I am forcing myself to use the term "Chaos Draft" instead of "Wacky Draft". I have been saying Wacky Draft for over a decade now and have resisted the change, but it's time to give in. I don't like "Chaos Draft" as much, but... whatever.
Tuesday night was a very successful chaos draft. This was my first time running a chaos draft with students at Florida Southern. We've had a hard time getting drafts to happen, and we very nearly had to cancel yesterday, but we got a fourth at the last minute.
Here's what we opened:
My choices were the Ikoria, New Capenna, and Neon Dynasty. They first two were good for WUBRG-drafting, but the Kamigawa wasn't great. Nevertheless, I got a really fun draft pool:
These were probably stronger than they look. I did a good job drafting lands, with five multi-colored lands. These packs didn't have a lot, so I picked them pretty early. The Skyclave Cleric turned out to be quite good as both an efficient little creature or a land. Five multi-colored lands are not really enough, but I had a few land-search cards, and two treasure-creating cards, so it worked out. Here's the deck I built: (Sorry for the glare!)
We got off to a late start, so we only played three single-game rounds. Nevertheless, I got to do some really fun things!
- I mutated for what I think is the first time ever. That ability isn't as bad as my biases were led to believe. I didn't get to use the Nethroi, sadly.
- I got to get a card from my sideboard using The Raven's Warning, so that was cool! I took Shadow of Mortality, but I realized later that I should have taken Master Skald.
- I ventured into the dungeon with Planar Ally.
- I harnessed some citizen tribal synergy.
- I used Extraction Specialist to bring a little creature back (Skyclave Cleric). That ability is kind of like "Champion a Mana-Value-2 creature from your graveyard".
- Dancing Sword was real good.
I went 2-1 and had a great time drafting and playing. Chaos drafts really hit the spot for me!
