TL;DR. White sucks. Hellion Eruption’s a bomb and is the ideal top end to any R/X aggressive deck.

Those packs in Pack 1 were pretty weak, or at least weak when they got to you. But, a few things that hurt as I watched Pack 1:

Makindi Griffin is not ‘really good’. White is remarkably miserable in this format. The best white in the format doesn’t stand up to the decent cards in any of the other colors, IMO. I’ve always had the idea that if you’re playing white main then you’re either the sucker at the table who thought ‘hey White’s open!’, or you unfortunately got forced into it.

Zulaport Enforcer isn’t bad. In fact, it’s very good and perhaps a more appropriate follow up for an aggressive B/R deck. The Merfolk is better than both of them.

Pick 4 you dissed Hellion Eruption which, I have to strongly disagree with. Needing creatures in play shouldn’t be a problem on turn 6-8+. If you don’t have enough creatures to satisfy yourself on casting Hellion Eruption you are probably very far behind and facing lethal. You only need 3 to make it decent. 4 or more and you can threaten a lot of damage or turn a losing board into a stable/winning board. Vendetta is good, but Hellion Eruption is so much better than anyone gave it credit for. It’s a great top end to whatever R/X aggressive deck you are looking to build.

Pick 5 — you pick a card that not only cares about you having creatures in play, but it’s so much worse than Hellion Eruption (and in a worse color).

Arrogant Bloodlord is not good. People see the 4/4 for 3 and I think completely ignore the ‘get chumped by an eldrazi spawn and he dies’ drawback.

Good videos.