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They sparkle in the daylight and brood all day. I know exactly what you are thinking! Vampires are pretty lame. Because blood my friend is totally how metal Magic has become with the Zendikar block. By now you are probably wondering why I’m calling attention to blood. Or is that stigmata? Either way blood is way metal and by metal standards stigmata is pretty well… metal.
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You’ll make a deck so metal your eyes will bleed, along with your hands, and feet. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below.What’s up bros and broette’s? It’s that time where Meathook (that’s me) gives you his sagely advice about drafting a completely metal deck. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your trip through Zendikar! I’ll be returning soon to help you prepare for the upcoming Strixhaven Turbo Draft. Zulaport Duelist and Chilling Trap are the tricks that people forget to play around, don’t fall for the one blue blowout.The non-rare that I really want to open P1P1 is Roost of Drakes.Phylath, World Sculptor and Felidar Retreat are the busted rares that are worth splashing if you can.I had one draft where I had four of each in my deck and it was probably the easiest trophy I had in the whole format. Roil Eruption and Into the Roil are the best two commons and there is no limit to how many you should play.Filling whatever Party slot is missing on a colorless two drop that can still get in there for two while incidentally fixing your mana is a great glue card. Stonework Packbeast is much better than it looks.I prefer to stay away from Golgari (Black Green) and Selesnya (White Green) if at all possible.There are cards that are only good in certain archetypes so you can get tricky and try to wheel them while taking a more generically powerful card.This can also be a very fast format so make sure you can curve out well while still having enough power to finish the game.This also means that you want to carve out your lane sooner rather than later. Synergy is very important in Zendikar Rising drafts so focus on what your color combination is doing.MDFCs are probably better than you think, but not the end all be all that they were made out to be when Zendikar Rising originally came out.I would recommend that for every 3 MDFCs you have, you can replace 2 basic lands. MDFCs can make building a mana base very tricky.If it’s a really hard pick, you can even phone a friend on it. Take that time to think through your different paths, what a card adds to your deck, and what you’ll miss out on by taking it. This is a bot draft so you can take as much time as you need to between picks.Even if I open Phylath, I’m more interested in splashing it into a Simic deck than sticking to Gruul. There are a lot of nonbos holding this archetype back like Grotag Bug-Catcher with a bunch of non-party beasts. The version you want to play is extremely aggressive with Brushfire Elemental leading the way into Roil Eruption finishing the job. This is a low tier deck that can reach mid tier with the right cards. Buy from Card Kingdom $0.25 view card details