So you drafted Black and Green Trial respectively on your 1st two picks, so arguably, those are the colors with the best cartouches, so pretty much everyone will pick those cartouches with any deck, so do you pick another color cartouche for your next picks or you just hope for the best and hope that you land a green or black cartouche to go with your trials?
Nah. Cartouches go up a little in my pick evaluations if I have trials but I still just want to take the best cards out of the packs. If a Cartouche is the best card or is close, by all means take it. But personally I would rather stay in the colors of my first picks rather than stray into a third color for a bit of Cartouche/Trial synergy. It really just depends on what is passed to you, though. Reading the signals and figuring out what is open is almost always better than trying to force a strategy based on your first couple picks.
I'm not forcing colors based on picking two trials as my first two picks. The green trial creates a 4/2, it's not like that's a bomb. The black on is a sac effect, which can have zero, or close to zero effect if they have a feeble token to feed it. It's not worth forcing it. If the cards in those colors keep flowing, then fine.
What pierrebai said... G/B Trials aren't worth splashing for. The red Trial, on the other hand, I would splash for, if the cartouche fit my deck.
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I don't think it's crazy to take the green trial early if the rare was a do nothing like dispossess, black was probably a mistake even from someone who really likes the jund colored trials. To answer your question I would advise patience. At that point you don't even know if you will be in those colors at all and the white and red cartouches are just not splash material. The green trial is fine with zero cartouches if that's how the draft shakes out.
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Why did you take those Trials so early? Were the packs bad?