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I started my draft with a choice between Arrest and Arc Trail. Arc Trail is a really good card but it does very little against powerful rare creatures like Steel Hellkite so I took the best common in the set.
Pack 1 pick 2:
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I didn’t have any other good card to pick.
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This was a difficult pick for me. I think that Fume Spitter is the best card here but I wanted to pick a white card and Glint Hawk can combo with Tumble Magnet or Necrogen Censer. And while the Auriok creatures can be good I don’t like taking them early.
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At this point I think the best card in the pack for me was Wall of Tanglecord but I wanted to cut off white so I took the only decent white card in the pack.
Pack 1 pick 5:
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I think that Darkslick Drake is the best creature in the set – so when I saw it 5th I knew I wanted to move into blue.
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I like this equipment a lot but it got passed to me really late. I still need to figure out how good it is.
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Any equipment is good in an equipment deck and at this point I felt like there was a good chance that I was going to end up drafting an equipment deck.
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This pack didn’t have anything good for my deck so I hate-drafted the Acid Web Spider which is particularly good against equipment decks.
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Pack 2 pick 1:
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The best cards in this pack for me were Volition Reins and Golem Artisan. I thought that the Golem would be a better card for my deck but I didn’t want any of the players on my right to switch into blue because they got passed a Volition Reins.
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I already had a lot of cards with heavy blue mana requirements (like my triple blue Volition Reins) so I took the Silver Myr over Perilous Myr.
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If I had had more artifacts I would’ve taken the Vedalken Certarch here. But by this point I already knew that I wasn’t going to get enough artifacts to make him worth playing.
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Pack 3 pick 1:
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Glimmerpoint Stag is a good card – but I wasn’t happy to take it because of its mana requirements. Given that I already had so many cards that required two or even three blue mana I knew it was going to be hard for my deck to get the two white mana that I would need to cast Glimmerpoint Stag.
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If I picked up a few more pieces of equipment Sunspear Shikari could become really good whereas Riddlesmith didn’t have very much potential for my deck given how few artifacts I had and how late it was in the draft.
Pack 3 pick 4:
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This pick was a mistake. I took the Sunspear Shikari because I wanted to draft W/U aggro. But at this point my deck was more of a control deck with two Volition Reins so I should’ve taken the Wall here.
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I wanted to take my second Sky-Eel School here but Katsuhiro Mori had told me that Argentum Armor is a bomb – so I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to try it out.
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2 Abuna Acolyte
1 Darkslick Drake
1 Darksteel Sentinel
1 Glimmerpoint Stag
1 Lumengrid Drake
3 Neurok Invisimancer
1 Neurok Replica
1 Silver Myr
1 Sky-Eel School
2 Sunspear Shikari
1 Trinket Mage
1 Accorder’s Shield
1 Argentum Armor
1 Arrest
1 Halt Order
1 Strata Scythe
2 Volition Reins
Sideboard
2 Bonds of Quicksilver
2 Vault Skyward
1 Glint Hawk
1 Disperse
1 Twisted Image
1 Golden Urn
1 Auriok Replica
1 Swamp
1 Plated Seastrider
1 Plains
1 Galvanic Blast
1 Clone Shell
1 Moriok Replica
1 Exsanguinate
1 Acid Web Spider
1 Moriok Reaver
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Stoic Rebuttal
1 Dross Hopper
1 Assault Strobe
In hindsight I should’ve made this deck more defensive by adding cards like Plated Seastrider and Disperse to my maindeck to help me buy time to draw
and cast my two Volition Reins Argentum Armor and Strata Scythe.
Round 1 Mono Red
Game 1
My opponent started with a Sylvok Lifestaff and an Accorder’s Shield on his first turn. On his second turn he played a Silver Myr and on turn 3 he
cast Koth of the Hammer and attacked me for four.
Meanwhile I played Abuna Acolyte and Strata Scythe. I had Accorder’s Shield in my hand so I thought I’d be able to kill his Koth soon. But on his
fourth turn he played a metalcraft enabled Blade-Tribe Berserkers activated Koth to make one of his Mountains a 4/4 and then attacked with everything.
My Acolyte had attacked Koth so I wound up taking a total of eleven damage on his fourth turn and dying the following turn.
If I’d played and equipped Accorder’s Shield on turn 3 I could’ve lived longer. But in fact I had cast my Strata Scythe. This big mistake was enough
to seal the game.
Game 2
I had a pretty good draw. I started on turn 2 Silver Myr turn 3 Darkslick Drake then I played Sunspear Shikari and Auriok Replica on turn 4. My
opponent merely played a Goblin Gaveleer on turn 1 followed by a Rust Tick on turn 4. I temporarily removed his Rust Tick with Glimmerpoint Stag to get
in some more damage.
On his fifth turn my opponent played Kuldotha Phoenix but I bounced it with Neurok Replica and got in another big attack. He recast the Phoenix but
by that point the game was already over.
Game 3
I had to start game 3 with a mulligan to six and kept a hand of – Plains Plains Island Abuna Acolyte Sky-Eel School and Volition Reins My opponent
kicked the game off with three mana Myr on turns 2 and 3. He played Saberclaw Golem and Sylvok Lifestaff next turn. I answered it with an Arrest and
hoped that he was out of gas.
Unfortunately for me he kept playing good threats. A second Saberclaw Golem came down the next turn followed by a Kuldotha Phoenix the turn after.
Meanwhile I was color-screwed. I had three Plains and an Island on my board but I had Sky-Eel School and two Volition Reins in my hand. I finally get
a third Island when I was four life. I could play my Volition Reins but I would’ve had to chump-block his Saberclaw Golem with the Phoenix. And even
then I couldn’t stop him from bringing back his Kuldotha Phoenix with metalcraft so I conceded.
See you next week!