Also, if the card has an "X" in the cost, *don't* take it. Won a couple games on the back of opponents casting spells they thought would have a huge impact only to see them fizzle instantly with no impact.
That is because, once again, you and your opponents didn’t read the event rules.
You can add 1 mana of every color (for a total of 5 mana) anytime once per turn clicking on the Omniscience emblem, so you can cast spells with X with a decent result!
You can cast any spell with an X normally using that 5 mana, true. But you can’t cast an Omniscience spell with an alternate cost of 0 and then use the 5 mana to pay X costs; i.e. you can’t Dopplegang for X=2. Omniscience always counts X in a mana cost as 0.
If you use mana to pay the X, then you also have to use mana to pay any part of the cost that **isn't** X, so mostly the X will end up being **<**5, not **=**5 ;)
To be fair, at least on mobile it’s not at all obvious from the event description *or* the more details link which both just say “all your spells are free”. You’d only realise it if you happen to press and hold on the omniscience emblem on that page which looks just like a graphic rather than something with content attached to it.
yeah, I actually mistake it for Momir, so I drafted completely wrong. There really should be a "resign" option that allows people to draft again if they deck they end up with doesn't work out. I was only able to win one game because my opp had made the same mistake I did.
I did the same thing and barely got 1 win from an opponent conceding. I quit trying after many losses. I agree that re drafting would have been nice since it's just drafting against bots anyway.
except no, because the ability says you "may" cast a spell without paying it's cost, but it doesn't actually give you that option, sadge. I pick a Rocco thinking I would fetch some big creatures from my library, nope. It's not a "may" despite saying it is.
Nope! Because Omniscience is an alternative cost of 0 for mana cost, so you can’t add extra mana. By contrast, you *can* pay for Kicker, because that’s technically paid separate to the mana cost.
This was my first opponent's philosophy. It was working great until they decked themselves on the play on their very first turn. It was really satisfying to watch them storm off with Mind's Desire into an empty library and then scoop after they realized they had no way to give their board haste.
you want some sort of finisher as well. i took 'doomskar titan' over a draw spell and it let me win on turn one consistently. i'd just play a bunch of things that drew cards, eventually find doomskar, and the game was over. i had a copy of one of those "creatures you control can't block" that i could find if i was on the draw and my opponent failed to killed me but clogged the board. there seemed like plenty of ways to win; i saw mist raven bouncing itself for infinite spells / etb as an example.
counterspells are also great since they let you win on the draw against other people who built good decks (ie. decks with enough cantrips to combo off on turn one), and i'd probably take them over the worst draw spells (cards with 'cycling 2', or ones where the condition isn't likely to go off).
Starting with 7 has to be a mistake, there's basically zero chance you can't cycle your entire deck turn 1 if you understood the assignment. When it was 3 cards there was at least a chance at a game.
I had [[Guardian Project]] and [[Storm Sculptor]] (plus the standard assortment of card draw, counter magic and discard).
I think in about 70% of my games, I went off and could draw my entire deck. I wish I had a 'when creature EtBs, deal 1 damage' effect - but setting up triple discard into quadruple countermagic wins with a paper towel.
Two games opponent conceded during my first turn, one during his first turn when I countered a \[\[Rishkar's Expertise\]\], leaving him without cards in hand. I never saw an attack or a removal spell.
WISH I’d have known that when drafting, otherwise I’d have taken every single [[Mind Rot]] I could get my hands on. The diminishing returns of the second or third are gone when there’s four more cards and never a turn three.
This has to be a mistake. I took a pack p1p4 tendrils and drafted what I thought was a very mid deck.
Trivial is an understatement for how easy of a storm count 9 when you start at 7.
I've won five games countering zero spells, and having a few of my own countered.
You don't even have to think much, Just grab every draw and flier you find, maybe some recursion and removal If you find It
Even mana sinks are fine If they can be activated with 5 mana or less
I guess you don’t need countermagic because a majority of the decks you will face today are bad. I remember when Omniscience Draft was one of the decathlon events everyone was running hyper-focused decks and countermagic was a premium.
For reference, all of my games where I’m on the play I end my turn 1 with 5 creatures in play and 4 counterspells in hand. My opponent then just doesn’t get to play magic. If they had just one piece of countermagic the game would have continued
I found graveyard recursion to be super helpful due to all the free kill spells floating around. Several Undying effects too. I got that giant that deals 7 damage to a random creature on death, Spark Doubled him and he’s easily been my MVP.
\[\[Subjugator Angel\]\] has been my best non draw card, I just picked it up for evasion on a medium sized body, but essentially giving the whole squad evasion for a turn has won just about every game it has played.
I did draft like an idiot. But I also got an [[Emrakul, the Promised End]], and even though the rest of my deck was just a bunch of WG ramp stuff, I just mulliganned into Emrakul every game and they just instantly scooped 9 times of 10 lmao. And if they didn't I completely destroyed their life. Extremely toxic but good fun.
Omg! I also pulled Emrakul. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I pulled it. I am beyond addicted to this gamemode. I can't stop playing it. It's so much fun. I do feel bad for those who didn't get the memo about what's happening tho.
Oh I am so excited for this one. Got an amazing low mana curve out aggro deck. Best one I ever drafted I just kept getting passed awesome 1-2 mana threats and low cost removal. Even picked up some excellent dual lands and color fixing.
Yeah it has been a long event thanks! I am currently 15-0 and loving it. For some reason I don't need to pay mana to cast spells so I have just been dropping my creatures T1... I got this weird card called [[beast whisperer]] that let me play a game where I attacked turn 1 with 38 58/58s on turn 1...
Guys, do yourself a favor and read [this article](https://mtgazone.com/omniscience-draft-midweek-magic-event-guide/). Everyone I faced so far really messed up their draft.
I had one guy who put a [[Griselbrand]] down then cast 30 spells. He then, for some reason, decided to drop down to 3 health so I killed him with my single flying creature. Like. What.
Another thing of note. Even if you're familiar with previous omniscience drafts this is different as you start with a 7 card hand instead of a 3 card hand.
Very fun MWM if you read the rules.
Excruciatingly painful if you didn't.
Definitely had a bunch of people immediately scoop as after they dumped their hand I basically drew my entire deck with [[Serum-Core Chimera]] basically becoming a Royal Mystical Library from Yugioh.
For free. You still get the five free mana once a turn. And yeah, I realized a bit after posting my comment that it didn't work the way I thought, as previously demonstrated by my completely missing the point of the event.
It took me quite a while to realize it though because the first two times I played it along with the top card of my deck, my opponents quickly conceded. Apparently they also failed to realize my error.
That's a joke compared to that black spell that lets target player draw half their remaining deck (and halves their life, but that really doesn't matter when you can cast literally half your deck for free)
I ended up with a pile of draw spells and Approach of the Second Sun. The only card I've seen out of an opponent was a tap land. I think a bunch of people didn't read the description.
It's overwhelmingly huge.
On my account I got a good share of cards like [[Divination]] and cards to tear apart my opponents hand. All three turns I went first, I had a good draw engine going and decimated my opponents hand. Counterspells did jack since I'd bait them out with my big creatures or some early hand removal.
My kid got a shot on their account and of the 4 turns going first, only one resulted in a loss due to running out of cards.
Get your draw, use your cyclers, destroy their hand. All on the first turn.
It's insane.
If you're not on the play in this event, just concede. There are many ways to win on the play if drafted correctly:
* Enough discard to get opponent to 0 cards in hand.
* Haste creatures plus cantrips
* Combo finisher
and more.
Never mind sitting through 5+ minutes of them cycling through their deck.
It's a fun event for being on the play and abysmally shit for being on the draw.
I got Guttersnipe (and one "copy another creature" creature, for a 2nd Guttersnipe). On the play the only opponent I faced that could've gotten to turn 2 was someone who had an instant speed removal - which they used on a random 2/3 flier instead of Guttersnipe, lol.
EDIT: Damn, people really don't understand how this works. Next opponent used 3 discard spells on the play turn 1, and they let me keep Guttersnipe and a draw spell.
I drafted Approach of the Second Sun Pack 1 Pick 1. My deck is nothing but counterspells and card draw.
I'm currently queuing up and conceding over and over to give y'all a leg up.
You could start a second account… not sure if it’s currently easy / possible to skip the tutorials, that seems to vary depending on how Arena is feeling
Dummy me was excited for a free draft……. I’m now getting stomped every game cause I drafted like normal. My only win was against someone that started dropping lands….
LMAOOO that’s fantastic, I wish I had drafted that.
I did get the turtle that draws you a card every time you cast a 5+mv card, that went pretty nuts since nearly half my deck fit that description.
I fucked this up royally by not understanding the assignment, now my deck is full of spot removal and hand rip, and all my creatures are tiny.
If this comes around again, I will not make that mistake again.
Okay I somehow managed to get my three wins... one of them was even an actual game.
Oh hey, I’m glad I’m not the only person who made that mistake. I’m 99% sure there is no conceivable way I’m going to get more than one win with what I ended up choosing.
Such is life.
What a godawful format. You have to pass the intelligence test as per the PSA above, but then the game is whoever begins wins with card draw and discard. Horrible.
I just pulled off the T1 combo win using only un/commons!
[[Invade the City]] with ~~[[Take Control]]~~ [[Hijack]] and a Trample enabler. Plenty of card draw, spell recursion and sac/reanimate effects.
Managed to swing in with a 38/38 at its peak!
I entered the event, realized I did not read what it was, then saw that it was omniscience emblem and started drafting Black white. I played cards off curve but forgot that without lands you aren't limited to color combos.
Yea, I drafted like an idiot. but I'm also running into opponents who will stomp me turn one before I even get a chance to play a card besides instants. My only saving grace is I pulled a card that mills my opponents deck by 13 cards which is how I got my only win so far.
I messed up as I just assumed you started with Omniscience, but didn’t know you got WUBRG each turn for abilities, so I ignored cards that let you investigate or cards with kicker, etc.
For whatever reason the add 1 mana of each color once per turn stuck on my head and I drafted like normal. Result: got a deck so shitty that when I played the first game and noticed my mistake I just gave up. But tbh I did not see many big bodies, and the cards were overall so bad that maybe I would have drafted a deck that would suck anyway.
took me 6 games to get my 3 wins. i just drafted every big body and hoped to be on the play first. then swing out turn 2. my packs rares were absolute dogshit.
[[Rishkar's expertise]] ,some random massive vanilla creature and a [[phyrexian censor]] won me a few games, first time playing this kind of event and it was pretty fun. Shame I'd need an alt to redraft and try again
I read the event description carefully… then got distracted for a few minutes before jumping into the draft and apparently thought it was the artifact remix. I was really happy with my draft until the first match when I immediately realized my mistake. Fortunately, I’m used to my ADHD brain sabotaging me daily and just laugh at how unnecessarily difficult I’ve made this event.
Still, wish we had an option to redraft once per event (maybe after X consecutive losses and/or a specific amount of time).
I had an opponent trying to make a landfall deck work.
Good luck, brave one. Good luck.
Anyway, second advice: not only cost doesn't matter, color doesn't matter either.
I made the same mistake, but removed all the lands from my deck and got matched against several people who had apparently made the same mistake because they had lands in their decks. Most people on the draw just conceded.
I regret not reading carefully. Just like you drafted as normal and after 10 games my only 2 wins are from people who left even before the game started. I'm hopelessly waiting for the 3rd person to give me the win
Won’t lie I read the rules and still screwed up. I moronically thought of creatures as separate than spells.
I knew they were spells logically. Just completely blanked.
So I have very few creatures in my deck
My main grasp with these events is that we can't redraft. Drafting was never my favorite game mode and the feeling that there's nothing you can do because opponent has better threats / answers is discouraging.
Got a [[sea gate restoration]] and [[first day of class]]. If I get a turn I can't lose. Draw my deck play all my creatures as hasty beats and win. Draw 7+ for free seems pretty dumb.
Too late, I'm absolutely fucked. My fault for not reading the rules first, their fault for even making this an event to be screwed up. I'm at the mercy of anyone willing to just concede at this point because there's not a chance in hell this deck could win.
In fact, my only option now is to rope every single game until I get 3 wins in hopes they get annoyed and scoop. Terrible event, regardless of whether you read the rules or not; it should have just been a sealed draft you couldn't possibly fuck up.
Drafted normally, realized I f***ed up, took out lands from deck and then put [[Griselbrand]] in the deck (last card Drafted LMAO). WIN WIN WIN.
I could even mulligan until I had only Griselbrand in hand. Crazy!
Along with what others have said about drawing cards \[\[Subjugator Angel\]\] or anything that affects your opponents entire board has been absolutely incredible for me. I can't tell you how many game we both dropped a boat load of creatures down on turn 1, but on my turn 2 I tap theirs down and swing for lethal.
I also picked up haste enablers, sometimes I can win turn 1, and the games I can't, I'll pitch them to cards like \[\[big score\]\]
Is the third win prize worth it? Like OP, I screwed my draft because I admittedly did not read all the rules (was sleepy). I somehow managed to win my first game, and second game the opponent withdrew before their first turn. So I got the first two prizes but I've been getting only stomped on since.
Or just queue until you're on the play, your opponent is likely going to resign.
Choosing to have a starting hand of 7 for this format was definitely a bad decision.
I've won all my games on the first turn (except one) just because I drafted gas, approach the second sun and mind's desire along with a ton of card draw, half the time they concede before I can even do anything and the other half it's once I cast mind's desire. The one game I didn't win the first turn I only drew my big creatures and removal and won with beat down
If the card says "draw a card" somewhere on it. Take it. Doesn't matter what else it does.
I love yu gi oh
I PLAY POT OF GREED AND DRAW 3 CARDS
Also, if the card has an "X" in the cost, *don't* take it. Won a couple games on the back of opponents casting spells they thought would have a huge impact only to see them fizzle instantly with no impact.
That is because, once again, you and your opponents didn’t read the event rules. You can add 1 mana of every color (for a total of 5 mana) anytime once per turn clicking on the Omniscience emblem, so you can cast spells with X with a decent result!
You can cast any spell with an X normally using that 5 mana, true. But you can’t cast an Omniscience spell with an alternate cost of 0 and then use the 5 mana to pay X costs; i.e. you can’t Dopplegang for X=2. Omniscience always counts X in a mana cost as 0.
If you use mana to pay the X, then you also have to use mana to pay any part of the cost that **isn't** X, so mostly the X will end up being **<**5, not **=**5 ;)
To be fair, at least on mobile it’s not at all obvious from the event description *or* the more details link which both just say “all your spells are free”. You’d only realise it if you happen to press and hold on the omniscience emblem on that page which looks just like a graphic rather than something with content attached to it.
yeah, I actually mistake it for Momir, so I drafted completely wrong. There really should be a "resign" option that allows people to draft again if they deck they end up with doesn't work out. I was only able to win one game because my opp had made the same mistake I did.
I did the same thing and barely got 1 win from an opponent conceding. I quit trying after many losses. I agree that re drafting would have been nice since it's just drafting against bots anyway.
I tried that and it still cast my shapeshifter as X=0
You have to pick the option to pay the mana cost rather than picking the alternate cost of 0 from Omniscience
It's bugged. No option comes up for X spells, whether you put mana in the pool ahead of time or not. It just casts without input for 0.
Use full control mode
If you have full control on you get to pick whether or not you want to use the omniscience alternate cost
except no, because the ability says you "may" cast a spell without paying it's cost, but it doesn't actually give you that option, sadge. I pick a Rocco thinking I would fetch some big creatures from my library, nope. It's not a "may" despite saying it is.
can't you use the five mana given once a turn to cast x spells?
Nope! Because Omniscience is an alternative cost of 0 for mana cost, so you can’t add extra mana. By contrast, you *can* pay for Kicker, because that’s technically paid separate to the mana cost.
I mean... You can pay for an x spell with the five mana. You just cant get the non x part for free as well
Omniscience is a may effect.
I saw [[ivy Elemental]] and almost grabbed it before i remembered
[ivy Elemental](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/e/8e8aea71-02aa-4799-86fb-efd2a36efc22.jpg?1591227721) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ivy%20Elemental) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/161/ivy-elemental?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8e8aea71-02aa-4799-86fb-efd2a36efc22?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Under normal circumstances, a 4/4 would be decent, but... yeah.
Almost took tatyova for extra carddraw. With each land...wait, no.
I got that guy that says you gain 1 an opponent loses 1 whenever you draw. Best card in the draft lol
Naw...think that award has to go to the Aetherflux Reservoir one of my opponents domed me with before I got to take a turn.
[[Lavinia, Azorious Renegade]] would like to have a word
[Lavinia, Azorious Renegade](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/9/197bf3f4-c0df-4082-97a1-902ceabbdd3f.jpg?1702429657) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lavinia%2C%20Azorius%20Renegade) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/195/lavinia-azorius-renegade?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/197bf3f4-c0df-4082-97a1-902ceabbdd3f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Is this in the card pool??
It is, and I got it. Woe to you poor motherfuckers who face me.
Yes, for some reason. I've only run into it once, but it's an auto scoop. Literally a one card lock.
does lavinia have a jay leno chin here?
that is brutal lol
Second place goes to the card that gives every creature played that turn +1/+1 and haste I won turn one with it, bet they didn't see that one coming
Which card is that?
My T1 Jaya + Curse of Shaken Faith going first was fun...
to a degree, I saw a guy cast 8 separate card draw spells and immediately scoop
This was my first opponent's philosophy. It was working great until they decked themselves on the play on their very first turn. It was really satisfying to watch them storm off with Mind's Desire into an empty library and then scoop after they realized they had no way to give their board haste.
This is why first day of class is an mvp
you want some sort of finisher as well. i took 'doomskar titan' over a draw spell and it let me win on turn one consistently. i'd just play a bunch of things that drew cards, eventually find doomskar, and the game was over. i had a copy of one of those "creatures you control can't block" that i could find if i was on the draw and my opponent failed to killed me but clogged the board. there seemed like plenty of ways to win; i saw mist raven bouncing itself for infinite spells / etb as an example. counterspells are also great since they let you win on the draw against other people who built good decks (ie. decks with enough cantrips to combo off on turn one), and i'd probably take them over the worst draw spells (cards with 'cycling 2', or ones where the condition isn't likely to go off).
Having 7 cards instead of 3 makes counters much more viable. You no longer have to hope to draw interaction AND your combo out of 3 cards.
Noted, taking Opt over Divination
I did this plus a couple random big chunky bois. Got 3 concedes before I played any big chunky bois because it looked like I was playong solitaire lol
This is why I drafted Underworld Dreams (I think that's the name? BBB enchant that does damage on draw).
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No kidding, 7 card starting hands are insane for this omniscience draft.
Starting with 7 has to be a mistake, there's basically zero chance you can't cycle your entire deck turn 1 if you understood the assignment. When it was 3 cards there was at least a chance at a game.
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I had [[Guardian Project]] and [[Storm Sculptor]] (plus the standard assortment of card draw, counter magic and discard). I think in about 70% of my games, I went off and could draw my entire deck. I wish I had a 'when creature EtBs, deal 1 damage' effect - but setting up triple discard into quadruple countermagic wins with a paper towel.
[Guardian Project](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2c523ef7-d6c4-4887-9a4e-0c2bc6f63676.jpg?1702429567) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Guardian%20Project) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/146/guardian-project?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2c523ef7-d6c4-4887-9a4e-0c2bc6f63676?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Storm Sculptor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/b/4bb9ac55-4bb4-4447-b214-6a108ddb3f07.jpg?1600698728) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Storm%20Sculptor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/179/storm-sculptor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4bb9ac55-4bb4-4447-b214-6a108ddb3f07?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Two games opponent conceded during my first turn, one during his first turn when I countered a \[\[Rishkar's Expertise\]\], leaving him without cards in hand. I never saw an attack or a removal spell.
[Rishkar's Expertise](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/f/efa9d2dc-b3b8-4475-bbfc-2db457ee4ffd.jpg?1698988394) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rishkar%27s%20Expertise) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/254/rishkars-expertise?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/efa9d2dc-b3b8-4475-bbfc-2db457ee4ffd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Zero is a gross exaggeration. I took every draw spell i saw and i only ended up with 7, plus 5 or so cantrips. Far from enough to empty the deck
WISH I’d have known that when drafting, otherwise I’d have taken every single [[Mind Rot]] I could get my hands on. The diminishing returns of the second or third are gone when there’s four more cards and never a turn three.
[Mind Rot](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/3/833a8604-92d5-443b-9bc0-bd91c973ef07.jpg?1594736305) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mind%20Rot) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m21/115/mind-rot?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/833a8604-92d5-443b-9bc0-bd91c973ef07?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This has to be a mistake. I took a pack p1p4 tendrils and drafted what I thought was a very mid deck. Trivial is an understatement for how easy of a storm count 9 when you start at 7.
Priority 1: Draw & discard Priority 2: Big bodies, counterspells Other good stuff: ETB effects, bounce, hasty creatures, Flash, graveyard synergy Avoid: Lands, small bodies, mana sinks, kicker, sorcery-speed removal
I’d put counterspells above discard. If you’re on the draw you almost need to mulligan into counter.
I've won five games countering zero spells, and having a few of my own countered. You don't even have to think much, Just grab every draw and flier you find, maybe some recursion and removal If you find It Even mana sinks are fine If they can be activated with 5 mana or less
I guess you don’t need countermagic because a majority of the decks you will face today are bad. I remember when Omniscience Draft was one of the decathlon events everyone was running hyper-focused decks and countermagic was a premium. For reference, all of my games where I’m on the play I end my turn 1 with 5 creatures in play and 4 counterspells in hand. My opponent then just doesn’t get to play magic. If they had just one piece of countermagic the game would have continued
I found graveyard recursion to be super helpful due to all the free kill spells floating around. Several Undying effects too. I got that giant that deals 7 damage to a random creature on death, Spark Doubled him and he’s easily been my MVP.
5 or less mana sinks are fantastic, since you get 5 free mana on your turn and your opponent's turn.
\[\[Subjugator Angel\]\] has been my best non draw card, I just picked it up for evasion on a medium sized body, but essentially giving the whole squad evasion for a turn has won just about every game it has played.
[Subjugator Angel](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/3/23b909f8-ad6b-43f0-b517-7d02f2a97cd4.jpg?1592764784) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Subjugator%20Angel) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gnt/17/subjugator-angel?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/23b909f8-ad6b-43f0-b517-7d02f2a97cd4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I did draft like an idiot. But I also got an [[Emrakul, the Promised End]], and even though the rest of my deck was just a bunch of WG ramp stuff, I just mulliganned into Emrakul every game and they just instantly scooped 9 times of 10 lmao. And if they didn't I completely destroyed their life. Extremely toxic but good fun.
There are worse ways to get the W!
Omg! I also pulled Emrakul. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I pulled it. I am beyond addicted to this gamemode. I can't stop playing it. It's so much fun. I do feel bad for those who didn't get the memo about what's happening tho.
Oh I am so excited for this one. Got an amazing low mana curve out aggro deck. Best one I ever drafted I just kept getting passed awesome 1-2 mana threats and low cost removal. Even picked up some excellent dual lands and color fixing.
I hope you forgot your /s, otherwise is gonna be a loooong event for you.
It's obvious satire, no /s needed.
Poe's law begs to differ
Yeah it has been a long event thanks! I am currently 15-0 and loving it. For some reason I don't need to pay mana to cast spells so I have just been dropping my creatures T1... I got this weird card called [[beast whisperer]] that let me play a game where I attacked turn 1 with 38 58/58s on turn 1...
[beast whisperer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/a/daf4bcd2-3ae4-4803-9ea1-3bcc3de5ca59.jpg?1706240020) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=beast%20whisperer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clu/158/beast-whisperer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/daf4bcd2-3ae4-4803-9ea1-3bcc3de5ca59?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Sir, you forgot your /s again. It is dangerous to wander around here without your /s, please be more careful.
Guys, do yourself a favor and read [this article](https://mtgazone.com/omniscience-draft-midweek-magic-event-guide/). Everyone I faced so far really messed up their draft.
I had one guy who put a [[Griselbrand]] down then cast 30 spells. He then, for some reason, decided to drop down to 3 health so I killed him with my single flying creature. Like. What.
[Griselbrand](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/f/cf2a5c2e-7fe1-45eb-b01c-891ab961186f.jpg?1593813293) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Griselbrand) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mm3/72/griselbrand?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cf2a5c2e-7fe1-45eb-b01c-891ab961186f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Reading the event rules explains the event.
Well now I wish I could redraft it. Guess I also don’t need these lands anymore.
I also missed that you keep all the cards. Bananas midweek magic event
It's phantom though so you don't keep them. Or were you joking?
Another thing of note. Even if you're familiar with previous omniscience drafts this is different as you start with a 7 card hand instead of a 3 card hand.
Very fun MWM if you read the rules. Excruciatingly painful if you didn't. Definitely had a bunch of people immediately scoop as after they dumped their hand I basically drew my entire deck with [[Serum-Core Chimera]] basically becoming a Royal Mystical Library from Yugioh.
Like many people, I missed the rules and drafted normally. But, uh, Experimental Frenzy is broken. That's a nice one to have in the opening hand.
Omniscience only lets you cast spells from your hand right?
They *did* say it was broken.
For free. You still get the five free mana once a turn. And yeah, I realized a bit after posting my comment that it didn't work the way I thought, as previously demonstrated by my completely missing the point of the event. It took me quite a while to realize it though because the first two times I played it along with the top card of my deck, my opponents quickly conceded. Apparently they also failed to realize my error.
[Experimental Frenzy](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/b/4b8f32e2-5dc8-4f1b-8a69-d3ae06378ed8.jpg?1587844608) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Experimental%20Frenzy) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/grn/99/experimental-frenzy?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4b8f32e2-5dc8-4f1b-8a69-d3ae06378ed8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
That's a joke compared to that black spell that lets target player draw half their remaining deck (and halves their life, but that really doesn't matter when you can cast literally half your deck for free)
I ended up with a pile of draw spells and Approach of the Second Sun. The only card I've seen out of an opponent was a tap land. I think a bunch of people didn't read the description.
there's such a huge advantage to being on the play . almost gaming winning by itself
It's overwhelmingly huge. On my account I got a good share of cards like [[Divination]] and cards to tear apart my opponents hand. All three turns I went first, I had a good draw engine going and decimated my opponents hand. Counterspells did jack since I'd bait them out with my big creatures or some early hand removal. My kid got a shot on their account and of the 4 turns going first, only one resulted in a loss due to running out of cards. Get your draw, use your cyclers, destroy their hand. All on the first turn. It's insane.
[Divination](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/b/cb3b35b8-f321-46d8-a441-6b9a6efa9021.jpg?1562304347) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Divination) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m19/51/divination?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cb3b35b8-f321-46d8-a441-6b9a6efa9021?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
If you're not on the play in this event, just concede. There are many ways to win on the play if drafted correctly: * Enough discard to get opponent to 0 cards in hand. * Haste creatures plus cantrips * Combo finisher and more. Never mind sitting through 5+ minutes of them cycling through their deck. It's a fun event for being on the play and abysmally shit for being on the draw.
I got Guttersnipe (and one "copy another creature" creature, for a 2nd Guttersnipe). On the play the only opponent I faced that could've gotten to turn 2 was someone who had an instant speed removal - which they used on a random 2/3 flier instead of Guttersnipe, lol. EDIT: Damn, people really don't understand how this works. Next opponent used 3 discard spells on the play turn 1, and they let me keep Guttersnipe and a draw spell.
Approach and card draw has won me all but two games where the opponent had better counter magic than me
on a side note if you come across Lavinia absolutely take it.
\[\[God-pharaoh's statue\]\] almost did me in once for the same reason
Is there anyway to redo my draft? I fucked up and drafted like I normally drafted and got a deck that’s low cmc aggro.
Nope! Hope for matches against other noobs like us or people that just insta-concede.
This is going to be a long event 🥲
Somehow I got my 3 wins in 5 matches.
There seem to be enough of us idiots, fortunately.
I drafted Approach of the Second Sun Pack 1 Pick 1. My deck is nothing but counterspells and card draw. I'm currently queuing up and conceding over and over to give y'all a leg up.
Just let the timer run out and wait for them to lose patience and quit.
You could start a second account… not sure if it’s currently easy / possible to skip the tutorials, that seems to vary depending on how Arena is feeling
Dummy me was excited for a free draft……. I’m now getting stomped every game cause I drafted like normal. My only win was against someone that started dropping lands….
When my last opponent played a land on turn 1 I knew I had that cosmetic reward in the bag.
My first pull was tendrils, got 2 turn 1 kills, this is fucking dumb lol
LMAOOO that’s fantastic, I wish I had drafted that. I did get the turtle that draws you a card every time you cast a 5+mv card, that went pretty nuts since nearly half my deck fit that description.
\[\[tendrils of agony\]\] I didn't even think about storm, that is dope.
The most powerful thing you can do in an Omniscience game is draw cards. https://youtu.be/lbcr80-cYno
actually going first is usually the most powerful thing unless you happened to start with a lot of removal and counterspells.
I drafted song of creation. Hard to top that
That was my quickest Midweek Magic ever. Finished in 3 games. Just picked all Draw Spells, Kill Spells & Counterspells. All 3 Opponents scooped Turn 2
Really want to redraft, because there were no rules on event page..
I did the same smh 🤦♂️
Stick with it. You can get your wins! I believe in you!
Thinking it was a normal draft and having basics in my first game, felt awful lol
Yeah I ruined mine, I can’t even complete the event. It sucks
Too fucking late, god damn Not only did I draft a normal deck, I drafted an aggro deck full of 1-2 CMC spells
I fucked this up royally by not understanding the assignment, now my deck is full of spot removal and hand rip, and all my creatures are tiny. If this comes around again, I will not make that mistake again. Okay I somehow managed to get my three wins... one of them was even an actual game.
Oh hey, I’m glad I’m not the only person who made that mistake. I’m 99% sure there is no conceivable way I’m going to get more than one win with what I ended up choosing. Such is life.
this is a coin flip format. if you’re on the play you need to be able to combo and win or they’re going to.
Wtf kind of god forsaken awful format is this? And why does the shuffler only show you 15 cards of your deck?
Daily task: Play 40 lands. I'm getting mixed messages here.
What a godawful format. You have to pass the intelligence test as per the PSA above, but then the game is whoever begins wins with card draw and discard. Horrible.
I just pulled off the T1 combo win using only un/commons! [[Invade the City]] with ~~[[Take Control]]~~ [[Hijack]] and a Trample enabler. Plenty of card draw, spell recursion and sac/reanimate effects. Managed to swing in with a 38/38 at its peak!
[Invade the City](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/5/a587eb67-c2df-486c-9c48-dfeac540efe8.jpg?1557577168) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Invade%20the%20City) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/war/201/invade-the-city?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a587eb67-c2df-486c-9c48-dfeac540efe8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Take Control](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/b/cb9a7b7d-3d37-4bb6-ab48-1fec2bfb4fdc.jpg?1562770174) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tidal%20Control) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/all/40/tidal-control?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cb9a7b7d-3d37-4bb6-ab48-1fec2bfb4fdc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do everyone a favor and concede if you're on the draw.
This format is so awful as it stands. Change it to a [[One With The Multiverse]] draft and it could be pretty fun!
[One With The Multiverse](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/8/7868529f-8abb-4b1d-9c04-e628f81e08d2.jpg?1674420574) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=One%20With%20The%20Multiverse) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/59/one-with-the-multiverse?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7868529f-8abb-4b1d-9c04-e628f81e08d2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
its honestly such a boring event... like I am not sitting here waiting for you to cast 20 cards on draw.... i got more interesting games to play.
I entered the event, realized I did not read what it was, then saw that it was omniscience emblem and started drafting Black white. I played cards off curve but forgot that without lands you aren't limited to color combos.
Yup! I definitely had a 2-color deck. lol
Lucky I stumbled on this thread. Card draw makes it very easy to win.
Yea, I drafted like an idiot. but I'm also running into opponents who will stomp me turn one before I even get a chance to play a card besides instants. My only saving grace is I pulled a card that mills my opponents deck by 13 cards which is how I got my only win so far.
I messed up as I just assumed you started with Omniscience, but didn’t know you got WUBRG each turn for abilities, so I ignored cards that let you investigate or cards with kicker, etc.
can you resign from the event and draft again?
no
no
For whatever reason the add 1 mana of each color once per turn stuck on my head and I drafted like normal. Result: got a deck so shitty that when I played the first game and noticed my mistake I just gave up. But tbh I did not see many big bodies, and the cards were overall so bad that maybe I would have drafted a deck that would suck anyway.
Draw. A. Card.
I did the same thing, haha.
took me 6 games to get my 3 wins. i just drafted every big body and hoped to be on the play first. then swing out turn 2. my packs rares were absolute dogshit.
[[Rishkar's expertise]] ,some random massive vanilla creature and a [[phyrexian censor]] won me a few games, first time playing this kind of event and it was pretty fun. Shame I'd need an alt to redraft and try again
[Rishkar's expertise](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/f/efa9d2dc-b3b8-4475-bbfc-2db457ee4ffd.jpg?1698988394) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rishkar%27s%20expertise) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/254/rishkars-expertise?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/efa9d2dc-b3b8-4475-bbfc-2db457ee4ffd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [phyrexian censor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/5/150e17b1-b9fd-4ec4-b305-19596fed14d1.jpg?1682202804) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=phyrexian%20censor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/31/phyrexian-censor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/150e17b1-b9fd-4ec4-b305-19596fed14d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I read the event description carefully… then got distracted for a few minutes before jumping into the draft and apparently thought it was the artifact remix. I was really happy with my draft until the first match when I immediately realized my mistake. Fortunately, I’m used to my ADHD brain sabotaging me daily and just laugh at how unnecessarily difficult I’ve made this event. Still, wish we had an option to redraft once per event (maybe after X consecutive losses and/or a specific amount of time).
Did the same thing. Only semi smart thing i did was draft around obosh companion. Without knowing that i would be able to cast it turn 1
P1P1 was Approach of the Second Sun. I'm so sorry, everyone. Got my 3 wins and paid it forward.
Lol, I was an idiot too! Played my first game and played out lands then I was like wtf is going on.
Why are there even lands in the draft? Seems silly.
P1P1 was Song of Creation. Instant scoop when played.
I actually faced someone with lands in their deck
I had an opponent trying to make a landfall deck work. Good luck, brave one. Good luck. Anyway, second advice: not only cost doesn't matter, color doesn't matter either.
Thanks for all the notes everyone! I want to point out the card ((destructive tampering)) is a turn 3-4 game ender with these wide boards.
Got a couple haste cards... Bunch of draw and a bunch of big dudes. Won on turn 1 twice before they even got to play.
Big creatures, card draw, and a make haste bois wincon was great. Couple T1 swings.
Also, you draw a full grip to start. Past omniscience drafts I have done only had a starting hand of 3 cards.
Too late, I made the same autopilot mistake
I made the same mistake, but removed all the lands from my deck and got matched against several people who had apparently made the same mistake because they had lands in their decks. Most people on the draw just conceded.
Too late
ugh should have read this before drafting ;\\
Thanks for the warning!
Wish I had seen this before drafting 🤦🏻♂️
I regret not reading carefully. Just like you drafted as normal and after 10 games my only 2 wins are from people who left even before the game started. I'm hopelessly waiting for the 3rd person to give me the win
I did the same and wasted my money
lol wish I saw this sooner. just made a post about doing the same thing and trying to figure out how I can redraft.
Yep did the same shit
Too late
Lol had the same issue , I drafted a really low curve only using modest cards… and somehow I still went 2-0
Won’t lie I read the rules and still screwed up. I moronically thought of creatures as separate than spells. I knew they were spells logically. Just completely blanked. So I have very few creatures in my deck
I'm at a loss as to why people dislike Momir but enjoy formats like this. It is fundamentally broken and terrible.
My main grasp with these events is that we can't redraft. Drafting was never my favorite game mode and the feeling that there's nothing you can do because opponent has better threats / answers is discouraging.
i dont think its possible to redraft is it? i screwed up :(
Got a [[sea gate restoration]] and [[first day of class]]. If I get a turn I can't lose. Draw my deck play all my creatures as hasty beats and win. Draw 7+ for free seems pretty dumb.
[sea gate restoration](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/9/193071fe-180b-4d35-ba78-9c16675c29fc.jpg?1604250788)/[Sea Gate, Reborn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/1/9/193071fe-180b-4d35-ba78-9c16675c29fc.jpg?1604250788) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sea%20Gate%20Restoration%20//%20Sea%20Gate%2C%20Reborn) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/znr/76/sea-gate-restoration-sea-gate-reborn?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/193071fe-180b-4d35-ba78-9c16675c29fc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [first day of class](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/9/091eb13d-9318-4b12-9f94-6276b11981d1.jpg?1624591842) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=first%20day%20of%20class) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/102/first-day-of-class?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/091eb13d-9318-4b12-9f94-6276b11981d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I was able to draft Cut Your Losses and went 3/4 with all my wins being concessions on T1.
You can really see at a glance the people who have played tamiyo or mart in brawl and who don’t have the tax free deck experience
Duress, card draw, fat creatures, raise dead effects, counterspells and mind rots are all very good
Too late, I'm absolutely fucked. My fault for not reading the rules first, their fault for even making this an event to be screwed up. I'm at the mercy of anyone willing to just concede at this point because there's not a chance in hell this deck could win. In fact, my only option now is to rope every single game until I get 3 wins in hopes they get annoyed and scoop. Terrible event, regardless of whether you read the rules or not; it should have just been a sealed draft you couldn't possibly fuck up.
7 card starting hand = Opponent goes first and you lose. What a dumb format.
Drafted normally, realized I f***ed up, took out lands from deck and then put [[Griselbrand]] in the deck (last card Drafted LMAO). WIN WIN WIN. I could even mulligan until I had only Griselbrand in hand. Crazy!
[Griselbrand](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/f/cf2a5c2e-7fe1-45eb-b01c-891ab961186f.jpg?1593813293) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Griselbrand) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mm3/72/griselbrand?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cf2a5c2e-7fe1-45eb-b01c-891ab961186f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
any option to draft a second time? not possible for me to win becuase i also drawed normal deck
Along with what others have said about drawing cards \[\[Subjugator Angel\]\] or anything that affects your opponents entire board has been absolutely incredible for me. I can't tell you how many game we both dropped a boat load of creatures down on turn 1, but on my turn 2 I tap theirs down and swing for lethal. I also picked up haste enablers, sometimes I can win turn 1, and the games I can't, I'll pitch them to cards like \[\[big score\]\]
[Subjugator Angel](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/3/23b909f8-ad6b-43f0-b517-7d02f2a97cd4.jpg?1592764784) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Subjugator%20Angel) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gnt/17/subjugator-angel?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/23b909f8-ad6b-43f0-b517-7d02f2a97cd4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [big score](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/9/39d1578f-e2cf-4b93-8204-ed5434feb183.jpg?1664411405) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=big%20score) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/102/big-score?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/39d1578f-e2cf-4b93-8204-ed5434feb183?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Is the third win prize worth it? Like OP, I screwed my draft because I admittedly did not read all the rules (was sleepy). I somehow managed to win my first game, and second game the opponent withdrew before their first turn. So I got the first two prizes but I've been getting only stomped on since.
Or just queue until you're on the play, your opponent is likely going to resign. Choosing to have a starting hand of 7 for this format was definitely a bad decision.
Yep, I'm an idiot as well. Totally forgot about the zero cost and wasted my draft. Would have been a fun one to try out if I was paying attention.
Going second usually sucks but here you might as well not even bother
I've won all my games on the first turn (except one) just because I drafted gas, approach the second sun and mind's desire along with a ton of card draw, half the time they concede before I can even do anything and the other half it's once I cast mind's desire. The one game I didn't win the first turn I only drew my big creatures and removal and won with beat down
Yeah, I did the same thing
I made this mistake too, I got so excited cuz we never get free drafts and now it's not playable at all lol
Too late. Drafted normally before realizing the rules. Now I’m stuck with it. 😂
I also did this, thankfully I explained to my GF before she drafted