Draft:
Pack 1:
Torpid Moloch, Terrarion, Woodwraith Strangler, Clinging Darkness, Bramble Elemental, Caregiver, Drake Familiar, Thoughtpicker Witch, Viashino Fangtail, Transluminant, Selesnya Signet, Nightmare Void, Boros Swiftblade, Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree, Pariah’s Shield
Pick: Viashino Fangtail
Pack 2:
Goblin Spelunkers, Greater Mossdog, Selesnya Sanctuary, War-Torch Goblin, Boros Fury-Shield, Surveilling Sprite, Dimir Infiltrator, Grayscaled Gharial, Shred Memory, Compulsive Research, Brainspoil, Trophy Hunter, Dark Heart of the Wood, Twilight Drover
Pick: Compulsive Research
Pack 3:
Votary of the Conclave, Terraformer, Gaze of the Gorgon, Sadistic Augermage, Scatter the Seeds, Sewerdreg, Seismic Spike, Stone-Seeder Hierophant, Sell-Sword Brute, Elves of Deep Shadow, Conclave Equenaut, Mausoleum Turnkey, Greater Forgeling
Pick: Mausoleum Turnkey
Pack 4:
Consult the Necrosages, Tattered Drake, Bramble Elemental, Benevolent Ancestor, Vedalken Entrancer, Dizzy Spell, Infectious Host, Rally the Righteous, Golgari Signet, Goliath Spider, Seed Spark, Hammerfist Giant
Pick: Hammerfist Giant
Pack 5:
Strands of Undeath, Coalhauler Swine, Ordruun Commando, Nightguard Patrol, Goblin Fire Fiend, Sundering Vitae, Leave No Trace, Dimir Signet, Suppression Field, Wizened Snitches, Peregrine Mask
Pick: Dimir Signet
Pack 6:
Courier Hawk, Convolute, Sparkmage Apprentice, Zephyr Spirit, Boros Recruit, Smash, Fiery Conclusion, Boros Signet, Indentured Oaf, Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
Pick: Indentured Oaf
Pack 7:
Golgari Rot Farm, Dogpile, Centaur Safeguard, Tidewater Minion, Dogpile, Conclave’s Blessing, Quickchange, Chant of Vitu-Ghazi, Duskmantle, House of Shadow
Pick: Tidewater Minion
Pack 8:
Stasis Cell, Roofstalker Wight, Viashino Slasher, Sabertooth Alley Cat, Rain of Embers, Dryad’s Caress, Flow of Ideas, Empty the Catacombs
Pick: Roofstalker Wight
Pack 9:
Torpid Moloch, Woodwraith Strangler, Caregiver, Drake Familiar, Thoughtpicker Witch, Nightmare Void, Boros Swiftblade
Pick: Nightmare Void
Pack 10:
Goblin Spelunkers, War-Torch Goblin, Dimir Infiltrator, Grayscaled Gharial, Shred Memory, Dark Heart of the Wood
Pick: Goblin Spelunkers
Pack 11:
Votary of the Conclave, Sadistic Augermage, Seismic Spike, Sell-Sword Brute, Greater Forgeling
Pick: Greater Forgeling
Pack 12:
Dizzy Spell, Infectious Host, Rally the Righteous, Goliath Spider
Pick: Dizzy Spell
Pack 13:
Coalhauler Swine, Goblin Fire Fiend, Leave No Trace
Pick: Coalhauler Swine
Pack 14:
Pick: Convolute
Pack 15:
Pick: Dogpile
Pack 16:
Gruul Nodorog, Fencer’s Magemark, Poisonbelly Ogre, Leap of Flame, Benediction of Moons, Silhana Ledgewalker, Torch Drake, Shrieking Grotesque, Necromancer’s Magemark, Gruul Scrapper, Gruul Turf, Hypervolt Grasp, Drowned Rusalka, Feral Animist, Living Inferno
Pick: Living Inferno
Pack 17:
Ghor-Clan Savage, Streetbreaker Wurm, Bloodscale Prowler, Infiltrator’s Magemark, Izzet Boilerworks, Withstand, Lionheart Maverick, Burning-Tree Bloodscale, Crystal Seer, Cry of Contrition, Beastmaster’s Magemark, Aetherplasm, Predatory Focus, Wurmweaver Coil
Pick: Izzet Boilerworks
Pack 18:
Gruul Nodorog, Petrahydrox, Guardian’s Magemark, Gigadrowse, Burning-Tree Bloodscale, Cremate, Scab-Clan Mauler, Gruul Turf, Wildsize, Battering Wurm, Izzet Guildmage, Aetherplasm, Abyssal Nocturnus
Pick: Izzet Guildmage
Pack 19:
Necromancer’s Magemark, Ogre Savant, Repeal, Scab-Clan Mauler, Tin Street Hooligan, Lionheart Maverick, Leap of Flame, Train of Thought, Beastmaster’s Magemark, Skarrgan Skybreaker, Drowned Rusalka, Storm Herd
Pick: Ogre Savant
Pack 20:
Izzet Chronarch, Skyrider Trainee, Gigadrowse, Wild Cantor, Cremate, Gruul Signet, Infiltrator’s Magemark, Order of the Stars, Skarrgan Skybreaker, Revenant Patriarch, Leyline of the Meek
Pick: Izzet Chronarch
Pack 21:
Castigate, Restless Bones, Petrahydrox, Skyrider Trainee, Runeboggle, Mourning Thrull, Cry of Contrition, Hypervolt Grasp, Orzhova, the Church of Deals, Petrified Wood-Kin
Pick: Hypervolt Grasp
Pack 22:
Wild Cantor, Poisonbelly Ogre, Guardian’s Magemark, Wee Dragonauts, Runeboggle, Castigate, Orzhov Signet, Cryptwailing, Predatory Focus
Pick: Wee Dragonauts
Pack 23:
Train of Thought, Restless Bones, Fencer’s Magemark, Wee Dragonauts, Skarrgan Pit-Skulk, Droning Bureaucrats, Primeval Light, Hatching Plans
Pick: Train of Thought
Pack 24:
Fencer’s Magemark, Poisonbelly Ogre, Leap of Flame, Benediction of Moons, Necromancer’s Magemark, Drowned Rusalka, Feral Animist
Pick: Drowned Rusalka
Pack 25:
Lionheart Maverick, Crystal Seer, Cry of Contrition, Beastmaster’s Magemark, Aetherplasm, Predatory Focus
Pick: Aetherplasm
Pack 26:
Gruul Nodorog, Gigadrowse, Cremate, Scab-Clan Mauler, Aetherplasm
Pick: Aetherplasm
Pack 27:
Scab-Clan Mauler, Lionheart Maverick, Leap of Flame, Train of Thought
Pick: Train of Thought
Pack 28:
Skyrider Trainee, Gigadrowse, Cremate
Pick: Cremate
Pack 29:
Restless Bones, Cry of Contrition
Pick: Restless Bones
Pack 30:
Pick: Cryptwailing
Pack 31:
Cytospawn Shambler, Guardian of the Guildpact, Simic Signet, Seal of Fire, Slaughterhouse Bouncer, Taste for Mayhem, Simic Initiate, Vigean Hydropon, Nettling Curse, Beacon Hawk, Overrule, Fertile Imagination, Indrik Stomphowler, Trygon Predator, Stalking Vengeance
Pick: Seal of Fire
Pack 32:
Utvara Scalper, Plumes of Peace, Soulsworn Jury, Vision Skeins, Coiling Oracle, Whiptail Moloch, Minister of Impediments, Utopia Sprawl, Freewind Equenaut, Azorius Signet, Flame-Kin War Scout, Magewright’s Stone, Gnat Alley Creeper, Hide / Seek
Pick: Minister of Impediments
Pack 33:
Simic Ragworm, Vesper Ghoul, Wrecking Ball, Sandstorm Eidolon, Slaughterhouse Bouncer, Rakdos Carnarium, Kill-Suit Cultist, Azorius First-Wing, Simic Initiate, Vision Skeins, Riot Spikes, Prahv, Spires of Order, Azorius Ploy
Pick: Wrecking Ball
Pack 34:
Cytospawn Shambler, Carom, Entropic Eidolon, Soulsworn Jury, Enemy of the Guildpact, Utvara Scalper, Thrive, Shielding Plax, Vesper Ghoul, Rakdos Guildmage, Bond of Agony, Proclamation of Rebirth
Pick: Rakdos Guildmage
Pack 35:
Verdant Eidolon, Macabre Waltz, Wrecking Ball, Street Savvy, Vigean Hydropon, Beacon Hawk, Enemy of the Guildpact, Riot Spikes, Blessing of the Nephilim, Azorius Aethermage, Dovescape
Pick: Wrecking Ball
Pack 36:
Enigma Eidolon, Gobhobbler Rats, Valor Made Real, Kill-Suit Cultist, Street Savvy, Simic Signet, Ogre Gatecrasher, Demon’s Jester, Stomp and Howl, Rain of Gore
Pick: Demon’s Jester
Pack 37:
Writ of Passage, Haazda Exonerator, Delirium Skeins, Psychotic Fury, Simic Growth Chamber, Azorius Signet, Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace, Ignorant Bliss, Biomantic Mastery
Pick: Simic Growth Chamber
Pack 38:
Azorius First-Wing, Writ of Passage, Vesper Ghoul, Ocular Halo, Azorius Chancery, Psychotic Fury, Novijen, Heart of Progress, Bound / Determined
Pick: Bound / Determined
Pack 39:
Slaughterhouse Bouncer, Taste for Mayhem, Vigean Hydropon, Nettling Curse, Beacon Hawk, Overrule, Stalking Vengeance
Pick: Stalking Vengeance
Pack 40:
Utvara Scalper, Plumes of Peace, Soulsworn Jury, Vision Skeins, Flame-Kin War Scout, Hide / Seek
Pick: Flame-Kin War Scout
Pack 41:
Sandstorm Eidolon, Slaughterhouse Bouncer, Kill-Suit Cultist, Vision Skeins, Azorius Ploy
Pick: Sandstorm Eidolon
Pack 42:
Cytospawn Shambler, Enemy of the Guildpact, Utvara Scalper, Bond of Agony
Pick: Enemy of the Guildpact
Pack 43:
Macabre Waltz, Blessing of the Nephilim, Azorius Aethermage
Pick: Macabre Waltz
Pack 44:
Valor Made Real, Kill-Suit Cultist
Pick: Kill-Suit Cultist
Pack 45:
Pick: Delirium Skeins
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Compulsive Research
1 Tidewater Minion
2 Train of Thought
1 Mausoleum Turnkey
1 Macabre Waltz
1 Goblin Spelunkers
1 Greater Forgeling
1 Hammerfist Giant
1 Hypervolt Grasp
1 Indentured Oaf
1 Living Inferno
1 Ogre Savant
1 Seal of Fire
1 Viashino Fangtail
1 Stalking Vengeance
1 Dimir Signet
1 Izzet Chronarch
1 Izzet Guildmage
1 Wee Dragonauts
1 Minister of Impediments
1 Rakdos Guildmage
2 Wrecking Ball
4 Island
1 Izzet Boilerworks
7 Mountain
3 Swamp
1 Simic Growth Chamber
Sideboard:
2 Aetherplasm
1 Bound/Determined
1 Coalhauler Swine
1 Convolute
1 Cremate
1 Cryptwailing
1 Delirium Skeins
1 Demon’s Jester
1 Dizzy Spell
1 Dogpile
1 Drowned Rusalka
1 Enemy of the Guildpact
1 Flame-Kin War Scout
1 Kill-Suit Cultist
1 Nightmare Void
1 Restless Bones
1 Roofstalker Wight
1 Sandstorm Eidolon
This was one of those rare drafts where I ended up with Red as my main color. Usually it’s a splash color, or one of three main colors in the Red White Black archetype, which makes casting Viashino Fangtail problematic. Red was somewhat underdrafted so I got some slow but powerful rares in Hammerfist Giant and Stalking Vengeance later than usual. I got fairly lucky in the third pack getting a lot of removal later than I would expect it. I went 3-0 in the draft, nearly losing the second round when I activated my Hammerfist Giant, thinking it would kill my Living Inferno and my opponent would take 17 from Stalking Vengeance, but the Inferno has five toughness, and I had to use it to kill itself next turn after going to two life from his fliers.
Until tomorrow,
Rich
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