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Magma Spray fits more decks while Naya Charm is only really good in WGr but it is also one of the best cards there is in that archetype (one I haven’t drafted much in ACR). Magma Spray probably is the best pick but I feel like trying something here.
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I’ll draft WG and splash for one of my two first picks
Pack 1 pick 3:
Squire
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Close pick between the two exalted guys. Sigiled Paladin is a little stronger to me as I don’t really mind the double White in the casting cost. After all in a WG aggro deck white is almost always the main color so having the double white on turn 2 should not be a big deal.
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Druid of the Anima is good too but I am not a huge kind of the card in a very aggressive deck. Indeed even though it could help splashing the Charm it is too fragile to be considered a true fixer and not aggro enough to support the beatdown.
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Not a great archetype for the hunter but the best for the 1/1.
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Sphere would have helped for the splash but in an aggro deck a good two-drop is a lot more precious than a fixer that will keep you from playing spells for two turns.
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Once again the fixer (Spire) could have been useful but it’s not so good in an aggro deck and my deck definitely needed a removal spell.
Pack 2 pick 4:
Squire
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Squire
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These last two picks make my deck quite amazing… I should not even need a splash now.
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This is actually the wrong pick. I should definitely have taken the Crystallization. With so many great and cheap spells all I need now is some removal not a spell which no matter how great it is will unbalance my mana curve.
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Would be close with Qasali Pridemage if I didn’t already have that many early drops.
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It will help if I eventually decide to run Stoic Angel. I’m probably running it anyway as it is a Plains that pumps Manaplasm.
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Quite an amazing fourth pick which also make my previous pick excellent.
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I’m not playing any Blue cards except for my two rares to avoid making my deck unstable and Sunlight could possibly help buy some time.
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With this new dual the deck should be very consistant.
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7 Forest
6 Plains
2 Island
1 Wildfield Borderpost
1 Fieldmist Borderpost
1 Tukatongue Thallid
2 Valeron Outlander
2 Aven Squire
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Sigiled Paladin
1 Manaplasm
1 Qasali Ambusher
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Cliffrunner Behemoth
1 Mycoid Shepherd
1 Wild Leotau
1 Stoic Angel
1 Enlisted Wurm
1 Might of Alara
1 Path to Exile
1 Celestial Purge
2 Sigil of the Nayan Gods
1 Excommunicate
1 Finest Hour
Sideboard
1 Rockcaster Platoon
1 Wargate
1 Yoked Plowbeast
1 Tortoise Formation
1 Naturalize
1 Violent Outburst
1 Scattershot Archer
1 Drastic Revelation
2 Captured Sunlight
1 Forest
1 Offering to Asha
1 Forest
1 Frontline Sage
1 Infectious Horror
1 Fusion Elemental
1 Esper Charm
1 Island
1 Naya Charm
1 Swamp
The deck is just unbelievable it has most of the best cards I could ask for. I now regret two picks from the draft: Paladin over Squire and Wurm over Crystallization. I’ve explained the latter above and the Paladin pick was wrong because when you can go white aggro you usually have a lot of two drops anyway.
Round 1: Esper
In the first game I’m greedy and keep a one-lander with Sigil on the draw. That hand only needed a single land to be able to compete with a good draw but I never saw it. I guess keeping was the wrong choice anyway… it’s not like I’ve a deck that is not good enough to handle a mulligan.
The second game is much better for me as I have turn 5 Finest Hour when he’s still stuck on three lands without a Black mana. It’s the first time I actually play the card and it’s rather amazing. It is like a Rafiq that can’t be targeted by removal. I win that game and in the third one for the first game in which we both play spells I easily win a race that should have been close thanks to a turn 3 flashed Qasali Ambusher.
Round 2: UWRB
Turn 2 and 3 Esper Stormblade is a fine start but it is no match versus a Valeron Outlander Manaplasm/Ambusher Mycoid Shepherd opening. Even though he plays another two guys on turn 5 and 6 the game is mine on turn 6 after I Excommunicate his last blocker.
In game 2 my draws are much worse pushing me into defending and my opponent into jumping right into a two-for-one Agony Warp which seals the game. On the decisive game I open with Valeron Outlander and Manaplasm and on turn 4 I play a fourth land and have to choose between the following: Cliffrunner Behemoth Excommunicate Qasali Ambusher and Sigil of the Nayan Gods. His only blocker is Kathari Screecher. I haven’t seen a single non-Black removal spell in his deck so far so I decide to play the Aura on the 2/2. That’s when another interesting play occurs as he plays Blightning and I decide to keep the 2/3 in hand. Quite a greedy choice considering the fact that he has seen it and that I discard the best card my deck could produce with four mana. Luckily he doesn’t pay attention to it and attacks into Ambusher. Two turns later and despite a nice Bituminous Blast into Goblin Outlander he dies unable to stop my pro Black guy.
Round 3: Bant
These were two quick games as my deck gave me two of the best draws I could get: turn 2 guy turn 3 Manaplasm and turn 4 five-power guy. Those starts were followed by solid back up plan and I could win the match and go to sleep happy as I wouldn’t have to cash in for my next draft.
Until Friday…
Oli