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I start seeing decent R cards and almost picked Youth P1P1 (took Murderous Compulsion instead), so... is the dream of playing BR Madness finally at my door? (Murderous Compuslion -> Gryff's Boon -> Forgotten Creation -> Village Messenger -> more BR)

I see a bit less red toward the end of the pack, and open Tireless Tracker pack 2. Between that, green very obviously open after pack 1, and not getting many good cards in the first three picks in my colours, I probably should have switched (to BG, so I could keep my removal, and the Accursed Witch that somehow made it to me wtf), but I'm too stubborn and stay, thinking I'll splash the Tracker, even after the Masquerade doesn't wheel back and the last 4-5 picks are almost mono-green (I pick up Rabid Bite from it, but there's also Confront, Provisioner, etc. wtf, my last pick P2 is even a logger).
Pack 3 I take what I can in my colours, but I end up cutting a lot.

In the end I have ~10-12 cards each in black and red, and 8 green cards, some sideboard ones. I could play any pair plus splash the other colour for value, urgh.
Stick to BR splashing Tracker, I'll replace a Throttle with Bite later since I'm clearly aggro.

Match 1 vs UWr
He splashes for Sin Prodder, gets it out on curve and on the play with 2 mountains game 1. Reveals in order Niblis, Stormrider Spirit, Paranoid Parishblade, Sleep Paralysis.
The card solo-won him the game, and I had an Asylum Visitor so even his topplegeist from turn 1 would trade, or Prodder would get a 2-for-1. I also flood with over half lands while he's on 4 and would only need an island to play his whole hand. Guy to my left tells me I have more lands than my opponent so it's not just luck of the draw and I've got a good position and am negative... aggro flooding against a Sin Prodder overflowing with value, can you shut up when you don't know what you're talking about?
Bit miffed. My opponent has to mull to 5 game 2 and has a bit of a slow start, so double Duelist + the Bite I just sided in do work and I win it. I win game 3 in a similar fashion with a bit more removal and the appearance of Tracker tilting my opponent.

Match 2 vs BR
I'm paired down here iirc. And... I learn that in our 6-man pod 3 of us actually drafted BR. The guy who chimed in during the first match is the one who got most of the payoff and strong cards, I got better B stuff (Twins, Compulsion, Dead Weight, Stallion, Crow+Waltz, basically) and my splash. And my current opponent, well... he got the crumbs. He even had Shamble Back, Vessel of Malignity, Hulking Devil and Pick the Brain main deck. And game 1 got stuck without a swamp for 4 turns after a mull.
Game 2 we both mulled, but I drew more gas. He took out Murderous Compulsion over Spiteful Motives with Pick the Brain, surprised me until he dropped a Necropod. He had misplayed beforehand and used his Waltz (so did I, for tempo while he couldn't replace the creatures I traded with) so with more cards in hand and a life, and overall card quality advantage, I shoved 2 creatures and uncaged fury just to kill it. I closed a couple turns later.

Match 3 vs UWr
Last the guy yesterday, he played bounce and stuff, and splashed Burn from Within. 'cept he had less flyers and more angelic puge, censer, etc.
Game 1 he mulls to 5 on the play, then... passes to me. Without playing a land. I'm really surprised he didn't try the mull to 4 for this, I doubt he'd lose something for it (apparently drawing an island would be enough to turn his hand on). He draws his first land, a plains, 4 turns later and concedes.
Game 2 I play the messenger (for the first time) turn 1, prompting a Burn from Within turn 2 to prevent it from flipping. Massive win for me value-wise. Turn 4 I get the option to play Ulrich's Kindred or Accursed Witch, I think about baiting with the former but play the Witch... into an Angelic Purge on his turn. That'll teach me.
The game ends up somewhat closer because I don't have any temper or stuff to get rid of blockers or Burn/Avacyn's Judgement for reach, but Spiteful Motives creates big trades, allowing me to develop the board while he removes the enchanted creature, and in the end an unblocked creature gets an Uncaged Fury for the win.

Considering the first game we played a 3rd one for kicks, and he won that one. I kept an hilariously bad hand (Swamp, Forest, Bite, Voices, Fury, Motives. Didn't notice I didn't have the mountain to cycle it before turn 3), starting to play on turn 4, and facing a more developed board where he could abuse his Censer, he got to play his Aberrant Researcher, Motives and Fury barely even got to parity (Twins+Fury to kill an Inspiring Captain equipped with the Censer... what a bad play from me), and the Censer voids my Murderous Compulsion to deal with the flyer. He also showed me Declaration in Stone.
I'm not sure who'd have won a "fair" match considering the bad hand I kept when he won, and the no-lander he kept when I won.