Paladin Class is an auto-include, as it does great work with the number of bodies you’ll stack up. I won’t be ranking rares here, as you’re happy with most all of them, but your true MVPs are the indefatigable Ranger Class and the double-trouble double striker Drizzt Do’Urden. Cast creatures, win combats, out-race your opponent. You’re looking to capitalize on green’s Pack tactics cards while picking up some tricks and early plays in white. Selesnya Aggro is fairly straightforward to draft and pilot, in fact. Incidental lifegain only helps you in outracing your opponent, which you’ll be doing often. In most cases, the few you have access to - Celestial Unicorn, Lurking Roper - are cards that you’d be playing regardless. As I mentioned in my Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set review, the payoffs for lifegain simply aren’t there. Going all-in on synergy in this format is like a set of Truck Nuts on Jeff Bezos’s spaceship: completely unnecessary to your mission. Life Isn’t A HighwayĪ quick note on lifegain before we dive in. Here’s everything you need to know about building a strong Selesnya deck that can gain you enough life to run with aggro decks, but still run out enough bodies to beat venture decks, too. There definitely isn’t enough for four, which is how I keep picking up late Owlbears and Priest of Forgotten Lores while people slug it out for the more “powerful” deck. Rakdos is so deep, there legitimately might be enough cards to support two drafters per pod. That’s why I keep finding myself in Selesnya. It’s putting up Joey Chestnut numbers right now, and it’s still early in the format. It’s currently posting an absolutely absurd win rate of 63.2% in tradiditional draft on Arena. That brings us to Rakdos, the early star of D&D: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Draft. This is what people mean when they say “Draft is self-correcting.” It’s supply and demand: the more of something there is, the less valuable that thing becomes. If Harry Styles and Taylor Swift are two of the biggest pop stars in the world, be Billie Eilish and Trippie Redd. When the alcohol world became obsessed with super hoppy IPAs, hard seltzer walked in and became the light, better-for-you alternative that changed beverages forever. We see this phenomenon everywhere in society. So that’s what it means to me, information be damned.īut that’s also true. I misunderstood it, thinking he meant when everyone is doing one thing, do the opposite. In an actual con, it’s tricking the mark to think they know how they’re going to be conned, only to have a plan that does something different. In the film, Bruce Willis explains the concept in the simplest of terms: “When they look left, you go right.” Ever since I saw Lucky Number Slevinas an impressionable youth, I’ve been obsessed with the Kansas City Shuffle.

Forgotten realms draft guide