Draft:
Pack 1:
Fortify, Spiketail Drakeling, Flamecore Elemental, Mana Skimmer, Nantuko Shaman, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Paradise Plume, Primal Forcemage, Griffin Guide, Bogardan Hellkite, Resurrection, Forest
Pick: Bogardan Hellkite
Pack 2:
Thallid Germinator, Zealot il-Vec, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Tendrils of Corruption, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Ghostflame Sliver, Calciform Pools, Krosan Grip, Fortune Thief, Hail Storm
Pick: Tendrils of Corruption
Pack 3:
Castle Raptors, Gorgon Recluse, Spiketail Drakeling, Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Amrou Scout, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Barbed Shocker, Return to Dust, Thallid
Pick: Orcish Cannonade
Pack 4:
Tolarian Sentinel, Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Fungal Reaches, Stormcloud Djinn, Wipe Away, Tribal Flames
Pick: Tribal Flames
Pack 5:
Scarwood Treefolk, Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Skittering Monstrosity, Volcanic Awakening, Vampiric Sliver, Opal Guardian
Pick: Vampiric Sliver
Pack 6:
Goblin Skycutter, Crookclaw Transmuter, Zealot il-Vec, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Fallen Ideal, Leviathan
Pick: Goblin Skycutter
Pack 7:
Aether Web, Mogg War Marshal, Terramorphic Expanse, Ghitu Firebreathing, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Might of Old Krosa, Ignite Memories, Goblin Snowman
Pick: Terramorphic Expanse
Pack 8:
Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Sage of Epityr, Mindlash Sliver, Jhoira’s Timebug, Locket of Yesterdays, Curse of the Cabal, Mountain
Pick: Viscerid Deepwalker
Pack 9:
Fortify, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Paradise Plume, Primal Forcemage, Forest
Pick: Paradise Plume
Pack 10:
Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Mindlash Sliver, Havenwood Wurm, Calciform Pools, Krosan Grip
Pick: Subterranean Shambler
Pack 11:
Watcher Sliver, Glass Asp, Traitor’s Clutch, Barbed Shocker, Thallid
Pick: Thallid
Pack 12:
Shadow Sliver, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp
Pick: Traitor’s Clutch
Pack 13:
Children of Korlis, Ground Rift, Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Volcanic Awakening
Pack 14:
Foriysian Interceptor, Detainment Spell
Pick: Detainment Spell
Pack 15:
Pick: Ghitu Firebreathing
Pack 16:
Mogg War Marshal, Temporal Isolation, Think Twice, Ashcoat Bear, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Chameleon Blur, Flickering Spirit, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Wipe Away, Basalt Gargoyle, Haunting Hymn, Flagstones of Trokair, Dragonstorm
Pick: Basalt Gargoyle
Pack 17:
Strangling Soot, Fathom Seer, Flamecore Elemental, Gemhide Sliver, Feebleness, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, Plated Pegasus, Molten Slagheap, Outrider en-Kor, Swarmyard
Pick: Strangling Soot
Pack 18:
Mana Skimmer, Fathom Seer, Chromatic Star, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Children of Korlis, Yavimaya Dryad, Firewake Sliver, Sudden Death, Sprite Noble, Mistform Ultimus
Pick: Sudden Death
Pack 19:
Search for Tomorrow, Cancel, Empty the Warrens, Icatian Crier, Bonesplitter Sliver, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Evil Eye of Urborg, Hypergenesis, Thornscape Battlemage
Pick: Thornscape Battlemage
Pack 20:
Gemhide Sliver, Gaze of Justice, Coral Trickster, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Chronatog Totem, Durkwood Tracker, Thelon of Havenwood, Stormscape Familiar
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 21:
Coral Trickster, Looter il-Kor, Spinneret Sliver, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Watcher Sliver, Stormcloud Djinn, Volcanic Awakening, Magus of the Jar, Forest
Pick: Stormcloud Djinn
Pack 22:
Aether Web, Drudge Reavers, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Careful Consideration, Dementia Sliver, Harmonic Sliver
Pick: Drudge Reavers
Pack 23:
Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Thunder Totem, Harmonic Sliver, Whirling Dervish
Pick: Cyclopean Giant
Pack 24:
Think Twice, Chameleon Blur, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Wipe Away, Haunting Hymn
Pick: Haunting Hymn
Pack 25:
Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, Molten Slagheap, Swarmyard
Pick: Bogardan Rager
Pack 26:
Mana Skimmer, Eternity Snare, Molder, Children of Korlis, Firewake Sliver
Pick: Mana Skimmer
Pack 27:
Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Evil Eye of Urborg, Hypergenesis
Pick: Evil Eye of Urborg
Pack 28:
Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Chronatog Totem
Pick: Chronatog Totem
Pack 29:
Pick: Forest
Pack 30:
Pick: Brass Gnat
Pack 31:
Castle Raptors, Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Trespasser il-Vec, Spinneret Sliver, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Firewake Sliver, Spell Burst, Basalt Gargoyle, Ith, High Arcanist, Gaea’s Blessing, Telekinetic Sliver
Pick: Trespasser il-Vec
Pack 32:
Ivory Giant, Grapeshot, Mindstab, Slipstream Serpent, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Brine Elemental, Assembly-Worker, Opaline Sliver, Gauntlet of Power, Moorish Cavalry
Pick: Grapeshot
Pack 33:
Errant Doomsayers, Corpulent Corpse, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Icatian Crier, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Sudden Shock, Durkwood Tracker, Sacred Mesa
Pick: Sudden Shock
Pack 34:
Cloudchaser Kestrel, Thallid Germinator, Terramorphic Expanse, Pentarch Ward, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Pit Keeper, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Spell Burst, Walk the Aeons, Honorable Passage
Pick: Pit Keeper
Pack 35:
Ivory Giant, Flowstone Channeler, Herd Gnarr, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Saltcrusted Steppe, Fool’s Demise, Careful Consideration
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 36:
Cancel, Pentarch Ward, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Voidmage Husher, Faceless Devourer, Haunting Hymn, Living End, Avoid Fate
Pick: Faceless Devourer
Pack 37:
Herd Gnarr, Deathspore Thallid, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Thrill of the Hunt, Tectonic Fiend, Return to Dust, Scryb Ranger
Pick: Deathspore Thallid
Pack 38:
Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Sage of Epityr, Urza’s Factory, Dementia Sliver, Angel’s Grace, Enduring Renewal
Pick: Urza’s Factory
Pack 39:
D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Firewake Sliver, Spell Burst, Gaea’s Blessing
Pick: Gaea’s Blessing
Pack 40:
Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Assembly-Worker, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Skulking Knight
Pack 41:
Errant Doomsayers, Screeching Sliver, Jedit’s Dragoons, Sprout, Durkwood Tracker
Pick: Errant Doomsayers
Pack 42:
Pentarch Ward, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Spell Burst
Pick: Psychotic Episode
Pack 43:
Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Ophidian Eye, Molder
Pick: Molder
Pack 44:
Voidmage Husher, Haunting Hymn
Pick: Haunting Hymn
Pack 45:
Pick: Sangrophage
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Deathspore Thallid
1 Faceless Devourer
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Mana Skimmer
1 Pit Keeper
1 Skulking Knight
1 Strangling Soot
1 Sudden Death
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Trespasser il-Vec
1 Vampiric Sliver
1 Tribal Flames
1 Basalt Gargoyle
1 Bogardan Hellkite
1 Bogardan Rager
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Grapeshot
1 Orcish Cannonade
1 Sudden Shock
1 Thornscape Battlemage
1 Prismatic Lens
7 Mountain
8 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Urza’s Factory
1 Forest
Sideboard:
1 Brass Gnat
1 Chronatog Totem
1 Cyclopean Giant
1 Detainment Spell
1 Drudge Reavers
1 Errant Doomsayers
1 Evil Eye of Urborg
1 Forest [FOIL]
1 Gaea’s Blessing
1 Ghitu Firebreathing
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Molder
1 Paradise Plume
1 Psychotic Episode
1 Sangrophage
1 Stormcloud Djinn
1 Subterranean Shambler
1 Thallid
1 Traitor’s Clutch
1 Viscerid Deepwalker
1 Volcanic Awakening
Pack 1 went pretty well in this draft, but I was surprised by how poorly I did in pack 2. I figured that since I had passed a lot of White I would get Black and Red back, since they pair poorly with White cards. Things didn’t work out as expected, but it wasn’t a disaster. I just played Urza’s Factory instead of a spell in a color combination where I’d usually leave it in the sideboard.
I played against two Blue/White decks in this draft, and didn’t have much trouble with either.
In the first game I used removal on the rest of his creatures, then ambushed his Outrider En-Kor with Bogardan Rager, then killed him with the Rager and a Trespasser. In the second game I manascrewed him with Mana Skimmer long enough for me to gain control and play Bogardan Hellkite to finish him.
I got ahead early in game 1 of the the next match, and then got him with Haunting Hymn to counteract his Careful Consideration. He had a bit of a board presence, but wasn’t able to attack and was eventually overwhelmed by Urza’s Factory. Game 2 I got ahead early again, and won when I was able to remove his Ith with Orcish Cannonade and Tribal Flames.
I decided to split because I didn’t think this deck could squeeze out another win.
Until Monday,
Rich
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