MTG Salvation

Black drafters at the table undervalued removal spells and blue drafters at the table undervalued card advantage/selection. If you can keep control over the board and recycle all your removal and carddraw, you can do whatever you want.

Ok, so I know this thread is pretty dead, but I have a nice Elixir of Immortality story. When drafting my cube with friends, one friend thought to himself: I'll just draft good control cards, and maybe I'll pick a finisher later. Once he got passed Elixir he started to grin. He ended up with counterspells, removal, two creatures (Man-o'-War and Dinrova Horror) and the Elixir. He killed and countered all his opponents creatures and activated Elixir like 5 times per game on average. After the draft I found out that the other drafters have been picking synergy cards over interaction, so all the interaction in Black and Blue ended up with the control player.