I find that more often than not, I end up in Mardu. This is odd for me, as I prefer more controllish decks and blue in general. Second to Mardu is Abzan. I've ended up in the other three maybe once or twice each.
Anyone else finding similar compulsions in KTK?
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I find that more often than not, I end up in Mardu. This is odd for me, as I prefer more controllish decks and blue in general. Second to Mardu is Abzan. I've ended up in the other three maybe once or twice each.
Anyone else finding similar compulsions in KTK?
Nope. I very rarely end up in Mardu or Jeskai. I am almost always either without any red, or splashing red as my 4th or 5th color. I am usually in Abzan or some kind of Abzan/Sultai mish-mash.
My success rate hasn't been great, however.
That being said, I don't enjoy playing Mardu style decks, and since I play this game for enjoyment, I guess getting better enjoyment at the expense of a slightly lower win rate (so I win 55% instead of 60%, big deal), makes for success of a sort.
I most often find myself in UG because it always seems like the most open enemy pair. Second place would be UR. I like Blue in this format, because the tempo and evasion plays well against the Abzan decks that are popular but slow and board-stally.
I least often find myself in White. Seems like it's never open, not even a little bit.
I try to avoid Black because other than the Warriors deck (which has been open like twice out of all the drafts I've done), I don't think Black plays particularly well in this format. Plus other seats steal your Murderous Cuts for splashes.
So far in draft I have gone blue as a main color every time except the one time I was Mardu splashing a Jeskai Charm. Most of the time I am main UG splashing 0-3 colors depending on how many lands make it to me. I've played Jeskai a couple times.
In sealed I always look for Abzan splashing for flying creatures and occasionally red removal.
I have ended up in Abzan more often than other color combinations, and rarely in Mardu because that type of deck just does not fit my style. White seems to have the most plentiful worthy first and second picks, and there is enough depth that I do not usually abandon white if I start out there. It's not a big margin, though, and I find myself in most of the other clans (except Mardu) almost as often as Abzan.
My best successes have been from Abzan (either the +1/+1 counters and counter-lords or just big good stuff) and Temur, but it's not by a big margin over the other clans. I have only drafted a 5-color-good-stuff deck twice and both times I did not have success.
Every draft I tell myself I'll try to avoid it, but I always end up in Abzan. I usually start picking WB or BG cards and end up in Abzan. I guess I don't value the blue tempo cards high enough, but then again the blue flyers never make it to me, it seems, and the mystic of hidden ways have been getting scarcer every week. OTOH, I have no trouble getting passed alabaster kirin and sultai scavenger. I always go 2-1, FWIW, so I guess my draft strategy is not optimal, yet not bad either. I'm really bad at opening on-color bomb, but good at opening non-delta fetch lands.
Last FNM I was sitting between sultai and mardu (I learned after the fact), passing to sultai pack 1 and 3, and I experienced once again the same thing: abzan and green was open but Wb was cut in two packs (black not too much, he was WRb), then GBU was cut in pack two, receiving tons of red. Of course, I first-picked icy blast in pack two, hoping to go sultai, but that was just impossible.
Hmm I am actually not sure, I have played all the clans multiple times now. I don't think I have a strong enough bias to call it.. I might say mardu but I played mardu my last draft so that might just be because it is the first in the cycle and I'll play something else next time. I really do play whats open or play what I open.
Normally sultai or a 4/5c deck rooted in G and/or B. Green seems like it's almost always open and inviting with woolly loxodons and a couple playable 2 drops (hopefully an heir of the wilds), i usually slip into black from there off a debilitating injury or sultai scavenger or something and then as much as i'd like to get white things i normally just see some ungodly number of abomination of gudul and maybe some sultai soothsayers or a sultai charm that solidifies me.
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Abzan -> Temur -> Sultai -> Jeskai -> ......Mardu.
I hate Mardu.
Temur and Sultai end up being pretty close. Basically, I play the base Green whenever possible.
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I am almost always in blue. I've been in Sultai a lot lately, I like doing sultai control because blue/black has a lot of common draw between weave fate, treasure cruise and bitter revelation, and black stabilizes early well with Dishonored Ancestor and the -2/-2 enchantment.
I don't know why, but I seem to end up in Abzan a lot. I'd had less luck with jeskai and Sultai decks, but I always seem to either open or get passed good Abzan cards.
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I find that I keep playing red and blue in most of my drafts. The proportions vary as well; usually its straight up Jeskai (Efreet Weaponmaster is so good) but I'll play Temur if the cards come my way as well. Abzan and Mardu are tied for third as I just don't play these combinations as much as Jeskai or Temur.
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I usually end up in a W/B Warriors or U/G Morphs, delving into a 3rd color as available. They're both consistent and reliable archetypes with lots of room for flexibility. I like Jeskai, but it can be hard to pull the trigger there unless you get a really nice first pick.
I've been playing a lot of Sealed so I have had a chance to try out most clans. PErsonally I have found UG to be a very powerful enemy color pairing that also gives you the mana flexibility to splash a fourth or even fifth color if needed. Plus Wholly Loxodon and Gacial Stalker are solid beefy commons that can be played early on as grey ogres. I tend to go Sultai most, as I find the flying and looting on Abomination of Gudul to be extremely good and black allows be a decent amount of removal. From there I tend to splash for Abzan for bombs or Temur for burn and removal.
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Anyone else finding similar compulsions in KTK?
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Nope. I very rarely end up in Mardu or Jeskai. I am almost always either without any red, or splashing red as my 4th or 5th color. I am usually in Abzan or some kind of Abzan/Sultai mish-mash.
My success rate hasn't been great, however.
That being said, I don't enjoy playing Mardu style decks, and since I play this game for enjoyment, I guess getting better enjoyment at the expense of a slightly lower win rate (so I win 55% instead of 60%, big deal), makes for success of a sort.
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I least often find myself in White. Seems like it's never open, not even a little bit.
I try to avoid Black because other than the Warriors deck (which has been open like twice out of all the drafts I've done), I don't think Black plays particularly well in this format. Plus other seats steal your Murderous Cuts for splashes.
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My best successes have been from Abzan (either the +1/+1 counters and counter-lords or just big good stuff) and Temur, but it's not by a big margin over the other clans. I have only drafted a 5-color-good-stuff deck twice and both times I did not have success.
I don't actually think that Temur and Sultai are decks, since their themes are non-linear. I think their cards are pieces for the UGx deck.
Last FNM I was sitting between sultai and mardu (I learned after the fact), passing to sultai pack 1 and 3, and I experienced once again the same thing: abzan and green was open but Wb was cut in two packs (black not too much, he was WRb), then GBU was cut in pack two, receiving tons of red. Of course, I first-picked icy blast in pack two, hoping to go sultai, but that was just impossible.
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I hate Mardu.
Temur and Sultai end up being pretty close. Basically, I play the base Green whenever possible.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
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