Had never seen this interaction come up and didn't realize all the triggers could keep stacking before my creatures died thus ending the chain of draws

Wowwwwweee.

Opened like 12 rares including the three best planeswalkers in the set plus fantastic removal and early game ramp.
Lost a round early to some flooding and was finished off by Ajanis Anguish for X=9. Thankfully I was able to convert in the end.

Sorry if you were one of my opponents 😅

Counting the attacker created by the Disturb side of [[Dorothea, Vengeful Victim]], I had an equal number of attackers as there were cards in the opponent's deck. Unfortunately, the opponent was milled to one single card, meaning [[Screaming Swarm]] did not count it.

I made sure to order the triggers so the token would be created before Swarm's trigger, but it didn't work. Just asking for clarification as to why the 4/4 token wasn't counted as an attacker.

Usually I work weekends so I've never done in person draft but found myself with the afternoon free for once. Took the plunge and went in person to an LGS that I knew existed and was doing draft later that day. So glad I did because it was an amazing experience! Everyone was super friendly, lots of fun banter passing the packs around, and my olfactory senses were not assaulted despite what Reddit has led me to believe haha. Went 3-0, only dropped 1 game total and won the super cool reality fracture pin pictures at the top.

Draft format was a bit different than I was used to, it was Pick 2 Bo3 and we could use an echoed pair as "commanders" who start the game in exile and can be played from exile. After the 1st commander is played the 2nd must stay in exile forever or be shuffled into the deck. You can see in my deck I chose Danitha as my 'commander'. Commanders were optional, and even if you had an echoed paired you were not forced to use them. Just a bonus mechanic (that I think was OP for me)

My ultimate goal in magic is to get better at drafting so wanted to share not just the experience but the deck and maybe get anyone's thoughts on the build! Obviously can't really share the drafting process, I don't have an eidetic memory unfortunately, but here's the build and my side board in pic 2!

General thoughts:

Was super scared about running all this removal and not having enough top end so ran winter despite not being very high on it. Ended being insane, I won at least 2 games with it on wide boards pumping everything up. I also think top end maybe wasn't super necessary as the deck ended up playing as the beat down vs many of my opponents which surprised me.

Fblthp and Heartwood Crafter were BONKERS. I dropped Fblthp X=3 or 4 nearly every game I had it, and Heartwood crafter showed up half the time on turn 1 was crazy. Heartwood Crafter was especially broken in this 'Commander' format b/c they start out in exile so Crafter could tap for it. I nearly swapped red arni in as my commander b/c someone pointed out as long as you hit land every turn you can Crafter 1, heartwood token 2, then 5 cost commander from exile on 3. Didn't end up doing it b/c I don't think my deck had enough gas to make Arni big enough (most my creatures were 1 or 2 power) and I had no other echoed pair cards at 5 cost that seemed good. (IF I had opened the black winter I would have considered Winter)

Sideboard was good, I had 2 color hate cards, my entire pod was green for some reason (I don't even know how b/c I drafted so much green) so every single game 2 I traded in 1 No Admittance for 1 Refute Destiny. I had Yargle (LOL) on standby in case I needed more high cost cards, and a medics kitesail for evasion and to sneak damage. Never used. Considered running Dedicated commons + Hexhaven Battalion for a white threat and also the infinite coursework + innovative commons for a removal that bypassed HP. Think it was fine I left these out, I liked how consistent my mana base was.

I was really lucky. I didn't mulligan a single time and I had really good jace surveils always pitching useless lands. there was one game where I Fblthp'd for 4, already had 6 lands out, and continued to draw lands which was funny but other than that 1 unlucky moment my luck was pretty good. My final opponent in the finals I 2-0'd, he showed me his deck after and it had Chandra, the good Jace planeswalker, lich relic, the UB card that creates cadets with flashback for bigger ones, and tons of other good cards, and both Thalia's for commander. He just literally didn't draw any of them while playing me....

Land base I thought was perfect. I think the plains was troll, I had it b/c I thought the 2nd commander was ALWAYS shuffled in, but game 2 someone told me they could leave it in exile. Which seems broken b/c if your 2nd commander is useless then you leave in exile and you're just running a 39 card deck??? I ended up leaving plains b/c +1 damage for Fblthp and I was too lazy to think about land swaps whenever I sided in the white color hate card.

My commander option I think was also OP. I immediately clocked that Danitha would be crazy since I have so many "target" enemy cards (all the spells, Heckler prepared, hapatra). My opponents nearly always spent their early removal on it. And keeping white Danitha out of my deck was great consistency wise as mentioned above.

Opened an Uldaros Theorix out of my 3 booster packs that I got for winning and a shiny stamped Ajani Unrelenting out of a promo pack and someone offered me cash for them! Checked it was OK with LGS (it was OK, they're a comic store so they don't sell singles) and got $15 bucks that pretty much covered my $17 entry fee!

Will edit with more thoughts as they pop up but if you made it this far, thanks so much for reading! AMA if you're curious about anything and hope everyone is having as much fun with Reality Fracture as I am😄

Almost every game was just stalling to overwrite the multiverse and then killing them with recursive recruitments. Deck felt great, I’d run it back for the event if I had the choice of it vs a random pool

P1P1 was a mid pack and I went with 3feri. Was happy to get enough counterspells to have several every game. Typically I won with just some random creature beating down. Or the classic control victory which is an opponent conceding out of frustration. The hand disruption creatures worked nicely as well in this shell. Lost 1 game to Delighted Halfling forcing through a Minsc and Boo. And I got a little scared when an opponent was able to get down a decent board but overloaded winds of abandon dashed his hopes and forced another concession. Otherwise I was able to kinda easily handle every relevant threat in every game. Next cube draft I might force control again since this felt really nice to play.

Arena Direct. One of the earlier losses might be chocked up to a few small misplays. I'm curious if you'd have done anything different with this deck.

It's not 4 lands, but it's not that far off. I'm going with red green aggro (ish) because honestly there's nothing else on the other colours. No removal, no bombs, no nothing. There's no way this is going all the way but I want it to go down with pride.

While it's true that they're conditional, it's also true that each of them hits 2 colours, and considering only the 10 main archetypes, they will be usable against 70% of them. If you consider 3 colour and soup decks, that number increases (unless my math is off somehow). So, while not advocating for their use, I'm wondering when it's correct to include them on BO1. Low removal count? Colour specific? Draft Vs sealed? Availability of discard outlets? Never?

This is the version from the second game, after I boarded in paradox shaper to stop myself from milling my whole deck again.

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

UR was quite open in my seat. I got the first Saheeli P1P6 and Clash of Elements P1P10. This, along with strong opens, led to a deep pool. I'd like to not squander it.

I'm not sure on the last couple cuts and additions. Should I be more focused on cheap spells like Artifist Acumen and second Unsummon? Should Cryotheory Adept be something more impactful in the lategame? Is only 8 creatures enough?

Pia is the MVP. The pump for the flyers got all the way up to +5!

OP was absolutely ran over.

The green splash was definitely questionable based on my manabase, but I was a bit short on playables due to Lurrus + taking a few too many speculative lands early. I thought this deck was OK, but ended up going 1-3. I have not been able to get the hang of cube at all yet so was hoping to get some feedback here. The biggest issues I think are lack of wincon/removal. What are your thoughts? This was the draft: https://www.17lands.com/draft/1f7226330bf24ccca10a1c86b43276d5/1/1

I am thinking 1x charm, axe, puller, and winter.

Wondering what you guys would do here…

First time I’ve managed to get Ajani after many, many drafts, so that’s fun. It was p2p1 after going almost all red in p1. Feels good!

This account is high plat. My accounts are plat, diamond, mythic. Let me know what rank you are playing in with your post!

Thanks in advance!

just excited for my first 7-0 in cube

The decks are so synergy dependent then I find I'm often guessing at the most open lane, and then basically relying on happening to draw either the payoffs or enablers I need to make the deck work. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But because a given deck needs a specific card, not just a generically good card of that color, often it does not go my way.

I'm finding it really tricky to know when to lock in because I'm hesitant to do so too early in case I picked the wrong lane because the consequences are worse here than usual if you do pick the wrong one.

How are you all approaching it?

Hello,

Please help me decide on a final configuration for my Arena Direct sealed. I've shown two configurations, configuration 1 is my "Consistent" option UW splash B, configuration 2 is my "high risk, high reward" configuration that is main UG splash white removal.

I've also attached my pool for consideration, there are some additional splash options in [[Recursive Recruitment]] and [[Tenured Tethermage]]

Thanks!

Why did I go 1 - 3 with this deck? Only serious advice please :)

I remember struggling in this format when it released, but I'm having a good time building a variety of decks in Quick Draft at the moment.

Been getting 3-5 wins this weekend and feel close to getting a box. With double Garruk I feel like I should be able to do well. Attaching pics of my deck and pool. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

is anyone happy to advice on a sealed pool? feel like i should splash white or blue but not sure is better removal vs card draw

https://sealeddeck.tech/B7CGUjmt7c