.