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Draftcandy #7: DTK Draft #5
Posted on May 22, 2015 by NovaSandler
NovaSandler Noah Sandler is a Magic Online veteran originally known for founding ModoSharks.com. He's been infinite from drafting for over a decade, won 36 consecutive matches in Odyssey Block flashbacks, and has eclipsed 2000 Limited rating on MTGO twice. He streams on Twitch as modogrinder1 and offers draft coaching via Skype.
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I think you overestimated the white signal. You got passed a 6th pick Vulturous Aven and then quickly moved that and Death Wind to the sideboard. For what? Aven Sunstriker was the best white card that was passed to you pack 1 by a lot, and that’s a worse card than the Vulturous Aven in my opinion.
I weigh multiple weak packs with at least 1 good white card and no black a lot more than one pack with 3 strong cards, 2 being black. The Vulturous Aven pack was an exceptionally strong pack (5 cards already picked from it,) and should be treated as an outlier. If the next pack had a strong black card in it, I would reassess.
That’s completely fair – appreciate you taking the time to respond by the way. I still don’t think there was much of a white signal, much less one as strong as you claimed.
There certainly weren’t amazing white cards being passed, but there was a consistent flow of white in relatively weak packs. White is pretty weak in DTK, so it’s unlikely that people were just taking better white cards, certainly not 4 picks in a row. Fate Reforged white is very strong, so I’m excited about white being open from our right. Results-wise I think my read was correct as we got some nice late picks in pack 1 and a strong pack 3, but a UB deck would likely have ended up stronger.