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Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #12

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Tuesday, January 6th – Canadian maestro Rich Hoaen has downed tools for good, as work and real life intrudes apace. As a replacement, we have Luis Scott-Vargas, who shares each pick from a Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

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3 Druid of the Anima
1 Gift of the Gargantuan
1 Woolly Thoctar
1 Soul’s Fire
2 Cylian Elf
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Jungle Weaver
2 Rakeclaw Gargantuan
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Algae Gharial
1 Resounding Thunder
2 Rip-Clan Crasher
1 Resounding Roar
2 Cavern Thoctar
2 Vithian Stinger
1 Naya Charm
1 Branching Bolt
1 Savage Lands
5 Mountain
7 Forest
3 Plains

Sideboard
1 Lightning Talons
1 Resounding Scream
1 Necrogenesis
1 Mountain
1 Outrider of Jhess
1 Obelisk of Jund
3 Carrion Thrash
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Mighty Emergence
1 Tidehollow Strix
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Fatestitcher
1 Soul’s Might
1 Forest
1 Steelclad Serpent
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Island
1 Viashino Skeleton
4 Swamp
1 Plains

P1p1 Fatestitcher is easily the pick here although I end up abandoning it in short order.

This draft was pretty straightforward overall as Naya seemed open the whole time. I could have played the Black but as always I value mana I chose not to.

Round 1 versus Bant
G1 This game was pretty short as the classic combination of Sigil of Distinction and Rhox War Monk destroyed me pretty rapidly.
G2 This game took a turn for the worse when I attacked a Rakeclaw Gargantuan into his Guardians of Akrasa. He played Sigil Blessing I had Resounding Roar and he had the Resounding Roar to trump it. Losing my biggest guy was unfortunate and although the game lasted a while after that I just didn’t have the threats to finish him.

Until tomorrow…

LSV