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Drafting With Rich – TPF #23

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You all know the drill by now… Rich Hoaen, Canada’s finest and grumpiest draft export, takes us by the hand and drags us through the rollercoaster ride of an 8-4 TPF Draft on Magic Online. From pick 1 to pick 45, Rich shares them all, and his final deck and draft performance are analyzed in the article, the forums, and beyond. Come join in the fun!


Draft:

Pack 1:










Temporal Eddy, Tendrils of Corruption, Lightning Axe, Mogg War Marshal, Temporal Isolation, Think Twice, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Phthisis, Foriysian Totem, Fury Sliver, Angel’s Grace, Pirate Ship

Pick: Lightning Axe

Pack 2:










Spiketail Drakeling, Flamecore Elemental, Mana Skimmer, Nantuko Shaman, Coral Trickster, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Spirit Loop, Brine Elemental, Stuffy Doll, Honorable Passage, Dream Stalker

Pick: Stuffy Doll

Pack 3:










Benalish Cavalry, Feebleness, Spinneret Sliver, Keldon Halberdier, Ivory Giant, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Barbed Shocker, Outrider en-Kor, Pentarch Paladin, The Rack

Pick: Keldon Halberdier

Pack 4:







Gemhide Sliver, Feebleness, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Smallpox, Return to Dust, Might of Old Krosa, Magus of the Mirror, Hail Storm, Plains

Pick: Gemhide Sliver

Pack 5:







Ashcoat Bear, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Terramorphic Expanse, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Pit Keeper, Sage of Epityr, Cavalry Master, Fungus Sliver, Moorish Cavalry

Pick: Terramorphic Expanse

Pack 6:







Ashcoat Bear, Cancel, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Phantom Wurm, Evil Eye of Urborg, Mistform Ultimus

Pick: Phantom Wurm

Pack 7:







Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Dark Withering, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chronatog Totem, Nether Traitor, Thallid

Pick: Thallid

Pack 8:




Chromatic Star, Spinneret Sliver, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Volcanic Awakening, Dragonstorm

Pick: Spinneret Sliver

Pack 9:




Temporal Eddy, Think Twice, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Angel’s Grace

Pick: Angel’s Grace

Pack 10:




Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Spirit Loop, Honorable Passage

Pick: Molder

Pack 11:




Spinneret Sliver, Ivory Giant, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Barbed Shocker

Pick: Spinneret Sliver

Pack 12:

D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Return to Dust

Pick: Glass Asp

Pack 13:

Sprout, Sage of Epityr, Fungus Sliver

Pick: Fungus Sliver

Pack 14:

Savage Thallid, Evil Eye of Urborg

Pick: Savage Thallid

Pack 15:

Divine Congregation

Pick: Divine Congregation

Pack 16:










Synchronous Sliver, Utopia Vow, Dawn Charm, Fury Charm, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Firefright Mage, Sinew Sliver, Gossamer Phantasm, Seal of Primordium, Psychotrope Thallid, Rebuff the Wicked, Calciderm, Intet, the Dreamer

Pick: Intet, the Dreamer

Pack 17:










Dead / Gone, Dreamscape Artist, Ridged Kusite, Pallid Mycoderm, Uktabi Drake, Deadly Grub, Dust Corona, Reality Acid, Skirk Shaman, Sinew Sliver, Essence Warden, Ana Battlemage, Riptide Pilferer, Body Double

Pick: Dead / Gone

Pack 18:










Spitting Sliver, Mire Boa, Battering Sliver, Erratic Mutation, Blightspeaker, Ghost Tactician, Fury Charm, Essence Warden, Brute Force, Mana Tithe, Auramancer’s Guise, Frozen Aether, Benalish Commander

Pick: Mire Boa

Pack 19:







Cradle to Grave, Reflex Sliver, Evolution Charm, Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Citanul Woodreaders, Brain Gorgers, Primal Plasma, Vampiric Link, Skirk Shaman, Circle of Affliction, Hedge Troll

Pick: Citanul Woodreaders

Pack 20:







Dawn Charm, Cradle to Grave, Giant Dustwasp, Blightspeaker, Evolution Charm, Shade of Trokair, Bog Serpent, Primal Plasma, Simian Spirit Guide, Darkheart Sliver, Shivan Wumpus

Pick: Giant Dustwasp

Pack 21:







Ridged Kusite, Needlepeak Spider, Wistful Thinking, Firefright Mage, Fa’adiyah Seer, Bog Serpent, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Saltblast, Circle of Affliction, Keen Sense

Pick: Saltblast

Pack 22:







Poultice Sliver, Ridged Kusite, Battering Sliver, Keldon Marauders, Ghost Tactician, Wistful Thinking, Healing Leaves, Revered Dead, Spellshift

Pick: Healing Leaves

Pack 23:




Reflex Sliver, Dash Hopes, Pallid Mycoderm, Keldon Marauders, Fa’adiyah Seer, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Timebender, Deadly Grub

Pick: Timebender

Pack 24:




Fury Charm, Deadly Grub, Firefright Mage, Gossamer Phantasm, Seal of Primordium, Psychotrope Thallid, Rebuff the Wicked

Pick: Psychotrope Thallid

Pack 25:




Ridged Kusite, Uktabi Drake, Deadly Grub, Dust Corona, Reality Acid, Riptide Pilferer

Pick: Uktabi Drake

Pack 26:




Spitting Sliver, Battering Sliver, Fury Charm, Auramancer’s Guise, Frozen Aether

Pick: Fury Charm

Pack 27:

Reflex Sliver, Deadly Grub, Vampiric Link, Circle of Affliction

Pick: Reflex Sliver

Pack 28:

Dawn Charm, Blightspeaker, Bog Serpent

Pick: Blightspeaker

Pack 29:

Firefright Mage, Fa’adiyah Seer

Pick: Fa’adiyah Seer

Pack 30:

Wistful Thinking

Pick: Wistful Thinking

Pack 31:










Knight of Sursi, Leaden Fists, Gift of Granite, Lost Hours, Fatal Attraction, Whip-Spine Drake, Mass of Ghouls, Lucent Liminid, Thornweald Archer, Flowstone Embrace, Shivan Sand-Mage, Cyclical Evolution, Sliversmith, Magus of the Vineyard, Leaden Fists

Pick: Flowstone Embrace

Pack 32:










Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Llanowar Empath, Homing Sliver, Edge of Autumn, Lymph Sliver, Blind Phantasm, Virulent Sliver, Cyclical Evolution, Sword of the Meek, Even the Odds, Shimian Specter

Pick: Edge of Autumn

Pack 33:










Marshaling Cry, Unblinking Bleb, Lost Hours, Riddle of Lightning, Wrap in Vigor, Mass of Ghouls, Vedalken Aethermage, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Sporoloth Ancient, Grinning Ignus, Mystic Speculation, Stronghold Rats, New Benalia

Pick: Sporoloth Ancient

Pack 34:







Cutthroat il-Dal, Llanowar Augur, Augur of Skulls, Samite Censer-Bearer, Homing Sliver, Sporoloth Ancient, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Mesmeric Sliver, Arc Blade, Ravaging Riftwurm, Cloud Key

Pick: Arc Blade

Pack 35:







Kavu Primarch, Oblivion Crown, Deepcavern Imp, Fomori Nomad, Logic Knot, Vedalken Aethermage, Virulent Sliver, Dakmor Salvage, Dust of Moments, Reality Strobe, Barren Glory

Pick: Kavu Primarch

Pack 36:







Petrified Plating, Quiet Disrepair, Frenzy Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Patrician’s Scorn, Henchfiend of Ukor, Thornweald Archer, Chronomantic Escape, Cloudseeder, Skirk Ridge Exhumer

Pick: Thornweald Archer

Pack 37:







Bogardan Lancer, Grave Peril, Deepcavern Imp, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Death Rattle, Delay, Skirk Ridge Exhumer, Sparkspitter, Grinning Ignus

Pick: Death Rattle

Pack 38:




Saltskitter, Unblinking Bleb, Llanowar Augur, Blind Phantasm, Lumithread Field, Llanowar Reborn, Utopia Mycon, Haze of Rage

Pick: Utopia Mycon

Pack 39:




Leaden Fists, Gift of Granite, Lost Hours, Mass of Ghouls, Thornweald Archer, Shivan Sand-Mage, Cyclical Evolution

Pick: Thornweald Archer

Pack 40:




Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Virulent Sliver, Cyclical Evolution

Pick: Wrap in Vigor

Pack 41:




Marshaling Cry, Lost Hours, Vedalken Aethermage, Mystic Speculation, New Benalia

Pick: Marshaling Cry

Pack 42:

Llanowar Augur, Augur of Skulls, Samite Censer-Bearer, Grave Scrabbler

Pick: Grave Scrabbler

Pack 43:

Oblivion Crown, Dakmor Salvage, Dust of Moments

Pick: Dakmor Salvage

Pack 44:

Petrified Plating, Frenzy Sliver

Pick: Petrified Plating

Pack 45:

Grave Peril

Pick: Grave Peril

Final Decklist:

Maindeck:

1 Thallid
1 Dead // Gone
1 Lightning Axe
1 Uktabi Drake
1 Utopia Mycon
1 Edge of Autumn
1 Flowstone Embrace
1 Gemhide Sliver
1 Mire Boa
1 Spinneret Sliver
2 Thornweald Archer
1 Citanul Woodreaders
1 Kavu Primarch
1 Arc Blade
1 Giant Dustwasp
1 Keldon Halberdier
1 Savage Thallid
1 Sporoloth Ancient
1 Stuffy Doll
1 Intet, the Dreamer
1 Phantom Wurm
1 Death Rattle
9 Forest
1 Island
5 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse

Sideboard:

1 Angel’s Grace
1 Blightspeaker
1 Dakmor Salvage
1 Divine Congregation
1 Fa’adiyah Seer
1 Fungus Sliver
1 Fury Charm
1 Glass Asp
1 Grave Peril
1 Grave Scrabbler
1 Healing Leaves
1 Marshaling Cry
1 Molder
1 Petrified Plating
1 Psychotrope Thallid
1 Reflex Sliver
1 Saltblast
1 Spinneret Sliver
1 Timebender
1 Wistful Thinking
1 Wrap in Vigor


This Time Spiral pack was interesting because each pack seemed to be heavily slanted towards one color. I took Keldon Halberdier over Pentarch Paladin because there were two other good White cards in the pack and it’s important to not have White players behind you for Planar Chaos when you play White. From there I was able to figure out that Green was open and draft a heavy Green deck, with small splashes for some Red removal, Intet, and Death Rattle.


Round 1 I played against another Green/Red/Blue deck. In the first game I got Intet and a big Primarch out before he could set up his defenses. Game 2 I nearly decked myself with Psychothrope Thallid because I couldn’t get through his enormous Clockwork Hydra. I got him to one with no cards left in my library, and attacked with all my creatures. I’d be dead if he blocked them all, but fortunately he accidentally activated his Clockwork Hydra before blockers which let me get exactly one point through.


Round 2 I played against a decent looking Red/Blue deck. Game 1 I had a quick Intet, and his plan of blocking it with Molten Firebird every turn didn’t work out too well. Game 2 he double mulliganed and I made a big Primarch before he got anything going on.


I split the finals.


Until tomorrow,


Rich

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