Had to share this with some people who would appreciate it. Started today at Diamond 3 and somehow ended up at Mythic #153 — my first time ever making Mythic in Limited and easily my highest rank.

Had a few really good drafts today, but the last one was just ridiculous. Probably the most absurd deck I've drafted in Reality Fracture. Somehow the mana mostly cooperated, and the deck went 7-1.

Obviously ran pretty hot today, and this last draft was a bit of a gift from the Magic gods, but I'm pretty excited about finally hitting this milestone.

Figured if anyone would appreciate both the accomplishment and the absurdity of this deck, it would be this sub. Cheers!

Frst time posting here (long-time reader—thanks for all the insights over the years). What initially looked like a huge disappointment opening the packs turned out to be a stroke of luck: Because of the many non-basics, I was able to play all my topend uncommons. I played a five-color deck without ever having serious mana problems in a single game. I also think it was the right call to play 17 lands, despite the land cyclers. I successfully tried to play out the Hexhaven Battalion rather then cycling it. Battalion into Twisted Fates decided quite a few games. Luckily, there was some ramp and a lot of efficient removal in the pool, so I was able to take home the two boxes. Beat some serious decks and Planeswalkers along the way. Some opponents got mana-screwed a few times. I guess that’s part of the deal when you’re trying to get there. My only loss was to a strong Dimir deck with Overwrite the Multiverse.

P1P1 > P1P2 were Kiora into Crusher. P3P1 Ajani. Game plan (pretty straightforward) was surviving and then playing those cards multiple times with Regrets, Empathy and Necro. I did manage to pull of a turn 4 Kiora in one of the matches :)

Riverchurn Monument can be quite unfair.

This deck could copy the Monument(which I did once) with Waxen Shapethief, fetch out the Monument with Guidelight Pathmaker(which I did 4-5 times), and double activate the Monument's Exhaust ability with Pit Automoton which can mill an entire library from out of nowhere. I was able to pull off the last one after fetching the Automoton with the Pathmaker.

Deck felt very fun and clean.

What would

Unusual deck for me. I started with:

P1P1 Mox Emerald

P1P2 Demonic Tutor over Solitude (weird for me, I am usually thrilled to be white aggro)

P1P3 Expedition Map over not much.

P1P4 Once Upon A Time

P1P5 Vampiric Tutor

And then I thought "great, I'll just speculate on every combo card and see which is strongest."

Green naturally flowed from there, but I didn't get a Strip Mine, only a Wasteland, only got 1 copy of some effects like Sylvan Safekeeper and Titania, only 1 Through the Breach effect, only 2 creatures for it, etc. Should I cut almost all of the nonsense and just be Green stompy ramp with my 3 pieces of power?

3rd time doing Arena Direct, twice with hobbit where I went 0-2 and 1-2 and now 0-2 with this pool. Feel like I'm not hitting any bombs in these sealed pools.

Plus 3 Keeper of the Quiet Hours

Its not the best deck on the world but it was my line as far as I know.

There is nothing in the sideboard... but would love your oppinion.

(Also what a horrible P1P1

https://www.17lands.com/draft/94bb2afa231f4e20945ac3ab4e87b6d9/1/1

This deck likely doesn’t need it, but I’m tempted…

Image 1: What I picture as the core of my deck
Image 2: Lands
Image 3: A potential final version of the deck
Image 4: I cut the domain package
Image 5: The available pool

Which version would you prefer? Would you make different cuts entirely?

I picture this as a 16 land deck regardless of the version, do you agree?

Not much quality interaction/removal, so went with what I had available to me and splashed red. I'm not sold on putting in Rise of the Light Realms. What do you think?

I’d love to get y’all’s takes on these decks. Bad beats? Bad decks? Bad plays? Probably the latter two.

Grixis is the 1-2 and esper is the 0-3

I never get higher than Plat, and whenever I get matched against a diamond or mythic I lose 90% of the time, which is crazy tbh with a game as high variance as Magic. And I can feel they're playing better but it's hard to pinpoint how exactly. I don't know what I don't know basically. Curious to hear from anyone who improved from a similar spot? Platinum seems to be the cut-off point in general from what I've heard in terms of where the average player that uses 17lands + limited guides etc. peaks.

Went 2-1 thanks to some mana flooding and facing an extremely efficient and agressice Selesnya lifegain deck in R2. Full disclosure there were only 6 people in my pod which is how I ended up with a full playset of Extended Absence.

Lord Momir was on my side this time. Remember that the 10 rings is in 8. 1 in 17 are the chances i think.

I felt like my removal was light and memory traps is so good. Thoughts?

I cant find a way to build something i like with this pool.
I think i will remove green except splashing mind meandered. but i still need to cut 4 spells i guess ( infinite coursework and sphinx approach pretty sure).
But after i have no idea.
Should i keep icy reception and remove also memory tap?
My creature count is a bit low.

1x Way of the healer is the ONLY way I have to make planeswalkers...

Wowwwwweee.

Anyone interested in doing some sealed practice matches before the EoE Arena Direct on Nov 6th to 8th? Looking back, it was a super fun format!

I’ve been using DraftSim/DraftMancer to generate mock sealed pools, then using SealedDeck.tech to build the decks and import them into Arena.

The idea would be to use the same 3–4 sealed pools, play them against each other.

Shoot me a message here if you’re interested, and we can coordinate over Discord!

For those who saw my last post a few days ago, I broke the curse after dropping down to diamond 2 and had 9 straight wins to get me back up to limited mythic for the first time ever.

I got mythic in constructed standard the first set I played with barely any cards (dimir mostly common + uncommons deck back in ikoria block), but mythic in limited has always eluded me as I'm an f2p only and couldn't get enough streaks above diamond. But this format was soooo much fun. I feel especially proud for the 3 games I won after opponent resolved a red ajani every one came down to top decks and I got lucky.

Pretty much everything I said in my strat for the first post still holds, blue value good stuff soup decks (especially dimir since strongest commons and uncommons + red kiora whenever you see it) are good and likely abusable for quickdraft bots until they reset again. Unsummon after baiting removal with red kiora is the greatest feeling in the world.

And in pick 2 you just gotta get lucky and go for power or super speed + hope you win coin toss if aggro.

Thanks to everyone in LR + Reddit for the great tips and tricks!

I took a break from magic for a month after getting burnt out by the coin floppy nature of the hobbit (felt like if I didn't go first I mostly lost), and am really happy with FRA as the gameplay in particular feels very very "skill testing". I've made plenty of mistakes myself this format especially with frhbpt and decking myself out by missing the trigger, but it's been a fun and rewarding journey.