Except that our 2/3 deathtouch can very easily make many more deathtouch creatures. I would go so far as to guarantee we see at least 5 or 6 more taurs.


EDIT: Plus this siren has the worst interaction with hour of need.

To be honest I'm not super wowed by Time of Need. And it isn't like our deck needs to be 100% synergy.

I drafted a BNGTHSTHS deck last night with 10 bestow creatures and 2 heroes. Is that synergy? (I don't think it is, but I could be wrong)

Hour of Need flat out wins games. It's quite a bit better than Advent of the Worm (as long as you have any creature) and that was a pretty good card.

With 5 mana you can turn opponents best dude and your worst dude (or chump blocking dude, or removalated dude) into parity at instant speed, or just turn 2 dudes into 4/4 flying beaters EoT and kill them.

Ten bestow creatures is quite good enough. Those two were just there for some more fun.

Pack 1:

Hour of Need
War-Wing Siren

Next...

Dictate of Karametra
Gold-Forged Sentinel
Akroan Line-Breaker
Aerial Formation
Triton Shorestalker
Font of Return
Eagle of the Watch
Armament of Nyx
Flurry of Horns
Pharika's Chosen
Rotted Hulk
Font of Fertility

In before ''''taurss.... wahhhhhh"

This is a tough pick here.

I don't hate RU in draft as much as the pros but none of these red cards are really compelling enough.
The Green and Blue are meh. As much as I like strive I don't think the flying one is that great. I mean, it's a trick. The double ended one might actually be really good. And it's actually pseudo-removal.

I think the choices are:
Armament of Nyx - heroic trigger or removal-ish
Eagle of the Watch - go fliers
Pharika's Chosen - go UB control

I am unsure about Armament, but wind drake-like items are always good. So Eagle

EDIT: Cato has convinced me that at least formation and eagle are pretty close. Neither seem like a pick 2 to me at all... but I think I will change my pick to aerial formation since that will make it 2-2 and I want to hear more opinion and bloviating.

Eagle for me.

If I can, I'd like to go U/W heroic. So I'll take nutty heroic triggers in Journey so I can over-value my hero targets Akroan Skyguard, Battlewise Hoplite, favored Hoplite and Wingstead Rider later. The pick for me is Aerial Formation. The card wreaks combat, wins on the spot and that's even if we aren't in heroic. The fact that we got off to a good start with an early War-Wing Siren means I want to see where this leads. The 1/1 deathtouch is such a let down pick and the difference in power level between these two cards is vast. So that card isn't even in the discussion. Armament of Nyx is a borderline sideboard card as it's corner case. Eagle of the Watch would be fine in our deck but I suppose picking it PICK 2 is way, way too early.

This pack is actually really weak and I think Aerial Formation is the only card worthy of a second pick.

Sure, Eagle works.

Triton Shorestalker

Whichever way you look at it, this is a bad pack for us. UW heroes is nice, but white just lost a whole pack of heroes. There will be a lot of competition for them in the last two packs, and Akroan Skyguard is a first pick. One thing everybody talks about is how good bestow is. Whatever else we do, we will be picking pants. And since there are no heroes to wear them here, let's take the little unblockable dude. We may end up not playing it, but that's OK. It also leaves us free to choose our second color in the next few packs.

Can't we enchant the creature with flying and vigilance instead?

Only problem I see with aerial formation is that a lot of the good WU heroic creatures already have flying. As do a good part of the good blue commons, but it's still really solid.7

What about the green font?

I agree with this completely. Also, late into the game this can just be a Sphinx for us.

I've loved UW pillow fort cards in what little experience I've had with JBT draft.
I'm partial to Armament of Nyx here.

Shorestalker

We can of course enchant the flyer, but two good enchant targets are better than one. I prefer to pick creatures, especially early drops, early, since you can't get a good early drop after pick four or so.

Aerial formation,since we don't have enough votes to get the eagle.

What's wrong with the pseudo dragon? 4/4 flyer for seems a good bet to me. so I'll take the Sentinel.

Aerial Formation works for me. I like blowouts.

Pack 1:

Hour of Need
War-Wing Siren
Aerial Formation

Next...

Disciple of Deceit
Thassa's Ire
Ravenous Leucrocota
Gluttonous Cyclops
Font of Ire
Countermand
Cruel Feeding
Armament of Nyx
Oppressive Rays
Hubris
Font of Return

There's a lot of goodies in this pack. Hubris keeps others locked out of blue, and maybe we can pick something up on the wheel.