Practice · bottom one
After a mulligan you still draw seven cards, and keeping means putting one back for each mulligan you have taken. This drill is only that second decision: which six cards do you want, and at two mulligans, which five?
What this drill is, and is not
- The hand has already been kept. You are not deciding whether to keep it. That question is the opening-hands drill.
- You are choosing a six-card hand out of seven cards, and the card that leaves is whichever one the other six can most afford to lose.
- Bottom two is the advanced mode. At two mulligans the question stops being which card is weakest and becomes which five cards make a hand that still does something.
- The most expensive card is not automatically the one. Neither is the extra land. What the remaining six are trying to do decides it.
Mode
One mulligan. You keep six of the seven, and the card that leaves is the one the other six can most afford to lose.
nothing chosen
This drill belongs to MTG Initial Decision, the chapter on reading an opening hand.
