The way to punish greedy manabases is to make a Constructed-viable land-freeze card (ala Chandra's Revolution).

Yeah that seems to be beyond my willingness to stretch mana. I'm cool being consistent with 2 to 3 colors and run you over while you durdle with tap lands :D

You cast ALL THE CARDS. If casting Obzedat, Ghost Council and Cruel Ultimatum in the same game is wrong I don't want to be right.

I'd first pick Wort and then most probably ended up in RB (sacrifice) since my second pick would have been Falkenrath Noble. But since our picks would be totally different we would end up with really different decks.
EDIT: the first time I looked at the pack. I usually pick rare over a card I would pick normally so I forgot to mention it. But in this case I'd go for Tandem Lookout omitting the rare, because that is a card that won't come back. as more archetypes want it and is picked high. This would send me into Bant (UW blink at first but then I'd pick some green cards along the way).

What to do with Guildgates? You can splash the best flyers^_~ Moroi and the Phyrexian 3/3 Flying Flash is not bad. And Ravnica Wurms are good! Sedraxis Specter and Kathari Bomber are awesome. You can also play the best removal more easily (Putrefy/Terminate). Having Guiildgates you can even find better use for the 4/4 Defender Ogre. Anyway there are many possibilities what you can do and having the possibility to even pick trilands is quite rare. Having mana fixation allows you to be slower and just kill your opponent with better cards.

As for good stuff usually sticking to Esper or Grixis works just fine. But you can also go Bant (UW actually can do crazy stuff).

Jund is very awkward since there are cards mostly for aggressive decks or aristocrat decks and you will be somewhere in between while taking more midrange stuff while the obvious RG strategy is to go wide or BR sacrifice so unless you have something like Broodmate Dragon I'd rather avoid this shard. The other shards are way better. I think it is also because simply White and Blue seemed to be more powerful or able to create more value so any shard with one of these colors is better.

Just my 2 cents but also keep in mind that I don't play limited.

Hope you enjoyed the draft! I like MM3^_^. It did not disappoint me.

Glad you ended up in Grixis. If I were drafting this I would have ended up in Boros (Elspeth, Firedrinker Satyr). The only cards I certainly wouldn't pick were Hypnotic Specter and Spellskite. I even had to read the card Soul Reap. I wouldn't pick either that nor Ruinous Path for that matter since you already had Dreadbore.

It's a bit pity that you didn't pick Dungeon Geists because that card is often underrated.
In Vintage cube this card gets passed often but that card wins games!

Anyway Good Job^_~

but then what do I cast with all those guildgates :D

There were so many guildgates that could have been drafted :'(

Then you are forgiven! I always appreciate the help!

This was always a thing I had an issue balancing when I was married, and I made it worse when we had our child. I regret going all in on Magic then.

First off I am thankful for those that commented on Facebook. I am sorry for the decklist errors it may be that I just copied it wrong when editing. (Sorry Josh!) Now the comment about revolt and some of the new creatures. I agree that they may be worth testing and even adding the fetches this deck can still be "budget" for a Modern deck. I think the biggest question would be are the new creatures better than what is already in there? That is something I will have to test. The deathtouch Kird Ape guy is really good though and so is Liberator. That will just take time to test out :)

Thanks for this article.

In your testing did you find the Dismembers to be worth including over Vines of Vastwood? I know that it feels rather scary to enter an event without access to removal, but Infect and Bogles do it all the time and I want to know from your testing if there were any "must remove" threats that you needed to take out with Dismember (at the cost of 4 life, mind you)? The Dismembers are practically useless against Aggro matchups (with exception of Infect and Affinity), because you can't afford to take 4 life each time you cast it, and Death's Shadows will be too huge for Dismember to handle.

I think Vines of Vastwood are so useful in this deck, giving you additional ways to fend off opposing removal spells, saving your creature in combat, or going for the kill to the face.

(FYI the Strangleroot Geists and Dismembers didn't appear in your deck list).