Let's do some Pack 1 Pick 1 for Amonkhet, Veeky Forums. First pack here. What are your thoughts?

Let's do some Pack 1 Pick 1 for Amonkhet, Veeky Forums. First pack here. What are your thoughts?

Rare feels like the safest pick here. You get 6 power worth of guys for 5 mana and it's an awesome build-around. Plus because there's only one other black card in the back you probably wheel the horror. You may wheel the initiate, but probs not.

Sandworm is a reasonable card; but not great on the first pick. Wrapping is reasonable as well, but not on the same level as Lilana's Mastery.

Other cards aren't really worth writing home about

Liliana's Mastery, for my dreams of making a completely noncreature Zombie deck.

Only tokens, only now.

Is sandword really better than the croc?

maybe not. But I don't really like first picking big dumb dudes. I'd pick the Wurm because he cycles.

Next pack.

Rare aside it's a tossup between the croc or the sandworm.

You're right, the croc is better, it's going to Abyss the opponent. But the thing is, the sandworm is going to go a long way for the consistency of your deck and by the time you cast it it's also going to Abyss the opponent and is much harder to chump.

I wouldn't fault someone for picking either the Croc or Sandworm. It's useful to remember if you pick a green card you're going to probably wheel another. I can't say the sandwurm would wheel, but the Cartouche might.

Blue Cartouche or the Illumination are fine too; probably a better pick than either the worm or croc in terms of "safety".

Those assessments are context free; I don't know how fast the format is or which colors are good.

Format is sort of slow. Definitely a lot slower than KLD or AER. As for colors, it's essentially a toss-up, I think. No one color is particularly dominant.

To be honest the whole Limited format looks like complete dogshit to me. It's just a pile of generic effects put together. It might as well be a Core Set with Egyptian art. While Limited usually saves a set from being useless
in Constructed (and this set certainly is useless for that) I really don't feel like it's the case here.

I would take the Blue Cartouche; I think a strong arguement can be made for the Wind Guide out of sheer power. I wouldn't fault anyone for taking the White Bolt or the split card or the Soulstinger.

Note that taking the Wind Guide you might wheel the Initiate although that's a pretty fucking loose "might" as the pick quality takes a dive 4-8 cards in.

Assuming a redraft or some other situation where you aren't guaranteed to walk away with it at the end, what Invocations are really first pick material?