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The Opener: First Pick Theros Beyond Death and other thoughts.

Welcome to another edition of The Opener! Theros, Beyond Death is back as the Ranked format on Arena so hopefully my insight can help you with your drafts.

The first pick of the draft is not extremely important but it’s fun to think about. It doesn’t always get played and it’s the pick with the least amount of context. At this point in the draft, you don’t have any idea what any other player is doing yet. Your goal when you’re first picking should be, in general, to take the most powerful card. 

If you have never read a ‘what’s the pick?” article before, I will be showing you a few pack one pick one (P1P1) scenarios and I will tell you what I would take and my reasoning behind it. I will also give an honorable mention. So let’s get started!

The Picks

My Pick
Heliod’s Intervention. The best cards here are definitely Voracious Typhon, Dreaful Apathy, and Heliod’s Intervention. Most of the time, I believe that it is correct to take the rare in this format. In fact, it took me a long time to find picks for this article that weren’t super obvious. This pick is close but it is not an exception. Heliod’s Intervention is very often a blowout. I find that a reasonable amount of the time it is a two-for-one, three-for-one or even better! Even the life-gain mode is not a terrible fail-case and will catch opponents by surprise. I also believe that it is an underrated card that I believe players should take higher.

Honorable Mention: Dreadful Apathy is premium, common removal and it is what I would take here if the Intervention was not in the pack.Voracious Typhon is a great card too but I am giving a slight edge to Apathy for being removal.

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