With the release of #MTGAFR nearing, I felt it appropriate to wrap up and look back on what overall was one of my 'better' formats, #MTGSTX BO3 #draft. At the moment of writing this, I am holding the 40th spot on the @17Lands leaderboard with 27🏆 and a 76,2% MWR.
@17Lands I played 63 events. 47 on college with or without a slight splash, 16 in a straight up 3 color wedge and 1 allied color pair. I sadly never got into the patented @samuelhblack 'Dimir-mindset' and am a big proponent of staying on-college due to the presence of gold cards.
As a true @Chord_o_Calls student, I played W based aggro >50% of my drafts. Driven by W having 6 B-level commons that were undervalued throughout the format. Whether I ended up LH or SQ was mostly driven by either R (debate) or B (hunt) commons going late.
Outside of W being so well positioned, I feell each of the colleges is competative and I really enjoy playing Tempo Prismari or synergy Witherbloom when that lane presents itself. Due to my preference for the W based colleges, I value Quandrix/U&G cards less in the early picks.
Fun facts; Purely looking at traditional event entry fee/payouts I managed a 15k gems profit on top of 448 packs. After opening everything I am still ~20 mythic Mystical Archive cards away from a full set 😅.
Most of this week I am attending the @gartner Data & Analytics Summit - EMEA (from inside my home office. yay!). I will be sharing my appreciation for some of the speakers/sessions in this 🧵as well as knowledge that I gained and think is worthy of sharing!
Morning started off well with a great session by @danielmintz on how to 'Break the adoption barrier'!
Colleagues are so used to have seamless access to data in their personal lives, while accessing data at work is an horrendous struggle. The gap is huge!