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Drafting With Rich – Shards of Alara #9

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Thursday, November 20th – 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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Magma Spray
2 Viscera Dragger
Hissing Iguanar
Blood Cultist
Undead Leotau
Incurable Ogre
2 Bone Splinters
Resounding Thunder
Bloodpyre Elemental
Blightning
Grixis Battlemage
Corpse Connoisseur
2 Goblin Deathraiders
Vithian Stinger
Infest
Fleshbag Marauder
Executioner’s Capsule
Blister Beetle
Death Baron
Dregscape Zombie
Arcane Sanctum
9 Swamp
7 Mountain

This draft was very similar to the last. I got into Black Red right away and was never given a reason to look back. Not too many interesting decisions here. I could’ve played Thunder-Thrash Elder but it’s the kind of card that goes against my general draft philosophy – it’s very inconsistent. I like Bone Splinters because it’s always going to kill their best guy even if I have to two-for-one myself to do it. The Elder however is quite unimpressive if I don’t have an unearth guy in the yard for it.

I won the first round easily against a solid Green White Red deck. Both games I was able to trade creatures early then unearth and kill his big guys with Bone Splinters.

I got disconnected during the second round and didn’t get to play out the rest of the draft.

Until tomorrow…

Rich