Complete Disregard
Bone Splinters
Kalastria Nightwatch
Geyserfield Stalker
Demon's Grasp

Bunch of ingest cards that look OK and processors. They might just be straight up better than the 5 drops above.

Kalastria Healer looks really good in allies but not good enough to pick highly.

I'll echo that Top 5, but Black's commons are quite unimpressive.

Bone Splinters
Complete Disregard
Altar's Reap
Culling Drone
Silent Skimmer

As you can see, I'm counting on two things: there will be drones to sacrifice, and bears will not be irrelevant. That's way I don't expect the menace guy to be very dangerous.

I think I'm going to like this set. I really can't tell, just from looking at commons, what will the good decks be. Which probably means, draft around the good uncommons/rares you open. Also, Allies seem to be at least three colors, so maybe they should be paired with converge?

Demon's Grasp
Silent Skimmer
Skitterskin
Swarn Surge
Bone Splinters

Black seems really weak without a way to reliably gain life, like Retreat to Hagra or Vampiric Rites. It is definitely the gimmick color of the set.

1. Bone Splinters
2. Complete Disregard
3. Mortuary Mire
4. Demon's Grasp
5. Culling Drone

I might be overvaluing Mire, but it looks insane to me. Choosing the last one was hard, the quality drops significantly.

Skitterskin is an Uncommon.

I guess Complete Disregard is number 5 then. Really don't like the card a ton.
Black is shallow to me. Bleh.

Kalastria healer - I've first picked it and won, and I've played against a deck that had 4 of them that used both the ally and the life gain synergy.

Demons grasp - expensive but sometimes you really need to kill something.

Swarm surge - I haven't actually seen it cast but with a big pile of scions it should be good.

Bone Splinters - Yep

Dutiful return - should be better than usual with giant eldrazi to recur

I didn't realize Swarm Surge was a sorcery until recently. I like it a lot less now.

Sludge Crawler is actually good. I actually haven't seen anyone able to play Stalker yet... there are a couple BR aggro cards.
I think Silent Skimmer is better than stalker too, and at least as good as Nightwatch. You are going to have to main deck a copy of bone splinters unless you are in white I think.

there's a swarm surge deck i almost played this weekend. i think you need 3 though.

I've never played silent skimmer. A 4 mana angelic wall seems particularly bad in this format, so unless you're devoid aggro it has no place.

It is a 4 mana 2/4 when it attacks. And there isn't much flying in the format, so having an Angelic wall is solid in a lot of decks.

Skimmer won me a lot of games in the prerelease. 2 unblock able damage every turn is good in a format of 8 mana spells.

Skimmer is a control card. It blocks, and then it becomes an unblockable threat. I think it's way too slow for aggro.

It has almost the same number of common & uncommon fliers as Origins (not counting the thopter generation). But it's certainly more IMPORTANT in this format.

I think you guys are underrating Voracious Null. You don't want a lot of him, but the ability to go from wide to tall is often quite useful.

Null I think looks bad because we had a season of Nantuko Husk. But I have yet to see someone really pull off a sacrifice deck.