Draft:
Pack 1:
Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Dark Withering, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Voidmage Husher, Faceless Devourer, Paradise Plume, Restore Balance, Mistform Ultimus
Pick: Dark Withering
Pack 2:
Rift Bolt, Aether Web, Assassinate, Amrou Seekers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Tromp the Domains, Assembly-Worker, Dralnu, Lich Lord, Stormscape Familiar
Pick: Rift Bolt
Pack 3:
Fortify, Coal Stoker, Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Orcish Cannonade, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Fungal Reaches, Foriysian Totem, Chronosavant, Witch Hunter
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 4:
Slipstream Serpent, Nantuko Shaman, Gorgon Recluse, Glass Asp, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Gustcloak Cavalier, Pendelhaven Elder, Dreadship Reef, Ovinomancer
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 5:
Assassinate, Thallid Germinator, Zealot il-Vec, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Might of Old Krosa, Assembly-Worker, Spike Tiller
Pick: Assassinate
Pack 6:
Flowstone Channeler, Spinneret Sliver, Flamecore Elemental, Traitor’s Clutch, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Harmonic Sliver, Pull from Eternity, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 7:
Icatian Crier, Goblin Skycutter, Strength in Numbers, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Thick-Skinned Goblin
Pick: Thick-Skinned Goblin
Pack 8:
Trespasser il-Vec, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Ignite Memories, Paradox Haze
Pick: Trespasser il-Vec
Pack 9:
Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Voidmage Husher, Paradise Plume, Restore Balance
Pick: Psychotic Episode
Pack 10:
Aether Web, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Assembly-Worker
Pick: Assembly-Worker
Pack 11:
Tolarian Sentinel, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager
Pick: Bogardan Rager
Pack 12:
Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Gustcloak Cavalier
Pick: Ground Rift
Pack 13:
Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver
Pick: Brass Gnat
Pack 14:
Pick: Plunder
Pack 15:
Pick: Chameleon Blur
Pack 16:
Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Amrou Seekers, Search for Tomorrow, Corpulent Corpse, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Might of Old Krosa, Clockwork Hydra, Ignite Memories, Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician, Stormbind
Pick: Stormbind
Pack 17:
Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Amrou Scout, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Durkwood Baloth, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Dementia Sliver, Dread Return, Vampiric Sliver, Pulmonic Sliver
Pick: Orcish Cannonade
Pack 18:
Strangling Soot, Mindstab, Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Dread Return, Fool’s Demise, Nightshade Assassin, Magus of the Mirror, Avoid Fate, Slipstream Serpent
Pick: Strangling Soot
Pack 19:
Zealot il-Vec, Snapback, Aether Web, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Celestial Crusader, Faceless Devourer, Aspect of Mongoose, Weathered Bodyguards
Pick: Faceless Devourer
Pack 20:
Corpulent Corpse, Cancel, Icatian Crier, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Pit Keeper, Sage of Epityr, Ghostflame Sliver, Calciform Pools, Fury Sliver, Reiterate
Pick: Corpulent Corpse
Pack 21:
Mana Skimmer, Coral Trickster, Feebleness, Venser’s Sliver, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Skittering Monstrosity, Vesuva, Enduring Renewal
Pick: Feebleness
Pack 22:
Scarwood Treefolk, Gaze of Justice, Flamecore Elemental, Watcher Sliver, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Plated Pegasus, Haunting Hymn, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Flamecore Elemental
Pack 23:
Think Twice, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Drifter il-Dal, Voidmage Husher, Fallen Ideal, Gemstone Caverns
Pick: Gemstone Caverns
Pack 24:
Corpulent Corpse, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Might of Old Krosa, Ignite Memories
Pick: Corpulent Corpse
Pack 25:
Mana Skimmer, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Ophidian Eye, Dementia Sliver, Vampiric Sliver
Pick: Vampiric Sliver
Pack 26:
Sangrophage, Two-Headed Sliver, Dread Return, Fool’s Demise, Magus of the Mirror
Pick: Magus of the Mirror
Pack 27:
Zealot il-Vec, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aspect of Mongoose
Pick: Aspect of Mongoose
Pack 28:
Sprout, Sage of Epityr, Calciform Pools
Pick: Calciform Pools
Pack 29:
Sangrophage, Mystical Teachings
Pick: Sangrophage
Pack 30:
Pick: Plunder
Pack 31:
Coal Stoker, Durkwood Baloth, Coral Trickster, Ivory Giant, Deathspore Thallid, Errant Ephemeron, Prismatic Lens, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Pendelhaven Elder, Quilled Sliver, Vampiric Sliver, Sprite Noble, Hail Storm
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 32:
Bonesplitter Sliver, Tendrils of Corruption, Think Twice, Penumbra Spider, Errant Doomsayers, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Basalt Gargoyle, Aspect of Mongoose, Liege of the Pit, Tribal Flames
Pick: Tribal Flames
Pack 33:
Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Penumbra Spider, Pentarch Ward, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Paradise Plume, Psionic Sliver, Avalanche Riders
Pick: Avalanche Riders
Pack 34:
Strength in Numbers, Errant Doomsayers, Corpulent Corpse, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Saltcrusted Steppe, Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician, Scragnoth
Pick: Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
Pack 35:
Urborg Syphon-Mage, Thallid Germinator, Terramorphic Expanse, Subterranean Shambler, Havenwood Wurm, Chameleon Blur, Thunder Totem, Yavimaya Dryad, Magus of the Candelabra, Thallid, Island
Pick: Terramorphic Expanse
Pack 36:
Feebleness, Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Glass Asp, Paradox Haze, Firewake Sliver, The Rack, Strength in Numbers
Pick: Chromatic Star
Pack 37:
Fathom Seer, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Spirit Loop, Truth or Tale, Flying Men
Pick: Fathom Seer
Pack 38:
Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Tolarian Sentinel, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Chronatog Totem, Durkwood Tracker, Swamp
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 39:
Coral Trickster, Prismatic Lens, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Pendelhaven Elder, Quilled Sliver
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 40:
Think Twice, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Aspect of Mongoose
Pick: Jhoira’s Timebug
Pack 41:
Pentarch Ward, Detainment Spell, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Paradise Plume
Pick: Paradise Plume
Pack 42:
Greenseeker, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Saltcrusted Steppe
Pick: Saltcrusted Steppe
Pack 43:
Thallid Germinator, Chameleon Blur, Island
Pick: Island
Pack 44:
Pick: Paradox Haze
Pack 45:
Pick: Ground Rift
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Forest
7 Mountain
8 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Chromatic Star
1 Tribal Flames
1 Feebleness
2 Prismatic Lens
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
1 Stormbind
1 Assassinate
1 Faceless Devourer
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Orcish Cannonade
1 Rift Bolt
1 Strangling Soot
1 Trespasser il-Vec
1 Avalanche Riders
2 Coal Stoker
1 Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
1 Vampiric Sliver
2 Corpulent Corpse
1 Dark Withering
1 Magus of the Mirror
Sideboard:
1 Aspect of Mongoose
1 Assembly-Worker
1 Bogardan Rager
1 Brass Gnat
1 Calciform Pools
1 Chameleon Blur
1 Fathom Seer
1 Flamecore Elemental
1 Gemstone Caverns
2 Ground Rift
1 Island [FOIL]
1 Jhoira’s Timebug
1 Mountain
1 Paradise Plume
1 Paradox Haze
2 Plunder
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Psychotic Episode
1 Saltcrusted Steppe
1 Sangrophage
Building this deck posed an interesting question. How many Prismatic Lens should I play? I built it the way I did because I wanted to play with Magus of the Mirror, because I’ve been told I underrate it. I figured my deck was quite powerful so I wanted the more consistent configuration of two Lens, and seventeen lands, instead of three Lens and sixteen land.
I lost the first round to a very good White/Blue deck. In the first game he used all his mana every turn, starting with a turn 2 Duskrider Peregrine, while I was pretty severely flooded. He had another really good curve in the second game, but I played Magus of the Mirror turn 5 which halted his attacks. He spent the next couple turns simply playing more creatures, while I mana burned on his end step to put him into Stormbind range after I used the Magus. In the third game I kept a hand of three Swamps, Corpulent Corpse, Feebleness, Strangling Soot, and Tribal Flames, and drew almost exclusively Red cards from there, but no Red source of mana. His draw wasn’t as good this game, but it didn’t need to be.
Until Monday,
Rich
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