Roto #4: Plagon and Monstrous Rage, Together At Last (part 1)
Time for another roto! This draft follows the format of the first one that I did: five pods with a playoff amongst the top finishers in each pod playing off in a finals bracket. I managed to make it to the final table last time, losing in the quarterfinals what was functionally a mirror match, making me feel that I at least can hang. Humorously, I'm in a pod with people who I've played with before, so I think I came in with a meta as someone who forces mono-green. I would call that a half-truth - while it is my favorite color to draft by a lot, my goal in each roto is to find/forge an open lane as quickly as possible, and then to do my best to stay in it while leaving room for players in my colors to take other cards that I don't want. It just so happens that in my first two drafts, that lane happened to be mono-green. I'm in seat 9 out of 10, meaning that I was one of the last people to take my first card. By the time my turn came, the first eight pi...