A strong number of blue cards are here but we simply pick the strongest card which is《Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp》. I bet no one hates a 4 mana《Mahamoti Djinn》!

Even the 《Mahamoti Djinn》 mode is good and getting this early means you can make sure to get some artifacts to cast it for 4 where it becomes backbreaking.

It’s simply the best card in the pack. We also want to play blue.

Easy 1p1p, blue is super deep and Zahid is one of the best cards in the set. Downside is that we are passing other 2 very good blue cards.

A card great and strong as《Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp》. There are no other cards that we should consider, so we have no complaints to pick this great card on our 2nd pick!

On color with the first pick, and by far the strongest card in the pack, one of the best uncommons in the set.

It is as strong as a rare. The same color as the first pick and the strongest card makes us pick this with no doubt.

Man, why this didn’t happen to me at the Pro Tour? If you already are in blue I think this is the best card you can pick.

Here is also a pick we do not have to think hard so《Vicious Offering》 is our pick. We have 《Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp》so if《Bloodtallow Candle》 comes around, things will be great.

There are no blue cards worth taking and a strong cheap removal spell is the best option for a second color card.

This is also the strongest card. Our first pick and second pick are both 6 drops which are heavy to play (one of them can be played as a 4 drop) we are happy to pick this.

Now we get back to normal. I think offering is the best card in the pack and I see no point of taking a mediocre artifact to boost Zaid this early. 《Aven Sentry》 is my other consideration, since I prefere UW over UB. But offering is just a better card.

Here is another efficient removal. Looks like black is open, but on the other hand, blue does not have a good flow coming through which I am a little concerned. For our future plan, taking a decent number of black cards and then deciding our 2nd color will be ideal.

Concerning the relevant cards, it’s the same pack as the one before.

Same reason as the 3rd pick and also a second black card which is strong. At this point, we have 2 bombs and 2 removal which is a good start for a blue-black control shell. Another good thing is that not a lot of contestants would choose this deck type so we are 80% on the plan to pick cards for a blue-black control build.

I really like 《Syncopate》 but I rather take the best card again. I’m not a big an of the offering outside Saprolings decks, but it’s always fine.

Lots of efficient cards in colors we are not in, but《Caligo Skin-Witch》 isn’t a bad card and to send a signal we are in black, we pick this.

Good early defensive creature or late game card advantage card. Exactly what we are looking for.

The ONLY choice. Till this 5th pick, I think most of the pros will pick the same. Having these kinds of picks at the Pro Tour level drafts would make things easier and a lot more winnable.

I really like this 1/3 kicker to either play it early if you are defensless or get a good value in the late game.

I feel now that picking blue is a critical option to take. We also do not have black cards here so we are picking a not so bad removal《Fiery Intervention》. We are able to proceed with the black and red build, we want to build this as a midrange-control kind of deck.

No real cards in the colors we have. It’s between this and 《Grow from the Ashes》, if blue dries up further having good removal in multiple colors gives us options.

We can splash this in our blue-black or the option to shift to black-red is fine so we pick this. Looking at green in the past few packs, I have no interest in green so we will pass any green card so it will become a signal that green is open.

Bad news, no UB cards. So we just take the best card. I don’t like 《Grow from the Ashes》 that much.

When I was thinking black might be also a bad option to proceed, this black red card comes through. I don’t want to give up the black red build and also to not let other players start to play the black and red, rather than picking 《Keldon Raider》, we pick this.

Still no blue cards, might be we go into Black/Red going forward and this is a strong card.

For a possibility to shift to black-red and also, to be able to splash red for our small chance to play blue-black, we pick this. Picking this card at this point is something I am very happy, and it seems that 2 players picking before me at the table is not on black-red.

We are going to play the 2 blue cards almost no matter what, so I wouldn’t take Garna. The artifacts for Zahid are good but I rather stablish my colours first. I like taking the Keldon, the last 2 picks tell us that red is really open. And we might end in UW rather than UB. Actually I prefer UR better than UB even if I don’t have much wizards Synergy.

Having this in our 8th pick seems that we are able to play black. Our 2nd color is to be determined in the future picks, but since we have picked《In Bolas's Clutches》, we haven’t seen many blue cards so at this point we are going for the black and red build.

Decent finisher if a bit expensive.

A finisher in the color we are on. Either on blue-black or black-red, we have in mind a control build in these color so it’s great. At this point, we assume our possibility to build blue-black is 70%, black-red 30%. Looking at our position, black-red seems to have a better possibility, though our first and second pick were powerful blue cards, and at the end, if 2 color aren’t enough to build our deck, we have an option to splash red for the 2 cards.

Well forget the last thing I said, We are playing UB for sure. So far we have 3 good top ends in form of the 3 legendary permanents we took, 2 medium removals and the flexibility of 《Caligo Skin-Witch》.