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Drafting With Rich – Shards of Alara #8

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Wednesday, November 19th – Canadian Draft maestro Rich Hoaen returns to the pages of StarCityGames.com. Each day, he brings us a triple Shards of Alara draft from Magic Online, from pick 1 to pick 45, sharing his insight on the more difficult picks along the way. For more in-depth analysis, visit the forums!

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2 Agony Warp
Resounding Thunder
2 Bone Splinters
Dragon Fodder
2 Goblin Deathraiders
Undead Leotau
Incurable Ogre
Blister Beetle
Fleshbag Marauder
2 Viscera Dragger
Grixis Battlemage
Viscera Dragger
Skeletal Kathari
Magma Spray
Hissing Iguanar
Corpse Connoisseur
Kederekt Creeper
Dregscape Zombie
Bloodpyre Elemental
Blightning
Jund Panorama
Crumbling Necropolis
Esper Panorama
2 Island
5 Mountain
7 Swamp

I was quite happy with this draft. It felt like I was in the right colors and my deck ended up quite good because of it.

I played Kenji round 1. He had a mediocre Green White Red deck. He won one game with an Algae Gharial but none of them were particularly close and he wouldn’t have had a chance without the Gharial.

Round 2 I beat a solid Bant deck. Each game I was able to kill all of his exalted creatures and eventually find a three-toughness creature to attack through his Deft Duelist.

I played a White Black artifact deck in the third round. Game 1 I drew all my cards at the wrong time and lost to a couple of Tidehollow Scullers a 2/3 Gargoyle and an Esper Battlemage. The next two games my draws were better and neither game was very close.

Until tomorrow…

Rich