played my second M15 draft yesterday...went 0-3, still getting used to the set.
I'm still getting used to drafting it as well.
The first time that I drafted it, I drafted mono-blue humans with an Obelisk of Urd and the blue Paragon. The deck actually wasn't that bad (with like 7-8 humans), but it just couldn't 'get there'. I went 2-2, I believe.
For my 2nd time drafting M15, last week I drafted blue/black for the first 2 packs, and I probably could have had agreat deck, but for pack 3, I first-picked Chandra, and she seduced me over to red. I drafted 7 total red cards in pack 3 to go with my 2 random red cards that I had picked up in the first 2 packs, so I ended up with 9 red cards (which were actually all playable
). I was very evenly split with about 10 playables in both blue and black, and like 4-5 playable artifacts. I had a difficult time choosing which colors to play. I REALLY wanted to play Chandra, and I had ended up with several really good red cards - Lightning Strike, Scrapyard Mongrel (with my 4-5 artifacts), and others. I ended up going with blue, because I had a Glacial Crasher, and it's really a relevant card if Mountains are being played. I went 2-0 for my first 2 games, then won game 1, then got majorly mana messed over in both games 2 and three. For game 2 on the play, I kept a 5-lander on the play, since both spells were very relevant cards, but then I drew 4 more lands in a row to lose to my opponent's aggro draw. For game 3 on the draw, I had to mulligan a no-lander to keep a 6-card, 2-lander hand. Then, I never drew my 3rd land until turn 5 to lose again.
For Round 4, I lost game 3 to mana messover again to finish 2-2 again. At least my consolation pack gave me a Soul of Ravnica. I really enjoy this game, but it sure seems that there should be a way to reduce variance a little in regards to land flood/drought.
I'm hoping to play Standard this upcoming FNM, but maybe I'll draft again.
