How is it possible that I was not only able to draft a mono-blue merfolk deck, but win with it?

I realize that the competition was composed of one person who doesn't like Lorwyn, one person who has only drafted once before, and someone who can draft, but not coherently, but the real question is this- how can someone draft a one color deck, getting only 5 off-color cards?

It's utterly ridiculous! I have never before seen a mono-color deck in a draft before! Granted, the other decks were 3 colors, and 50 or more cards, but I, by all means, should not have won nor been able to draft only blue, with only 4 people in the draft! There shouldn't have been enough blue cards to even make a coherent blue deck with such a limited pool.

If anyone can explain this strange phenomenon, I would appreciate it greatly...

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this is how, no one else took blue, this way you did not only get the best blue card in the pack, your also got the second strongest card on the turn (when it comes back to you) Blue is strong if you can get silvergill dousers, drowner of secrets, athersnipe's, fallowsages, its even better when you get multiples. It also helped that there were so few people that you could easily commit to a single color without anyone cutting you off. If blue dried up, you could just go into the color they stopped drafting.

Also look at the player you were playing against. Half of them weren't that good at drafting, enough to actually know what they were doing, and made a half-good deck.

You however know Lorywn basically inside and out, and could draft a deck quite easily compared to others.