what if you stall on 4 mana? Costing one mana less is huge. 4/4 for 4 with a great racing ability is very, very good. It stops alpha strikes in a way that a Serra Angel does not. Another thing to consider is your mana curve. If I have many good 4 drops already but no five drop the Serra is obvious. The reverse is also true.

Originally Posted By raremageUnless you pull a bomb, your first four packs together will define color selection.

Ugh, that should read “first four PICKS” not PACKS.  No edit feature, apparently.

Sure, ideally you draft a single color and signal strongly to your neighbor, but sometimes it just doesn’t work that way.  If the colors aren’t coming and your passing good stuff to stay on color, you need to consider switching before the draft falls apart on you.

So I will go with everyone else, get some good karma and open the bombs.

Sumnus question forcing strategy
The soldiers is possible, but going for the bomb in your pack is the best. Forcing green when there’s nothing in your pack is stronger. This draft 105 shows what happens if you choose green without bombs. it’s playable and goes well with red, black and white.

Forcing red is not good. Jackal familiar is not worth playing. Even if your First turn drop and your second is a jackal what should be the best opening hand in fast red. Then you attack third turn with two jackals. Now what? turn 3 your opponent has 16 life. He starts playing fatties and you can’t do anything with the jackals. If one dies then you are in trouble. And you don’t want to hold them back to trade 2 cards for 1 fattie. When you play red it’s about splash removal fireball, lightning bolt etc. or you have a boms like shivan dragon.

Serra’s in theory better at racing, since she can slow down your opponent’s clock with vigilance more effectively than seraph can with the damage shield.

BUT, Serra has to risk herself to do it, and risk getting blown out by your opponent’s combat trick.

OTOH Serra also gets past Giant Spiders and Assassinate, two commons that can neutralize Seraph.

What do you people feel is the aggressive strategy for m10 draft? and is it worth trying to force?
Going through the commons/uncommons no one color has enough early strong playables.

Two strats kinda caught my eye, either a white soldier build, with some green for oakenforms, giant growth, awak druid. I may be willing to force a soldier build, but there are so few soldiers in this set. If worse comes to worse we can switch over to white fliers.

The other was a wacky monored deck, which I would not want to force at all. Using jackal familiars, raging goblins, and trumpet blasts. I do not like red in m10, everyone grabs fireballs and lightning bolts, which leaves seismic strike for most of your removal.

The real issue is that you said they cost the same. They don’t. Serra is 3WW and Guardian Seraph costs 2WW. She’s online a turn earlier. I think the Seraph is the right pick.