Hey guysXLN draft on saturday, I hope it goes well. Format is nice but drafting seems to be high variance and high skill
I've been struggling with Ixalan draft, but I think I'm finally starting to get a feel for it. Went 3-0 with BW Vampires last night. At least two other people in my pod were drafting vampires, so my deck was a little weird, but prioritizing small creatures and 1 mana combat tricks helped a lot. Vampire's Zeal and Skullduggery both won me games.
I recently pulled a foil Torrential Gearhulk and Fatal Push from prize packs and am thinking about trading those in to build a Mardu Vehicles deck. I'm a pretty new player and don't participate in anything more competitive than FNM/Standard Showdown, so I think it'll work out pretty well.
This deck is my main source of inspiration, though I am obviously making some changes.
I was playing Mono-White Sunmare deck and did pretty well with it (came in 2nd on Game Day), but I haven't been able to make it work post-rotation. Thought about doing an Abzan Tokens Sunmare deck, but I worry it'd be a mess to play with paper cards!