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I wrote this for the event that's starting tomorrow, which is Ranked for some reason.

Ravnica Chaos Draft

MKM / RNA / GRN
Focus on commons and power, cannot bank on synergy.

MKM
With MKM first, try to stay in one color and be aware of your strategy:
- White has the best cards, including strong value creatures and Makeshift Binding as premium removal
- Blue has a few fliers and a few tempo removal spells. It’s by far the worst color at common in MKM.
- Black has great removal at common, you can look to fill in the rest in later packs. Murder is going to be much better in this format than in plain MKM.
- Red also has great removal, remember the rate is a lot better because there will be far fewer Warded Disguise creatures.
- Green still has the premium Nervous Gardener, plus a lot of other good creatures,
- The Gold commons will still all be good for their flexibility as you look for bombs in the later packs.
- Due to the split nature of packs 2 and 3 in terms of color pairs, a top strategy might be to take as much fixing as you can in pack 1 and use it to make a three-color deck where you can play cards split over three guilds.

RNA
RNA second:
- WU, WB, UG, RB, RG are the guilds.
- White is not good. Summary Judgment and Syndicate Messenger are the only solid cards. Try to get your other color in this pack.
- Blue is also not great, but Chillbringer is awesome.
- Black is not great. Blade Juggler is premium though, and Bladebrand is also good.
- Red’s creatures are really bad, but you can grab a few more burn spells.
- Green has a lot of good creatures, Sauriform Hybrid being the top.
- The gold commons are all great, but they are full two-colors and you won’t be getting those color pairs in the last pack.
- Can get guildgates for additional fixing.

GRN
GRN last:
- WR, WG, UB, UR, BG are the guilds.
- White has better commons in this pack, creatures with better stats and a Pacifism effect.
- Blue has good commons too. Several with Surveil 2 and Passwall Adept that will allow you to win in a board stall.
- Black’s commons are bad in this pack as well.
- Red is horrible in this set. Really bad at common.
- Green’s set of commons is less good in this set.
- The gold commons are a mixed bag. Golgari is bad, Izzet and DImir are very good.

Overall
- I suspect the general speed of the format is going to mostly be slower than you were used to in MKM or any of these individual formats, because of how bad white and red are at common outside of MKM.
- I think the most equity at a basic level will be good green creatures and some fixing paired with a (possibly splash) removal color (B/R), then the third color for wherever your best gold cards are. Perhaps Sultai UGb or Temur UGr could be the best decks at the most basic level
- The best cards will still be the best. Play them as much as you can. I think you’ll have plenty of fixing to splash bombs even in non-green colors thanks to guildgates.