u/ASOT550

Something is just not clicking for me on the aggro side of things. I feel like I'm always 1-3 points of damage away from the win but the opponent is then able to stabilize and I just fizzle out. In terms of deck construction, what's the ideal ratio of creatures, removal, tricks, and card advantage/non-board affecting spells?

Here are two recent decks I ran that seem "ok" to me, but definitely not perfect:

Draft 1, WR prowess focus, with efficient cheap removal, and some decent tricks. Ended 1-3

• The deck could've used a couple elite interceptors for sure, not having a one drop I think hurts it. I didn't see a single one in the draft.
• Not drawing molten-core maestro in any game was definitely a let down, dropping that on T2 would've won me a couple games.
• I ran ancestral anger as an experiment, though with hindsight I think the two copies of interjection probable would've been better. I needed more prowess style cards for ancestral to be the better card for can-tripping into multiple cheap spells.
• Gameplay-wise, how aggressive should you be with mulligans? I'd think with the gameplan needing to be to curve out, you want to mulligan aggressively, but that's at odds with your lack of card draw and being able to close things out. Not having a 2 drop seems like an auto-mulligan for a deck like this.
• These decks seem highly susceptible to combat blowouts, especially in this format. Are you just supposed to blindly throw your tricks into open mana hoping your opponent doesn't have anything? G1T5, I had the opportunity to cast bulk up to turn my owlin into a 6-4, is the right play to just go for it?

Draft 2, closer to WR mid-range with a stacked 4 drop slot, but was missing some key cards like pursue the past and spirit mascot. Also missing some of the rares that can help it get into the late game. Did have two copies of garrison excavator though. Ended 2-3

• Draft-wise P1P10 I could've grabbed a return the favor. Is that card main-deckable? In the moment I was speculating on a banishing betrayal in case I ended up in a strange UW repartee tempo deck. For return the favor, I'm guessing most people won't expect it, but I can't decide if it's actually good or not. It has the potential to be a 4 mana 2 for 1, but highly situational.
• P2P1 should've easily been unsubtle mockery, idk what I was thinking with the capstone.
• P2P7 is duty beyond death a reasonable pick over wilt in the heat? In the moment I was light on removal but I had a good amount of token generators so I could potentially see it working out.
• P3P6 probably should've taken mockery again.

Anyway, I think I'm just struggling in general with aggro deck construction or gameplay. Something isn't clicking with when to push damage with combat tricks vs. affecting the board. Any tips to get better at playing this style of deck?

edit ofc my next draft is a 7-1 soup pile that probably over-performed tbh.

Bit of a vent post, but also looking for constructive criticism/where to improve.

Something is just not clicking in SOS premier draft for me. Since OM1 I've been hovering around 57-60+% win rate in the high diamonds. I was really hoping to make mythic for the first time this season but I stalled out at Diamond 2 in the end here.

14 drafts in, I've been able to get 2 trophies, but win rate has been just 52.4%, significantly lower than where I've been.

Link to my SOS event history.

Trying to look at my decks objectively, I can't make heads or tails of what's working vs. what isn't. This WB deck went 7-2 and looks worse to me than this recent one that went 0-3.

I also still haven't been able to crack the boros nut. I see plenty of [[pursue the past]] and [[spirit mascot]]'s floating around, but neither of those seem like they're what should be pulling you into the color pair. What cards are pulling you all into boros? In terms of my own decks, this one seems fine, but is definitely missing interaction. The final loss was especially heartbreaking after getting hit by [[Arcane Omens]] for 5 on T5. My latest draft was a soft-force of boros, but I was definitely fighting the table for it. I'd be interested in how else you see the draft going if you don't soft-force. The actual games for that draft were extremely frustrating too... I faced [[germination practicum]] in 3/5 games.

This 1-3 draft I think is easy enough to see that I should've stayed the course in UR. P1P4 made it seem like WB was wide open (I think it still played out that way), so I decided to jump ship and commit. Idk what was going on at the table tbh b/c WB, UR, and some converge stuff all ended up being available.

Here's a 2-3 WB draft that I think probably should have ended up RW, but I'm not really sure where the critical decision point is. P1P3 stirring honormancer is the best card in the pack outside of stock up, and probably comparable to Last Gasp depending on what the deck needs. P1P4 Unsubtle Mockery is the best card in the pack, so possibly that's where I should've made the jump. I believe I was trying to hedge by picking a replacement level white card that could go in either RW or WB. P1P5 is another hedge, taking a white card that's good in both decks although Artistic Process is the best card in the pack. I hedged again P1P6. P1P7 might be where the jump should've happened? Take Tome blast over Fields of strife? I think my thought process was take the fields and then the sloth could be splashed if need be, or I end up in a Mardu shell.

I think what's frustrating me the most is the decks that I think are crappy squeak out positive records like this 5-3 over-performer. There's basically no synergy going on, it's lacking removal, and outside of blech there aren't even really any major threats.

Anyway, I know SOS woes are kind of common right now, I'm just looking for some advice and/or examples of what's working for you all since something is not working for me atm.