Why does it say our last pick was a drake?

This is a pretty tough one. I really hate taking off-colour gates over on-colour good stuff. One question we need to answer is, how many gates do we need?

Assume 17 land (though I kind of prefer 18, but in this case it dilutes our gates). One more gate gives us roughly 1/4 of our landbase as gates. So by turn 4, we'll have 1 gate on average, if we hit all the land drops. If we got 5 then we'd be at just under a third, which is probably ideal.

So, once we get 2 more guild gates we should not take any more over functional picks (except perhaps an on-colour gate). We have about 10 picks left, and so far we've seen gates in every pack. I feel like we could get away with waiting one more pack, and I really like the idea of that other gatekeeper.. but I guess we'll play it safe.

+1 guildgate (begrudgingly)

Yay for gate that doesn't produce any of our colors.

+1 Gate

What? It produces black.

Okay, I'm having a gut feeling here. I know I'm contradicting myself, but my gut says we can wait one more turn. But only one.

-1 Gate

+1 Gatekeepers

Oh alright, it doesn't take much to convince me to be greedy.

-1 gate

+1 gatekeeper (yay greed)

Honestly, I think Ubul Sar Gatekeepers is an awesome card. I've played in a couple of pauper tournaments lately, and that card has saved my tail so many times. I have to vote for him, he's removal + blocker and that's everything we need to hit hard with our red keepers.

+1 Ubul Sar Gatekeepers

Here's to rolling the dice! (fingers crossed)

Oh yeah the gate does produce black. Stupid me.

We really really really need to take a gate next round no matter what then guys. But I like the risktaker spirit in you all.

Kay, Gatekeepers it is then.

Calling the crew for pack 3, pick 5: vic, thebeardedshuffler, tigersfan774, VRonin, anewsome, GoldGhost012, xXBantbladesXx

Why, hello there, it's an Orzhov Guildgate !

Haha. Wow.

+1 gate

+1 Trait Doctoring

What's wrong with you two this is a windmill slam bomb! WE CAN EXTORT EVERY TIME WE DEAL DAMAGE! Value town, population us!

Also we need to keep an eye out for extort from here on out.

Yes, obviously I'm kidding.

imagines doing a windmill slam on MTGO

Uh, what were you saying again? Ah yes, the gate.

Shazzam! I mean...phew! No no, definitely shazzam.

That Simic Cluestone came just in the nick of time.

FYI, I already forwarded our pick, since it seems so obvious.

I noticed that. Most obvious call of the draft for us. Now if we can just get one more, we'll be looking really good.

A Boros or Rakdos Guildgate would be great right about now just so we have a red producing gate...

True, though W/B are our main colours, and so their fixing is helpful. Right now I think I'd run 5 mountains, our 4 gates, 4 plains and 4 swamps. Though it'd be easy to shift it to 3 plains 5 swamps. Right now, we're actually more of a black deck, splashing red and white.

Will hopefully get a rakdos gate if we're lucky. But seriously some more creatures would be nice.

It seems like we're a little low on win conditions. Is our best creature based win condition the Rakdos Drakes?

Don't underestimate them! We can also win through maw of the obzedat, stealing a badass bomb with the smelt-ward gatekeepers, and of course, debt tot he deathless and toil / trouble are pretty bomby too.

We may have to use the sinister possession's to negate early aggro plays by our opponents, though.

Yes, if we can run 5 gates, then our 6 gatekeepers will be our route to board advantage.

Calling the crew for pack 3, pick 6: vic, thebeardedshuffler, tigersfan774, VRonin, anewsome, GoldGhost012, xXBantbladesXx