Draft:
Pack 1:
Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Aether Web, Lightning Axe, Havenwood Wurm, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Momentary Blink, Sulfurous Blast, Duskrider Peregrine, Smallpox, Moonlace, Valor, Search for Tomorrow
Pick: Sulfurous Blast
Pack 2:
Thallid Germinator, Zealot il-Vec, Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Tendrils of Corruption, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Might of Old Krosa, Weatherseed Totem, Paradox Haze, Hivestone
Pick: Tendrils of Corruption
Pack 3:
Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Pentarch Ward, Assassinate, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Jhoira’s Timebug, Undying Rage, Urza’s Factory, Locket of Yesterdays, Tivadar of Thorn
Pick: Assassinate
Pack 4:
Herd Gnarr, Fortify, Coal Stoker, Tolarian Sentinel, Benalish Cavalry, Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Quilled Sliver, Dread Return, Lim-Dul the Necromancer
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 5:
Icatian Crier, Goblin Skycutter, Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Assembly-Worker, Magus of the Candelabra, Darkness
Pick: Goblin Skycutter
Pack 6:
Scarwood Treefolk, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Molder, Children of Korlis, Viscid Lemures, Ground Rift, Plated Pegasus, Truth or Tale, Scryb Ranger
Pick: Keldon Halberdier
Pack 7:
Gorgon Recluse, Dream Stalker, Wormwood Dryad, Venser’s Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Saltcrusted Steppe, Primal Forcemage, Wipe Away
Pick: Gorgon Recluse
Pack 8:
Orcish Cannonade, Mindstab, Two-Headed Sliver, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Aspect of Mongoose, Squire
Pick: Orcish Cannonade
Pack 9:
Urborg Syphon-Mage, Aether Web, Basal Sliver, Sage of Epityr, Ghitu Firebreathing, Smallpox, Moonlace
Pick: Urborg Syphon-Mage
Pack 10:
Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Chameleon Blur, Cyclopean Giant, Psychotic Episode, Paradox Haze
Pick: Psychotic Episode
Pack 11:
Drudge Reavers, Pentarch Ward, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Locket of Yesterdays
Pick: Pit Keeper
Pack 12:
Sangrophage, D’Avenant Healer, Dread Return, Lim-Dul the Necromancer
Pick: Lim-Dul the Necromancer
Pack 13:
Ancient Grudge, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal
Pick: Call to the Netherworld
Pack 14:
Pick: Ground Rift
Pack 15:
Pick: Clockspinning
Pack 16:
Mire Boa, Dreamscape Artist, Aven Riftwatcher, Cradle to Grave, Vitaspore Thallid, Dash Hopes, Aquamorph Entity, Shade of Trokair, Sinew Sliver, Melancholy, Gossamer Phantasm, Hammerheim Deadeye, Sophic Centaur, Hedge Troll, Retether
Pick: Cradle to Grave
Pack 17:
Ridged Kusite, Battering Sliver, Reflex Sliver, Uktabi Drake, Blightspeaker, Aquamorph Entity, Evolution Charm, Seal of Primordium, Mana Tithe, Rathi Trapper, Psychotrope Thallid, Saltblast, Dunerider Outlaw, Jedit Ojanen of Efrava
Pick: Rathi Trapper
Pack 18:
Mire Boa, Battering Sliver, Erratic Mutation, Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Citanul Woodreaders, Melancholy, Seal of Primordium, Stonecloaker, Jodah’s Avenger, Blood Knight, Spellshift
Pick: Blood Knight
Pack 19:
Reflex Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Veiling Oddity, Uktabi Drake, Ghost Tactician, Firefright Mage, Fa’adiyah Seer, Brute Force, Revered Dead, Dormant Sliver, Sulfur Elemental
Pick: Brute Force
Pack 20:
Dawn Charm, Cradle to Grave, Evolution Charm, Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Citanul Woodreaders, Brute Force, Fa’adiyah Seer, Aether Membrane, Big Game Hunter, Benalish Commander
Pick: Big Game Hunter
Pack 21:
Cradle to Grave, Reflex Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Pallid Mycoderm, Dust Corona, Vampiric Link, Gossamer Phantasm, Big Game Hunter, Hammerheim Deadeye, Magus of the Tabernacle
Pick: Big Game Hunter
Pack 22:
Synchronous Sliver, Needlepeak Spider, Pallid Mycoderm, Brain Gorgers, Dust Corona, Seal of Primordium, Dismal Failure, Mycologist, Roiling Horror
Pick: Roiling Horror
Pack 23:
Dawn Charm, Spitting Sliver, Brain Gorgers, Keldon Marauders, Ghost Tactician, Revered Dead, Hunting Wilds, Frenetic Sliver
Pick: Spitting Sliver
Pack 24:
Aven Riftwatcher, Vitaspore Thallid, Dash Hopes, Melancholy, Hammerheim Deadeye, Sophic Centaur, Retether
Pick: Melancholy
Pack 25:
Ridged Kusite, Battering Sliver, Reflex Sliver, Uktabi Drake, Seal of Primordium, Psychotrope Thallid
Pick: Uktabi Drake
Pack 26:
Battering Sliver, Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Seal of Primordium
Pick: Battering Sliver
Pack 27:
Reflex Sliver, Ghost Tactician, Firefright Mage, Fa’adiyah Seer
Pick: Ghost Tactician
Pack 28:
Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Fa’adiyah Seer
Pick: Deadly Grub
Pack 29:
Pick: Vampiric Link
Pack 30:
Pick: Dust Corona
Pack 31:
Lost Hours, Riddle of Lightning, Wrap in Vigor, Knight of Sursi, Leaden Fists, Gift of Granite, Frenzy Sliver, Ghostfire, Fomori Nomad, Patrician’s Scorn, Logic Knot, Skirk Ridge Exhumer, Sparkspitter, Cyclical Evolution, Force of Savagery
Pick: Ghostfire
Pack 32:
Emberwilde Augur, Aven Augur, Fatal Attraction, Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Edge of Autumn, Lymph Sliver, Blind Phantasm, Virulent Sliver, Cloudseeder, Skirk Ridge Exhumer, Llanowar Reborn, Nihilith
Pick: Nihilith
Pack 33:
Riddle of Lightning, Judge Unworthy, Kavu Primarch, Oblivion Crown, Nessian Courser, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Sarcomite Myr, Death Rattle, Homing Sliver, Cyclical Evolution, Sliversmith, Chronomantic Escape, Lumithread Field
Pick: Death Rattle
Pack 34:
Bogardan Lancer, Knight of Sursi, Grave Peril, Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Death Rattle, Blind Phantasm, Lumithread Field, Grinning Ignus, Edge of Autumn, Pooling Venom, Tolaria West
Pick: Death Rattle
Pack 35:
Leaden Fists, Quiet Disrepair, Saltskitter, Unblinking Bleb, Llanowar Augur, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Mesmeric Sliver, Deepcavern Imp, Stronghold Rats, New Benalia
Pick: Deepcavern Imp
Pack 36:
Augur of Skulls, Lost Hours, Petrified Plating, Grave Scrabbler, Henchfiend of Ukor, Lymph Sliver, Homing Sliver, Sword of the Meek, Even the Odds, Mystic Speculation
Pick: Henchfiend of Ukor
Pack 37:
Rift Elemental, Augur il-Vec, Grave Peril, Mass of Ghouls, Vedalken Aethermage, Utopia Mycon, Haze of Rage, Dakmor Salvage, Magus of the Moon
Pick: Mass of Ghouls
Pack 38:
Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Unblinking Bleb, Deepcavern Imp, Logic Knot, Virulent Sliver, Ravaging Riftwurm, Lost Auramancers
Pick: Deepcavern Imp
Pack 39:
Lost Hours, Wrap in Vigor, Gift of Granite, Frenzy Sliver, Patrician’s Scorn, Cyclical Evolution, Force of Savagery
Pick: Force of Savagery
Pack 40:
Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Blind Phantasm, Virulent Sliver, Llanowar Reborn
Pick: Cutthroat il-Dal
Pack 41:
Oblivion Crown, Homing Sliver, Cyclical Evolution, Sliversmith, Chronomantic Escape
Pick: Sliversmith
Pack 42:
Bogardan Lancer, Grave Peril, Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer
Pick: Grave Peril
Pack 43:
Quiet Disrepair, Saltskitter, Llanowar Augur
Pick: Saltskitter
Pack 44:
Pick: Lost Hours
Pack 45:
Pick: Utopia Mycon
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Brute Force
1 Blood Knight
1 Cradle to Grave
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Pit Keeper
1 Rathi Trapper
1 Assassinate
1 Big Game Hunter
1 Deepcavern Imp
1 Ghostfire
1 Orcish Cannonade
1 Urborg Syphon-Mage
1 Coal Stoker
1 Henchfiend of Ukor
1 Sulfurous Blast
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Gorgon Recluse
1 Keldon Halberdier
1 Mass of Ghouls
1 Roiling Horror
2 Death Rattle
1 Nihilith
8 Mountain
9 Swamp
Sideboard:
1 Battering Sliver
1 Big Game Hunter
1 Call to the Netherworld
1 Clockspinning
1 Cutthroat il-Dal
1 Deadly Grub
1 Deepcavern Imp
1 Dust Corona
1 Force of Savagery
1 Ghost Tactician
1 Grave Peril
1 Ground Rift
1 Lim-Dul the Necromancer [FOIL]
1 Lost Hours
1 Melancholy
1 Psychotic Episode
1 Saltskitter
1 Sliversmith
1 Spitting Sliver
1 Uktabi Drake
1 Utopia Mycon
1 Vampiric Link
This draft was pretty easy. My first couple of picks put me into the right colors, and I was never given a reason to stray. Planar Chaos was actually pretty good this time. I got a few pet cards. Big Game Hunter is a card that I’m happier with each time I play it, and Roiling Horror is a card I’d never played before the team drafts at PT: San Diego, but I gave it a try there on the advice of Ben Rubin, and wow has it been good. If you get ahead early, and can suspend it quick he can come out as a 5/5 or so, and then after one hit he becomes The Abyss. Future Sight rounded out the deck nicely with some good removal spells, and a big evasion creature in Nihilith.
Round 1 I played against a decent Blue/White deck. Game 1 he played Serendib Sorcerer and Pulmonic Sliver, but not much else. I had Trapper for the Sliver and a removal spell for the Sorcerer, and some dudes to attack with. Game 2 took a while because I couldn’t draw lands, and he bounced my Nihilith, but eventually the Nihilith came back and dealt nearly all of the damage needed to kill him.
Round 2 I played against a Green/Black deck splashing Red for Strangling Soot. Game 1 we both got a bit flooded, but he had Weatherseed Totem, which got a couple hits in. Fortunately I got a Rathi Trapper to stick before it could do the last ten. He then played Spectral Force, which meant he got another hit in with the Totem, but I found Big Game Hunter for the Spectral Force sitting on top of my deck next turn. After that we both said go for a while, then I started drawing spells while he just drew more land. Game 2 he suspended Mindstab turn 1 and it looked like things might get ugly. I had a pretty quick start however, with Trapper turn 2, Syphon-Mage turn 3, Roiling Horror turn 4, and turn 5 I hit him down to three by tapping his blocker and activating the Syphon Mage. I drew Sulfurous Blast next turn to kill him a turn before the Syphon-Mage could finish the job.
I split the finals.
Rich
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