Draft:
Pack 1:
Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Aether Web, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Momentary Blink, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Thunder Totem, Sporesower Thallid, Evil Eye of Urborg, Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Dauthi Slayer
Pick: Sporesower Thallid
Pack 2:
Durkwood Baloth, Coral Trickster, Ivory Giant, Deathspore Thallid, Errant Ephemeron, Dream Stalker, Watcher Sliver, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Tectonic Fiend, Fallen Ideal, Telekinetic Sliver, Thelonite Hermit, Mindlash Sliver
Pick: Thelonite Hermit
Pack 3:
Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Terramorphic Expanse, Drudge Reavers, Crookclaw Transmuter, Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Nightshade Assassin, Fury Sliver, Liege of the Pit, Empty the Warrens
Pick: Nightshade Assassin
Pack 4:
Ashcoat Bear, Search for Tomorrow, Corpulent Corpse, Cancel, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Skittering Monstrosity, Moonlace, Enduring Renewal, Glass Asp
Pick: Search for Tomorrow
Pack 5:
Feebleness, Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Primal Forcemage, Volcanic Awakening, Gaea’s Blessing
Pick: Feebleness
Pack 6:
Flowstone Channeler, Herd Gnarr, Trespasser il-Vec, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Firewake Sliver, Locket of Yesterdays, Vampiric Sliver, Ovinomancer
Pick: Trespasser il-Vec
Pack 7:
Corpulent Corpse, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Might of Old Krosa, Barbed Shocker, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy, Nicol Bolas
Pick: Corpulent Corpse
Pack 8:
Deathspore Thallid, Plunder, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Volcanic Awakening, Krosan Grip, Gaea’s Liege
Pick: Deathspore Thallid
Pack 9:
Zealot il-Vec, Aether Web, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Pit Keeper, Evil Eye of Urborg, Scion of the Ur-Dragon
Pick: Pit Keeper
Pack 10:
Deathspore Thallid, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Tectonic Fiend, Fallen Ideal, Mindlash Sliver
Pick: Deathspore Thallid
Pack 11:
Mogg War Marshal, Drudge Reavers, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller
Pick: Thallid Shell-Dweller
Pack 12:
Basal Sliver, Mindlash Sliver, Skittering Monstrosity, Glass Asp
Pick: Skittering Monstrosity
Pack 13:
Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Traitor’s Clutch
Pack 14:
Ground Rift, Locket of Yesterdays
Pick: Locket of Yesterdays
Pack 15:
Pick: Brass Gnat
Pack 16:
Assassinate, Amrou Seekers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Terramorphic Expanse, Drudge Reavers, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Sulfurous Blast, Duskrider Peregrine, Stormcloud Djinn, Evangelize, Desert
Pick: Assassinate
Pack 17:
Spinneret Sliver, Fortify, Spiketail Drakeling, Glass Asp, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Spirit Loop, Brine Elemental, Sulfurous Blast, Stonebrow, Krosan Hero, Resurrection, Paradox Haze
Pick: Sulfurous Blast
Pack 18:
Empty the Warrens, Icatian Crier, Bonesplitter Sliver, Penumbra Spider, Chameleon Blur, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Outrider en-Kor, Calciform Pools, Pendelhaven Elder, Tivadar of Thorn, Goblin Snowman
Pick: Penumbra Spider
Pack 19:
Goblin Skycutter, Zealot il-Vec, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal, Thunder Totem, Cavalry Master, Moonlace, Mirari
Pick: Urborg Syphon-Mage
Pack 20:
Empty the Warrens, Strength in Numbers, Errant Doomsayers, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Calciform Pools, Brine Elemental, Leviathan
Pick: Strength in Numbers
Pack 21:
Coal Stoker, Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Watcher Sliver, Spell Burst, Ignite Memories
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 22:
Tolarian Sentinel, Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Thrill of the Hunt, Assembly-Worker, Haunting Hymn
Pick: Haunting Hymn
Pack 23:
Flowstone Channeler, Herd Gnarr, Scarwood Treefolk, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Krosan Grip
Pick: Herd Gnarr
Pack 24:
Mogg War Marshal, Drudge Reavers, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Stormcloud Djinn
Pick: Sprout
Pack 25:
Fortify, Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Spirit Loop
Pick: Skulking Knight
Pack 26:
Chameleon Blur, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Goblin Snowman
Pick: Goblin Snowman
Pack 27:
Ancient Grudge, Foriysian Interceptor, Drifter il-Dal, Thunder Totem
Pick: Thunder Totem
Pack 28:
Jhoira’s Timebug, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit
Pick: Jhoira’s Timebug
Pack 29:
Two-Headed Sliver, Shadow Sliver
Pick: Two-Headed Sliver
Pack 30:
Pick: Viashino Bladescout
Pack 31:
Snapback, Aether Web, Lightning Axe, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Sudden Shock, Scryb Ranger, Tectonic Fiend, Demonic Collusion, Scragnoth, Psychotic Episode
Pick: Scryb Ranger
Pack 32:
Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Fathom Seer, Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Quilled Sliver, Haunting Hymn, Scryb Ranger, Gauntlet of Power, Shadowmage Infiltrator
Pick: Shadowmage Infiltrator
Pack 33:
Strangling Soot, Gemhide Sliver, Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Coal Stoker, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Spirit Loop, Molten Slagheap, Phantom Wurm, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Pick: Gemhide Sliver
Pack 34:
Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Coral Trickster, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Return to Dust, Spell Burst, Word of Seizing, Uthden Troll
Pick: Mindstab
Pack 35:
Aether Web, Assassinate, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Pit Keeper, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Pull from Eternity, Hivestone, Whirling Dervish
Pick: Assassinate
Pack 36:
Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Flamecore Elemental, Children of Korlis, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Smallpox, Return to Dust, Kher Keep
Pick: Strangling Soot
Pack 37:
Strength in Numbers, Errant Doomsayers, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Urza’s Factory, Brine Elemental
Pick: Thallid Shell-Dweller
Pack 38:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Icatian Crier, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Chronatog Totem, Unyaro Bees
Pick: Unyaro Bees
Pack 39:
Aether Web, Drudge Reavers, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Tectonic Fiend, Scragnoth, Psychotic Episode
Pick: Scragnoth
Pack 40:
Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Quilled Sliver, Haunting Hymn, Gauntlet of Power
Pick: Gauntlet of Power
Pack 41:
Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Spirit Loop, Molten Slagheap
Pick: Molten Slagheap
Pack 42:
Shadow Sliver, Traitor’s Clutch, Glass Asp, Spell Burst
Pick: Spell Burst
Pack 43:
Aether Web, Detainment Spell, Sprout
Pick: Sprout
Pack 44:
Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings
Pick: Mystical Teachings
Pack 45:
Pick: Call to the Netherworld
Final Decklist:Maindeck:
2 Assassinate
1 Corpulent Corpse
2 Deathspore Thallid
1 Feebleness
1 Mindstab
1 Nightshade Assassin
1 Pit Keeper
1 Strangling Soot
1 Trespasser il-Vec
1 Urborg Syphon-Mage
1 Gemhide Sliver
1 Herd Gnarr
1 Penumbra Spider
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Sporesower Thallid
1 Strength in Numbers
2 Thallid Shell-Dweller
1 Thelonite Hermit
1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
1 Molten Slagheap
8 Forest
1 Island
7 Swamp
Sideboard:
1 Brass Gnat
1 Call to the Netherworld
1 Coal Stoker
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Goblin Snowman
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Jhoira’s Timebug
1 Locket of Yesterdays
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Scragnoth
1 Skittering Monstrosity
1 Skulking Knight
1 Spell Burst
2 Sprout
1 Sulfurous Blast
1 Thunder Totem
1 Traitor’s Clutch
1 Two-Headed Sliver
1 Unyaro Bees
1 Viashino Bladescout
The actual draft part of this draft was pretty simple. I got into my colors right away, and had pretty straightforawrd picks throughout. I should explain the Sulfurous Blast pick. That was in fact a misclick. I meant to take the Stonebrow there, and in retrospect it would have been better to take the Prismatic Lens, but I couldn’t have known I was going to get the one Blue card that I’d want to splash.
I played against Blue/White decks in both rounds before splitting. All the games were quite similar. Blue/White was the best possible matchup for this deck as they have a great deal of difficulty dealing with all the Saprolings and Deathspore Thallids. On top of that I drew the Penumbra Spider a lot which is a nightmare for them. In each game I was able to get ahead early, thanks to all the two mana spells, and was then finish them off with the card advantage provided by the Deathspore Thallids (once in combination with the Thelonite Hermit).
Until tomorrow,
Rich
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