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This thread is for discussion of this week's Limited Information, which goes live Tuesday morning on magicthegathering.com.

I definitely agree that Shadowmoor drafting provides a lot more flexibility (and excitement) than LLM drafts. So long as you stick to picking cards within any three aligned colors in the first two packs, you can usually make an utter killing in the last pack while figuring out what two colors you want to focus on.

I have also been doing really well forcing black, too, since it seems to be generally underdrafted, and it has a lot of very good hybrid cards that can be picked up late, even in the last pack. Sickle Ripper is currently one of my favorite commons, and Corrosive Mentor has won me a few drafts.

I am still pretty amazed that people haven't yet caught on to Elsewhere Flask and Scuttlemutt, both of which are definitely pick 2-5 quality, especially early on in the draft.

riceburner wrote:

I am still pretty amazed that people haven't yet caught on to Elsewhere Flask and Scuttlemutt, both of which are definitely pick 2-5 quality, especially early on in the draft.

Must just be your meta, because Scuttlemutt is a no-brainer in any deck. Shuts off Cohorts, Avatauras, removes Mentor abilities, shuts down Scarecrows, screws with combat math... and the worst case scenerio is that it's a colorless Grey Ogre that accels your mana, and that's hardly bad in limited.
Elsewhere Flask, however, I'm not sold on. It's just good artifact mana-fixing, which wouldn't be too bad if we weren't playing in a hybrid block. Still, it helps the decks that are only half-on color with their Demigods or other triple-hybrid costed dude, and lets you splash for the Corrupt cycle (sans the white one) if you're feeling ballsy. And hey... sometimes you need a way in your mono-red deck to splash that Biting Tether, and Islands alone won't cut it.

Hey Steve just wanted to say welcome back. Glad to hear you will be doing a walkthrough soon. I've been missing those a lot lately. Here's to your health friend.

I totally agree that all of the hybrid mana in this set is pushing people towards decks with two or three colors of land when that is an unnecessary complication.

Some of the strongest decks I've played have been those where I was able to sense early (sometime in pack two) that I was destined to be playing mono color. Blue or black seem the strongest contenders when it comes to mono-color. In black, Crowd of Cinders and Corrupt both become incredibly strong in a mono-colored deck. And in blue, efficient cards like Briarberry Cohort suddenly shine.

One of the best winning drafts I've had recently, I ended up playing mono blue (with both Plumeveil and Wasp Lancer, no less). The crazy thing was that the person I played first round was playing mono blue too! I won due to what I consider one of the most undervalued rares in the set - Puca's Mischeif. Trade control of a Torpor Dust for one of your creatures? Sounds good to me.