r/lrcast

It’s rare for such one-sided victories to occur when both players keep reasonable hands, draw the correct ratio of lands and spells, and are not playing in a high-powered format like cube or Modern Horizons. But it can happen! (FRA sealed, opponent’s T4 on the play)

Never lucky

7-1

Forgot to Screenshot the first win's list.

Overall I had a lot of fun, probably spent too much money, but I plan to sell at least 2 of the boxes to recoup the majority, gonna crack 2 I imagine cause that's fun, and go from there. Maybe give out some packs as gifts I dunno.

I made some shit plays, definitely got blown out, ran into some insane bad beats, floods; got supoer lucky myself, etc... It's an amazing format, and I think at the end of the day, it feels like the most important things I did in any game was just resolving a creature on turn 2. Honestly, just having something to do on turn 2 seemed to be the best, whether removing their dork on the draw, or playing your own on the play. There's just so much action going on, so much card draw/removal, that getting out ahead early felt so strong.

Most fun list was the UR with Ajani's Aguish winning me probably 5 games itself. Nobody plays around losing 6+ life from the hand. Appreciate all yall's advice over my long time lurking!

Went 3-0-2 (2-0, 1-0, 2-1, 1-1, draw) with my sealed pool (UG with splash). Top 8 draft felt ok about the Ux deck. Opened [[Overwrite the Multiverse]] and was passed both [[Null Summoner]] and [[Recursive Recruitment]] mid pack 3 and mid pack 2 respectively. Really debated pivoting because I didn’t want to play against any of these cards but hardly got any signals for black in the draft (player to my right and two players to my left drafted black and at least one more player in the pod).

Appreciate all the advice given previously. Likely could have played faster at times, but on average I believe I played fast enough to get the important games in. Still working on it though.

Edit: Sorry, forgot to rotate the pictures.

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I was blessed by the draft gods. Just needed a witness for this absolute madness of a deck. black was crazy open too, but the red cards were just better somehow every pick. I expect my lands to hate me every game and I will deserve it. I had all of my requisite fun just drafting this.

*Edit*: Went 7-2. 1st loss was a non game against another person with green Garruk. I didn't draw removal or a planeswalker and just got run over. Second loss was an epic game against dimir sphinx with recursion and kindred judgement. Other games were uninteresting.

Definitely should have played second way of the pyromancer. Probably over pyre rhymer/or phytomedic. woodwork prodigy was the surprise overperformer.

Now that we're almost a week into the format, though the higher rarities are still pretty volatile, we have pretty good data on the commons. And from this data, we can see that Twinned Vision -- a card that most set reviewers pegged as solidly mediocre -- is actually doing extremely well. Its pick rate is respectably high, and its GIH winrate is up there with the very best commons.

This card at first glance doesn't look that good but I think that the format really skews towards it. Games are slow and bombs are strong (as is removal), so being able to have this much cycle and filtering on a single card is quite nice. Also, the flexibility of being able to leave an instant in your grave that you can cash in for extra filtering just feels great in this format, especially given all the surveilling you do.

Also, this card lends itself particularly well to many archetypes besides the intended UR (and can fit in them, being hybrid). UB is the obvious "off-color" home for it, since the deck mills itself frequently and likes to play at instant speed. Being able to mill into this spell and then hold up interaction mana while always having this option in the grave feels fantastic. UW and RG may seem like less obvious homes, but UW does a good amount of surveilling to bin this card, and RG as a deck lacks good card filtering so this can fill a great niche in the deck as a powerful mono-R draw effect at common.

I think this card should be picked as a premium source of card draw if you're in UB, and considered for UW and RG as well if you're lacking draw.

What are your thoughts on this card? Just a quirk of early meta and data? Or another overlooked card filtering common like Pursue the Past that ends up possibly being even more highly pickable due to the color flexibility?

One of the most aggressive decks I think I've ever drafted

Thanks to everyone who helped with the build! Won games with three different builds, first with white splash, then straight rg and closed it out with jund. Turns out winning a box is easy when you open a bunch of the best cards in the set. Also craterclaw was definitely underrated by most. Closed out 3 games, 2 of which I would have likley lost without top decking him. Went super well with the heartwood token creation in the deck. Super super excited, my first ever arena direct win!