Draft:
Pack 1:
Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Gorgon Recluse, Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Coal Stoker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Smallpox, Saltcrusted Steppe, Sudden Death, Pulmonic Sliver, Krosan Cloudscraper
Pick: Sudden Death
Pack 2:
Keldon Halberdier, Ivory Giant, Grapeshot, Mindstab, Slipstream Serpent, Glass Asp, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Fury Sliver, Harmonic Sliver, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Orcish Librarian
Pick: Prismatic Lens
Pack 3:
Ashcoat Bear, Amrou Seekers, Corpulent Corpse, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Momentary Blink, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Wipe Away, Basalt Gargoyle, Conflagrate, Curse of the Cabal, Fiery Justice
Pick: Conflagrate
Pack 4:
Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Terramorphic Expanse, Drudge Reavers, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Ghostflame Sliver, Dread Return, Living End, Valor
Pick: Ghostflame Sliver
Pack 5:
Feebleness, Chromatic Star, Tolarian Sentinel, Flowstone Channeler, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser’s Sliver, Fallen Ideal, Ignite Memories, Vampiric Sliver
Pick: Feebleness
Pack 6:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit’s Dragoons, Thunder Totem, Haunting Hymn, Ghost Ship
Pick: Ghost Ship
Pack 7:
Strength in Numbers, Snapback, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Fool’s Demise, Restore Balance
Pick: Snapback
Pack 8:
Flowstone Channeler, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Aspect of Mongoose, Fungal Reaches, Opaline Sliver
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 9:
Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Smallpox, Saltcrusted Steppe, Krosan Cloudscraper
Pick: Bogardan Rager
Pack 10:
Mindstab, Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Harmonic Sliver, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Orcish Librarian
Pick: Thick-Skinned Goblin
Pack 11:
Ashcoat Bear, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Ancient Grudge, Curse of the Cabal
Pick: Curse of the Cabal
Pack 12:
Drudge Reavers, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Sprout
Pick: Drudge Reavers
Pack 13:
Plunder, Eternity Snare, Fallen Ideal
Pick: Fallen Ideal
Pack 14:
Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver
Pick: Cyclopean Giant
Pack 15:
Pick: Call to the Netherworld
Pack 16:
Think Twice, Ashcoat Bear, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Thallid Germinator, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Voidmage Husher, Faceless Devourer, Firewake Sliver, Hypergenesis, Willbender
Pick: Willbender
Pack 17:
Herd Gnarr, Amrou Scout, Grapeshot, Scarwood Treefolk, Slipstream Serpent, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Paradise Plume, Dread Return, Foriysian Totem, Serra Avenger, Squire
Pick: Grapeshot
Pack 18:
Aether Web, Lightning Axe, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Momentary Blink, Might of Old Krosa, Duskrider Peregrine, Quilled Sliver, Feldon’s Cane
Pick: Lightning Axe
Pack 19:
Crookclaw Transmuter, Empty the Warrens, Strength in Numbers, Errant Doomsayers, Pit Keeper, Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Truth or Tale, Norin the Wary
Pick: Crookclaw Transmuter
Pack 20:
Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Orcish Cannonade, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Saltcrusted Steppe, Dementia Sliver, Dreadship Reef, Orgg
Pick: Orcish Cannonade
Pack 21:
Cancel, Empty the Warrens, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Tromp the Domains, Truth or Tale, Wheel of Fate, Suq’Ata Lancer
Pick: Suq’Ata Lancer
Pack 22:
Flamecore Elemental, Children of Korlis, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Thrill of the Hunt, Yavimaya Dryad, Vesuva, Pendelhaven
Pick: Flamecore Elemental
Pack 23:
Nantuko Shaman, Scarwood Treefolk, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Ophidian Eye, Aspect of Mongoose, Opaline Sliver, Disenchant
Pick: Viashino Bladescout
Pack 24:
Ashcoat Bear, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Voidmage Husher, Hypergenesis
Pick: Hypergenesis
Pack 25:
Scarwood Treefolk, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Paradise Plume, Dread Return, Squire
Pick: Squire
Pack 26:
Aether Web, Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Ghitu Firebreathing, Feldon’s Cane
Pick: Goblin Skycutter
Pack 27:
Strength in Numbers, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Norin the Wary
Pick: Strength in Numbers
Pack 28:
Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Dementia Sliver
Pick: Mystical Teachings
Pack 29:
Foriysian Interceptor, Truth or Tale
Pick: Truth or Tale
Pack 30:
Pick: Viashino Bladescout
Pack 31:
Terramorphic Expanse, Snapback, Rift Bolt, Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Dark Withering, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Ghostflame Sliver, Calciform Pools, Pull from Eternity, Gemstone Caverns, Spitting Slug
Pick: Rift Bolt
Pack 32:
Viscerid Deepwalker, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Icatian Crier, Dark Withering, Goblin Skycutter, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Faceless Devourer, Conflagrate, Fortune Thief, Stupor
Pick: Conflagrate
Pack 33:
Strangling Soot, Gemhide Sliver, Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Coal Stoker, Durkwood Baloth, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Conflagrate, Spirit Loop, Vampiric Sliver
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 34:
Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Flamecore Elemental, Gemhide Sliver, Dream Stalker, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Assembly-Worker, Pendelhaven Elder, Hunting Moa, Word of Seizing
Pick: Word of Seizing
Pack 35:
Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Durkwood Baloth, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Assembly-Worker, Plated Pegasus, Phthisis
Pick: Keldon Halberdier
Pack 36:
Coral Trickster, Feebleness, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch, D’Avenant Healer, Paradise Plume, Paradox Haze, Opaline Sliver, Ancestral Vision
Pick: Ancestral Vision
Pack 37:
Aether Web, Assassinate, Havenwood Wurm, Chameleon Blur, Ghitu Firebreathing, Bewilder, Faceless Devourer, Pendelhaven Elder, Scion of the Ur-Dragon
Pick: Assassinate
Pack 38:
Thallid Germinator, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Weatherseed Totem, Paradox Haze
Pick: Subterranean Shambler
Pack 39:
Pentarch Ward, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Ghostflame Sliver, Pull from Eternity
Pick: Ghostflame Sliver
Pack 40:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Faceless Devourer
Pick: Ironclaw Buzzardiers
Pack 41:
Gaze of Justice, Clockspinning, Viscid Lemures, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Vampiric Sliver
Pick: Vampiric Sliver
Pack 42:
Gaze of Justice, Flamecore Elemental, Glass Asp, Pendelhaven Elder
Pick: Flamecore Elemental
Pack 43:
Molder, Children of Korlis, Ground Rift
Pick: Molder
Pack 44:
Bogardan Rager, Traitor’s Clutch
Pick: Bogardan Rager
Pack 45:
Pick: Aether Web
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Ghost Ship [FOIL]
1 Willbender
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Crookclaw Transmuter
1 Snapback
1 Suq’Ata Lancer
1 Coal Stoker
2 Conflagrate
2 Flamecore Elemental
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Grapeshot
1 Ironclaw Buzzardiers
1 Keldon Halberdier
1 Lightning Axe
1 Orcish Cannonade
1 Rift Bolt
1 Subterranean Shambler
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
1 Word of Seizing [FOIL]
1 Prismatic Lens
7 Island
10 Mountain
Sideboard:
1 Aether Web
1 Assassinate
2 Bogardan Rager
1 Call to the Netherworld
1 Curse of the Cabal
1 Cyclopean Giant
1 Drudge Reavers
1 Fallen Ideal
1 Feebleness
2 Ghostflame Sliver
1 Hypergenesis
1 Molder
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Squire
1 Strength in Numbers
1 Sudden Death
1 Truth or Tale
1 Vampiric Sliver
2 Viashino Bladescout
I really messed this one up. I had a great deal of difficulty deciding on my second color, and paid for it by making the wrong decision. I put far too much stock in the late Ghost Ship as a signal. I should have realized based on the fact that my last few picks were all mediocre Black playables that I should have been in Black. It was my hope that pack 2 would be good, since I didn’t pass much Blue. Even in the third pack, if I had just decided to give up on Blue and take the Strangling Soots my deck would have been quite good. Oh well.
I lost a miserable first round to another mediocre Blue/Red deck, although he was splashing White for Evangelize and Momentary Blink. I double mulliganed and got destroyed in the first game. Game 2 my draw was pretty good, and I was able to use Rift Bolt and Grapeshot to wrath him on turn 6. Game 3 got to the point where I had two creatures to his empty board and hand, and we’re both at pretty high life totals. He immediately draws Pardic Dragon and wins with a few attacks for seven.
Until tomorrow,
Rich
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