Take the two-drop that spends the mana

Limited queues punish people who draft like they are building a Commander deck. The rare that ends the game does nothing if you spent turns two through five doing nothing.

A good limited deck has a reason to tap mana every turn in the early game. That is usually creatures. The two-drop that is “just a bear” is not just a bear. It is a spell that lets you use your land drop. It attacks their three-drop. It forces them to spend a removal spell before they are ready.

The bomb still goes first when it is actually a bomb and you can cast it. The leak is taking the fifth expensive card over the second playable two-drop because the expensive card looks more like Magic. Count your curve when the pack is still in your hands, not when you sleeve it.

Land count is the other half of the same idea. Twenty-three lands in a forty-card deck is still the default for a reason. You can trim if your curve is genuinely low and you have ways to spend extra land. You cannot trim because you opened a seven-mana mythic and want to “see it.” If you do not hit land three, you will not see it.

When you are on the draw, the extra card does not replace a missing two-drop. It makes the two-drop you took even more important, because they are a turn ahead on board. When you are on the play, a clunky hand is worse. Keep that in mind at the table, not only in the draft.