Draft:
Pack 1:
Herd
Gnarr, Trespasser il-Vec, Amrou Scout, Grapeshot, Scarwood Treefolk, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Watcher Sliver, Thrill of the Hunt,
Plunder, Primal Forcemage, Volcanic Awakening, Scryb Ranger,
Chronosavant, Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Pick: Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Pack 2:
Zealot
il-Vec, Temporal Eddy, Tendrils of Corruption, Lightning Axe, Mogg War
Marshal, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu
Firebreathing, Basalt Gargoyle, Celestial Crusader
Pick: Lightning Axe
Pack 3:
Assassinate,
Amrou Seekers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Terramorphic Expanse,
Drudge Reavers, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver,
Drifter il-Dal, Scryb Ranger, Skittering Monstrosity, Honorable Passage
Pick: Amrou Seekers
Pack 4:
Coal
Stoker, Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Orcish Cannonade,
Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Tectonic
Fiend, *, *, Plague Sliver
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 5:
Ashcoat
Bear, Search for Tomorrow, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian
Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Detainment Spell, Opaline Sliver, Wipe
Away
Pick: Search for Tomorrow
Pack 6:
Goblin
Skycutter, Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Urborg Syphon-Mage,
Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Pit Keeper, Sage of Epityr, Divine
Congregation
Pick: Goblin Skycutter
Pack 7:
Spinneret
Sliver, Mana Skimmer, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Sangrophage,
Viashino Bladescout, Volcanic Awakening, Faceless Devourer, Jasmine
Boreal
Pick: Jasmine Boreal
Pack 8:
Scarwood
Treefolk, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli
Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Paradise Plume, Primal Forcemage
Pick: Paradise Plume
Pack 9:
Herd Gnarr, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Primal Forcemage, Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Thrill of the Hunt
Pack 10:
Mogg War Marshal, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Evil Eye of Urborg, Plains
Pick: Evil Eye of Urborg
Pack 11:
Mogg War Marshal, Drudge Reavers, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal
Pick: Mogg War Marshal
Pack 12:
Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Fallen Ideal, Urza’s Factory
Pick: D’Avenant Healer
Pack 13:
Foriysian Interceptor, Detainment Spell, Avoid Fate
Pick: Avoid Fate
Pack 14:
Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation
Pick: Pit Keeper
Pack 15:
Pick: Sangrophage
Pack 16:
Slipstream
Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Fathom Seer, Flamecore
Elemental, Gemhide Sliver, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker,
Watcher Sliver, Spirit Loop, Brine Elemental, Nightshade Assassin,
Stronghold Overseer
Pick: Gemhide Sliver
Pack 17:
Orcish
Cannonade, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Durkwood Baloth, Fathom
Seer, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Spell
Burst, Ignite Memories, Cavalry Master, Stonebrow, Krosan Hero, Thallid
Pick: Stonebrow, Krosan Hero
Pack 18:
Corpulent
Corpse, Cancel, Empty the Warrens, Icatian Crier, Bonesplitter Sliver,
Tendrils of Corruption, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Call to the
Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant
Pick: Empty the Warrens
Pack 19:
Gemhide
Sliver, Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Coal Stoker, Mystical Teachings,
Two-Headed Sliver, Prismatic Lens, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver,
Molten Slagheap, Krosan Grip, Tribal Flames
Pick: Tribal Flames
Pack 20:
Nantuko
Shaman, Coral Trickster, Feebleness, Looter il-Kor, Mystical Teachings,
Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, Plated Pegasus, Molten
Slagheap, Calciform Pools
Pick: Nantuko Shaman
Pack 21:
Crookclaw
Transmuter, Empty the Warrens, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver,
Havenwood Wurm, Chameleon Blur, Flickering Spirit, Wipe Away,
Pendelhaven Elder
Pick: Empty the Warrens
Pack 22:
Greenseeker,
Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Opaline Sliver,
Voidmage Husher, Harmonic Sliver, Norin the Wary, Flying Men
Pick: Flying Men
Pack 23:
Snapback,
Drudge Reavers, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Jhoira’s
Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Gemstone Caverns, Goblin Snowman
Pick: Thallid Shell-Dweller
Pack 24:
Slipstream Serpent, Flamecore Elemental, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Spirit Loop, Undead Warchief
Pick: Flamecore Elemental
Pack 25:
Ophidian Eye, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Spell Burst, Ignite Memories
Pick: Molder
Pack 26:
Bonesplitter Sliver, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Dementia Sliver
Pick: Bonesplitter Sliver
Pack 27:
Mystical Teachings, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Krosan Grip
Pick: Krosan Grip
Pack 28:
Mystical Teachings, Shadow Sliver, Traitor’s Clutch
Pick: Traitor’s Clutch
Pack 29:
Pick: Mountain
Pack 30:
Pick: Divine Congregation
Pack 31:
Durkwood
Baloth, Coral Trickster, Ivory Giant, Deathspore Thallid, Errant
Ephemeron, Flowstone Channeler, Viscid Lemures, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss,
Two-Headed Sliver, I*, Smallpox, Return to Dust, Cavalry Master, Ith,
High Arcanist, Stormscape Familiar
Pick: Durkwood Baloth
Pack 32:
Chromatic
Star, Looter il-Kor, Gorgon Recluse, Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Ground Rift,
Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Spirit Loop, Molten
Slagheap, Duskrider Peregrine, Mistform Ultimus, Slipstream Serpent
Pick: Duskrider Peregrine
Pack 33:
Think
Twice, Penumbra Spider, Errant Doomsayers, Rift Bolt, Aether Web, Brass
Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Ancient Grudge, Careful
Consideration, Gustcloak Cavalier, Trickbind
Pick: Rift Bolt
Pack 34:
Pentarch
Ward, Assassinate, Thallid Germinator, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge,
Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Outrider
en-Kor, Chronatog Totem, *
Pick: Thallid Germinator
Pack 35:
Spinneret
Sliver, Grapeshot, Mindstab, Slipstream Serpent, D’Avenant Healer,
Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Firewake Sliver, Spell Burst, Kher Keep,
Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Grapeshot
Pack 36:
Feebleness,
Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch,
Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Saltcrusted Steppe, Fool’s Demise
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 37:
Viscerid
Deepwalker, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Icatian Crier,
Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode,
Pull from Eternity
Pick: Search for Tomorrow
Pack 38:
Thallid
Germinator, Bonesplitter Sliver, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver,
Thick-Skinned Goblin, Durkwood Tracker, Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Jedit’s
Dragoons
Pick: Thick-Skinned Goblin
Pack 39:
Coral Trickster, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Smallpox, Return to Dust, Stormscape Familiar
Pick: Blazing Blade Askari
Pack 40:
Chromatic Star, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Spirit Loop, Slipstream Serpent
Pick: Chromatic Star
Pack 41:
Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Ancient Grudge, Gustcloak Cavalier
Pick: Savage Thallid
Pack 42:
Pentarch Ward, Ancient Grudge, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal
Pick: Pentarch Ward
Pack 43:
Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Ground Rift
Pack 44:
Pick: Traitor’s Clutch
Pack 45:
Pick: Ghitu Firebreathing
Final Decklist:
7 Forest
1 Jasmine Boreal
8 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Tribal Flames
1 Blazing Blade Askari
1 Chromatic Star
1 Coal Stoker
1 Durkwood Baloth
1 Duskrider Peregrine
2 Empty the Warrens
1 Flamecore Elemental
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Gemhide Sliver
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Grapeshot
1 Lightning Axe
1 Nantuko Shaman
1 Rift Bolt
2 Search for Tomorrow
1 Stonebrow, Krosan Hero
1 Thallid Germinator
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
1 Thrill of the Hunt
Sideboard
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Avoid Fate
1 Flying Men
1 Mountain
1 Amrou Seekers
1 Bonesplitter Sliver
1 Divine Congregation
1 D’Avenant Healer
1 Evil Eye of Urborg
1 Ghitu Firebreathing
1 Ground Rift
1 Krosan Grip
1 Mogg War Marshal
1 Molder
1 Paradise Plume
1 Pentarch Ward
1 Pit Keeper
1 Sangrophage
1 Savage Thallid
1 Thallid Shell-Dweller
2 Traitor’s Clutch
The world’s finest drafter needed a break (and will be in transit around the globe for much of the next few weeks), so I’ll be filling in. In future installments, there will be somewhat more in-depth discussions of my picks. However, since I’m evidently some sort of thundering moron, I didn’t save this draft correctly, assumed I would have to scrap it, and forgot what I was thinking for many of my picks.
One of my problems while drafting is that I see late Search for Tomorrows as a signal to go into Green. Here, I suppose it worked out okay, as the White dried up and I got that second pick Stonebrow. Tragically, Akroma ended up in the sideboard; fortunately, since both my opponents were Red/Black (my second opponent also had Green), I had an excuse to board her in. In each case, I boarded out a Forest and a Mountain for 2 Plains, and I boarded in Akroma and Amrou Seekers. In round 1, I smashed my opponent game 1 with a turn 4 Stonebrow, lost game 2 to infinite removal, and won game 3 with the Akroma I’d boarded in after game 2. In round 2, I won a close match in part because my opponent suspended a Durkwood Baloth the turn before he’d have 6 mana available. Questions and comments will be addressed in the forums, and I’ll do better next time. No, really.
Until tomorrow,
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