Pack 1 Pick 1

[Thomas David Baker]

What's your pick?

 

Pack is:

Bronze Sable

Commune with the Gods

Dauntless Onslaught

Destructive Revelry

Disciple of Phenax

Erebos, God of the Dead

Fade into Antiquity

Forest

Griptide

Hopeful Eidolon

Messenger's Speed

Pharika's Mentor

Priest of Iroas

Returned Centaur

Voyage's End

 

 

[Paul Hodgson]

Think it's between Pharika's Mender, Hopeful Eidolon or Griptide if I'm being competitive, Erebos if I need one for my self :)

Probably go for Griptide because hey blue cards!

[Tom Reeve]

Probably Dauntless Onslaught?

[Gary Lynch]

Erebos as it is not too hard to turn the gods on, there is also a decent chance you wheel the disciple. This also means you can play Grey Merchant.dec

The Mender is really good but you don't want to first pick a card with 2 colours.

Griptide is always a solid pick too.

 

 

[Joe Saxton]

Dauntless Onslaught has the most potential, I would take it here as it's good in any white deck, and amazing in a heroic deck. 

[Thomas David Baker]

This was Makahito Mihara's P1P1 in Draft 2 at the PT.

He 3-0'ed the draft with a very B deck with 3 Gray Merchant and 2 Return from the Underworld and 1 of the give everyone intimidate guy. I'm not sure if his second color was R or U or even G but I think it was R. The draft is on the draft viewer.

His first pick was Griptide and Pharika's Mentor tabled. I didn't realize that Griptide was considered to be clearly better than Voyage's End. I mean I understand why it is better but cheapness is a quality and scry 1 is not nothing.

Interesting.

[ross miles]

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[Rob Wagner]

The Magic Online stats suggest that Voyage's end is the blue common/uncommon p1p1 which leads to the most 8-4 wins. Griptide isn't second, Sea God's Revenge is.

[Thomas David Baker]

Those stats refer only to games where it is played, though, right? So if you die on 5 lands with it in your hand that isn't counted. Those stats say that Rise of the Dark Realms is the best card in M14 :)

I am going to count that as a vote for Voyage's End over Griptide, though!