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Drafting With Rich – TPF #13

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You all know the drill by now… Rich Hoaen, Canada’s finest and grumpiest draft export, takes us by the hand and drags us through the rollercoaster ride of an 8-4 TPF Draft on Magic Online. From pick 1 to pick 45, Rich shares them all, and his final deck and draft performance are analysed in the article, the forums, and beyond. Come join in the fun!


Draft:

Pack 1:










Spiketail Drakeling, Flamecore Elemental, Mana Skimmer, Nantuko Shaman, Coral Trickster, Benalish Cavalry, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Prismatic Lens, Ground Rift, Ignite Memories, Paradox Haze, Tromp the Domains, Pulmonic Sliver, Sacred Mesa

Pick: Tromp the Domains

Pack 2:










Icatian Crier, Dark Withering, Goblin Skycutter, Crookclaw Transmuter, Strength in Numbers, Momentary Blink, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Firemaw Kavu, Fury Sliver, Hypergenesis, Resurrection

Pick: Firemaw Kavu

Pack 3:










Strength in Numbers, Errant Doomsayers, Corpulent Corpse, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Opaline Sliver, Celestial Crusader, Paradise Plume, Gaea’s Blessing, Plains

Pick: Search for Tomorrow

Pack 4:







Aether Web, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Jhoira’s Timebug, Jedit’s Dragoons, Dreadship Reef, Ghostflame Sliver, Fallen Ideal, Wheel of Fate, Undead Warchief

Pick: Thallid Shell-Dweller

Pack 5:







Grapeshot, Mindstab, Slipstream Serpent, Nantuko Shaman, Gorgon Recluse, Ophidian Eye, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Paradox Haze, Firewake Sliver

Pick: Nantuko Shaman

Pack 6:







Spinneret Sliver, Ivory Giant, Eternity Snare, Skulking Knight, Sidewinder Sliver, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Viashino Bladescout, Plated Pegasus, Haunting Hymn, Leviathan

Pick: Spinneret Sliver

Pack 7:







Drudge Reavers, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII, Merfolk Assassin

Pick: Thick-Skinned Goblin

Pack 8:




Scarwood Treefolk, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Harmonic Sliver, Pull from Eternity

Pick: Wormwood Dryad

Pack 9:




Flamecore Elemental, Coral Trickster, D’Avenant Healer, Glass Asp, Ground Rift, Ignite Memories, Paradox Haze

Pick: Flamecore Elemental

Pack 10:




Icatian Crier, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Resurrection

Pick: Greenseeker

Pack 11:




Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Plains

Pick: Ironclaw Buzzardiers

Pack 12:

Mindlash Sliver, Jhoira’s Timebug, Ghostflame Sliver, Fallen Ideal

Pick: Ghostflame Sliver

Pack 13:

Molder, Children of Korlis, Paradox Haze

Pick: Molder

Pack 14:

Plated Pegasus, Haunting Hymn

Pick: Haunting Hymn

Pack 15:

Ancient Grudge

Pick: Ancient Grudge

Pack 16:










Synchronous Sliver, Needlepeak Spider, Mire Boa, Dreamscape Artist, Aven Riftwatcher, Keldon Marauders, Ghost Tactician, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Sinew Sliver, Vampiric Link, Rebuff the Wicked, Necrotic Sliver, Molten Firebird, Benalish Commander, Detritivore

Pick: Mire Boa

Pack 17:










Spitting Sliver, Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Giant Dustwasp, Keldon Marauders, Dust Corona, Uktabi Drake, Revered Dead, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Brute Force, Hunting Wilds, Timebender, Reckless Wurm, Fungal Behemoth

Pick: Giant Dustwasp

Pack 18:










Cradle to Grave, Dead / Gone, Reflex Sliver, Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Citanul Woodreaders, Pallid Mycoderm, Brute Force, Prodigal Pyromancer, Fa’adiyah Seer, Timecrafting, Keen Sense

Pick: Dead / Gone

Pack 19:







Whitemane Lion, Midnight Charm, Fury Charm, Evolution Charm, Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Citanul Woodreaders, Bog Serpent, Skirk Shaman, Essence Warden, Timecrafting, Pongify

Pick: Citanul Woodreaders

Pack 20:







Mire Boa, Battering Sliver, Aven Riftwatcher, Cradle to Grave, Reality Acid, Blightspeaker, Evolution Charm, Prodigal Pyromancer, Piracy Charm, Healing Leaves, Kavu Predator

Pick: Prodigal Pyromancer

Pack 21:







Dreamscape Artist, Poultice Sliver, Shade of Trokair, Fury Charm, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Simian Spirit Guide, Venarian Glimmer, Fatal Frenzy

Pick: Shade of Trokair

Pack 22:







Dead / Gone, Ridged Kusite, Battering Sliver, Reflex Sliver, Firefright Mage, Ghost Tactician, Piracy Charm, Fa’adiyah Seer, Sophic Centaur

Pick: Dead / Gone

Pack 23:




Utopia Vow, Dawn Charm, Firefright Mage, Uktabi Drake, Deadly Grub, Dust Corona, Mana Tithe, Bog Serpent

Pick: Utopia Vow

Pack 24:




Dreamscape Artist, Keldon Marauders, Ghost Tactician, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Vampiric Link, Rebuff the Wicked, Molten Firebird

Pick: Molten Firebird

Pack 25:




Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Keldon Marauders, Dust Corona, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Timebender

Pick: Timebender

Pack 26:




Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Fa’adiyah Seer, Keen Sense

Pick: Fa’adiyah Seer

Pack 27:

Fury Charm, Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Skirk Shaman

Pick: Skirk Shaman

Pack 28:

Reality Acid, Evolution Charm, Healing Leaves

Pick: Evolution Charm

Pack 29:

Fury Charm, Vitaspore Thallid

Pick: Fury Charm

Pack 30:

Fa’adiyah Seer

Pick: Fa’adiyah Seer

Pack 31:










Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Infiltrator il-Kor, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Mesmeric Sliver, Deepcavern Imp, Flowstone Embrace, Nessian Courser, Skirk Ridge Exhumer, Sparkspitter, Cyclical Evolution, Sliver Legion

Pick: Nessian Courser

Pack 32:










Augur il-Vec, Llanowar Empath, Grave Peril, Marshaling Cry, Kavu Primarch, Foresee, Lucent Liminid, Vedalken Aethermage, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Keldon Megaliths, Ravaging Riftwurm, Shivan Sand-Mage, Lost Auramancers

Pick: Keldon Megaliths

Pack 33:










Fatal Attraction, Petrified Plating, Judge Unworthy, Leaden Fists, Quiet Disrepair, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Grinning Ignus, Whip-Spine Drake, Mass of Ghouls, Cyclical Evolution, Sliversmith, Chronomantic Escape, Aven Augur

Pick: Fatal Attraction

Pack 34:







Judge Unworthy, Kavu Primarch, Oblivion Crown, Emberwilde Augur, Aven Augur, Fatal Attraction, Sarcomite Myr, Henchfiend of Ukor, Blind Phantasm, Utopia Mycon, Dakmor Salvage, Pyromancer’s Swath

Pick: Kavu Primarch

Pack 35:







Leaden Fists, Gift of Granite, Lost Hours, Lymph Sliver, Blind Phantasm, Virulent Sliver, Mass of Ghouls, Vedalken Aethermage, New Benalia, Shivan Sand-Mage, Scout’s Warning

Pick: Shivan Sand-Mage

Pack 36:







Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Rift Elemental, Grinning Ignus, Edge of Autumn, Fomori Nomad, Logic Knot, Dust of Moments, Force of Savagery

Pick: Fomori Nomad

Pack 37:







Saltskitter, Unblinking Bleb, Llanowar Augur, Flowstone Embrace, Frenzy Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Patrician’s Scorn, Cloudseeder, Llanowar Reborn

Pick: Flowstone Embrace

Pack 38:




Marshaling Cry, Lost Hours, Wrap in Vigor, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Sarcomite Myr, Homing Sliver, Even the Odds, Mystic Speculation

Pick: Marshaling Cry

Pack 39:




Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Mesmeric Sliver, Flowstone Embrace, Sparkspitter

Pick: Flowstone Embrace

Pack 40:




Augur il-Vec, Llanowar Empath, Grave Peril, Marshaling Cry, Vedalken Aethermage, Virulent Sliver

Pick: Llanowar Empath

Pack 41:




Petrified Plating, Leaden Fists, Quiet Disrepair, Mass of Ghouls, Chronomantic Escape

Pick: Leaden Fists

Pack 42:

Oblivion Crown, Blind Phantasm, Utopia Mycon, Dakmor Salvage

Pick: Blind Phantasm

Pack 43:

Gift of Granite, Lost Hours, New Benalia

Pick: New Benalia

Pack 44:

Gift of Granite, Dust of Moments

Pick: Dust of Moments

Pack 45:

*

Pick: *

Final Decklist:

Maindeck:

2 Dead // Gone
1 Evolution Charm
2 Flowstone Embrace
1 Mire Boa
1 Spinneret Sliver
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
1 Utopia Vow
1 Citanul Woodreaders
1 Fatal Attraction
1 Nantuko Shaman
1 Nessian Courser
1 Prodigal Pyromancer
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Skirk Shaman
1 Flamecore Elemental
1 Kavu Primarch
1 Llanowar Empath
1 Fomori Nomad
1 Giant Dustwasp
1 Firemaw Kavu
1 Tromp the Domains
9 Forest
7 Mountain
1 Keldon Megaliths

Sideboard:

1 Ancient Grudge
1 Blind Phantasm
1 Dust of Moments
2 Fa’adiyah Seer
1 Fury Charm
1 Ghostflame Sliver
1 Greenseeker
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Ironclaw Buzzardiers
1 Leaden Fists
1 Marshaling Cry
1 Mesmeric Sliver
1 Molder
1 Molten Firebird
1 Mountain
1 New Benalia
1 Shade of Trokair
1 Shivan Sand-Mage
1 Thallid Shell-Dweller
1 Timebender
1 Wormwood Dryad


I took the Tromp first over the White cards because I figured whatever I took there would be a couple players directly behind me in White, and when you play White it’s very important to do well in Planar Chaos. After that things went pretty well, with a second pick Firemaw Kavu, which is out of the ordinary to say the least, especially with another uncommon missing. I was looking for another color to splash for the Tromp because I had Evolution Charm, Search for Tomorrow, and Greenseeker, but nothing came.


I lost to a White/Green deck in the first round. He played nothing but creatures. In the first game I kept a hand with three land and four removal spells, and only drew lands and more removal from there. I played my first creature on about turn 8, but by then he’d drawn into Hunting Wilds, and was able to hit me for nine before I could put up any kind of defense. I was able to stabilise the board for a while, but only drew lands while he drew into Strength in Numbers to kill me. Game 2 I kept a hand with two land, two two-drops, Dead/Gone, Flowstone Embrace, and Prodigal Pyromancer. I didn’t draw a land until turn 6. The game was still looking good since I’d handled all of his action, and once I drew a land I was going to start dominating the game. Unfortunately he drew Amrou Scout, Malach of the White Dawn, and Gaea’s Anthem in a row to steal the game.


Another frustrating loss with a good Red/Green deck.


Until tomorrow,


Rich

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