CLEARLY Ruinous Minotaur . New article goes up in an hour if I hear no serious disagreement with this choice.

Agreed.

same. man we're burning through these

Half an hour left.

mm the only other one i would consider is card:Trapfinder's Trick. But not using it to remove traps ,more of an early game play to see what your opponent is playing.

But yes the minotaur is a better pick.

Don't discount the berserker. A 2/1 for 2 is par for the course in zen. I can't believe there's still a sell-sword in here... Post that new article, though. You'll have no argument from me.

I dunno I kind of think Ruinous Minotaur is, bad. It has RR which makes use heavy red, and you dont ever really want to 'attack' with it. I like Highland Berserker here, it's not too late for us to get some Allies, and it's a fine 2/1, AND it's a 2-cost creature, which you want like eleventy billion of in this format. If we get a turn 3 Minotaur and a turn 4 living tsunami, what kind of clock are we putting on OURSELVES? I don't like it at all.

Highland Berserker

Dissent at the last moment! I'll leave it open a little longer.

I think Minotaur is solid in draft. Later in the game you can indeed swing with him for 5, and until then, he's a decent block of meat.

-C

We were soooooo close.

Soz! I truely don't care enough and vote we move to the next pack!

Yeah i am good w/ the minotaur, lets see whats next.

Since this is still open suppose things went very differently and we started w/ black not white, and had black, blue, and red cards, or even black blue and green cards. That makes this pack more intersting. Do you go Nimana Sell-Sword or Ruinous Minotaur . I have been running a side experiment where i drafted black in round 1 as that was my preference then, and it has drastically altered the rest of the draft. So as an interesting academic question which do you prefer and why?

err... that second option was supposed to be black red and green not black blue and green... oops

Nimana Sell-Sword isn't a very valuable ally for two reasons- 1- there aren't too many allies in black, and 2- for its effect, it's expensive in limited. The reason Oran-Rief Survivalist and Kazandu Blademaster are great are that they cost 2.

Sorry for all you minotaur lovers out there, but I'm also going for Highland Berserker . The double red cost and the drawback of sac'ing the land if he does get through is just something that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Hell, I'd rather even have card:Trapfinder's Trick over it just to see their hand. But still, Highland Berserker gets my vote. Helps shut down any opponent who is scrounging for allies for a draft-ally deck too.

didn't see this in time, but yes, I agree.