Long story short: force RG. Laugh about the idiots who think overpriced flashback cards (hello there, reap the seagraf) are value and good and just bash their faces in.
And I’m not even speaking about my favorite card here, Flayer of the Hatebound. Or Increasing Savagery. Wolfbitten Captive. Vorapede. Huntmaster. Magehunter. Generic Firebreathing Dragon #224. Basically all the rares in G/R are playable and very, very good.

The other thing is white. I think it’s underrated. Problem is, it has the good stuff at uncommon, but god do they beat. I mean, just look at the newest hatebear white got, it just hoses the new undying mechanic completely on its own. You got it right, but picked the wrong card eventually imho. Annihilating their overpriced undying creatures is huge, if you go into white.

In general, the format is crazy fast and if you’re drafting r/g you don’t really want anything over 4-drops at most, and even then, only a couple. R/G wins by drafting a swarm of 1, 2, and 3 drops coupled with all the wild hungers, flings, and even hunger of the howlpack you can find. Morbid is pretty easy to trigger if you draft it right, especially since you should have a few young wolves and a strangleroot geist or two, so cards like ulvenwald bear and hunger of the howlpack become unusually strong. I think r/g is the strongest deck in the format, and as another poster remarked, is borderline oppressive due to its all star wild-hunger.

The first few days of DDD drafts people hadn’t quite figured this out so I had decks with 4+ wild hunger, loads of young wolves/strangleroot geist/pyreheart wolf/immerwolves, and all the flings I wanted. I 3-0′d draft after draft (with most matches ending in a few minutes since the deck was so consistent and fast) just forcing r/g until people eventually figured it out, and now enough people try to draft it that its power cards get thinned out. I then decided to figure out what I could draft that beats it, and I’ve had some success doing r/w or u/w aggro with as many loyal cathars and thraben heretics as you can find (both those cards are really oppressive against the deck).

But it is probably the only one I can get away with trolling…I <3 Chris Kool

DII is pretty sweet though…Its almost like that’s the format WOTC put effort into designing. Every strategy gets some sweet new toys and some new archetypes become more viable, and since you also get to open ISD packs, it actually lets you fill out your deck with the pieces it needs for non-aggro strategies.