Catalog or Veil of Birds seem like the strongest picks for us. I'm going to give the edge to the birds, a 1/1 flyer for 1 seems really strong, and all your opponent has to do is cast one spell. Doesn't seem like a condition that is impossible to fulfill. We need to take some creatures at some point.

I'd have to pick Catalog or Exhume. Exhume is amazing, but we need to get some power creatures if we want to make use of it. Otherwise it's just too risky.

Without a reliable way to put creatures in the graveyard and the bombs to go with it, playing Exhume represents as much of a risk as a reward. I love the card to death, but it's not much for limited I fear.

I would probably take Catalog at this point.

The best card seems to be Symbiosis. As combat tricks go it's a good one. But this leads us to the problem of it being the fourth colour, and really we should probably draw a line there.

Catalog because card accel that's not too costly is always relevant.

Veil of Birds. Thus far it fits our curve better and could allow us to get some early damage in/draw out some early removal.

Symbiosis is good enough I'm tempted to take it even as a hate pick.

I like Catalog, but I'm not sure what we're filtering. Strictly speaking, it's not card advantage. It might help us out of a color screw problem. It may help us find answers, but at a cost of 3cc it may be tough to cast that answer if we find it. Compelling, but I'm not sold.

I can be swayed, but I'm voting Veil of Birds, It will be nice in the early game and serves as cheap sac fodder for our black beater.

They're both definately good. My reasoning is thus: Veil of Birds is a good early play but at the end of the day it's still a 1/1. I don't consider it to be a very threatening card, all it has going for it is evasion.

Catalog however allows us to draw two cards, increasing our draws over our opponant, at the cost of discarding one card from our hand, not even one of the two we just drew (unless our hand is empty). It's instant so we can easily do it at the end of their turn. In my opinion it's like an upgraded Faithless Looting. You pay two more and only have to discard one card.

I won't be too upset if we go veil (and I am painfully aware that we're on a grand total of two creatures thus far) but I just think Catalog is the better choice.

My pick is still Catalog but I would be happy enough with the Veil of Birds if it gets chosen.

I really want to choose some off the wall card here, but Catalog or Exhume would be the best choices. If we could have both, then we'd have ourselves a combo going. As it is, we have no reliable way to get a creature in the graveyard (nor any creatures worth doing that to). As it was well said earlier. the 1 mana blue enchantment only becomes a 1/1 flyer and is pretty much a dead card late in the game. Even early in the game it isn't great. With our current direction, we'll want the card advantage over the board advantage.

So I'll go with Catalog although the hate pick of Symbiosis would be a reasonable decision as well. Two creatures get a +2/+2 bonus. It's basically a titanic growth spread across two creatures.

Catalog

+1 Catalog

I'm going to argue for Catalog, and this is why.

Let's say we are in a losing board position. Our opponent will have us dead soon, and we need to find an answer. We draw, and to our despair, it's Veil of Birds.

While normally this would be fine, our opponent does not need to cast any spells to beat us.

However, if we had drawn Catalog, it would allow us to dig for an answer, possible gaining us extra turns and perhaps even coming back into the fight.

Thus, Catalog gets my vote.

-BuLLZ3Y3

Also, remember we have 8(?) more picks after this one, and two more packs after that. We have plenty of time to pick up creatures.

-BuLLZ3Y3

(I wonder if we could get an "Edit" button for posts, that way we don't need to double-post if we have a thought afterward...)

Let's go with Catalog.

Veil of Birds is quite good, but not for the deck we're building here... And we aren't worried about it; finally a target for Sicken!

+1 Catalog:

Could potentially get even deeper into the deck if we draw a card with Cycling and we're really searching for an answer.

It also gives us card selection, which gives us choices, which gives us decisions, which win games.

I'd rather be searching for an answer and swinging for 1.

Curfew or Exhume. Exhume opens up a whole plan B for us if we pick a stupid fatty later on. Curfew is great in blue black, though -- in some cases it will let us blink spire owl to re-filter cards, in some caes it will be strategic removal; regardless, giving us access to a second round of our best ETB effect is good. My vote is Curfew. Otherwise we should take Exhume and hope that catalog tables.

Catalog is a nice solid card.

going w/ the Veil of Birds we have so few creatures i just can't vote for the draw spell... but it would be my second choice.

Veil of Birds is not a creature... it's a quasi-creature.

I have seen very few 1-2 drop aggressors that the Veil of Birds could out-race (or kill) ergo the reason for my Catalog vote. The 1/1 bird is at best a blocker. It will never race.

we seem to have stalled out here... Shoots up signal flares in KC's direction hoping that he brings us a new pack.

Yeah, give me a bit. It takes a bit of time to bring you a new pack and I am pretty slammed just at the moment. Probably later today.

Yeah, give me a bit. It takes a bit of time to bring you a new pack and I am pretty slammed just at the moment. Probably later today.

err uh... what happened?

Has something untoward happened to Krazy Caley? Have not seem activity in like 3 weeks. Anyone know him (assuming it's a he) real life?

Oh damnit, I just realized.

I doomed it because whatever I join ends up dissolving within a month or so. :(

(At least my LGS is still around! ... for now!)