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Drafting With Rich – Shadowmoor / Eventide #5

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Friday, August 29th – That’s right, folks… Rich is back! For those not familiar with the format, Canadian draft maestro Rich Hoaen takes us for a stroll through an 8-4 draft on Magic Online, from pick 1 to pick 45, and shares his special insights after the draft and in the forums. Welcome back, Rich… we’ve missed you!

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10 Island
7 Mountain
Oona Queen of the Fae
Knollspine Invocation
Trip Noose
Consign to Dream
Turn to Mist
Briarberry Cohort
Cultbrand Cinder
Wanderbrine Rootcutters
Power of Fire
Curse of Chains
Plumeveil
Somnomancer
Parapet Watchers
Gravelgill Duo
Puncture Blast
Outrage Shaman
Crag Puca
Dream Thief
Hateflayer
Battlegate Mimic
Cache Raiders
Flame Jab
Inside Out

Most of the drafts I do here will be 8-4s but for the first time in my life I’m a busy man so when the 8-4 queue refuses to fill I’m going to have to play some 4-3-2-2s which you can kind of tell is what this draft is.

The second and third picks were by far the most interesting of this draft. With the second pick I took the Knollspine Invocation because it was the most powerful card in the pack. If there was something much less powerful but went in the same deck as Oona like a Turn to Mist or Sickle Ripper I probably would’ve taken that. The third pick was also tough because the Invocation is such a good start to a mono Red deck but I don’t know about you but I find it pretty tough to just give up on an Oona. I made the safe pick and took the solid but unspectacular Trip Noose over all the potential that lay with Burn Trail.

In the first round I played against a solid Mono Red deck. In the first game he played Intimidator Initiate turn 1 which I Flame Jabbed then I had Inside Out for his Cinder Pyromancer. I played some dudes and he was never able to get in the game because Flame Jab killed the vast majority of creatures he played. In the second game I had Flame Jab again and the one real creature he played ran into a Plumeveil.

Round 2 my opponent said his wife was yelling at him and had to go so I got a bye.

Round 3 I played against a decent Blue Green deck. In the first game he played some Mimics but I had Flame Jab for them again. I eventually gained complete control by returning my Outrage Shaman to my hand every turn with Cache Raiders. The second game was even more of a blowout. I had the answer for everything he played and ended the game with eight lands in play and Oona and Hateflayer in hand to his nothing.

Until next week…

Rich