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.

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Let's break down every color and college by top-commons for #MTGSTX Draft.

Remember, it's early and these evaluations are likely to change. Furthermore, mono-colored and hybrid cards will be evaluated for P1P1, gold cards will be evaluated assuming you're in that deck.

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1/12 White:

1. Combat Professor
2. Study Break
3. Guiding Voice

Honorable mention: Pilgrim of the Ages

White isn't particularly deep at common, but it's still good when open. It shouldn't be aggro as much as you think, often because of Pilgrim of the Ages and Rise to Extus.

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My top commons in #MTGSTX Draft:

1. Environmental Sciences
2. Fractal Summoning

big gap

3. Quandrix Pledgemage
4. Elemental Summoning
5. Bury in Books
6. Heated Debate
7. Mage Duel
8. Field Trip
9. Rise to Extus
10. Inkling Summoning

Okay, let me explain🧵

1/9 You may notice a complete lack of white and black cards (excluding WB hybrid), and that all of the top 5 cards are blue. This isn't necessarily because the black and white cards are bad, but rather that I've found the Temur colors to be open WAY MORE than black or white.

2/9

My current strategy for #MTGKHM Draft:

starting with my top-10 commons for context:

1. Behold the Multiverse
2. Demon Bolt
3. Sarulf's Packmate
4. Berg Strider
5. Shimmerdrift Vale
6. UR land
7. Axgard Cavalry
8. Squash
9. UG land
10. GR land

Honorable mention: Mistwalker

1/8 Can you see a pattern with the above list? It's all Temur, with a bias towards Izzet. This may look like forcing, but it doesn't actually close you off. You know how a hybrid card is actually more flexible than a mono-colored card? This strategy is kind of like that.

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Thread for #MTGKHM Draft outlining the uncommons I take over my top3 commons P1P1. For context, my top three commons are:

1. Behold the Multiverse

Big gap. 2 and 3 are very very close.

2. Demon Bolt
3. Sarulf's Packmate

With that in mind, let's start with gold cards!

1/8 These cards are not only outright fantastic in their respective color-pairs, but they are AMAZING in the Snow deck --- one of the best archetypes. The fact that they are good splashes make them more flexible than your average gold card. Don't hesitate to slam these early.

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Boros has two distinct variants in #MTGKaldheim Draft, and I believe they are defined by two different commons: Run Amok and Tormentor’s Helm.

Both cards fill a similar purpose: enabling attacks early and increasing total damage potential. Both cards provide inevitability.

1/5 Here is a good example of the Run Amok variant. This deck went 2-1, but easily could have gone 3-0. Kaya’s Onslaught is the most important uncommon for wins out of nowhere, and the creatures don’t really matter as long as you have multiple copies of Run Amok.

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Long thread on #MTGKaldheim Draft and commons:

First, the top 5 commons.

1. Behold the Multiverse
2. Demon Bolt
3. Sarulf's Packmate

big gap

4. Feed the Serpent
5. Shimmerdrift Vale

big gap

for the next 5, there are two approaches depending on snow/format speed.

1/9 Hedge snow:

6. Frostbite
7. UG dual
8. GR dual
9. GB dual
10. Sculptor of winter.

Hedge aggro:

6. Axgard Cavalry
7. Struggle for Skemfar
8. Run Amok
9. Tuskeri Firewalker
10. Bound in Gold

Depending on how you think, either G or R is the best color by a lot. I'm on R.

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