In post 8928, Pine wrote:Always pick the deepwolf first. They’re the only one who matters. Everything else is distraction and buffer
Pick the core first.
Against me, I'd draft players who get me into tunnel mode and control the day.
Although they were consensus high priority scumpicks, Ank, SW and FL were all good early picks. First picking Spiffeh is good. I'd first pick Ank here against me.
I definitely would have left AF on the table. He explicitly didn't want to be a mason in signups. So that meant you didn't have to mason hunt him.
One of Bitmap/FL are good for establishing my emotional baseline.
Maki and Dunn are ones I leave on the floor. They're good at scum, but are metaable.
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If I was going against Pine, I would actually take SW first. Pine doesn't take aggressive action in games lately, so someone who can jump back and forth there is good.
A good scum draft doesn't mean universal great scum picks. A great scum draft exacerbates the worst in town.
I drafted Spiffeh to help prevent me from going too deep in tunnel Titus.
