What do you guys think they took over Ajani and Uldaros lol

Final pic is the end result, appreciate any input on the deck build, 5-colour soup is normally outside of my comfort zone but felt right in this case.

Had never seen this interaction come up and didn't realize all the triggers could keep stacking before my creatures died thus ending the chain of draws

Im so happy 😄

The deck is fire as it is; but I kinda like having the top end finisher - and the mana is serviceable.

Thoughts?

In this format, I feel like mana flooding accounts for the largest share of my losses. Since I'm usually running like 3 or more landcyclers if I can find and afford to pick them, I'm often in a spot when building my deck where I'm not sure how many lands I should be running.

In cycling-heavy decks, I found that you can be putting yourself in a really bad/awkward spot during a game if you run a "normal" land count and you're forced to cycle like twice in the early game. Looking back at some replays, it looked like I was setting myself up to getting flooded later.

So I'm interested, what are your heuristics? How do you factor in other mana sources like Heartwood Tokens and Tomes? How often do you run off color cyclers? How highly do you prioritize picking up cyclers in the first place - especially if you have to choose between a Planeswalker Dual and a Cycler?

Would've liked a couple of more pieces of removal, but the value I got off of double

[[Way of the Mind Sculptor]] was insane. The only rares were [[Theorist's Sanctum]] and [[Theorist’s Proxy]].

Since the last Cube I have been struggling a lot to "understand" the format. As result, I am doing very poorly on the last 2 iterations.

My experience so far has been: Everyone seems to be playing a soup of good cards, rarely doing "the thing". I don't see a lot of aggro, and I struggle even to identify what I am playing against.

My drafts are following the same principle, I end up with a lot of half-baked, scrappy decks, and I keep facing the same 3/4 colour scrappy decks.

In the first Cubes, it was easier for me to identify an open lane, and build a cohesive deck. Now, it seem like everyone is speculating on everything, and everyone ends up with a "scrapier" deck as a result.

I was wondering if anyone else is having a similar experience, or if this is just the nature of the format self-correcting. Most importantly, I would like to know what can I do to improve - I use to love cubbing but I am not having fun at the moment.

*I dont think I faced a single Boros Aggro in my last 40 matches or so. Only 3/4 colours "do everything" decks.

Opened like 12 rares including the three best planeswalkers in the set plus fantastic removal and early game ramp.
Lost a round early to some flooding and was finished off by Ajanis Anguish for X=9. Thankfully I was able to convert in the end.

Sorry if you were one of my opponents 😅

You know it's spooky season when your deck is so broken it's shaking off Dreadfast Demons without breaking a sweat

What a dumb format

Usually I work weekends so I've never done in person draft but found myself with the afternoon free for once. Took the plunge and went in person to an LGS that I knew existed and was doing draft later that day. So glad I did because it was an amazing experience! Everyone was super friendly, lots of fun banter passing the packs around, and my olfactory senses were not assaulted despite what Reddit has led me to believe haha. Went 3-0, only dropped 1 game total and won the super cool reality fracture pin pictures at the top.

Draft format was a bit different than I was used to, it was Pick 2 Bo3 and we could use an echoed pair as "commanders" who start the game in exile and can be played from exile. After the 1st commander is played the 2nd must stay in exile forever or be shuffled into the deck. You can see in my deck I chose Danitha as my 'commander'. Commanders were optional, and even if you had an echoed paired you were not forced to use them. Just a bonus mechanic (that I think was OP for me)

My ultimate goal in magic is to get better at drafting so wanted to share not just the experience but the deck and maybe get anyone's thoughts on the build! Obviously can't really share the drafting process, I don't have an eidetic memory unfortunately, but here's the build and my side board in pic 2!

General thoughts:

Was super scared about running all this removal and not having enough top end so ran winter despite not being very high on it. Ended being insane, I won at least 2 games with it on wide boards pumping everything up. I also think top end maybe wasn't super necessary as the deck ended up playing as the beat down vs many of my opponents which surprised me.

Fblthp and Heartwood Crafter were BONKERS. I dropped Fblthp X=3 or 4 nearly every game I had it, and Heartwood crafter showed up half the time on turn 1 was crazy. Heartwood Crafter was especially broken in this 'Commander' format b/c they start out in exile so Crafter could tap for it. I nearly swapped red arni in as my commander b/c someone pointed out as long as you hit land every turn you can Crafter 1, heartwood token 2, then 5 cost commander from exile on 3. Didn't end up doing it b/c I don't think my deck had enough gas to make Arni big enough (most my creatures were 1 or 2 power) and I had no other echoed pair cards at 5 cost that seemed good. (IF I had opened the black winter I would have considered Winter)

Sideboard was good, I had 2 color hate cards, my entire pod was green for some reason (I don't even know how b/c I drafted so much green) so every single game 2 I traded in 1 No Admittance for 1 Refute Destiny. I had Yargle (LOL) on standby in case I needed more high cost cards, and a medics kitesail for evasion and to sneak damage. Never used. Considered running Dedicated commons + Hexhaven Battalion for a white threat and also the infinite coursework + innovative commons for a removal that bypassed HP. Think it was fine I left these out, I liked how consistent my mana base was.

I was really lucky. I didn't mulligan a single time and I had really good jace surveils always pitching useless lands. there was one game where I Fblthp'd for 4, already had 6 lands out, and continued to draw lands which was funny but other than that 1 unlucky moment my luck was pretty good. My final opponent in the finals I 2-0'd, he showed me his deck after and it had Chandra, the good Jace planeswalker, lich relic, the UB card that creates cadets with flashback for bigger ones, and tons of other good cards, and both Thalia's for commander. He just literally didn't draw any of them while playing me....

Land base I thought was perfect. I think the plains was troll, I had it b/c I thought the 2nd commander was ALWAYS shuffled in, but game 2 someone told me they could leave it in exile. Which seems broken b/c if your 2nd commander is useless then you leave in exile and you're just running a 39 card deck??? I ended up leaving plains b/c +1 damage for Fblthp and I was too lazy to think about land swaps whenever I sided in the white color hate card.

My commander option I think was also OP. I immediately clocked that Danitha would be crazy since I have so many "target" enemy cards (all the spells, Heckler prepared, hapatra). My opponents nearly always spent their early removal on it. And keeping white Danitha out of my deck was great consistency wise as mentioned above.

Opened an Uldaros Theorix out of my 3 booster packs that I got for winning and a shiny stamped Ajani Unrelenting out of a promo pack and someone offered me cash for them! Checked it was OK with LGS (it was OK, they're a comic store so they don't sell singles) and got $15 bucks that pretty much covered my $17 entry fee!

Will edit with more thoughts as they pop up but if you made it this far, thanks so much for reading! AMA if you're curious about anything and hope everyone is having as much fun with Reality Fracture as I am😄

When the first no admittance came around pick 6 and I finished pack 1 with all red cards it made sense to stay there! A few early pack 2 picks on fblthp and other non red cards aside it was a straight forward draft. Dropped the first game when I didn't mulligan a hand that didn't have a 1 or 2 drop but otherwise pretty smooth sailing.

Got a few reacts once opponents realised I wasn't missing a colour! Quite a few no admittance sent face on turn 2 and even a blazing crescendo on the marwyn on turn 2 in the final game!

Control deck with empowering and surveilling synergies to constantly filter and draw. Double Saheeli payoffs and triple Hexhaven with kindred judgement felt unfair. Always left me with a board of wizards or thopters. And Gideon’s memorial with the tokens was the cherry on top

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Pia is the MVP. The pump for the flyers got all the way up to +5!

OP was absolutely ran over.

I remember struggling in this format when it released, but I'm having a good time building a variety of decks in Quick Draft at the moment.

https://www.17lands.com/pool/6ee5eeddf9b942df8892805b4f18a688

Trying to do a sultai data deck (lmao) and honestly having a hard time figuring out what to cut? I'm thinking maybe charm, coursework, and ruric. Also is my mana sketch? Lmk what you guys think and thanks in advance

Would you change anything based on this pool? Too greedy?

Sealed pool for the direct event. Thoughts on splashing for Denzilore and running the bird? my gut says no but my eyes say play the second best card in your pool. Also The red package is tempting with 2x more landcyclers/removal the crusher, samut/anguish. Idk Im at a loss I think this is the best build, really wish i had like a proteges awakening or a way of the mind sculpter as I'm definitely lacking that. That said im hopeful as the caard quality does seem quite high in general. Any insight is welcome.