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Alaric, I'm not sure what is causing you to rage all the time and how you complain about getting screwed all the time, but I really and truly wish I could see what/how you draft because nobody I know seems to experience things the same way, even when they do get screwed (which obviously happens every so often). Like, I want to help you/see what you're doing wrong or SOMETHING because after nights like this I have no idea how/why we experience the game so fundamentally differently. I remember reading stuff in your last rant that made me go wtf....can't remember exactly what it was, something about being mana screwed again or something but when you described it, it didn't seem like screw at all? Or something about a guy drawing 9/16 lands and calling that flooded? I dunno what I'm even talking about now I'm rambling here. Oh I remember you were also complaining about if you don't have a 2 drop you lose I think, but that's simply and completely untrue. If you want to see the breakdown of my decks I can post them for you in a PM or link them for you later I JUST WANT TO HELP YOU BE GOOD MAN

Your picture looks like the kind of thing my round 2 opponent would have wanted to do yesterday. The potential on Handicraft is super high and it's not that bad if drawn late (well... it's expensive, still onboard team buff), but you take a tempo hit playing it early so you better curve out the next 2-3 drops to make them bigger too and stabilise. Looking forward to play around with it.
Trumpeteer hasn't impressed me too much, but it needs the right cards to go with it, obviously harder in sealed (sealed tl;dr regarding fabricate is that it's a lot rarer than I would have thought reading the full spoiler).

Also I got stuck on one mana for 7 turns after having to mull to 5 (on the draw but still) and scrying bottom. Your guy is lucky to have two mana, I tell you!


I'll take the links for your decks, I think it's often just as interesting as the writeup (well, in general; obviously the reddit "draft writeups" of a guy playing 6+ first pick worthy cards and two mythics just make me shake my head at his table and close the tab), especially in this format with the balance to hit between vehicles, artifact creatures, tricks, etc.
For example I've opened Aviator's Goggles at the draft and 2+ sealed but never maindecked them, so I'm curious to see what that deck looked like, how many artificers/quality of your removal, etc. (first PR had so much removal it was a given I wouldn't have room in the non-creatures slots f/e).
Also surprised that you seem to dislike Hydra. Sure it's not a super mythic card, but if you can produce energy it's a bomb in its own right. I think it highlights very well the strength of energy not depleting, and giving you options even when tapped out.


About my mana, I tend to call flooded when I draw 55-60%+ lands over the whole game, or when I dip at 25%- or 65%+ lands during the early game (like 3 lands 9 spells, or 6 spells 10 lands), if you want hard numbers.
Depends on context too. I lost two of the draft's games from lacking another swamp for Tidy Conclusion, but I was splashing for Aethersquall Ancient, which I probably shouldn't have, and had an island in play each game (50% it be a plains or swamp otherwise).
These ones are on me, and lesson learnt: with the high amount of double symbols in the set, taking them into account no matter their cmc when building your mana base needs more attention than in previous blocks, especially since the fixing doesn't seem good outside of G. I had 8 sources for both W/B in that deck and getting 2 of each was a challenge.

As a reminder, in 25 packs I haven't opened a single Prophetic Prism or Attune with Aether, so my views on fixing and splashing are pretty skewed (got my Aether Hubs playset though!).
And my first experiences were a 3-2 record which reads "3 wins, then mana variance" (mulls taken each of the 4 losses due to 0-1 landers, miss 3rd land drop 3+ turns then don't get 4th, 5 spells from the starting hand and 8+ lands, etc.) -> rage sunday PR because "look I kinda want to actually play the set, not watch my opponents do it... " with the worst pool I've ever had, that didn't splash and still managed to get 2 of the 5 matches decided by mana.
So combine all that, a bunch of people playing G and as such turning a missed land drop into creatures I can't even trade with by double blocking a couple turns later, etc. and you get my fixation on curving out.

If the things that made you go "wtf" in my last post were from my first match, it was probably confusing wording on my part. My opponent, the guy who's even saltier than me, said a lot of things like complaining about his mana when he splashed harder than me with no fixing; luckily for him half his bombs were artifacts, though almost half still ended up double-symbol cards that he expected to cast on curve and stuff like that.

As for my rage, well (it's uselessy long and filled with "I") + Show Spoiler +

My Left leg Is So Fucked T.T