Thread by @JasonILTG

Short thread today about Start From Scratch. ALSA 7.21, making it the second-least-drafted lesson in Bo3. Also, I'm going to be taking a break from these threads until Thursday, because I have a lot of final essays/projects due this week. 1/x

Here's the Card Evaluation Metagame graph for Start From Scratch in Bo3. Looks like people have come up on it since the start of the format, but have dipped back down recently for whatever reason. 2/x

The same thing applies here as for when I talked about Mercurial Transformation: since SFS is a lesson, the only cost to it is the cards you pick it over. But unlike for Transformation, I don't see why people dislike SFS, when it looks like a reasonable card. 3/x

The thing that surprises me the most is how much higher Containment Breach is taken than SFS. Maybe some of this is because green is drafted much higher than red, but there are only 4 enchantments and 6 MV<3 artifacts, compared to 20 X/1s (not even counting Inklings). 4/x

I've just found that SFS hits quite a wide range of relevant targets. There's a lot of X/1 fliers, including Inklings that aggressive white decks will play in almost every game. And there's a decent amount of artifacts, including bombs like Poet's Quill or Codie. 5/x

Even killing a pest can sometimes be relevant for clearing a chump blocker. And there's also just the mode of pinging your opponent's face; sometimes you just need an extra point of damage for lethal. 6/x

Other random synergies: copying it kills X/2s, you can sometimes finish off a creature post-combat, you can combo it with Transformation to kill anything without counters, and you can kill your own Codie. 7/x

Conclusion: Start From Scratch is both very low cost as a lesson, and kills enough things to be a pretty good one to have. It does a lot of work against X/1 fliers, especially Inklings, hits a number of relevant artifacts, and can sometimes just finish people off. 8/8