General Pick Order Thread

[DreamPaint]

When you run into a difficult or contentious pick during a draft post it here for input. I'll start. We ran into this yesterday during a 6-man draft.



I believe this came up third pick pack one. The drafter had one white card (not sure what it was, assume no synergies with the above). Personally I was very unsure about this pick, but the rest of my group decided on Brimaz. Thoughts?

 

[Tzenmoroth]

Brimaz is probably the pick here, in general. I think I like Spiritkeeper more in weenies though because I like affordable boardwipe insurance policies. I'm surprised that I'm saying this, but I can't see myself picking Crusader here.

 

[Eric Chan]

Great idea for a thread!

Pack one, I would agree that Brimaz is the safe choice, as it's hard to find a white deck that doesn't want his services. If it were pack three instead, I could see making a case for Mirran Crusader in an equipment or heroic-type deck, or Hallowed Spiritkeeper in some sort of sacrifice archetype.

 

[Dom Harvey]

Mirran Crusader because it's busted against ~1/3 of decks and perfectly respectable against the others

 

[Grillo_Parlante]

I am part of camp crusader as well, even if I don't find become immense, have to love the double protection.

 

[CML]

I am part of camp crusader as well, even if I don't find become immense, have to love the double protection.

judge!

 

[anotak]

yeah idk the crusader is just incredibly stupid in some matchups

 

[shamizy]

I'd go Crusader. It just leads to free wins against certain decks.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I'ld urge the cube owner to cut Crusader, as single protection is a bogus ability, and double protection is the equivalent of an unprovoked, vicious kick in the nuts. Fuck protection*!

*Unless it's temporary, temporary protection is a fine mechanic.

 

[ahadabans]

I'd go Brimaz. Crusader is arguably better (at least against certain decks), but I feel like an asshole playing that card. I don't feel much better playing Brimaz though. He does too much for 3 mana IMO. It's a removal check card which a lot of decks will fail.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

I mean neither brimaz nor crusader are especially interesting cards imo, they're both "very efficent 3-drops" and it's not like theres a shortcomming of interesting options there right?

 

[James Stevenson]

If you're power level is high enough for Brimaz to fit in, then he could be cool. He's an elegant token producer if you support that theme.

 

[ahadabans]

Brimaz offends me because he's an easy-mode draft card. When is that card bad? He's got a giant butt so is hard to remove yet he still has a solid power for his casting cost. He has vigilance, so you can both attack and defend with him. He makes dudes while on offense. He makes dudes while on defense. He has zero decision points other than "play this onT3... profit".

I like to reward the heavy color commitment guy and the high pick fixing guy, so if this had been costed at WWW, I'd be all over it honestly. It's like Cryptic Command. That card is good in every blue deck in existence - it's like Brimaz in this regard - but the difference is you have to build a really strong mana base (or go heavy blue) to be able to play it. It's not an auto pick if you are splashing the color. If I had any chance of getting to two white mana sources by T4 even, I would auto play Brimaz.