Turbo Draft

Another day, another Magic format. This time, Arena was running an event called Turbo Draft. This follows the standard limited rules (drafting from three packs) save one:

With spells costing so much less, it certainly sped up things. I did this event once and went 5-3 with the following deck:

1 Pheres-Band Brawler (THB) 193

2 Aspect of Lamprey (THB) 85

1 Rage-Scarred Berserker (THB) 113

2 Nyxborn Colossus (THB) 191

1 Relentless Pursuit (THB) 195

2 Inspire Awe (THB) 175

1 Cling to Dust (THB) 87

1 Traveler's Amulet (THB) 240

1 Nylea's Intervention (THB) 188

1 Renata, Called to the Hunt (THB) 196

1 Nylea's Forerunner (THB) 186

1 Setessan Training (THB) 201

1 Plummet (THB) 194

1 Altar of the Pantheon (THB) 231

1 Agonizing Remorse (THB) 83

2 Pharika's Libation (THB) 111

1 Elspeth's Nightmare (THB) 91

1 Blight-Breath Catoblepas (THB) 86

1 Funeral Rites (THB) 97

1 Omen of the Hunt (THB) 192

1 Enemy of Enlightenment (THB) 92

7 Swamp (SLD) 105

8 Forest (SLD) 108

This was fun. I much prefer it over the Omniscience Draft. Two observations:

• Having reduced (but not zero) cost was a good twist, and not as crazy as Omniscience. Lands still mattered, as did colored mana cost portion (since the cost reduction affected only the "mana of any color" porstion of spells).
• In fact, cards that had three or more mana symbols in their cost were much harder to play than one would have thought. For this event, choose spells with no more than two mana symbols in their casting cost.
• Colorless artifacts were good to play, since many of them had their cost reduced to zero.