Draft:
Pack 1:
Streambed Aquitects Stinkdrinker Daredevil Nameless Inversion Battlewand Oak Hurly-Burly Plover Knights Paperfin Rascal Warren-Scourge Elf Lairwatch Giant Spiderwig Boggart Boggart Forager Cloudgoat Ranger Inner-Flame Igniter Giant Harbinger Arbiter of Knollridge
Pick: Cloudgoat Ranger
Pack 2:
Dreamspoiler Witches Battlewand Oak Oaken Brawler Pestermite Hurly-Burly Peppersmoke Spellstutter Sprite Spiderwig Boggart Flamekin Brawler Tideshaper Mystic Marsh Flitter Flamekin Spitfire Crush Underfoot Thousand-Year Elixir
Pick: Pestermite
Pack 3:
Consuming Bonfire Wispmare Stonybrook Angler Thieving Sprite Hillcomber Giant Rootgrapple Triclopean Sight Nightshade Stinger Faultgrinder Faerie Trickery Incremental Growth Vivid Crag Forced Fruition
Pick: Stonybrook Angler
Pack 4:
Adder-Staff Boggart Fertile Ground Hillcomber Giant Stinkdrinker Daredevil Black Poplar Shaman Shimmering Grotto Elvish Eulogist Giant’s Ire Lairwatch Giant Squeaking Pie Sneak Fallowsage Veteran of the Depths
Pick: Fallowsage
Pack 5:
Moonglove Winnower Kinsbaile Balloonist Inner-Flame Acolyte Nath’s Elite Tideshaper Mystic Elvish Handservant Broken Ambitions Cenn’s Heir Tar Pitcher Scattering Stroke Hamletback Goliath
Pick: Kinsbaile Balloonist
Pack 6:
Runed Stalactite Neck Snap Smokebraider Ringskipper Hunt Down Triclopean Sight Nath’s Buffoon Caterwauling Boggart Nectar Faerie Rings of Brighthearth
Pick: Neck Snap
Pack 7:
Fertile Ground Moonglove Winnower Whirlpool Whelm Adder-Staff Boggart Wispmare Black Poplar Shaman Elvish Eulogist Forge[/author]-Tender”]Burrenton [author name="Forge"]Forge[/author]-Tender Spinerock Knoll
Pick: Whirlpool Whelm
Pack 8:
Boggart Sprite-Chaser Oaken Brawler Boggart Forager Facevaulter Hunt Down Giant’s Ire Dawnfluke Goatnapper
Pick: Oaken Brawler
Pack 9:
Stinkdrinker Daredevil Hurly-Burly Warren-Scourge Elf Lairwatch Giant Spiderwig Boggart Boggart Forager Inner-Flame Igniter
Pick: Stinkdrinker Daredevil
Pack 10:
Hurly-Burly Spellstutter Sprite Spiderwig Boggart Flamekin Brawler Tideshaper Mystic Thousand-Year Elixir
Pick: Spellstutter Sprite
Pack 11:
Wispmare Hillcomber Giant Rootgrapple Faultgrinder Forced Fruition
Pick: Hillcomber Giant
Pack 12:
Black Poplar Shaman Elvish Eulogist Giant’s Ire Lairwatch Giant
Pick: Lairwatch Giant
Pack 13:
Inner-Flame Acolyte Tideshaper Mystic Cenn’s Heir
Pick: Tideshaper Mystic
Pack 14:
Pick: Nath’s Buffoon
Pack 15:
Pick: Elvish Eulogist
Pack 16:
Oblivion Ring Wanderer’s Twig Hornet Harasser Axegrinder Giant Woodland Changeling Kithkin Greatheart Needle Drop Soaring Hope Elvish Branchbender Wellgabber Apothecary Aquitect’s Will Glen Elendra Pranksters Entangling Trap Changeling Hero Gilt-Leaf Palace
Pick: Oblivion Ring
Pack 17:
Tarfire Herbal Poultice Kithkin Greatheart Oakgnarl Warrior Hornet Harasser Spring Cleaning Blind-Spot Giant Wellgabber Apothecary Gilt-Leaf Seer Boggart Birth Rite Flamekin Harbinger Ego Erasure Glarewielder Jace Beleren
Pick: Jace Beleren
Pack 18:
Deeptread Merrow Goldmeadow Harrier Fistful of Force Soulbright Flamekin Glimmerdust Nap Cloudcrown Oak Zephyr Net Bog Hoodlums Judge of Currents Inkfathom Divers Prowess of the Fair Elvish Harbinger Incremental Growth
Pick: Goldmeadow Harrier
Pack 19:
Fistful of Force Quill-Slinger Boggart Surge of Thoughtweft Cloudcrown Oak Wanderer’s Twig Shields of Velis Vel Mournwhelk Needle Drop Woodland Guidance Sentry Oak Colfenor’s Urn Quill-Slinger Boggart
Pick: Surge of Thoughtweft
Pack 20:
Oakgnarl Warrior Goldmeadow Harrier Glimmerdust Nap Kithkin Daggerdare Surge of Thoughtweft Shimmering Grotto Lace with Moonglove Blind-Spot Giant Hearthcage Giant Familiar’s Ruse Ceaseless Searblades
Pick: Goldmeadow Harrier
Pack 21:
Kithkin Daggerdare Herbal Poultice Lowland Oaf Protective Bubble Ingot Chewer Amoeboid Changeling Spring Cleaning Exiled Boggart Merrow Commerce Veteran of the Depths
Pick: Amoeboid Changeling
Pack 22:
Footbottom Feast Kithkin Healer Deeptread Merrow Mournwhelk Zephyr Net Scarred Vinebreeder Gilt-Leaf Seer Boggart Harbinger Lammastide Weave
Pick: Kithkin Healer
Pack 23:
Avian Changeling Springleaf Drum Heal the Scars Inkfathom Divers Boggart Birth Rite Ingot Chewer Soaring Hope Hunter of Eyeblights
Pick: Avian Changeling
Pack 24:
Wanderer’s Twig Kithkin Greatheart Needle Drop Soaring Hope Elvish Branchbender Aquitect’s Will Entangling Trap
Pick: Kithkin Greatheart
Pack 25:
Herbal Poultice Oakgnarl Warrior Spring Cleaning Wellgabber Apothecary Gilt-Leaf Seer Flamekin Harbinger
Pick: Flamekin Harbinger
Pack 26:
Fistful of Force Glimmerdust Nap Zephyr Net Bog Hoodlums Prowess of the Fair
Pick: Glimmerdust Nap
Pack 27:
Quill-Slinger Boggart Woodland Guidance Sentry Oak Colfenor’s Urn
Pick: Colfenor’s Urn
Pack 28:
Oakgnarl Warrior Surge of Thoughtweft Lace with Moonglove
Pick: Surge of Thoughtweft
Pack 29:
Herbal Poultice Protective Bubble
Pick: Protective Bubble
Pack 30:
Pick: Zephyr Net
Pack 31:
Moonglove Changeling Shard Volley Changeling Sentinel Latchkey Faerie Winnower Patrol Pack’s Disdain Morsel Theft Stingmoggie Lys Alana Bowmaster Stonybrook Schoolmaster Negate Spitebellows Waterspout Weavers Revive the Fallen Preeminent Captain
Pick: Preeminent Captain
Pack 32:
Kithkin Zephyrnaut Fire Juggler Weed-Pruner Poplar War-Spike Changeling Violet Pall Distant Melody Fertilid Floodchaser Morsel Theft Luminescent Rain Mudbutton Clanger Pyroclast Consul Research the Deep Weirding Shaman
Pick: Kithkin Zephyrnaut
Pack 33:
Game-Trail Changeling Order of the Golden Cricket Sunflare Shaman Weed-Pruner Poplar Stream of Unconsciousness Burrenton Shield-Bearers Negate Bosk Banneret Prickly Boggart Stingmoggie Wolf-Skull Shaman Boldwyr Intimidator Notorious Throng
Pick: Order of the Golden Cricket
Pack 34:
Seething Pathblazer Burrenton Shield-Bearers Shard Volley Elvish Warrior Earthbrawn Prickly Boggart Hostile Realm Everbark Shaman Pulling Teeth Mosquito Guard Daily Regimen Greatbow Doyen
Pick: Mosquito Guard
Pack 35:
Seething Pathblazer Final-Sting Faerie Kindled Fury Bosk Banneret Stonybrook Schoolmaster Mothdust Changeling Pulling Teeth Stinkdrinker Bandit Orchard Warden Stomping Slabs Sensation Gorger
Pick: Mothdust Changeling
Pack 36:
Ballyrush Banneret Lunk Errant Stream of Unconsciousness Final-Sting Faerie Festercreep Deglamer Forfend Floodchaser Kindled Fury Cloak and Dagger
Pick: Ballyrush Banneret
Pack 37:
Ballyrush Banneret Squeaking Pie Grubfellows Reins of the Vinesteed Distant Melody Shinewend Festercreep Hostile Realm Coordinated Barrage Offalsnout
Pick: Ballyrush Banneret
Pack 38:
Lunk Errant Kithkin Zephyrnaut Roar of the Crowd Everbark Shaman Shinewend Merrow Witsniper Wandering Graybeard Maralen of the Mornsong
Pick: Kithkin Zephyrnaut
Pack 39:
Changeling Sentinel Pack’s Disdain Morsel Theft Stingmoggie Negate Waterspout Weavers Revive the Fallen
Pick: Changeling Sentinel
Pack 40:
Fire Juggler Weed-Pruner Poplar Floodchaser Luminescent Rain Mudbutton Clanger Pyroclast Consul
Pick: Pyroclast Consul
Pack 41:
Sunflare Shaman Burrenton Shield-Bearers Negate Stingmoggie Boldwyr Intimidator
Pick: Sunflare Shaman
Pack 42:
Burrenton Shield-Bearers Hostile Realm Everbark Shaman Pulling Teeth
Pick: Burrenton Shield-Bearers
Pack 43:
Bosk Banneret Pulling Teeth Stomping Slabs
Pick: Bosk Banneret
Pack 44:
Pick: Forfend
Pack 45:
Pick: Hostile Realm
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
2 Goldmeadow Harrier
1 Mosquito Guard
1 Kithkin Greatheart
2 Surge of Thoughtweft
1 Whirlpool Whelm
2 Ballyrush Banneret
1 Order of the Golden Cricket
1 Avian Changeling
1 Kithkin Healer
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Pestermite
2 Kithkin Zephyrnaut
1 Preeminent Captain
1 Fallowsage
1 Hillcomber Giant
1 Kinsbaile Balloonist
1 Neck Snap
1 Changeling Sentinel
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
6 Island
11 Plains
Sideboard:
1 Amoeboid Changeling
1 Bosk Banneret
1 Burrenton Shield-Bearers
1 Colfenor’s Urn
1 Elvish Eulogist
1 Flamekin Harbinger
1 Forfend
1 Glimmerdust Nap
1 Hostile Realm
1 Jace Beleren
1 Lairwatch Giant
1 Mothdust Changeling
1 Nath’s Buffoon
1 Oaken Brawler
1 Plains
1 Protective Bubble
1 Pyroclast Consul
1 Spellstutter Sprite
1 Stinkdrinker Daredevil
1 Stonybrook Angler
1 Sunflare Shaman
1 Tideshaper Mystic
1 Zephyr Net
Pick 1: This pick was tough. I like Inversion because it’s the only Black card in the pack but I took the Cloudgoat because it’s so much more powerful and I’m a big fan of White cards.
Pick 33: I don’t really know how good the Throng is. It seems very powerful but I like the consistency provided by the Cricket.
A few picks into this draft I was really regretting taking the Cloudgoat Ranger but that turned around when I got so many good Kithkin cards in packs 2 and 3. I chose to leave out Jace because it’s only exceptional on turn 3 and even then only when going first and I didn’t want to make that much of a sacrifice to my manabase since my deck was almost exclusively White cards.
Round 1 I played against a solid Green Red deck. In the first game I had a pretty good draw and thought I was going to absolutely crush him until he blew me out on turn 4 with Rival’s Duel on my Cricket and Fallowsage. I didn’t have a chance after that. Game 2 his draw was slower and I hit the Kinship with Kithkin Zephyrnaut a couple of times and was able to put too much pressure on him before his Wren’s Run Vanquisher could take over the game. Game 3 he missed his second land drop but was able to stay ahead the whole game with the Red Banneret on turn 2 followed by two Battlewand Oaks and an Ambassador Oak. I was barely able to race by making good use of Neck Snap Whirlpool Whelm and Pestermite.
Round 2 I played a very poor Green Red deck and his mediocre creatures couldn’t stand up to my Kithkin. I had Hillcomber Giant to finish him off game 1 and Cloudgoat Ranger game 2.
My opponent wouldn’t split the finals and absolutely crushed me with a great Goblin deck. My draws were slow and his were very good but this was a match I was unlikely to win regardless.
Until tomorrow
Rich
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