I don’t think he can afford to trade the Angel for Scudder there, so he’ll pop the Replica– so you’ll do 4 (instead of 0) and keep your Scudder and your Painsmith. Alternatively, if he decides to trade, he’ll be down to no creatures on board and you’ll still have Ooze and Painsmith– basically, a superior version of the board you had the other way around. (Ooze + Painsmith vs. empty board)

I don’t mind filling out the curve though with a randomly good Painsmith and I liked that pick ultimately. If you look as well, the clock on the draft was at under 5 seconds so it becomes one of those “well nothing is jumping out, I’ll take this” type things.

It’s harder than it looks to produce good verbal content whilst actually piloting and ultimately making the decisions to draft

@Eric – Agreed, Flesh Allergy was the pick there. Although it doesn’t fit nicely in every deck, some better than others. Ours wasn’t an amazing spot for it, but it was still the pick.

@moerutura – You said: “Its the same as every other archetype” in regards to Infect, but that is wrong. Lets say there was an archetype in this format that was mill creatures that milled instead of doing damage when they hit a player. If I start taking the mill guys early in the draft but it ends up drying up late, I can’t simply start taking normal guys and think “well I’ll just attack them to death instead”. It’s really similar with Infect. Once you stray from that path you are marginalizing your deck. That is my beef with Infect in generally, it’s *not* like any other archetype. And it’s upside doesn’t justify the risk in going for it from my experience. I have drafted it and will draft it again, but I want a strong reason to into it like one of the rare Infectors.