Draft:
Pack 1:
Lightning Axe, Mogg War Marshal, Temporal Isolation, Think Twice, Ashcoat Bear, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Faceless Devourer, Basalt Gargoyle, Firewake Sliver, Fortune Thief, Sol’kanar the Swamp King
Pick: Lightning Axe
Pack 2:
Search for Tomorrow, Corpulent Corpse, Cancel, Icatian Crier, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Celestial Crusader, Faceless Devourer, Truth or Tale, Restore Balance, Grinning Totem
Pick: Corpulent Corpse
Pack 3:
Slipstream Serpent, Castle Raptors, Gorgon Recluse, Spiketail Drakeling, Scarwood Treefolk, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Locket of Yesterdays, Quilled Sliver, Nightshade Assassin, Magus of the Jar
Pick: Nightshade Assassin
Pack 4:
Flowstone Channeler, Herd Gnarr, Trespasser il-Vec, Amrou Scout, Grapeshot, Scarwood Treefolk, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Plated Pegasus, Undertaker
Pick: Undertaker
Pack 5:
Terramorphic Expanse, Strength in Numbers, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Calciform Pools, Truth or Tale, Candles of Leng, Claws of Gix, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
Pick: Terramorphic Expanse
Pack 6:
Fortify, Flamecore Elemental, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Prismatic Lens, Aspect of Mongoose, Skittering Monstrosity, Terramorphic Expanse
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 7:
Urborg Syphon-Mage, Chameleon Blur, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Quilled Sliver, Magus of the Candelabra, War Barge
Pick: Urborg Syphon-Mage
Pack 8:
Tolarian Sentinel, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Thrill of the Hunt, Shadow Sliver, Paradise Plume, Dread Return
Pick: Dread Return
Pack 9:
Think Twice, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Firewake Sliver
Pick: Urborg Syphon-Mage
Pack 10:
Cancel, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Cyclopean Giant, Grinning Totem
Pick: Cyclopean Giant
Pack 11:
Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Locket of Yesterdays, Quilled Sliver
Pick: Skulking Knight
Pack 12:
Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Molder, Plated Pegasus
Pick: Viashino Bladescout
Pack 13:
Brass Gnat, Screeching Sliver, Truth or Tale
Pick: Truth or Tale
Pack 14:
Mystical Teachings, Aspect of Mongoose
Pick: Mystical Teachings
Pack 15:
Pick: Detainment Spell
Pack 16:
Amrou Scout, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Durkwood Baloth, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Plunder, Conflagrate, Spirit Loop, Griffin Guide, Chronosavant, Krosan Cloudscraper, Rift Bolt
Pick: Rift Bolt
Pack 17:
Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Flamecore Elemental, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Paradise Plume, Paradox Haze, Phantom Wurm, Gemstone Mine, Magus of the Mirror
Pick: Strangling Soot
Pack 18:
Mana Skimmer, Nantuko Shaman, Coral Trickster, Feebleness, Looter il-Kor, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Assembly-Worker, Plated Pegasus, Opaline Sliver, Wall of Roots
Pick: Feebleness
Pack 19:
Errant Ephemeron, Gemhide Sliver, Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Coal Stoker, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Assembly-Worker, Pendelhaven Elder, Telekinetic Sliver, Vesuva
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 20:
Errant Doomsayers, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver, Might Sliver, Conflagrate, Tivadar of Thorn
Pick: Conflagrate
Pack 21:
Bonesplitter Sliver, Think Twice, Penumbra Spider, Errant Doomsayers, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Primal Forcemage, Dralnu, Lich Lord
Pick: Dralnu, Lich Lord
Pack 22:
Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghostflame Sliver, Pull from Eternity, Curse of the Cabal, Auratog
Pick: Ghostflame Sliver
Pack 23:
Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Paradox Haze, Kobold Taskmaster
Pick: Goblin Skycutter
Pack 24:
Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Plunder, Spirit Loop, Krosan Cloudscraper
Pick: Blazing Blade Askari
Pack 25:
Gaze of Justice, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Wormwood Dryad, Paradox Haze
Pick: Viscid Lemures
Pack 26:
Clockspinning, Viscid Lemures, Assembly-Worker, Plated Pegasus, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Viscid Lemures
Pack 27:
Gaze of Justice, Traitor’s Clutch, Glass Asp, Assembly-Worker
Pick: Assembly-Worker
Pack 28:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Ancient Grudge, Foriysian Interceptor
Pick: Ironclaw Buzzardiers
Pack 29:
Pick: Sprout
Pack 30:
Pick: Call to the Netherworld
Pack 31:
Fathom Seer, Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Gorgon Recluse, Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Aspect of Mongoose, Fungal Reaches, Sudden Shock, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, Browbeat
Pick: Sudden Shock
Pack 32:
Spinneret Sliver, Keldon Halberdier, Ivory Giant, Grapeshot, Mindstab, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Watcher Sliver, Smallpox, Saltcrusted Steppe, Foriysian Totem, Word of Seizing
Pick: Word of Seizing
Pack 33:
Icatian Crier, Dark Withering, Goblin Skycutter, Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Thunder Totem, Fool’s Demise, Lotus Bloom, Merfolk Assassin
Pick: Dark Withering
Pack 34:
Coral Trickster, Ivory Giant, Deathspore Thallid, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Fallen Ideal, Ignite Memories, Fledgling Mawcor, Merieke Ri Berit
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 35:
Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Viscerid Deepwalker, Amrou Seekers, Ghitu Firebreathing, Momentary Blink, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Conflagrate, Teferi’s Moat
Pick: Thick-Skinned Goblin
Pack 36:
Zealot il-Vec, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Jhoira’s Timebug, Urza’s Factory, Haunting Hymn, Nether Traitor, Telekinetic Sliver
Pick: Haunting Hymn
Pack 37:
Amrou Seekers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Detainment Spell, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Dread Return, Deep-Sea Kraken, Forest
Pick: Mogg War Marshal
Pack 38:
Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, Harmonic Sliver
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 39:
Fathom Seer, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Aspect of Mongoose, Fungal Reaches
Pick: Fathom Seer
Pack 40:
Mindstab, Two-Headed Sliver, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Watcher Sliver, Saltcrusted Steppe
Pick: Mindstab
Pack 41:
Zealot il-Vec, Mindlash Sliver, Thunder Totem, Fool’s Demise, Merfolk Assassin
Pick: Merfolk Assassin
Pack 42:
Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Sidewinder Sliver, Fallen Ideal
Pick: Fallen Ideal
Pack 43:
Pentarch Ward, Ghitu Firebreathing, Greenseeker
Pick: Greenseeker
Pack 44:
Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver
Pick: Mindlash Sliver
Pack 45:
Pick: Detainment Spell
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Undertaker
1 Corpulent Corpse
1 Dark Withering
1 Feebleness
1 Mindstab
1 Nightshade Assassin
1 Strangling Soot
2 Urborg Syphon-Mage
1 Blazing Blade Askari
1 Coal Stoker
1 Conflagrate
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Ironclaw Buzzardiers
1 Lightning Axe
1 Mogg War Marshal
1 Rift Bolt [FOIL]
1 Sudden Shock
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
1 Word of Seizing
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Ghostflame Sliver
8 Mountain
8 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard:
1 Assembly-Worker
1 Call to the Netherworld
1 Cyclopean Giant
2 Detainment Spell
1 Dralnu, Lich Lord
1 Dread Return
1 Fallen Ideal
1 Fathom Seer
1 Greenseeker
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Merfolk Assassin
1 Mindlash Sliver
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Skulking Knight
1 Sprout
1 Truth or Tale
1 Viashino Bladescout
2 Viscid Lemures
This draft was pretty simple. I got into my preferred color combination of Black/Red with my first two picks, and never strayed. The one pick I found interesting was between Conflagrate #2 and Thick-Skinned Goblin. I like Conflagrate a great deal, but mostly because of the Flashback, which obviously gets considerably worse in multiples. I took the Goblin because I felt I needed another two-drop more than I needed another removal spell. What do you think? Is the second Conflagrate worth taking? Playing?
Oh yeah, I split the finals of this draft by beating Julien Nuijten in the first round, and the excellent Blue deck I passed in the second. My games against Julien were pretty close. In each game I he got ahead early, then I came back with Coal Stoker to gain an advantage for turns 4 and 5, then he played Griffin Guide or Verdeloth to stop my attacks, at which point I burned him out with Urborg-Syphon Mage and Conflagrate. In the second round the combination of Mindstab, and a bit of a mana flood, prevented my opponent from dealing with my dorks while I removed all his blockers. Word of Seizing on his Deep-Sea Kraken was a nice finishing touch.
Until Monday,
Rich
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