Build around repeatable scry rewards, using scry to improve your next draws while growing creatures.
Build around repeatable scry rewards, using scry to improve your next draws while growing creatures. Arwen turns each scry event into a counter; cheap scry effects are useful only when the resulting deck can still defend itself.
Choose these colors when useful cards and the support below keep arriving. One gold card is a possibility, not an obligation.
Four checks while you draft
Can this pick help me play a creature or answer by turn two?
Keep time to set up without taking free attacks.
Am I adding the missing half of the plan?
Flash in Navigator to scry two. Arwen adds one counter to a creature; it is one scry event even though you looked at two cards.
Can I win without drawing my best rare?
Build around repeatable scry rewards, using scry to improve your next draws while growing creatures. Arwen turns each scry event into a counter; cheap scry effects are useful only when the resulting deck can still defend itself.
Can I stop a threat my creatures cannot block profitably?
Keep real removal or a counterspell for the card that changes the game.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
You have Arwen Undómiel but need support.
Look for Grey Havens Navigator or Chance-Met Elves.
Scry rewards before narrow scry filler. Scry does not draw a card. Do not mistake a pile of small scry spells for extra cards or a complete creature curve.
You already have Arwen Undómiel.
Consider Grey Havens Navigator if it fills a useful job.
Flash in Navigator to scry two. Arwen adds one counter to a creature; it is one scry event even though you looked at two cards.
The support is missing
Take castable creatures and answers. If the engine never arrives, use the good cards rather than forcing narrow support.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Scry does not draw a card. Do not mistake a pile of small scry spells for extra cards or a complete creature curve.
Kill Arwen before a chain of scry effects grows the board. Their counters are permanent; waiting for an even trade can let a once-small creature outgrow your removal.
Arwen Undómiel57.6% GIH · 8,556 instances
Saruman's Trickery57.6% GIH · 1,774 instances
Isolation at Orthanc55.3% GIH · 4,234 instances
Deceive the Messenger54.9% GIH · 1,779 instances
Celeborn the Wise54.6% GIH · 4,480 instances
Horses of the Bruinen54.3% GIH · 2,937 instances17Lands ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Rangers of Ithilien 2UUPlay enough blue sources for double blue and protect Rangers after stealing a creature. If Rangers leaves, the creature goes back. Not an easy splash.
Andúril, Flame of the West 3Fits any colors, but needs creatures and two mana to equip. A legendary attacker, including your Ring-bearer, makes the Spirits attack immediately. Keep your creature count high.
Horn of Gondor 3Fits any colors. Defend while you spend three mana per activation; existing Humans make the token growth faster. Do not cut the early creatures that keep you alive.
Palantír of Orthanc 3Fits any colors and improves your draws or pressures the opponent each end step. Keep early defense; it does not affect attackers immediately. Watch your shrinking library in a long game.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 100-instance minimum
Wose PathfinderSpeeds up expensive spells and fixes colors. It is vulnerable: do not keep a hand that works only if it survives.
Pelargir SurvivorAn early blocker whose mana casts instants and sorceries only. It cannot pay for your next creature.
Grey Havens NavigatorFlash supplies a surprise blocker and scry. With Arwen in play, the scry also adds a counter at instant speed.
LembasScry then draw on entry helps a draw-two or scry plan. Later it is Food for life or a sacrifice cost.
Chance-Met ElvesRepeated scry events grow this creature, but only once each turn. Scrying two cards is one event, not two.
Gandalf, Friend of the ShireExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
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| Use three Draft Boosters each and take one card per pick. Premier data describes Arena games, not an exact forecast for a family draft. | Build from the cards you opened. Choose colors with enough early plays, answers and a way to win before chasing a theme. |
