#ertai resurrected

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Ertai Resurrected

Artist: Justin Hernandez & Alexis Hernandez

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Bronze to Mythic, Dominaria United premiere draft #1, new dad style! Which means I probably don’t have the time or energy to *actually* get to mythic this time, but whatever, lets gooooooo!

Pack 1 Pick 1, I took Tori D’Avenant out of a weak pack. I don’t like taking gold cards early unless they’re busted, and especially not one with double color pips (WW) but it was a weak pack. Pick 2 got me Ertai Resurrected, which is *exactly* the kind of gold card I will take pick 2. It’s busted, it’s splashable, short list for personal favorite card in the set, yes please! Pick 3, Lightning Strike over Timely Interference and Phyrexian Espionage. It’s still early, I will splash Lighting strike in UB or Ertai in UR, and its enough better than the other two cards, even though I want both of them. Pick 4 Tolarian Geyser, yessss. Pick 5 Impulse. This is maybe earlier than I would like, but I still think Impulse is pretty good in basically every blue deck. 4 cards is just so many cards to look at! Finished off the pack with a couple dual lands, Haunting Figment and Soaring Drake wheeled, I like where I’m at going into pack 2.

Pack 2 was not the greatest. Pick 1 Essence Scatter then the two Tolarian Serpents picks 4 and 6, but not much else. I was feeling a little cut off, but I think the packs were weak in UR spells because the other blue and red cards wheeled. Even so, I’m in good shape, I just needed spells over everything in pack 3. First five picks delivered: Lightning Strike, Timely Interference, two Flowstone Infusions, and an Impulse. Perfect. Deck is built.

The deck was good, not great. I think I drafted the seat correctly, at least I don’t think there was any busted deck I missed out on. These types of decks tend to be half and half. If you draw a mix, your deck is insane. If you draw only one half, your deck struggles. My first loss was to black/red grind-em-out. They just had better late game card advantage than I did, and I drew air on the last few turns.

My second loss was to the mirror. They were a little tricksier than me and my first blue was a tap land on turn 5 or 6. I think it’s a fine keep. Mulligans are awful in limited, don’t mulligan for the most part unless your hand is non-functional.

My third loss was kind of a heart-breaker. I thought I was super duper dead, but I somehow managed not to die (Ertai is busted). Then I thought I was winning somehow, but they had the blue Saga that wraths the board and makes that many zombies for each player. Even so, I was a tiny bit ahead, and just needed to draw an action spell. So many live draws in my deck, but I ended up drawing blanks.

Set seems super fun and interactive. I hope to play a lot more, but new dad style is not friendly to spending hours and hours drafting.