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Drafting With Nick – Shards of Alara #28

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Monday, December 15th – Nick continues his Drafting With series, bringing us a triple Shards of Alara draft from the 8-4 queue on Magic Online. Along with Rich, he shares his pick process and draft thoughts with each one, and supplies more detailed analysis in the forums.

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P1P1 Obviously I don’t like committing on the first pick but I think Charm is significantly better than Thunder in my opinion.
P1P5 Land is close here but I decided to take Iguanar since it is amazing and all and still fine on the splash in GWr.

P2P4 Welkin Guide is obviously very close here and I decided to take the better curve card.
P2P9 Another shot at this pick and again I went with the Elf largely due to curve issues.

1 Druid of the Anima
2 Guardians of Akrasa
1 Sigiled Paladin
2 Cylian Elf
1 Bloodpyre Elemental
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Topan Ascetic
1 Angelic Benediction
1 Wild Nacatl
1 Mosstodon
2 Hissing Iguanar
1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
1 Algae Gharial
1 Qasali Ambusher
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Sigil Blessing
1 Welkin Guide
1 Naya Charm
1 Steward of Valeron
1 Oblivion Ring
7 Plains
7 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Jund Panorama

Sideboard
1 Resounding Wave
1 Yoked Plowbeast
1 Mountain
1 Onyx Goblet
1 Dispeller’s Capsule
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Deft Duelist
1 Coma Veil
2 Godtoucher
1 Glaze Fiend
1 Gustrider Exuberant
1 Steelclad Serpent
1 Savage Hunger
1 Hindering Light
1 Island
1 Demon’s Herald
1 Plains
2 Dreg Reaver
1 Bone Splinters

The deck ended up satisfactory even if it wasn’t one of the best decks I’ve ever had.

Round 1 I played against Naya. Game 1 I got a good draw with Cylian Elf into Guardians and then Benediction. All he played was a Skyward Eye that I eventually O’ Ringed. After this he killed every guy I played and I got flooded and died to Jungle Weaver and Rhox Charger. Game 2 I mulliganned into a decent hand and the top of my deck was kind allowing me to run him over with creatures and pump. Game 3 I got a fast draw and overpowered him while he spent his turns cycling big monsters and not doing much else.

Round 2 I played against Grixis. Game 1 I played Nacatl and and a bunch of Exalted stuff which got him pretty low on life before he stabilized with Covenant of Minds and a bunch of removal. Game 2 he had to have kept a marginal hand because he got stuck on two and when he ripped a land he couldn’t even cast anything. This was on turn 5 so I won pretty easily. Game 3 was a tight game and ended up coming down to my Sigil Blessing. I attacked with everything and then played Blessing after he tapped out to kill a guy and it was exactly lethal.

I split the finals due to round 2 taking forever to start and the draft almost interfering with prior commitments.

Until tomorrow…

Nick