As usual, I’m doing this before playing any draft, so my pick might be simply wrong. From this pack I would take 《Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner》. Core sets historically were about big creatures, bombs, and removal. This is a clear bomb, that’s also hard to kill. I think it’s good to take a greedy first pick and remember that you don’t to have to commit early. You always can abandon first pick.

This card seems slightly too good to pass it here. It really depends on how fast the format ends being, but the hexproof here makes sure we get enough value even if they happen to have an answer, so I like it even though it’s 3 colors.

Picking a 3 color card in your first pick will be taking a risk, but if it is a powerhouse like this, I will love to pick it. At this period of time, green seems to be the unpopular color, so having a deck based on a green with multi colors is where we aim.

While I can’t judge how strong a bomb like 《Palladia-Mors》 is, I know for sure that removal is always great in Core sets and therefore I would pick 《Electrify》. Arguments for 《Gravedigger》 could be made but I take the removal in an unknown environment.

Evasion and relevant ability.

《Angel of the Dawn》 looks like the best card in the pack to me and it shares a color with our Dragon.

If you look at the cards in scores, 《Departed Deckhand》 is better, though thinking of what we picked in our first pack, we pick this.

While 《Thud》 is a one mana removal I think it’s pretty bad due to the fact it is a Sorcery. So, the pick comes down to 《Strangling Spores》 and 《Angel of the Dawn》. A 3/3 flier with a great ability is more interesting to me than the removal here.

Filling the curve, also has an upside, if we pick some lifegain later.

All the cards seem to have roughly the same power level so I like to stay on color . 《Ajani's Pridemate》 can also become very big if paired with some lifegain.

If we have picked《Ajani's Pridemate》 in the last pack. I regret it very much. Hard choice between 《Dragon Egg》 but at least, we can shift to cut red and green to go with white + blue + black, making me pick white.

This pick is a tough one, as there is no strong card available to us. 《Macabre Waltz》, 《Hostile Minotaur》, 《Aven Wind Mage》 and 《Ajani's Pridemate》 are decent but not strong by any means. I would take the 《Aven Wind Mage》 and try to stay open.

Good enough for 4cmc in core set. We might go into aggressive boros, and don’t even play the first pick.

I like staying on color and drafting curve here, and this Knight looks like a very solid card .

In this meta, I feel 1 toughness creatures can die very easily and very low value. Though we do not have any other interesting card, so we pick this to send the message we are on white.

Picking up the second 《Aven Wind Mage》 without much else in the pack is fine and now we hope to draft some spells.

Removals should be super important and hard to get in core set. Even though this one isn’t really good, I’m happy to pick it.

I’m not a fan of this kind of effect , but two mana is cheap enough that it will make up the times where we can’t cast it.

This might be the biggest choice that splits our path. Picking 《Take Vengeance》to take our second color or picking《Aerial Engineer》or《Skeleton Archer》and stay on our plan. Looking at our picks, we do not see good green and red picks, so《Aerial Engineer》is going to be our picks. If our right-side player players a white-black life gain deck, in our second pack, we can hope that blue will come around.

This pick comes down to the three uncommons and without knowing the speed of the format I would take the 《Aerial Engineer》 as it fits our UW-Fliers archetype best.

Nothing good here, this one is at least big…

A flying body plus filtering a card is something we don’t mind having in either an aggressive white deck or in a W/X midrange deck with 《Palladia-Mors》.

《Gearsmith Guardian》is also a strong card, though we do not know if we are able to have enough blue creatures so we pick《Aviation Pioneer》.

《Aviation Pioneer》 is exactly what we are looking for so I am happy to pick it up, again pretty uncontested.

In Dominaria, this effect was decent. Since power level goes down, if think it should be also good here.

Two 2/2s with vigilance for four mana is a good ratio and also going to be fine in either midrange or aggro.

Hard decision between a good combat trick《Make a Stand》 but I am a creature loving guy so I pick《Gallant Cavalry》.

I consider 《Make a Stand》 a nice combat trick and as far as we already have benefits with the 《Aven Wind Mage》. I take it over the Land. 《Gallant Cavalry》 is also fine, but not exactly what we are looking for.

Actually good card, if we get some good artifacts later.

It’s likely going to be a filler , but I do like staying on white here.

If we can’t pick lots of artifacts, 《Gearsmith Prodigy》will be a useless pick, so we pick a safe and trusty card《Trusty Packbeast》. We hope the next time around, we can pick 《Skyscanner》,《Gearsmith Guardian》, or 《Explosive Apparatus》.

I am not sure we will have enough artifacts to make 《Gearsmith Prodigy》 work I would just pick up 《Invoke the Divine》 for Sideboard options as all other cards seems very replaceable.