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Lots of Esper cards but none of the non-UWB card can’t be considered a first pick. Also even though the signal is not great there are great chances an Esper card wheels here.
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Blister Beetle would make sense but Esper is usually UW based and the 1/1 is not really a card I want to splash. I’d rather have a strong card in my deck if I have to switch.
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Close one here. Elvish Visionary could be an option but I like the Sages/Battlemage combo and I just like Blue better than Green in ACR.
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Same as pack two. I an either have a mediocre Esper card (Resounding Wave) or a good Green card. I’d rather keep my options open.
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I don’t really like the way this draft is going.
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Good news finally. People on my right don’t seem very interested by Blue cards. But I’ll have to wait for pack 3 to be sure about that.
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I have never played the card and I want to try it so next time I’ll know if it’s really better than Strix or Cormorants.
Pack 2 pick 4:
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Combo with Strider and with several cards I could still get passed.
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Less powerful but more curvy than the Alchemist. It is also better for the deck’s stability.
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Unsummon would be pretty good but the zero-mana artifact is nice with Esperzoa and all the artifact cards (Strider Arsenal Thresher).
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Back up to compensate for my lack of removal and more stability for the deck.
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Pack 3 pick 1:
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Right now the Hulk would be better but it may wheel and I’m intending to get some gold cards from this pack!
Pack 3 pick 2:
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Not the ideal splash but it’s not like there is anything else I want here.
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Slightly better than the 3/4 and great in combo with Sludge Strider.
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Quite a nice surprise!
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A card I might play.
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8 Plains
7 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mistvein Borderpost
2 Aven Squire
1 Vedalken Outlander
1 Bant Sureblade
1 Metallurgeon
1 Aven Trailblazer
1 Skill Borrower
1 Esperzoa
1 Esper Battlemage
1 Arsenal Thresher
1 Filigree Sages
1 Sludge Strider
1 Glassdust Hulk
1 Cloudheath Drake
1 Bone Saw
1 Thopter Foundry
1 Crystallization
1 Obelisk of Esper
1 Soul Manipulation
1 Scepter of Dominance
1 Unbender Tine
2 Traumatic Visions
Sideboard
1 Gustrider Exuberant
1 Plains
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Mana Cylix
1 Gloryscale Viashino
1 Fire-Field Ogre
1 Dragon Fodder
1 Godtracker of Jund
1 Sigil Blessing
1 Forest
1 Forest
1 Pestilent Kathari
1 Offering to Asha
1 Island
1 Onyx Goblet
1 Spore Burst
1 Breath of Malfegor
1 Jund Sojourners
1 Mask of Riddles
1 Volcanic Submersion
1 Rhox Charger
I actually considered running Onyx Goblet which is good in synergy with the deck but I have a very stable deck without it and that’s the most important thing to me.
Round 1: Jund
I take control of the game very quickly as Metallurgeon Sludge Strider and Unbender Tine prevent his Algae Gharial/Rockslide Elemental/Scavenge Drake trio from doing much. And when I eventually play a non-artifact guy (Aven Trailblazer) I have two Visions to couner his two removal spells.
In the second game it takes him six turns to find his Black mana while I already took a huge lead with Vedalken Outlander Esperzoa and Strider. He tries to fight back but he is not able to overcome the delays he felt in the early game and I finish him with Thopter Foundry.
Round 2: Jund
This was a typical round that I like when a deadline is approaching. I take 4 mulligans and play one spell in two games which gets killed by Blister Beetle.
This time unfortunately I still had much more time before the deadline and I had put much effort in making my deck as stable as I could. After my pretty bad Day 1 at Grand Prix: Seattle yesterday… I guess it is just not my weekend.
Until Wednesday…
Oli