Not a very good pack for us...
Nettle swine looks good but would be a bad pick with all the soulbond-related 4-drops we already have.
Conjurer's closet can be nice to reset our lumberknots soulbond but is a bit expensive at 5.
Alchemist apprentice fits the 2-drop gap, but a body without soulbond doesn't help our plan. Its ability to sacrifice can however reset the creature it's bonded to to free it up for a lumberknot.
I agree with Bateleur here: Druid's Familiar is what this deck needs to perform outstanding and it's on-color. I think I would take that too unless you keep the cards you draft in which case it's a no-brainer bonfire.
Yes, I have. I force when I discover that one colour combination is by far the best strategy in a given format. I did this in llm with rogues, in m10 with monoblack and now again in avr with monoblack.
You really have good results with forcing monoblack in avr?
Neither of them are splashable and both are bombs, so it doesn't make a big difference which one comes first.
I think it depends on how deep R and U you already are and what oncolor cards there are in the packs.
Often (but not always) when you think you are deep in a certain strategy, it's only one of the 2 colors that is really deep and another that can be changed quite easily.
I don't really think this is a curve problem.
We do need some 2-drops, that's a fact, but imo having 6 good 4-drops and only 1 5-drop is better than let's say 5 good 4-drops and 2 5-drops?
Guess Vorstclaw won't make the cut now.
vote: Alchemist's Apprentice
It's probably too late in the pack to see any Nightshade peddlers, Wandering wolves or Timberland guides.
Nettle swine looks good but would be a bad pick with all the soulbond-related 4-drops we already have.
Conjurer's closet can be nice to reset our lumberknots soulbond but is a bit expensive at 5.
Alchemist apprentice fits the 2-drop gap, but a body without soulbond doesn't help our plan. Its ability to sacrifice can however reset the creature it's bonded to to free it up for a lumberknot.
You really have good results with forcing monoblack in avr?
I think it depends on how deep R and U you already are and what oncolor cards there are in the packs.
Often (but not always) when you think you are deep in a certain strategy, it's only one of the 2 colors that is really deep and another that can be changed quite easily.
I've got the feeling we already drafted a decent UG Soulbond deck, and we're still early in the last pack.
Our deck looks like the nuts, I wonder what the other teams are drafting.
vote: tandem lookout
I was writing a post telling you not to play grave exchange as a splash, but you already figured that out
And sometimes they do actually hold off a big zombie
I don't really think this is a curve problem.
We do need some 2-drops, that's a fact, but imo having 6 good 4-drops and only 1 5-drop is better than let's say 5 good 4-drops and 2 5-drops?
Exactly what we need
it would be nice if we wheel the Crippling Chill from this one.