Brothers' War draft #1 is done! I plan to keep drafting at my LFGS each week, and I hope I do better next time. Instead of only posting my cardpool and deck, I want to share an outline of how my draft went as well as my thoughts on it.

My P1P1 was The Temporal Anchor, but things got shaky after that and I think I took too long to solidify into a color combination. On the other hand I'm pleased that I (correctly) read signals and recognized the player to my right was drafting White. I picked up a Platoon Dispenser in pack two, but passed a couple other great White cards instead of pivoting into White because I thought White would dry up again in pack three. In the end, I narrowly avoided being trapped in a ramp deck without anything to ramp to by picking up a Boulderbranch Golem and three Rust Goliaths during pack three.

Overall, I felt okay about my UG ramp deck but I still got blown out. Lost my first match to a WG deck; they had removal for all my biggest threats and ground me to dust with Yotian Dissidents and Masks of the Jadecrafter. Argothian Sprite also provide to be surprisingly dangerous to me... Then I lost my second match to a slightly mess BG deck with Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea. The deck wasn't doing any graveyard stuff, but used frequent activations of Alloy Animist to pressure while dropping multiple Goring Warplows to stem my own attacks. Drawing no lands in game one didn't help but sometimes that just happens. My opponent was sympathetic to the situation.

I got a bye in round three, so at least I still left with a couple set boosters. I do feel like I had drafted a decent deck despite having zero wins, though. Both of the opponents I was matched against were experienced drafters who have already played with Brothers' War. They also both remarked in post-game discussion that they didn't notice any egregious misplays from me, so I did well with what I had.

I'm tempted to say my takeaway lesson here is that deathtouch is more prevalent in BRO than other sets, but I'm not so sure that's actually true. I did see multiple Goring Warplows, Hoarding Recluses, and Argivian Avengers- even an Ashnod- but there aren't actually that many more deathtouchers in this set than others so my brain is telling me they were just coincidentally overrepresented. I also did get stymied hard by them, but this set has better curve toppers than Rust Goliaths and better removal than Epic Confrontation that would have performed better.