I am getting the hang of drafting Zendikar Rising and today’s a holiday, and so I decided to do another one. This time, I have planned out to build the Boros Warriors archetype and seeing a lot of cards that support this. It is somewhat halfway of the Party mechanic, but I wanted it to be as aggressive as possible. It prompted me to have a few Landfall creatures that can pump by itself (Skyclave Geopede and Prowling Felidar) or the team (Canyon Jerboa).

It was a good thing that the passed cards somewhat favored my deck plan, and so the picks were smooth.

Check out below the Zendikar Rising Quick Draft deck I built.

Final record: 7-1. The deck was curving well and aggressive enough to push through the damage. The only loss came out with my blunder play of not casting the Ox before killing the 1/1 Deathtouch Elf. That delay cost me the game later on.

Overall it was a good decision of the deck archetype draft. It was more efficient than the Landfall deck even though I had no solid removals and only the pump spells for my creatures to survive. I might try this again on my next Zendikar Rising draft.

The Zendikar Rising quick booster draft is still available to play on MTG Arena and so I decided to try it out again and this time with some draft references from an MTG strategy article website. It is standard to already decide on the color combinations that you’d want in the cards you will be drafted but I could not avoid taking the strongest card, especially if it is the first pick. I then rely my strategy on the card’s color or colors. I tried to avoid it many times but then some of the cards that get passed to me also somewhat support those colors that I have chosen.

For today, I am sharing my Zendikar Rising booster draft done last Friday where I started picking Red and White cards but eventually ended with a Red-Green core splashing White for Makindi Ox and Journey to Oblivion. Draft match record: 7-1

Check out below the screenshot of the decklist: