Drafting With Olivier – ME3 #4

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All my best decks in this format have ben UBR while all the worst decks I’ve seen were Green. Enough to make me pick Toshiro Umezawa over Desert Twister.

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Any shade you can pump for colorless is pretty good.

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Force Spike is sometimes pretty good and sometimes awful. I go with the choice of consistency and pick the pinger.

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Less potential than Cosmic Horror or a Minotaur but better chance to make it to the main deck.

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I’m still not convinced about this card but I’ve heard much good about it.

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I feel like all of my decks have Gwendo and Toshiro.

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Has a little more potential than Wei Strike Force as I’m planning on running 18 lands and making a good use of the GB guy.

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Boris Devilboon is just too expensive to activate and I don’t think there is any way I could run two Wretched.

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As weak in aggro as it’s good in control. Good news I could hardly be more control.

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I’m probably not using Nebuchadnezzar as anything other than a sideboard card against a deck as slow as mine but Hurloon Minotaur won’t make it in a UBr deck anyway.

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I love Brillant Plans but Chain Lightning is even better as its timing is astonishing for a removal spell.

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I wish I could take Immolation but I’m too short on fixers.

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Unreal good in a deck that has an Earthquake effect.

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And dig dig dig for the Abysss… dig!

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An excellent complement to the Rolling Earthquake/The Abyss combo.

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7 Swamp
7 Island
4 Mountain
2 Wei Infantry
1 Wu Longbowman
1 Wei Strike Force
1 Tetsuo Umezawa
1 Gwendlyn Di Corci
1 Carrion Ants
1 Wei Night Raiders
1 Labyrinth Minotaur
1 Benthic Explorers
1 Tor Wauki
1 Lu Meng Wu General

1 Force Spike
1 Chain Lightning
1 Spirit Shackle
1 Strategic Planning
1 Disharmony
1 Astrolabe
1 The Abyss
2 Brilliant Plan
1 Rolling Earthquake
1 Recall

Sideboard
1 Hurloon Minotaur
2 Disenchant
1 Crimson Kobolds
1 Willow Priestess
1 Nebuchadnezzar
1 Forest
1 Forest
1 Anaba Ancestor
1 Borrowing 100000 Arrows
2 Lightning Blow
1 Axelrod Gunnarson
2 Infuse
2 Sivitri Scarzam
1 Jedit Ojanen
1 Plains
1 The Wretched
1 Shu Elite Companions (FOIL)
1 Boris Devilboon

In the first round my RG opponent dies to my Lu Meng/Earthquake combo. In the second I resolve a turn 4 Abyss and considering I’ve one more card in my deck than he has in his he decides to concede.

Second round and a similar scenario as my turn 4 the Abyss causes my opponent to concede on turn 6. In the second game I don’t do much but my UW opponent finds himself unable to stop my Carrion Rats. I’m in the Finals.

A little more adversity in the finals as my WG opponent plays three guys in the first three turns. Fortunately I’ve Gwendolynn to attack his hand and Rolling Earthquake to clean up the board. Despite a double mulligan I manage to open with the Abyss. Seeing he can’t win my opponent immediately concedes to my bomb and I win the draft! Weee!

Have a great weekend!

Oli