Friday. Magic night. Be there.

[Johny Cee]

5th pick air elemental? Must have been a draft where everyone hated blue.

I always find it hard to evaluate the hand disruption cards in limited.

Hand disruption is.....   interesting in draft. 

Most discard is only really effective beginning game,  so when you draw into a mindrot on turn 10 or 12 it's completely wasted.  I know I start hanging onto lands in hand after I get 8 or so in play,  and I've seen alot of others do the same just to blunt potential discard or bluff the nasty combat trick.

Pretty much,  to guarantee an early game effect you need to run a full set of discard.  Which most likely you can't possibly draft.

It's the same for land d.  Every now and then you run into someone who managed to draft 3 or 4 stone rains and goes at your land,  but one stone rain is a negligible card.

[Margalis]

Yeah that's kind of how I look at it. Although if you plan on winning in the early game it isn't so bad. In my terrible league I at one point tried a land destruction deck that had 3 (?) pieces of land destruction and that was probably the best permutation of my sad deck. The idea was land destruction is useless late game, but my deck was going to roll over and die in a late game anyway, so try to accentuate the positive. If I draw the land D early it helps me, if I draw it late it hurts but I'd be dead either way.

I've drafted a couple decks like that as well. I can only win by winning early so I play that will help me do that, even if it sabotages my late game.

[WayAbvPar]

ARRGGH. Apparently I am completely incapable of remembering to log on and play Friday nights.