Hiya, folks! Joe here, back with another Pick of the Day. I’m generating a random pack from the current set, then asking folks to vote for which cards they would choose Pack 1 Pick 1. Feel free to discuss your reasoning in the comments. Mine is in a spoiler below the poll.

Coming Soon Which card do you choose for your Pack 1, Pick 1? Dismissive Pyromancer Aegis of the Heavens Blanchwood Armor Psychic Symbiont Rustwing Falcon Lich's Caress Viashino Pyromancer Invoke the Divine Tolarian Scholar Abnormal Endurance Plummet Thornhide Wolves Greenwood Sentinel Ghostform Highland Lake Results Vote Which card do you choose for your Pack 1, Pick 1? Dismissive Pyromancer 53 ( 39.85 % ) Aegis of the Heavens 0 ( 0 % ) Blanchwood Armor 3 ( 2.26 % ) Psychic Symbiont 19 ( 14.29 % ) Rustwing Falcon 3 ( 2.26 % ) Lich's Caress 52 ( 39.1 % ) Viashino Pyromancer 2 ( 1.5 % ) Invoke the Divine 0 ( 0 % ) Tolarian Scholar 0 ( 0 % ) Abnormal Endurance 0 ( 0 % ) Plummet 1 ( 0.75 % ) Thornhide Wolves 0 ( 0 % ) Greenwood Sentinel 0 ( 0 % ) Ghostform 0 ( 0 % ) Highland Lake 0 ( 0 % ) Back

Which card do you choose for your Pack 1, Pick 1? Dismissive Pyromancer 53 ( 39.85 % ) Aegis of the Heavens 0 ( 0 % ) Blanchwood Armor 3 ( 2.26 % ) Psychic Symbiont 19 ( 14.29 % ) Rustwing Falcon 3 ( 2.26 % ) Lich's Caress 52 ( 39.1 % ) Viashino Pyromancer 2 ( 1.5 % ) Invoke the Divine 0 ( 0 % ) Tolarian Scholar 0 ( 0 % ) Abnormal Endurance 0 ( 0 % ) Plummet 1 ( 0.75 % ) Thornhide Wolves 0 ( 0 % ) Greenwood Sentinel 0 ( 0 % ) Ghostform 0 ( 0 % ) Highland Lake 0 ( 0 % ) Back

Spoiler Disregarding mana costs, my picks for the top three cards in this pack (in descending order by power level) would be Psychic Symbiont, Lich’s Caress, Dismissive Pyromancer. (Blanchwood Armor‘s ceiling is about the same as Dismissive Pyromancer‘s, but has a high enough set-up cost that I’m not considering it.) Of those three, Lich’s Caress leaves us the least open, and since I favor Psychic Symbiont over it, anyway, I’m taking it out of the running. I think that the power level on Psychic Symbiont is high enough relative to that of Dismissive Pyromancer that I’m going to make the Symbiont my choice here. I do have a tendency to take gold cards too highly in draft, though, so I’d like to see what other people think. [collapse]

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