I dislike Statue marginally less.

Gravepurge. I don't hate statue always, but if I need a single playable I'd rather have purge.

This.

A close 4/3 for the Purge. Too bad the dispute was over almost-unplayable cards, but that's life.
Twin Bolt
Ultimate Price
Kolaghan's Command
Sprinting Warbrute
Rending Volley
Kolaghan Stormsinger
Living Lore
Sprinting Warbrute
Kolaghan Aspirant
Gravepurge

Time to wrap up this pack:

Pack 1 pick 11
Center Soul
Champion of Arashin
Taigam's Strike
Spidersilk Net
Island

Pack 1 pick 12
Sibsig Icebreakers
Servant of the Scale
Naturalize
Forest

Pack 1 pick 13
Duress
Shape the Sands
Mountain

Pack 1 pick 14
Center Soul
Island

Pack 1 pick 15
Forest

Net
Icebreakers
Duress
Center
Forest

Looking at what we have now, we'll probably have to play Icebreakers.

i kinda want Taigams' strike over Net, but neither card is very good. It's possible we end up UR splashing black or not.

With as much removal as we have/our colours can get, Spidersilk Net isn't needed and it would never make the deck. I would rather pick Taigam's Strike on the chance that we use .

Just like at pick 7, among several choices unlikely to make our deck, I have Champion of Arashin as least-undesirable because of our present shortage of bodies. We may need to resort to a third color late in the next two packs to fill in bodies, and white seems least contested.

Champion
Icebreakers
Duress
Center
Forest

There's a tie, but it's not all that important, let's take the Strike. As for the other tie, I want my white opponents to play as many Center Soul as possible, so let's take the Island.

Twin Bolt
Ultimate Price
Kolaghan's Command
Sprinting Warbrute
Rending Volley
Kolaghan Stormsinger
Living Lore
Sprinting Warbrute
Kolaghan Aspirant
Gravepurge
Taigam's Strike
Sibsig Icebreakers
Duress
Island
Forest

Pack 2 pick 1
Kolaghan's Command
Dutiful Attendant
Volcanic Rush
Sarkhan's Rage
Vial of Dragonfire
Butcher's Glee
Ojutai Interceptor
Herald of Dromoka
Atarka Beastbreaker
Anticipate
Ukud Cobra
Minister of Pain
Atarka Monument
Ojutai's Command
Swamp

Looks like there was a foil in the pack, and the draft recorder does not mark them.

The only thing better than a Kolaghan's Command is two of them.

Wow.

Command over Rage isn't even close. It's such a backbreaking card.

It wasn't a tie between Center Soul and Island last pick.

Here, some thoughts:
1) We have 3 strong removal spells already, and we are in a color pair that promises us more in that regard.
2) We are in dire need of dudes.
3) Cobra is one of the better non-Rare Black dudes.

Cobra has to be the correct pick here.

Command can get us back a dead dude (as well as force a discard or remove an artifact or a small opposing creature). Except in the exceedingly rare case where we get our commands before we get any dudes, command doesn't hurt our dude count. It gets back our Warbrute or our Aspirant or whatnot.


Ukud Cobra is awesome and on that logic I'd take it ahead of Sarkhan's Rage. But Kolaghan's Command can usually replace itself with a dude with half of its ability, and the other half still gives us card advantage.

More dudes will come. Things aren't dire enough to pass up a great 2-for-1 card that itself helps us keep our dude stream aflowing.

My gripe against Command is that late, two damage is nothing to get excited about; and early, when the damage is very relevant, the return-a-guy mode may be dead. Shatter is sideboard material, and discard has a narrow window where it's anything more than annoyance. If you want great value, you use it for damage+return; otherwise, it's just an overpriced Shock. And in our deck, early dorks are very much irrelevant in the late game, as is two damage. I'd pick the Command over Rage if this was p1p1; but currently, since we already have a Command, IMO Rage does more for us.

Cobra is nice, but not on a level with these two, and we can pass some tier-two removal later in favor of good, aggresive early drops. Cobra is more a UB card than RB; again, IMO.

Sorry, will correct that.

Damage + discard clearing a morph on turn 3 is strong. And if they have no targets in the late game, you can cast it during their draw step to skip their turn and get a guy back, which is basically insane. It's never weak.

I kind of like having the second command, it will literally totally shock someone. HA HA literally.
But I like Cobra and Rage too.... I think Cobra is the pick given what we have.

Because we already have some nice removal and a Kolaghan's Command (and a Gravepurge, if we were to use it), I think Cobra is the most valuable addition here. The fact that we have means to recur it makes it an even stronger creature.

I haven't voted in this but I have read it the entire way. Kolaghan's Command seems like an easy choice for me. We still have 25 picks left to find bodies, take the great card in our colors.

I mean, that card should just read "2 for 1 target opponent".

So, we have three commands and three Cobras. Suggestions?