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Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #2

Tuesday, December 23rd – Canadian maestro Rich Hoaen has downed tools for good, as work and real life intrudes apace. As a replacement, we have Luis Scott-Vargas, who shares each pick from a Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

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1 Naya Panorama
1 Jungle Weaver
1 Magma Spray
1 Naya Charm
1 Yoked Plowbeast
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Thorn-Thrash Viashino
1 Cavern Thoctar
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Skeletonize
2 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Jund Battlemage
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Druid of the Anima
1 Resounding Thunder
1 Knight of the Skyward Eye
1 Incurable Ogre
1 Blister Beetle
1 Obelisk of Jund
2 Court Archers
1 Volcanic Submersion
1 Rhox Charger
1 Savage Lands
5 Forest
4 Mountain
3 Swamp
1 Jungle Shrine
1 Plains
1 Arcane Sanctum

Sideboard
1 Gustrider Exuberant
1 Dragon’s Herald
1 Swamp
2 Savage Hunger
1 Puppet Conjurer
1 Etherium Astrolabe
1 Forest
1 Lightning Talons
1 Resounding Scream
1 Sunseed Nurturer
1 Call to Heel
1 Island
1 Island
1 Sangrite Surge
1 Jhessian Infiltrator
1 Spell Snip
1 Naturalize

P1p1 Resounding Thunder over Jund Charm/Feral Hydra: I prefer the flexibility of Thunder over the tricolor Charm and usually I would rather have a removal spell than Hydra. An efficient creature it may be but in the end its still just a big green dude and Thunder is good removal.
P1p2 Naya Charm over Bone Splinters/Realm Razer: Naya Charm is better than Razer and I would rather be in Naya than Jund after passing a Jund Charm.

P1p4 Savage lands over Wild Nacatl: Despite being more Naya at this point I still value good manafixing highly and I certainly could go into Jund (which of course is what ends up happening). Even in straight Naya this pick is close and it was too early to tell here.

P2p3 Thrinax is just the most powerful card here.

Round 1
I play against a friend of mine who drafted the kind of deck I want to draft Esper with multiple Courier’s Capsule Obelisks removal and a Kederekt Leviathan. Both games he uses his removal suite (Infest Oblivion Ring Agony Warp) to slow me down enough that his card draw and eventually Leviathan give him an insurmountable advantage.

Until tomorrow…

LSV