Went 7-1 with help from commenters in this subreddit; a breakdown
Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/1t0cvbm/some_progress_1st_quick_draft_with_secrets_of/
First post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/1szkbre/way_out_of_my_league_what_would_you_have_done/
As the title states, I trophied after reading and (for the most part) trying to adhere to the suggestions given by you guys in the past two posts.
For instance, with the help of 17lands, I didn't go into Pack 1 with a color set in mind and picked the best available card that was given. So glad it was Quick Draft; there was a lot of Alt+Tab'ing between the draft screen and 17lands, looking up what was the best card [in no way shape or form am I ready for a real draft lol]. I did veer off that path because i couldn't be bothered swapping between screens anymore and **of course** I drifted off to the old tried and true Witherbloom (BG) deck. Here's the draft.
The Draft: https://www.17lands.com/draft/1a114c64721b485ab95d6c4da629d8e8
In general, I want to say Pack 1 was... underwhelming? I wanted to pick up burn and removal, so I went that direction for the first few picks. But by midway through Pack 1 you can see I wanted to go BG again. P2P1 i'm sure that the UR opus stallion was by far the best pick [and I did!], but , but I really wanted that 2 CMC frog... and i think it was still up for grabs later on, so that was nice. In my limited opinion, Pack 3 was really nice. I'm sure there were many mis-picks, but I think one of them was P3P11; picked up a 4th Pest Mascot (that i didn't even use!) instead of that Rampant Growth bear [my reasoning was i'm just going BG; didn't need the ramp?] Here are my picks.
The Picks: https://www.17lands.com/picks/1a114c64721b485ab95d6c4da629d8e8
Battle-wise... I've never had so many people scoop against me before? I chalk it up to a mix of opponents' not hitting their draws or not mulliganing correctly [i did that a lot; i kept a lot of 2 land hands <_<] Not sure why the opponent scooped on Win #6; i felt that and Win #7 were real matches; I played the deck like I play the WG cat lifegain starter deck when i need to grind my 4 daily wins: aggressive and using [[Knockout Maneuver]], [[Last Gasp]] and the witherbloom charms. I was lucky on Win #7; top-decked [[Root Manipulation]] with opponent tapped out. Here are my matches:
Game Details: https://www.17lands.com/details/1a114c64721b485ab95d6c4da629d8e8
The Deck: https://www.17lands.com/deck/1a114c64721b485ab95d6c4da629d8e8/0?view=deck
Thanks for all the help; I'd still appreciate any help and tips :D