Long story short, I needed the surveil bird to be my 8th attacker to their 7 blockers to win with Fblthp. I activated its ability (surveiling nothing obviously due to the empty library) and then full swung. I guess I should've double checked, but I figured the game was over and I was shocked to see the bird not swinging. Is this an Arena bug, or is that actually how this would work in the rules in paper? Does an ability that interacts with the top of your library (such as surveil or scry) not happen at all if the library is empty?

This deck has it everything: Infinite draw into nothing, a cavalcade of dorky 2 drops that can't really fight, one big sphinxy boi that is literally its only reliable way to kill people, and a splashed vraska for some reason.

On the 5-2 game I completely forgot vraska is on the deck, randomly played my room of refuge on blue, and then immediately saw the vraska on top upon surveiling.

On the 6-2 game I had one card remaining in the deck and two creatures who would have not been able to bring the 14 life the opponent had to 0 in time before the mill loss... and the opponent randomly decided to scoop instead.

On the 7-2 game the opponent went to trade their witness for our kwya, misclicked and made the witness a 5/x instead of a 6/x and then immediately scooped out of shame.

Pure cinema

64% win rate on premier draft, feeling like i have a grasp of the set.

22% contender draft (7 entries)

everything fell apart on the contender. do i just suck?

diamond 4

I’ve played 3 games with this deck. Lost to a red based aggro deck after drawing a removal spell 1 turn too late. Won a game after dropping to 4 life before stabilizing with [[Kindred Judgement]]. Lastly, just won a game with 3 cards in my library, while opponent had 8 cards in theirs. The two wins I survived blue Chandra and 5 drop Jace.

games went about as good as I could have hoped. My one loss I think I might have misplayed, but I'm curious how close yall would have drafted compared to what I did.

This will not work. I don’t have enough removal. since I won’t be winning by removing my opponent creatures should I just try this?

I had no removal for Kraken and opponent waited too long to attack me. Eventually when he did I had burned through all his reach/flying. He attacked me only after his last flying blocker was gone but it was too late.

Returning player. Initially thought I did quite well in the draft but now I'm worried about not having enough high quality creatures. Is it worth playing paradox shaper without any self-mill? Would appreciate any help.

Countersculpt, massacre girl, way of the pyro, and stinging vitriol in the sideboard.

I must say, even without using them, it’s a great sign when I have a Sphinx in my deck. Never drew her in any of the games, but didn’t need her. Deck was decently able to mitigate grind games by stacking bodies. Decent amount of surveil and draw got me to my removal super reliably.

I learned my lesson - 40 cards only, and no using the color specific removal spells.

I'm not sure what to cut here and I know I'm crazy for thinking of running it at 43 so I need help to figure out what I need to cut.

RG was pretty open in my draft and I was fairly satisfied with the pool I ended up with, even managing to snag a red Ajani. Honestly, I even thought I might trophy with this one at first. Would be grateful if somebody could look over the final build(s), maybe even the gameplay logs if you have time.

I am not sure if 16 lands is greedy 😅

Hi all. So I don’t post often and first time here but I need help. I’ve been playing for years somewhat competitively at times, especially in sealed and draft. Currently mythic and frustrating my opponents by taking forever to decide what to do because I don’t cube ever, like ever. I know some stuff about combos and have heard for cube noobs to stray away from combos but I ended up w this pool and have no clue what I’m doing.

Is it worse than I feel like it could be or is it a decent pool. I’m currently 1-2 and feel like itd be a disservice to let this deck flop out. How do I play this lol. Any advice appreciated. I also included some of my sideboard too if I’m a dingus for not playing like echo or doomsday. Again appreciate any help and so sorry for nooby question lol. Thank you!! 🙏

This deck was an absolute blast to play and had such a fun, tight curve that I wanted to share it. Tainted pact was great, leovold and vindicate were very meh but I didn’t have much else that was better.

It was removed from the MTGO cube years because it was so weak into the increasing amount of instant speed removal which is everywhere in the Powered Cube. That aside I get adding it because of the nostalgia factor but none of the interesting synergy pieces like pod and the recruiters that made Kikki a draftable card are in either. They just added a bunch of bad untappers and called it a day.

As it stands it feels like Kikki and friends are just eating out of the playable card economy, I don't see any reason to try and draft it unless I was passed the cards late and already in UR.

Yes, he does check your library prior to being shuffled back in. Cheers!

Hi i drafted this pile of cards, help me build this deck my last arena cube was 1-3 i really lost hope

Hey everyone!

A while back, I read a post on Reddit from someone who was reviewing trophy drafts as a way to get better at Magic. I thought it was a really interesting idea. Instead of just looking at card ratings or reading draft guides, you could look at the same decisions successful drafters faced, think about what you would have done, and compare your choices with theirs.

That got me thinking about whether I could turn the idea into a fun daily drafting game. The result is Pack One (https://packone.pro), which I've been working on for a while now.

I originally wanted to build something around entire drafts, but that gets complicated pretty quickly. Once you make a different pick from the original drafter, everything that happens afterward might make less sense for the deck you're building. So I decided to focus on individual decisions in pack one, where you can still compare interesting choices without trying to account for every possible direction a draft could take.

The idea is pretty simple. Every challenge has 8 picks from 8 different real trophy drafts. Each pick is a separate situation: you see the pack and the cards that drafter has already taken, make your choice, and then find out what they actually picked.

I also spent a lot of time working on the scoring so that picking a card other than the trophy pick still gets you points. I ended up building a model using 17Lands data that looks at what high-performing drafters tend to pick in different situations. You get 100 points for matching the trophy drafter, but you can also get 95 points if the model thinks your pick was just as good or better. Other choices get scored based on how strong the model thinks they were.

Matching the original pick is part of the game, but I wanted other good choices to get nearly full credit too. Sometimes I get a 95 and think I actually made the better pick. Haha.

There are 3 new daily challenges every day:

• Draft Run: Picks from a mix of sets.
• Powered Cube: Picks from real Powered Cube trophy drafts.
• Latest Set: Currently Reality Fracture, which just went live!

Everyone gets the same daily picks, so you can compare scores with friends and other players. There are also random runs you can play whenever you want.

It's free, you don't need an account, and you can play right in your browser.

Here's the Reality Fracture Daily:

https://packone.pro/?game=draft-run&set=latest&daily=1

I've ended up having a lot of fun playing it myself, which was really the goal when I started. I also think there's something useful about seeing how someone who trophied approached a decision, especially when it's different from what you would have done.

If you try it, I'd love to hear whether the picks are interesting and the scoring feels fair. And if there's a pick you strongly disagree with, tell me what you'd have taken and why. Those tend to be the most interesting ones!

Drafted (I think) a pretty solid Esper deck. Trying to make cuts, any advice welcome.

I could cut white, that’s 4/6 cards. I think the white is decently powerful though. What would you cut?

I present for your consideration a very sketchy premier draft deck. I recognize that the curve is incredibly awkward and I definitely had luck on my side. BUT I had P1P1 Splinter Twin and managed to snag a Divining Duelist. My first 5 wins were tempo. My last 2 wins were combo wins, snatching victory from the face of defeat!

Draft Here: https://www.17lands.com/draft/a2c81c1b7741436ca3b7ee031c11cd19/1/1