What is Type 1's best draw?

[Ifflejink]

Type one is filled with many different draw engines, each one with it's own advantages and disadvantages. But one question remains: which, overall, is most efficient? In this post, I will try to list each prominent engine and it's advantages and disadvanteges. If I miss any, please tell me. I want this to be an accurate discussion.

A. Bazaar of Baghdad
Advantages: 1. Can gain +2 card advantage each turn. 2. Being a land, it is easy to get into play.
Disadvantages: 1. Very deck-specific. A deck has to have very good synergy with Bazaar to be able to use it. 2. It's a non-basic land. With the prevalence of NBLH like Wasteland and Blood Moon, it's very vulnerable to destruction.

B. Intuition/AK
Advantages: 1. Very explosive. After an Inuition, provided an AK was already in hand, the engine would draw seven cards. 2. Synnergy with Yawgmoth's Will. Many decks featuring this engine play Will, and thereby draw up to 10 cards in a single turn.
Disadvantages: 1. Graveyard reliant. With the current prominence of hate in the meta, AK is a prime target.
2. It requires two cards. This can hamper a player's ability to use the engine, though decks using it often contain alot of searching.

C. Standstill (My personal favorite)
Advantages: 1. Mana-efficiency.  At two mana for three cards, this is one of Type one's most potentially efficient card-drawers 2. Psychological effect. Due to the fact that some oppoenents will simply try to wait out a Standstill, it can often be a game-breaker.
Disadvantages: 1. Instability. Your opponent decides when or when not to break the Standstill, and can do so at very cricial moments in the game.
2. Deck specific. Quite a few decks can't use Standstill due to the fact that it requires a fair amount of synnergy.

D. Skeletal Scrying
Advantages:1. Highly versatile. Scrying can draw virtually any number of cards, provided you can pay the cost
Disadvantages: 1. Requires life, mana and cards in graveyard. Unless you have these to spare, it's useless.

Please post with your choice and why you consider it to be the best, and feel free to post any engines that I missed.

[Dr. Sylvan]

http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=289783

[Ifflejink]

Sorry that I posted this topic without seeig if a similar one was already active.

[rvs]

A draw engine is only as good as it's inherent synergy with the rest of the deck.

[Prism]

A draw engine is only as good as it's inherent synergy with the rest of the deck.

i agree. and questions like these are too broad and lack context to be of any relevance.

[Ifflejink]

Now that I think about it, this question really is way to broad for any simple answer. A draw engine is good based on the deck that it's placed in. Would one of the mods please lock this?

[Chaos Blade]

Well If this would be considered a draw engine, then Skeletal Scrying should be on the list. Its a very powerful drawer that is non-blastable and can vary from drawing a whole hand to a more cantrip style card. Well if it is considered a engine then I would put it on the list as one of the best or more compeitive card drawing engines.

[MarkPharaoh]

Well If this would be considered a draw engine, then Skeletal Scrying should be on the list.

It already is...

[Kowal]

It's called an edit.

Threads like this are both
A) Really common
and B) Really useless.

One should ask oneself before posting a topic, "why is this topic being posted?"  If more people actually did this, less garbage like this thread would slip through the cracks.