Draft:
Pack 1:
Gorgon Recluse, Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Coal Stoker, Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Aspect of Mongoose, Skittering Monstrosity, Opaline Sliver, Magus of the Scroll, Wall of Roots
Pick: Magus of the Scroll
Pack 2:
Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Trespasser il-Vec, Spinneret Sliver, Fortify, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Volcanic Awakening, Krosan Grip, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Ovinomancer
Pick: Trespasser il-Vec
Pack 3:
Trespasser il-Vec, Spinneret Sliver, Fortify, Flamecore Elemental, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Quilled Sliver, Dread Return, Vesuva, Arena
Pick: Trespasser il-Vec
Pack 4:
Snapback, Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Thunder Totem, Aspect of Mongoose, Candles of Leng, Nicol Bolas, Benalish Cavalry
Pick: Candles of Leng
Pack 5:
Pentarch Ward, Zealot il-Vec, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Truth or Tale, Demonic Collusion
Pick: Knight of the Holy Nimbus
Pack 6:
Herd Gnarr, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Locket of Yesterdays, Quilled Sliver, Vampiric Sliver, Gaea’s Liege
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 7:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Icatian Crier, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghostflame Sliver, Firewake Sliver, Auratog
Pick: Ghostflame Sliver
Pack 8:
Pentarch Ward, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Momentary Blink, Ghostflame Sliver, Calciform Pools, Pandemonium
Pick: Ghostflame Sliver
Pack 9:
Fortify, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Aspect of Mongoose, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Fortify
Pack 10:
Tolarian Sentinel, Ground Rift, Wormwood Dryad, Volcanic Awakening, Krosan Grip, Ovinomancer
Pick: Ovinomancer
Pack 11:
Fortify, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer
Pick: Bogardan Rager
Pack 12:
Ancient Grudge, Foriysian Interceptor, Thunder Totem, Aspect of Mongoose
Pick: Thunder Totem
Pack 13:
Screeching Sliver, Foriysian Interceptor, Truth or Tale
Pick: Truth or Tale
Pack 14:
Pick: Traitor’s Clutch
Pack 15:
Pick: Sage of Epityr
Pack 16:
Ashcoat Bear, Amrou Seekers, Search for Tomorrow, Corpulent Corpse, Cancel, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Voidmage Husher, Faceless Devourer, Stormcloud Djinn, Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician, Mirari
Pick: Corpulent Corpse
Pack 17:
Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Aether Web, Momentary Blink, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Sporesower Thallid, Pull from Eternity, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy, Swamp
Pick: Urborg Syphon-Mage
Pack 18:
Amrou Scout, Grapeshot, Scarwood Treefolk, Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Paradox Haze, Fury Sliver, Sudden Shock, Twisted Abomination
Pick: Twisted Abomination
Pack 19:
Orcish Cannonade, Strangling Soot, Gemhide Sliver, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Assembly-Worker, Plated Pegasus, Foriysian Totem, Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
Pick: Strangling Soot
Pack 20:
Ashcoat Bear, Cancel, Empty the Warrens, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Basalt Gargoyle, Locket of Yesterdays, Sindbad, Plains
Pick: Basalt Gargoyle
Pack 21:
Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Flamecore Elemental, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Plated Pegasus, Truth or Tale
Pick: Flamecore Elemental
Pack 22:
Spiketail Drakeling, Scarwood Treefolk, Keldon Halberdier, Ophidian Eye, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Paradise Plume, Paradox Haze, Dreadship Reef
Pick: Keldon Halberdier
Pack 23:
Temporal Eddy, Aetherflame Wall, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Primal Forcemage, Tivadar of Thorn, Desert, Mountain
Pick: Desert
Pack 24:
Ashcoat Bear, Cancel, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Voidmage Husher
Pick: Subterranean Shambler
Pack 25:
Strength in Numbers, Aether Web, Divine Congregation, Pull from Eternity, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy, Swamp
Pick: Mishra, Artificer Prodigy
Pack 26:
Scarwood Treefolk, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
Pick: Skulking Knight
Pack 27:
Children of Korlis, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Assembly-Worker
Pick: Viashino Bladescout
Pack 28:
Divine Congregation, Chameleon Blur, Locket of Yesterdays
Pick: Locket of Yesterdays
Pack 29:
Pick: Plated Pegasus
Pack 30:
Pick: Paradox Haze
Pack 31:
Icatian Crier, Bonesplitter Sliver, Tendrils of Corruption, Think Twice, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Tromp the Domains, Paradox Haze, Reiterate, Spined Sliver, Smallpox
Pick: Tendrils of Corruption
Pack 32:
Mana Skimmer, Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Fury Sliver, Harmonic Sliver, Vampiric Sliver, Vesuva, Eron the Relentless, Castle Raptors
Pick: Eron the Relentless
Pack 33:
Ashcoat Bear, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Thallid Germinator, Terramorphic Expanse, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Voidmage Husher, Dread Return, Academy Ruins
Pick: Terramorphic Expanse
Pack 34:
Feebleness, Castle Raptors, Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Saltcrusted Steppe, Primal Forcemage, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Feebleness
Pack 35:
Flamecore Elemental, Castle Raptors, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Quilled Sliver, Haunting Hymn, Opaline Sliver, Spinneret Sliver
Pick: Haunting Hymn
Pack 36:
Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Ivory Giant, Mystical Teachings, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Smallpox, Saltcrusted Steppe, Gauntlet of Power, Drifter il-Dal
Pick: Mindstab
Pack 37:
Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Cancel, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Moonlace, Grinning Totem
Pick: Grinning Totem
Pack 38:
Ashcoat Bear, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Voidmage Husher, Assembly-Worker
Pick: Assembly-Worker
Pack 39:
Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Paradox Haze, Reiterate
Pick: Psychotic Episode
Pack 40:
Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Harmonic Sliver
Pick: Blazing Blade Askari
Pack 41:
Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver
Pick: Cyclopean Giant
Pack 42:
Ground Rift, Saltcrusted Steppe, Primal Forcemage, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Saltcrusted Steppe
Pack 43:
Molder, Children of Korlis, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Opaline Sliver
Pack 44:
Gaze of Justice, Shadow Sliver
Pick: Shadow Sliver
Pack 45:
Pick: Chameleon Blur
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Twisted Abomination
1 Corpulent Corpse
1 Cyclopean Giant
1 Feebleness
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Mindstab
1 Psychotic Episode
1 Strangling Soot
1 Tendrils of Corruption
2 Trespasser il-Vec
1 Urborg Syphon-Mage
1 Eron the Relentless
1 Basalt Gargoyle
1 Blazing Blade Askari
1 Bogardan Rager
1 Flamecore Elemental
1 Keldon Halberdier
1 Magus of the Scroll
1 Candles of Leng
1 Prismatic Lens
2 Ghostflame Sliver
8 Mountain
8 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard:
1 Assembly-Worker
1 Chameleon Blur
1 Desert
1 Fortify
1 Grinning Totem
1 Knight of the Holy Nimbus
1 Locket of Yesterdays
1 Mishra, Artificer Prodigy
1 Opaline Sliver
1 Ovinomancer
1 Paradox Haze
1 Plated Pegasus
1 Sage of Epityr
1 Saltcrusted Steppe
1 Shadow Sliver
1 Skulking Knight
1 Subterranean Shambler
1 Thunder Totem
1 Traitor’s Clutch
1 Truth or Tale
1 Viashino Bladescout
My deck turned out fairly mediocre, although I think that was more a product of the cardpool than the decisions I made during the draft. I took the Candles of Leng high because people said I should have taken it last time, and it seems like a good fit in Black/Red, which doesn’t usually have much of a late game.
In the first round I got some ridiculous draws in which I used all of my mana for the first five turns each game and completely rolled him.
In the second round I lost the first game to a Temporal Eddy that killed my Flamecore Elemental; then I got destroyed by Serrated Arrows. In the next two games his draws were nowhere near as good, and I drew the Strangling Soot, which gave his slow Blue/Black deck a lot of trouble.
I felt pretty fortunate to split the finals of this draft.
Until tomorrow,
Rich
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