Riot Control and Maze Rusher are both great. I'm leaning towards Riot Control. It'll help us get to the late game.
Even this late in the pick, this pack has some good things for us!
July 4, 2013 2:22 p.m.
so... three playable cards wheeled. interesting. murmuring phantasm is not a bad card, and we need early drops -- but I sort of want to take maze rusher in case we don't end up playing black.
+1 maze rusher
July 4, 2013 2:24 p.m.
+1 maze rusher
I'll jump on board. I played a 3x DGM draft last weekend and found that big creatures were at a premium and very effective with all the cluestone ramping going around.
July 4, 2013 2:51 p.m.
Wait, phantasm is blue....
We might be drafting too many six drops. Maze Rusher is probably the best of the cards, but our curve...
Both phantasm and riot control help play out the aetherling.dec strategy, but of those two, phantasm, as the blue card, is probably more reliable.
Still, rusher is probably good enough to warrant taking it. But I'm not sure.
July 4, 2013 3:55 p.m.
We have two more packs to work out our curve. Don't worry about taking the rusher over that.
July 4, 2013 4:27 p.m.
RousseausDisciple says... #9
I'll +1 Maze Rusher , but only because it's pack 1 AND supports Blast of Genius .
July 4, 2013 6:10 p.m.
good point, RousseausDisciple. Extra 6 drops can be fodder for the BoG cannon.
July 4, 2013 7:53 p.m.
Riot Control is just an all round great card that can bail us out of situations and stall aggro decks. It would be foolish to not have one, even if there is a possibility of getting another one in a later pack.
July 5, 2013 2:15 a.m.
The question is whether we go Black or White as a splash as to how useful Riot Control ends up being to us.
If we go white then I'm all for the Riot.
July 5, 2013 11:30 a.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #17
+1 dat piker. I'm surprised no one wanted him. Its difficult to deal with early. And its only 2 CMC
July 5, 2013 1:09 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #18
I'm just going to assume there aren't going to be four picks for something other than Riot Piker in the next hour. :P
July 5, 2013 1:54 p.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #19
Nah, sinister possession isn't good enough. Plus, landot picked the piker, and he would be the one autodrafting for us anyway
July 5, 2013 2:11 p.m.
I just wanted to see if there was a mass upswelling of interest in protect / serve since we're sort of veering azorius. I know that there are a few fans of sinister possession.dec, too. Looks like we're done for today, though -- Pack 2 pick 1 tomorrow.
July 5, 2013 2:59 p.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #23
Protect//Serve sucks... we don't need combat tricks to steal a victory, we just need to get to 6 mana. And what were our 2 auto picks?
July 5, 2013 4:26 p.m.
don't know about the autopicks yet. Kaley is waiting on other groups to get picks 13 in.
July 5, 2013 4:33 p.m.
Piker is pretty boss, why didn't he get snagged earlier I wonder.
magerob says... #1
Maze rusher or Riot control both look good. I don't like passing maze rusher this late due to how much damage it can do, but we probably don't want another 6 drop.
July 4, 2013 2:21 p.m.