Earlier in the format I would have taken the 《Forerunner of the Empire》 and I am still not sure if it’s not the right pick, because the upside is really high (its great if you get one of the dinosaurs that work well with it), but 《Forerunner of the Empire》 can easily not end up in your deck even if you are red and 《Luminous Bonds》 is a great card, that is also easily splashable.

《Luminous Bonds》 would be my pick. Super stacked pack, other options I would consider are 《Kumena's Awakening》, which is great in 《Sailor of Means》 decks, I also like a lot the 《Pride of Conquerors》 in vampire decks, and 《Forerunner of the Empire》 is obviously very good in a dinosaur deck or any deck with 《Needletooth Raptor》. However I rather take an easy to splash removal, that helps with ascend and also fits aggro decks.

If you are looking for card power, 《Forerunner of the Empire》, 《Hunt the Weak》, 《Luminous Bonds》are your 3 choices. 《Forerunner of the Empire》may be strong or weak depending on what you search for. Different from the release of this set, this card has lowered its value. Comparing 《Hunt the Weak》 and 《Luminous Bonds》, it is simply 《Luminous Bonds》 that is strong, and white is better to pick than green so I pick 《Luminous Bonds》.

《Luminous Bonds》. This pick is pretty straightforward for me. It is a removal and the other options are rather weak. 《Forerunner of the Empire》 would probably be my second choice.

I think that 《Curious Obsession》 is the best uncommon and also a card that is better than most of the rares – it immediately replaces itself and it snowballs extremely quickly if they don’t have answer for it.

Even though 《Curious Obsession》 is the best card to me I rather go for a second 《Luminous Bonds》 that is more likely to end up in my deck, so we are more open to different strategies and colors.

It was a tough pick between《Curious Obsession》which is a card that I love. Though when you compare these two with their card power, I believe there is no big difference with 《Luminous Bonds》 and I can send a signal that I am on white, which makes me pick 《Luminous Bonds》.

《Pacifism》 are also great in multiples but here would also be a great option in 《Curious Obsession》.

This pick is tough and nothing really stands out to me, but 《Jadecraft Artisan》 is the best card in my opinion so I think I would just take that.

Now we get a very weak pack. 《Deadeye Rig-Hauler》, 《Frilled Deathspitter》 and 《Jadecraft Artisan》 are slightly better than the 《Snubhorn Sentry》 I think. However, once again I rather stay in colour, and try to work through the ascend mechanic since I already have 2 《Luminous Bonds》.

This pack has no cards in white. It would’ve been great if there were cards that could’ve drifted me to a different color worth picking, but none of that also. If we become a UW deck, I will pick a card that will be useful, which is 《Deadeye Rig-Hauler》.

This pack is rather weak again but we do have a pickup in 《Snubhorn Sentry》. While I usually prefer to pick them up a little later I do not see a better option and ascend is strong build-around strategy.

If I took a 《Forerunner of the Empire》 I would snap of the 《Polyraptor》, but as it is I would just take a good white 2 drop to go with the 《Luminous Bonds》.

Now we have to decide where are we going. 《Martyr of Dusk》 sounds like the more reasonable choice. However I’m a big fan of 《Sailor of Means》 decks, and pick 4 is late enough that we might see a 《Secrets of the Golden City》 and make a defensive ascend deck.

If you are not on the GW plan, 《Polyraptor》 is not that strong so not worth picking. At this moment, high chance that white might not be an open color, though no cards are here to change what we go for. I just pick the efficient 2 mana card.

《Martyr of Dusk》, 《Dusk Charger》 and 《Sailor of Means》 are on par regarding powerlevel but I much rather stay on one color here.

Not sure what is the common opinion on this card, but the more I play with the set the more I like the chicken (as we called it in testing). I think that it’s a premium white card and I would be happy to see it this late.

Nothing too special. But if we attach to the idea of playing a defensive ascend deck this body is both great defense and a way to end games.

We see lots of white cards which I feel very relieved. 《Goblin Trailblazer》 looks ahead above the other cards in card power, though thinking what cards have passed, red doesn’t seem to look good. This makes me pick a card that does its job.

This is a great pickup for us. While I think this card is notoriously underrated it goes well in all ascend Strategies as it blocks every creature and chips in 2 damage every turn.

I don’t particularly like GW dinosaurs, that being said 《Colossal Dreadmaw》 is by far the best card in the booster, so I would just take it even though I can still see myself to draft UW or UG depending on how the rest of the draft goes.

This is not a good defender but it’s a better finisher. I like picking one in pack one and try to grab a 《Squire's Devotion》 in pack 2 or even a 《Mark of the Vampire》 in pack 3, remember we already have one 《Sailor of Means》 and we would like to pick up more, so splashing shoulnd’t be a problem.

If we head for the GW build, we will want one or two copies of this card. If we are able to pick 《Squire's Devotion》 later on, picking 《Soul of the Rapids》would make a strong combo which I thought worth picking. Though my thoughts on 《Soul of the Rapids》 is that it can be picked later in the draft which made my decision to pick《Colossal Dreadmaw》 first.

There is no white card to be found and it is the strongest card in the pack. All the tools we have so far match perfectly for GW dinosaurs, so I am happy with this pick.

I don’t really like the raptor, but it’s a 2 drop and I would take it here just in case I don’t see many 2 drops in the rest of the draft.

The 4 drops are better, but we need to hold the early turns, and we want permanents that stay in the battlefield to cash all the 《Secrets of the Golden City》 that we can take in pack 2.

If we choose the second color to be blue,《Deadeye Rig-Hauler》looks good. Though in our first packs, picking light mana cards leads to easier picks later on. This reasons me to pick 《Raptor Companion》which has a low mana cost and could cut off one less white card off the table.

While I rather draft UW than GW I make the safer pick in form of 《Raptor Companion》 over 《Deadeye Rig-Hauler》. The 《Hauler》 is fine but way worse than I first thought.

I think that the remaining cards in my colors are fairly replacable, but picking up 《Evolving Wilds》 might potentially be very important.

This is a late 《Storm Fleet Swashbuckler》, I love that card. However I’m already commited to play a UW deffensive deck “Good old walls and flyers”. And 《Evolving Wilds》 gives the possibility to splash any bomb we might open.

I can’t believe this pack is at its eighth pick, though I will take 《Moment of Triumph》 which is a good combat trick.

This is a very interesting pick as it comes down to three cards: 《Evolving Wilds》, 《Moment of Triumph》 and 《Knight of the Stampede》. Splashes in White decks happen quite regularly therefore 《Wilds》 would be a decent pickup. We don’t have a trick yet and we surely want 1-3 so 《Moment》 is great. 《Knight of the Stampede》 is interesting if we really go GW big dinosaurs but we don’t know that yet for sure. I would not blame anyone for picking any of the three cards but will go with 《Moment of Triumph》 here.