Well, everyone loves MINOTAURS right?
In my second BNG-THS-THS draft I cracked an extremely pedestrian BNG pack and chose Ragemonger over excoriate. Which is a totally wrong pick in a vacuum but my son needed the Ragemonger anyway.

Pack 2 was almost as bad. I took Gorgon’s Head over Sphinx’s Disciple, which is hard to defend but I was thinking ahead to giving deathtouch to Deathbellow Raider

The rest of the BNG pack went (not in order)
Nyxborn Eidolon
Kragma Butcher
Fearsome Temper
Nyxborn Rollicker
2 Odunos River Trawler
Claim of Erebos
Felhide Brawler (on the wheel!)

And a few other cards I gave a away.
Not *disastrous* but uh, not great either. Signals were (understandably) weak as most people had barely drafted the set (I drafted on release night and 3-0d with RW Heroicor really “Double Ordeal”)

The THS packs were a little funny. I passed 2 Ill-Tempered Cyclops to pick up minotaurs. I passed one Ordeal of Erebos for a Gary - mostly because I (wrongly) suspected that the guy to my right was in Black (I was Rb at this point). I got another Ordeal of E later AND a second Gary. And P3P1 was Kragma Warcaller. I also drafted a few choice white cards just in case.

This deck started by asking the question:
“How many Pharika’s Cure is too many?” I picked three and passed at least one, maybe 2.

And ended on the question “Maybe 4 Deathbellow Raiders is too many?”

DECK

15 creatures
Nyxborn Rollicker
Nyxborn Eidolon
Felhide Brawler
4 Deathbellow Raider
Ragemonger
Minotaur Skullcleaver
Blood-Toll Harpy
Kragma Butcher
Odunos River Trawler
Kragma Warcaller
2 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

8 spells
Gorgon’s Head
Ordeal of Erebos
3 Pharika’s Cure[/c]
Fearsome Temper
Rage of Purphoros
Sip of Hemlock

Sideboard
Portent of Betrayal (this came in permanently after match 1 game 1)
Odunos River Trawler
anvilwrought raptor
Sentry of the Underworld
Hopeful Eidolon
Ordeal of Heliod

cards I didn’t play:
Flamespeaker Adept
Arena Athlete

This deck had some potential but wasn’t really that great.

Individual performers:
Deathbellow Raider - obviously the backbone of the deck… But although you get out to a nice start, holding mana back to regen can weaken your board (or they die) and having to attack really is a drawback.

Gorgon’s Head - it was alright. I would not 2nd pick it again over any serious card. It allowed me to attack with 2 deathbellows leaving only 3 up to regenerate. Since I basically never blocked (I was on the beatdown in 100% of my games) it probably wasn’t acting to it’s full potential.

Felhide Brawler - I actually had this guy by himself, needing to block once.

Ragemonger - Not enough data. I cast him once as a vanilla 2/3 and once he got dissolved.

3x Pharika’s Cure. Having ONE was awesome. The other two not so much. Since my guys are hell on 2 toughness dudes anyway. The one hero I needed to cure got too big too fast (although I did pseudo 2 for zero myself to remove counters from a hero with gift of immortality on it).

Little bestow guys were pretty good IF you bestowed them… otherwise meh.

Gary didn’t fit this deck at all but a late drain for 2 won me a race.

Portent of Betrayal is the closest thing this deck has to a finisher (well, warcaller some boards)

Never cashed an ordeal.

Overall I went 2-1 going the full 9 games at 6-3. I was pretty lucky to pull 2-1.

Match 1 I lost the first game to a 2 6/6 voltrons (5 cards)… couldn’t trick the guy into blocking my 2/2 so I could rage against the volition. That’s when I realized how badly I needed some treachery. This match I think I was lucky to win, but he was running Bant and got mana screwed last 2 games (although not horribly so… stuck on 3 for a while)

Match 2 - guy had ashiok, nightmare weaver. He got him all three games. I won the first game because literally all he played was Ashiok.
At this point I wondered out loud if Ashiok was worth going over 40 cards for.

Game 2 he got a turn 2 fleshmad steed turn 3 ashiok, turn 4 another blocker and forget about it. I played until I was down to about 9 cards but gave up.

Game 3 I boarded in 3 plains, the white cards, and 2-3 more black cards to go to 50 cards or so, including the raptor. He got up a blocker and and ashiok but I had something of a board, and portent of betrayal, which allowed me to kill Ashiok - but in his one activation he exiled a mountain and BOTH Garys. That could have been the difference, but I eventually lost to Sealock (monstrous). I did get Sentry out but my life total was too low to regenerate it. I suppose it can be argued that 10 extra cards diluted my chance of pulling Sip which is what I really needed.

Match 3 was against a durdly UB which featured many minotaurs bouncing off many coastline chimeras. I ground him out though, except in game 2 where he dissolved my Ragemonger AND my Gary for 4 within 3 turns. Not expecting that. Game 3 I had:
T2 deathbellow raider
T3 deathbellow raider
T4 deathbellow raider
T5 deathbellow raider

TL;DR Minotaurs may be overrated in draft.

iunno man, this sounds fun as hell, and your match loss was to a limited mythic bomb. signs point to moar 'tars!

T2 Deathbellow, T3 Ordeal wins games. Guess you boarded Portent for a Cure? And Deathbellow is definitely much better with some pump, you know, the one-mana-red one? Which goes well with the Adept?

Well done. Nothing to do about losing to Ashiok. How was the Butcher?

botg bestow guys are much weaker than the theros ones, which is a bit of a blessing. I won't be able to draft this weekend, so I'm going to be behind the rest of everybody in terms of experience.

Deck seems good enough. Only thing I'd say is you don't have enough lords.

a 2nd ordeal and a lightning strike and maybe a cyclops(for river trawler) would probably make this deck awesome.
I did not see many Titan's strength... or when I did I was still very short on creatures. Possibly I took a cure instead of Titans' or Dragon mantle but I don't recollect such a decision. Suiting up a raider with fearsome temper is pretty good - but again you can't prevent someone from blocking AND regenerate in the early going.

Yes, I took out a cure for portent.

Butcher is fine until a 4 T guy comes out, at which point he's a chump (although he can theoretically trade up). Also, he's a non-bo with deathbellow if you actually have to block (which sometimes you do mid-game).

MOAR LORDS is obviously pro. However, you can only take what's in the pod. I guess I am down on this draft because of the following:

1) Until pack 3 saved my butt this was looking awful. I got like 4 minotaurs and a gary.
2) Although I won 2 matches (and agree about nothing to do about ashiok) they were much closer than I would have liked to meh decks with meh players. I think I'd have gotten destroyed by RG (guy to my right who won drafting cyclopes and hammer I passed) or heroic.

You know, I also forgot I passed a Firedancer which would have been pretty special with 3 cures and a rage. But at the time I didn't have any burn, and I took a a bestow dude or maybe butcher instead.