Minotaur Skullcleaver. Voyage's End is fine, I just want the brute though?

Let's end this voyage

End.

Pack 1:

Arbiter of the Ideal
Glimpse the Sun God
Akroan Conscriptor
Nyxborn Triton
Deepwater Hypnotist
Fall of the Hammer
Oracle of Bones
Impetuous Sunchaser
Floodtide Serpent
Lightning Volley
Nyxborn Shieldmate
Stratus Walk
Springleaf Drum
Culling Mark

Pack 2:

Griptide
Phalanx Leader
Dragon Mantle
Rageblood Shaman
Wingsteed Rider
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Portent of Betrayal
Stymied Hopes
Flamespeaker Adept
Fate Foretold
Setessan Battle Priest
Traveling Philosopher
Satyr Rambler
Thassa's Bounty

Pack 3:

Favored Hoplite
Voyage's End

Next...

Burnished Hart
Purphoros's Emissary
Lagonna-Band Elder
Griptide
Wingsteed Rider
Coastline Chimera
Nimbus Naiad
Borderland Minotaur
Shredding Winds
March of the Returned
Fade into Antiquity
Ray of Dissolution

Wow what a pack. 4 first pick able cards.

I think wingsteed rider. At least our deck will only lose to itself.

Rider, sure.

Which is the fourth?

Rider. We're playing that White, guys!

I think the 4 cards he was thinking are Rider, Emissary, Griptide and Naiad.

Alright then, Rider it is. Man, what a pack.

Indeed

Emissary is the one I wasn't thinking. Even though I lost a game to it yesterday.

Well as we seem to commit to white then I guess the Rider is the pick for the group.

Personally I would take griptide here.

This is our deck so far:

Favored Hoplite
Nyxborn Shieldmate
Deepwater Hypnotist
Phalanx Leader
Setessan Battle Priest
Traveling Philosopher
Nyxborn Triton
Flamespeaker Adept
Wingsteed Rider
Wingsteed Rider
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Akroan Conscriptor

Dragon Mantle
Fall of the Hammer
Fate Foretold
Stratus Walk
Glimpse the Sun God

Voyage's End
Griptide

Springleaf Drum

And this is left over:

Arbiter of the Ideal
Oracle of Bones
Impetuous Sunchaser
Floodtide Serpent
Lightning Volley
Culling Mark
Rageblood Shaman
Portent of Betrayal
Stymied Hopes
Satyr Rambler
Thassa's Bounty

Our problems are pretty obvious: we need white enchantrips, Wavecrash Tritons, and moar Phalanx Leaders. Our red should be kept to two cards, Fall and Conscriptor. We should replace the Hypnotist, the Drum, the Adept, the Mantle, the Cyclops.

You may say our red is better than blue, and probably it is, but it does not help our heroes. In fact, we drafted ourselves in a corner, and we may end up with a three-color special, something like a 8-4-4 land split, with Drum for fixing. The next few picks should tell if we have a chance at a deck.

I don't think this is our deck.

The main white cards we have need to be played early (glimpse aside) which means you need a critical mass of plains. For single casting cards that you want to play turn 2 the requisite number is usually 8 and this goes down to 7 if they are turn 3/4. The problem is our white are doubles (phalanx and wingsteed) and therefore we need a minimum of 10 plains to hope to play them reguarly on turn 1 (hopilite), 2 and 3 for the leader and the rider. If we are white then we will only have 7 lands to switch between islands and mountains meaning that we don't want many of those cards at all. At the moment your deck has 11 red and blue cards.

Actually doesn't even matter if we play the white. Our neighbor not playing them is good enough.

Without white, we have a 0-3 deck. Like it or not. We have no burn, not enough blue tricks, no big blue flyers - well, one. Not playing white, at this point, is worse than playing three colors, hoping for double white on turn three.

Edit: I'm going from memory on this, so maybe if you could build the UR deck, I might change my mind.

Hammer and Conscriptior are our only really good red cards, the rest are easy enough to cut. Mantle's cool, but if we're looking to cut down on red, ten firebreathing isn't going to do much for us. Also, I would totally run the Arbiter. That's our bomb. We don't have an other cards that say "you probably win".

Man I disappear for a week and look what happens.

Rider!

This would be our deck so far:

Creatures
Impetuous Sunchaser
Satyr Rambler
Deepwater Hypnotist
Nyxborn Triton
Flamespeaker Adept
Oracle of Bones
Rageblood Shaman
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Arbiter of the Ideal
Akroan Conscriptor
Floodtide Serpent

Spells
Dragon Mantle
Voyage's End
Fate Foretold
Fall of the Hammer
Stratus Walk
Griptide
Portent of Betrayal


This is 18 cards with a good curve and some good tricks. No, it's not great but it will do better for us than playing white. It is more consistent though and we are much less likely to lose to colour screw.

Pack 1:

Arbiter of the Ideal
Glimpse the Sun God
Akroan Conscriptor
Nyxborn Triton
Deepwater Hypnotist
Fall of the Hammer
Oracle of Bones
Impetuous Sunchaser
Floodtide Serpent
Lightning Volley
Nyxborn Shieldmate
Stratus Walk
Springleaf Drum
Culling Mark

Pack 2:

Griptide
Phalanx Leader
Dragon Mantle
Rageblood Shaman
Wingsteed Rider
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Portent of Betrayal
Stymied Hopes
Flamespeaker Adept
Fate Foretold
Setessan Battle Priest
Traveling Philosopher
Satyr Rambler
Thassa's Bounty

Pack 3:

Favored Hoplite
Voyage's End
Wingsteed Rider

Next...

Decorated Griffin
Shipwreck Singer
Dragon Mantle
Viper's Kiss
Traveler's Amulet
Loathsome Catoblepas
Minotaur Skullcleaver
Unknown Shores
Nylea's Disciple
Felhide Minotaur
Annul

Unsurprisingly, we are again bereft of any playable white. Skullcleaver seems like the most effective option here.