Omniscience Draft

There are so many ways to play Magic. Last week, I experienced an "Omniscience" draft for the first time.

Omniscience is Magic minus mana costs or lands. The three unique rules:

1. "You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs." 
2. 0: add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. Activate this ability only once each turn. [This gives you the possibility of playing creature abilities.]
3. You start the game with a hand of 3 cards.

What a crazy twist! It sure changes how you draft. A few observations:

• Without casting costs, most decks will have all five colors.
• Two types of cards are primarily coveted: 
• high-cost spells (creatures, etc.)
• card draw spells
• With no lands and a 40-card deck minimum, you will play with almost all of the 45 cards you draft. With a starting hand size of 3, if you end up with 'chaff' cards early, you're doomed.
• Cards that include a casting cost of [x] are worthless (as [x] must equal zero).
• Mill cards are nearly useless- games won't go long enough to make that viable.

Games go fast- often only two-three turns- if one of you can get out a few mammoth creatures on turn one, and the other has no answer for them. I did quite poorly in both drafts; decklists below.

It was a fun experience, but not something I'll do often. There seems to be less skill in drafting and still less in playing- your opening hand often determines the winner.

Draft 1:

1 Falconer Adept (M21) 18

1 Tolarian Kraken (M21) 80

1 Sanguine Indulgence (M21) 121

1 Bad Deal (M21) 89

1 Spined Megalodon (M21) 72

4 Gloom Sower (M21) 100

2 Epitaph Golem (M21) 230

2 Rambunctious Mutt (M21) 30

1 Igneous Cur (M21) 153

2 Garruk's Gorehorn (M21) 184

2 Dub (M21) 16

1 Turn to Slag (M21) 168

1 Revitalize (M21) 31

1 Teferi's Tutelage (M21) 78

1 Village Rites (M21) 126

1 Kinetic Augur (M21) 154

2 Bone Pit Brute (M21) 132

1 Pitchburn Devils (M21) 156

1 Cancel (M21) 46

1 Caged Zombie (M21) 91

2 Duress (M21) 96

1 Wishcoin Crab (M21) 86

1 Valorous Steed (M21) 42

1 Secure the Scene (M21) 35

1 Capture Sphere (M21) 47

1 Siege Striker (M21) 37

1 Masked Blackguard (M21) 113

1 Furor of the Bitten (M21) 145

1 Liliana's Steward (M21) 111

1 Vodalian Arcanist (M21) 83

1 Portcullis Vine (M21) 195

Draft 2:

1 Warden of the Woods (M21) 213

1 Finishing Blow (M21) 99

1 Turret Ogre (M21) 169

2 Mind Rot (M21) 115

1 Legion's Judgment (M21) 24

3 Duress (M21) 96

2 Track Down (M21) 211

2 Chrome Replicator (M21) 229

1 Garruk's Gorehorn (M21) 184

1 Portcullis Vine (M21) 195

2 Rambunctious Mutt (M21) 30

1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (M21) 1

1 Opt (M21) 59

3 Spined Megalodon (M21) 72

1 Secure the Scene (M21) 35

1 Revitalize (M21) 31

1 Library Larcenist (M21) 55

1 Bone Pit Brute (M21) 132

2 Sanguine Indulgence (M21) 121

2 Thrill of Possibility (M21) 165

1 Infernal Scarring (M21) 105

1 Return to Nature (M21) 200

1 Pursued Whale (M21) 60

1 Skyscanner (M21) 238

1 Goremand (M21) 101

1 Fungal Rebirth (M21) 182

1 Gloom Sower (M21) 100

1 Unleash Fury (M21) 170

1 Tormod's Crypt (M21) 241

1 Rookie Mistake (M21) 66