Well, 2 of the keyrunes could replace 1 land, so 17 lands would be plenty I would think.

It really depends on what we get passed, Hopefully, some of our picks will be gates that will help our colorfix more, and we would trade out some of our spells for better replacements if we got them. I think we have plenty of combat tricks/noncreature spells personally, so I'd prioritize gates and creatures.

So Teysa it is?

I think the only votes cast have all been for Teysa.

we'll have to see but right now we have more blue cards than green cards, and we definitely want to be playing green....

Teysa wins!

Next pack in 5 hours 46 minutes.

Hmmm Guildgate? Right in the colors we need.

yup yup, guildgate all the way.

Yea, Simic Guildgate looks like our pick.

+1 Simic Guildgate

I wouldn't mind the opal, the Rakdos Drake, or the Kraul Warrior, but we will still get a chance at those cards. Most people are trying to color fix at this point and the gate will not cycle back, I'm pretty sure. The others might.

Yeah, none of the cards here are more important than the guildgate. A very red pack, so naturally not much we can take.

Even if we don't get more gatekeepers we still need gates for fixing. The gates are useful without the keepers, but the keepers aren't useful without the gates, hence we should take the gate first.

not taking the removal is difficult but our plan has sent us this way

+1 Simic Guildgate

Yeah I'd say the choices are the guildgate or the gatekeeper. We were all mostly saying we needed more gates and this one is in our colours. I say go with the Gate

+1 Simic Guildgate

Yep, I agree, not a lot in this pack that's important enough to take over the gate, especially since this is one of the most needed gates for us.

Hey guys, I'm back.

Wow, looks like we got some great picks. Oh boy, did we get our bomb or what? Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts !? Hell yes.

+1 Simic Guildgate

Nice pick overall. A Guildgate right in our colors. That brings us to six Guildgates, two more, and we'll be gold.

gates are going to be rare I think, everyone else is probably scrambling for fixing

well, blue is pretty much officially our second color? We have more blue than green or black actually.

Right now our deck would look like this:
CREATURES
--2cc
1x Blood Scrivener 1B
1x Murmuring Phantasm 1U
1x Deputy of Acquittals UW
--3cc
1x Battering Krasis 2G
--4cc
1x Bronzebeak Moa 2WG
1x Opal Lake Gatekeepers 3U
2x Saruli Gatekeepers 3G
1x Sunspire Gatekeepers 3W
1x Ubul Sar Gatekeepers 3B
--6cc
1x Maze Abomination 5B
--7cc
1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts 5BW
SPELLS/ARTIFACTS
1x Mending Touch G
1x Runner's Bane 1U
1x Azorius Cluestone 3
1x Golgari Cluestone 3
1x Restore the Peace 1WU
1x Pilfered Plans 1UB
1x Unflinching Courage 1WG
1x Far / Away 1U/2B
1x Profit / Loss 1W/2B
1x Protect / Serve 2W/1U
1x Debt to the Deathless XWWBB
LANDS
2x Orzhov Guildgate
1x Azorius Guildgate
1x Izzet Guildgate
1x Selesnya Guildgate
1x Simic Guildgate
3x Plains
3x Island
3x Swamp
2x Forest
SIDEBOARD
1x Uncovered Clues
1x Wake the Reflections
1x Azorius Cluestone

It leaves our mana symbol count at 9W-8U-7B-6G

Guildgate wins.

Next pack in 3 hours.

actually with our strategy I hope we get more blue cards actually, but enough to switch our focus to Esper with a green splash

Haunter of Nightveil , another Deputy of Acquittals and Murmuring Phantasm , a Hired Torturer or two, maybe a Wind Drake

we can switch green to our lite splash colour, for the Gatekeeper, Moa, and Courage and I'd be cool with that

If we can nab a Torturer or two, I'd really like that. And some fliers. And some more gate(keeper)s.

Man, moar everything.

Updateeeeee

actually I'm okay with our current amount of Gatekeepers, they'd probably end up in the sideboard if we got more of them... in fact in my final optimal list I moved 1 of our green gatekeepers to the sideboard

what we want is 2 or if possible 3 more Deputy of Acquittals

+1 Haunter of Nightveil ALL DAY

I know the Torturer is tempting and it's my second pick here but Haunter was my #1 wanted uncommon that we could have seen, wow

we'll see another Torturer but we need to get this thing right here right now

I really get the feeling you guys are going to take that gate though and I don't blame you, a Golgari Gate was on my wanted final version of our deck but the Haunter is just too perfect for us to pass up.

Obzedat's Aid, perhaps? At worst, it brings back a gatekeeper and re-activates its effect. At best, it brings back Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts.

Otherwise, there's a Hired Torturer and a solid Guildgate. Haunter of Nightvale is interesting but I'm not sure how good it really is. Protect//Serve falls into the same category.

the -1/-0 from the Haunter will be crushing against our wall of big toughness guys, plus it will link up with our Abomination

Kinda funny last comments on the last pack were about three or so different cards and guess what pops up. I was personally thinking about the Guildgate, another couldnt hurt and this one is in our colours. I like the Hired Torturer but I have never seen the Haunter of Nightveil in a draft, either playing it or playing against it. It seems like it would be good in the early game but by the time he drops it seems like his ability will be a non-issue anyways, ie most creatures are bigger then 1/x or 2/x, where I see most of his use at. IAmKingTony have you drafted it before? How does he work in a draft format?