Witness / Garruk / Thalia / Pack Rat / Inferno Titan / Jace are all solid to me, especially since there's some goodies that have potential to wheel like Fractured Identity. I'd probably go for the Jace and hope to wheel Fractured Identity, since those two cards are always fun to play.
Lots of goodies in the last pack. Braids / Goblin Guide / Armageddon are great pillars to dive into, but Elspeth and Chandra keep me a bit open. Would probably go with Armageddon and attempt to wheel the Braids, but I can see myself taking Elspeth or Chandra depending on my mood.
I have never ever first-picked Gideon Jura, but maybe I don't respect the card enough? He's still a fairly early pick for me, but I tend to get him after I know I'm in a white-based control shell. In essence, I like to pick up a wrath or something, then Gideon.
I consider Gideon to be a pretty high pick. Not a top-shelf pick, but he was ranked #7 in the white power rankings last year. Gideon is also great in shells outside of control, I’ll usually play him in any white non-aggro deck.
I have never ever first-picked Gideon Jura, but maybe I don't respect the card enough? He's still a fairly early pick for me, but I tend to get him after I know I'm in a white-based control shell. In essence, I like to pick up a wrath or something, then Gideon.
He's pretty great, even outside of control shells as he breaks stale mates open and can pick off creatures, along with attacking for a *****load after. I wouldn't run him all the time in hard aggro, but even there he's fine if he's your only 5, and otherwise he's prob always making my decks.
That being said, I'd take FoF out of this pack, due to it being as strong if not strong than the other cards, being the easiest to splash, and out of the best options it prob goes in the most decks.
While Dig Through Time is a very high pick, I’ll always take Fact or Fiction over it in a P1P1 scenario, so it’s between Gideon and FoF for me depending on my mood. Would probably go FoF to since it keeps me more open.
Bitterblossom, I value it very highly probably more than others as I think its far and away the best pick here, and after that Batterskull or Darretti.
It's probably Batterskull for me with nods to both Bitterblossom and Thalia. There's enough red aggro in this pack that you could take the Thalia here and eyeball the next few packs to try to lean towards a Boros aggro deck.
Bitterblossom, Tangle Wire, and Batterskull are the stand outs to me, but Thalia, Daretti, and Dig are solid P1P1s too. I'd probably take Tangle Wire and hope some of that red aggro wheels. Sad to pass the BB when taking Tangle Wire because they are good friends.
There's a lot of paths to take in this pack. Blue not being very present in this pack makes Dig Through Time very appealing. Bitterblossom / Thalia / Tangle Wire are great aggressive options, Batterskull leaves you pretty open, and Daretti is always a good P1P1 if you want to dive into artifacts (although I think I'd take the Memory Jar and attempt to wheel the Daretti). I'd probably take Bitterblossom or Tangle Wire if I wanted to do my usual, or I would take the Memory Jar if I just wanted to go crazy.
I'm slamming Oath of Druids because I love forcing that oddball of a deck, and the way to do it is to see it in the first few picks of pack 1.
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I consider Gideon to be a pretty high pick. Not a top-shelf pick, but he was ranked #7 in the white power rankings last year. Gideon is also great in shells outside of control, I’ll usually play him in any white non-aggro deck.
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He's pretty great, even outside of control shells as he breaks stale mates open and can pick off creatures, along with attacking for a *****load after. I wouldn't run him all the time in hard aggro, but even there he's fine if he's your only 5, and otherwise he's prob always making my decks.
That being said, I'd take FoF out of this pack, due to it being as strong if not strong than the other cards, being the easiest to splash, and out of the best options it prob goes in the most decks.
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