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I could pick Naya Charm and go five-color but the card is not that great in that archetype which is usually Grixis– or Esper-based.
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Necrogenesis would push me to go at least four colors while with the pick I made I’m still open on Grixis and Esper. Also one card for one of these two archetypes should be wheeling from my first pack.
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In any deck that could use Jund Panorama Thrinax is just better.
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I haven’t received much Red yet so it would be surprising if I could play Deathriders. The Obelisk is just safer.
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Steelclad was a better pick… I just didn’t pay enough attention if I’m honest.
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Grixis Charm or lots of tix? Sorry readers… I would pass any other rare but this one is worth too much. Also maybe is it not too late to go Esper considering the lack of Red cards I’ve received.
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Let’s try and play that Elspeth!
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Well that Filigree Sage pick was actually not that bad.
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I won’t splash Silence with no Green mana.
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It’s pretty sad but I am not playing any of these so I pick the most annoying card for my deck.
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One more fixer and I’ll be able to play Elspeth.
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I would run Inkwell Leviathan but Absorb Vis means I can now play Elspeth.
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Two cards I was not expecting this late. My fixers could be better but Slavedriver will be one of my deck’s best spells and I am a little short in playable cards.
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It’s really surprising. Considering I received almost no Esper signals in the first pack I really wasn’t expecting so many good Esper cards. Apparently my greedy Elspeth pick saved my draft.
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7 Swamp
6 Island
3 Plains
Rupture Spire
2 Tidehollow Strix
Dregscape Zombie
2 Kathari Screecher
Sedraxi Alchemist
Windwright Mage
Viscera Dragger
2 Faerie Mechanist
Filigree Sage
Sanctum Gargoyle
Viscera Dragger
Vectis Agent
Steelclad Serpent
Grixis Slavedriver
Executioner’s Capsule
Wreched Banquet
2 Agony Warp
Obelisk of Esper
Elspeth Knight-Errant
Absorb Vis
ROUND 1: Five-Color Aggro (Limited rating: 1908)
1908 and turn 1 Forest Nacatl… At least for once I am not playing against five-color aggro the worst and most played deck online at the moment. Turn 2 Esper Panorama turn 3 and 4 Valeron Outlander (glad I counterdrafted one in pick 2) while drawing almost no Blue cards. On turn 7 he has 5 different basic lands. I resist a little but die.
In game two I draw my three colors this time and good cards and I win pretty easily playing Elspeth on the decisive turn.
In game three finally what had to happen did: he drew almost no lands and died to one of the best draws I could get. Everyone who plays five-color will tell you this kind of game happens once a draft. Everyone who (for some reason) plays five-color aggro probably has that kind of problem at least once a match. I mean there is a difference between waiting for your mana to play or bomb or a removal spell and to play (in the best case) Rakeclaw Gargantuan…
ROUND 2: Bant (1730)
Another deck that doesn’t seem to care much about his mana as he doesn’t seem to have a splash nor many fixers (one Panorama seen in three games) but at least he seems to have understood what to do when your deck is going to be unstable anyway: great curve and synergy and then pray for the mana to come off at least two games in the same match. It came in three and all games ended in a very different way.
In the first I couldn’t compete with his beatdown having two of my three white cards in hand but no removal. In the second I was stuck on three lands then four and drew and played an Obelisk the turn before my opponent made what he thought was an attack for the win.
I had 4 life 2 Strix two mana open (one Agony Warp in the graveyard) while he had a 6/6 Gharial 4/4 Mycoloth Steward of Valeron and Kathari Screeecher he had just unearthed. The team went in and I cleaned the board with a second Agony Warp (the first had already made a two-for-one). On the next turn my Obelisk allowed me to play Elspeth with three guys in hand and Wretched Banquet on his freshly-cast Ember Weaver.
In the third game I don’t know exactly how that happened. I drew more lands than him but he finished the game with Angelic Benediction Kathari Screecher one card in hand and 2 life when I had a Zombie token Slavedriver in the yard Sanctum Gargoyle and Esper Battlemage. Being on one life myself I couldn’t stop the beating
Until Friday…
Oli