Thread by @rcsaxe

My top commons for #MTGNeon Draft:

1. Okiba Reckoner Raid
2. Moonsnare Specialist
3. Network Disruptor

4. Moon-Circuit Hacker
5. The Modern Age
6. Virus Beetle

7. Twisted Embrace
8. Kami's Flare
9. Spirited Companion
10. Experimental Synthesizer

Let's dig into this 🧵

1/11

First and foremost, there are zero green cards on this list. That *does not* mean green is bad. I think green is great! It's just greens commons are deep, and at a flat C+ power-level. There aren't green commons I'm happy to first pick, but the green decks are very good.

2/11

Green has like 10 great commons, so I end up in green a lot. Because of this, my top commons are about diversity and consistency. Cheap cards that do unique things biasing towards enchantment synergy.

1. Commune with Spirits
2. Fang of Shigeki
3. Fade into Antiquity

3/11

The second observation is crazy, but I stand by it. 4/5 of the top5 commons are blue. Blue is incredible in this set due to its flexibility. It is great at playing the early game and the late game, and the quality at common is just incredible. I always want to be blue.

3/11

I can see the order of the top blue commons being any permutation of them, or even something getting bumped for The Modern Age. I wouldn't be surprised if Disruptor is #1 due to being the best enabler.

1. Moonsnare Specialist
2. Network Disruptor
3. Moon-Circuit Hacker

4/11

Red is good, but it asks you to be both aggressive and synergistic, which isn't always easy. The point + click removal underperforms, which brings down the quality of red because that's where the card quality lies.

IMO the main reason to be red is uncommon one-drops.

5/11

This observation makes the top red commons hard. Experimental Synthesizer and Kami's flare will probably always be the top two, but I could see aggressive artifact creatures pushing up on Voltage Surge.

1. Experimental Synthesizer
2. Kami's Flare
3. Voltage Surge

6/11

Black is a great color at the moment, but I think that has a lot to do with misevaluation. Okiba Reckoner Raid and Virus Beetle are the top two commons, and aren't being taken highly. While black has lots of solid commons, it may begin to underperform once people adjust.

7/11

This is an order I'm pretty confident in, and communicates a lot about the set: efficiency and synergy goes a long way. A lot of people are still in the "removal is removal" mindset, and it's not effective here.

1. Okiba Reckoner Raid
2. Virus Beetle
3. Twisted Embrace

8/11

White is a really hard color to pin down, and I was struggling with it until I had somebody beat me senseless with the slowest white deck I have ever seen.

Repeat after me: "white is not aggressive"

The best white decks even splash. They're about enchantment synergies.

9/11

Imperial Oath is the card to highlight. Draft white decks that are happy to play multiple copies of it. The only reason I don't have Oath in my top10 (which might be very wrong) is it's 6 mana and undervalued.

1. Spirited Companion
2. Imperial Oath
3. Intercessor's Arrest

10/11

My final advice: go big, or go home!

Whatever you are doing, lean into it and be creative. Aggro? Push the envelope and play a bunch of one-drops. Control? Go for the highest ceiling you can. The tools are there for everything to succeed, you just need to pave your path!

11/11