Draft:
Pack 1:
Chromatic Star Looter il-Kor Gorgon Recluse Herd Gnarr Fortify Skulking Knight Brass Gnat Dream Stalker Watcher Sliver Blazing Blade Askari Firewake Sliver Spell Burst Duskrider Peregrine Teferi Mage of Zhalfir Mindless Automaton
Pick: Teferi Mage of Zhalfir
Pack 2:
Herd Gnarr Trespasser il-Vec Amrou Scout Grapeshot Scarwood Treefolk Traitor’s Clutch D’Avenant Healer Glass Asp Prismatic Lens Ground Rift Tectonic Fiend Fallen Ideal Triskelavus Dandan
Pick: Triskelavus
Pack 3:
Keldon Halberdier Ivory Giant Grapeshot Mindstab Slipstream Serpent Two-Headed Sliver Clockspinning Sidewinder Sliver Saltcrusted Steppe Fool’s Demise Basalt Gargoyle Coalition Victory Island
Pick: Grapeshot
Pack 4:
Coal Stoker Deathspore Thallid Tolarian Sentinel Benalish Cavalry Orcish Cannonade Glass Asp Traitor’s Clutch Plunder Eternity Snare Paradise Plume Primal Forcemage Urza’s Factory
Pick: Coal Stoker
Pack 5:
Nantuko Shaman Castle Raptors Gorgon Recluse Spiketail Drakeling Scarwood Treefolk Viscid Lemures Mwonvuli Acid-Moss Two-Headed Sliver Blazing Blade Askari Shadow Sliver Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Spiketail Drakeling
Pack 6:
Mana Skimmer Durkwood Baloth Ophidian Eye Watcher Sliver Thrill of the Hunt Plunder Plated Pegasus Molten Slagheap Cavalry Master Dementia Sliver
Pick: Durkwood Baloth
Pack 7:
Gaze of Justice Molder Venser’s Sliver Children of Korlis Sangrophage Spell Burst Ignite Memories Tormod’s Crypt Pull from Eternity
Pick: Venser’s Sliver
Pack 8:
Ivory Giant Mystical Teachings Thrill of the Hunt Shadow Sliver Bogardan Rager Spirit Loop Molten Slagheap Conspiracy
Pick: Mystical Teachings
Pack 9:
Chromatic Star Fortify Skulking Knight Brass Gnat Watcher Sliver Firewake Sliver Spell Burst
Pick: Chromatic Star
Pack 10:
Scarwood Treefolk Traitor’s Clutch Glass Asp Ground Rift Tectonic Fiend Dandan
Pick: Dandan
Pack 11:
Clockspinning Sidewinder Sliver Fool’s Demise Coalition Victory Island
Pick: Coalition Victory
Pack 12:
Glass Asp Traitor’s Clutch Plunder Eternity Snare
Pick: Eternity Snare
Pack 13:
Two-Headed Sliver Shadow Sliver Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Volcanic Awakening
Pack 14:
Pick: Ophidian Eye
Pack 15:
Pick: Children of Korlis
Pack 16:
Aether Web Assassinate Amrou Seekers Temporal Eddy Mogg War Marshal Terramorphic Expanse Ancient Grudge Foriysian Interceptor Basal Sliver Vampiric Sliver Sudden Shock Pendelhaven Elder Curse of the Cabal Defiant Vanguard Tectonic Fiend
Pick: Sudden Shock
Pack 17:
Mogg War Marshal Temporal Isolation Think Twice Ashcoat Bear Urborg Syphon-Mage Momentary Blink Greenseeker Pit Keeper Divine Congregation Jhoira’s Timebug Sudden Death Durkwood Tracker Lotus Bloom Shadow Guildmage
Pick: Think Twice
Pack 18:
Bonesplitter Sliver Viscerid Deepwalker Ashcoat Bear Amrou Seekers Psychotic Episode Jedit’s Dragoons Sprout Foriysian Interceptor Aetherflame Wall Wipe Away Dementia Sliver Spike Tiller Sengir Autocrat
Pick: Viscerid Deepwalker
Pack 19:
Thallid Germinator Zealot il-Vec Ironclaw Buzzardiers Temporal Eddy Havenwood Wurm Basal Sliver Sage of Epityr Ghitu Firebreathing Phthisis Harmonic Sliver Tivadar of Thorn Prodigal Sorcerer
Pick: Prodigal Sorcerer
Pack 20:
Cloudchaser Kestrel Thallid Germinator Terramorphic Expanse Pentarch Ward Chameleon Blur Subterranean Shambler Cyclopean Giant Screeching Sliver Fallen Ideal Magus of the Candelabra Consecrate Land
Pick: Terramorphic Expanse
Pack 21:
Cancel Icatian Crier Bonesplitter Sliver Detainment Spell Thallid Shell-Dweller Bewilder Call to the Netherworld Might of Old Krosa Gustcloak Cavalier Nether Traitor
Pick: Cancel
Pack 22:
Think Twice Errant Doomsayers Brass Gnat Savage Thallid Screeching Sliver Momentary Blink Thunder Totem Skittering Monstrosity Thunder Totem
Pick: Think Twice
Pack 23:
Cancel Savage Thallid Ancient Grudge Call to the Netherworld Drifter il-Dal Opaline Sliver Wipe Away Ignite Memories
Pick: Wipe Away
Pack 24:
Aether Web Mogg War Marshal Ancient Grudge Foriysian Interceptor Pendelhaven Elder Curse of the Cabal Tectonic Fiend
Pick: Mogg War Marshal
Pack 25:
Mogg War Marshal Greenseeker Pit Keeper Divine Congregation Durkwood Tracker Lotus Bloom
Pick: Mogg War Marshal
Pack 26:
Jedit’s Dragoons Sprout Foriysian Interceptor Aetherflame Wall Dementia Sliver
Pick: Aetherflame Wall
Pack 27:
Havenwood Wurm Basal Sliver Ghitu Firebreathing Harmonic Sliver
Pick: Havenwood Wurm
Pack 28:
Chameleon Blur Screeching Sliver Consecrate Land
Pick: Consecrate Land
Pack 29:
Detainment Spell Gustcloak Cavalier
Pick: Gustcloak Cavalier
Pack 30:
Pick: Screeching Sliver
Pack 31:
Aven Riftwatcher Erratic Mutation Cradle to Grave Reflex Sliver Dreamscape Artist Wistful Thinking Dash Hopes Reality Acid Seal of Primordium Healing Leaves Simian Spirit Guide Waning Wurm Sulfur Elemental Ovinize Intet the Dreamer
Pick: Intet the Dreamer
Pack 32:
Poultice Sliver Dead / Gone Dreamscape Artist Ridged Kusite Shade of Trokair Vitaspore Thallid Merfolk Thaumaturgist Sunlance Mana Tithe Darkheart Sliver Stonecloaker Kor Dirge Detritivore Midnight Charm
Pick: Dead / Gone
Pack 33:
Ridged Kusite Needlepeak Spider Deadly Grub Dust Corona Reality Acid Blightspeaker Evolution Charm Revered Dead Fa’adiyah Seer Dismal Failure Porphyry Nodes Radha Heir to Keld Dust Corona
Pick: Dismal Failure
Pack 34:
Stingscourger Utopia Vow Dawn Charm Fury Charm Evolution Charm Reality Acid Healing Leaves Sunlance Prodigal Pyromancer Sophic Centaur Temporal Extortion Reflex Sliver
Pick: Prodigal Pyromancer
Pack 35:
Mire Boa Battering Sliver Deadly Grub Citanul Woodreaders Brain Gorgers Ghost Tactician Piracy Charm Primal Plasma Riftmarked Knight Pongify Groundbreaker
Pick: Primal Plasma
Pack 36:
Dawn Charm Deadly Grub Aquamorph Entity Firefright Mage Blightspeaker Ghost Tactician Simian Spirit Guide Venarian Glimmer Phantasmagorian Dunerider Outlaw
Pick: Aquamorph Entity
Pack 37:
Battering Sliver Utopia Vow Veiling Oddity Firefright Mage Uktabi Drake Healing Leaves Sulfur Elemental Frozen Aether Life and Limb
Pick: Sulfur Elemental
Pack 38:
Midnight Charm Vitaspore Thallid Fury Charm Wistful Thinking Mana Tithe Primal Plasma Rebuff the Wicked Auramancer’s Guise
Pick: Primal Plasma
Pack 39:
Reflex Sliver Wistful Thinking Dash Hopes Reality Acid Seal of Primordium Healing Leaves Simian Spirit Guide
Pick: Simian Spirit Guide
Pack 40:
Poultice Sliver Shade of Trokair Vitaspore Thallid Mana Tithe Darkheart Sliver Midnight Charm
Pick: Shade of Trokair
Pack 41:
Dust Corona Reality Acid Revered Dead Fa’adiyah Seer Dust Corona
Pick: Dust Corona
Pack 42:
Dawn Charm Reality Acid Healing Leaves Sophic Centaur
Pick: Reality Acid
Pack 43:
Brain Gorgers Ghost Tactician Piracy Charm
Pick: Piracy Charm
Pack 44:
Ghost Tactician Phantasmagorian
Pick: Phantasmagorian
Pack 45:
Pick: Frozen Aether
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Prodigal Sorcerer
1 Aquamorph Entity
1 Piracy Charm
2 Primal Plasma
1 Spiketail Drakeling
1 Teferi Mage of Zhalfir
2 Think Twice
1 Viscerid Deepwalker
1 Wipe Away
1 Coal Stoker
1 Grapeshot
2 Mogg War Marshal
1 Prodigal Pyromancer
1 Sudden Shock
1 Sulfur Elemental
1 Aetherflame Wall
1 Chromatic Star
1 Triskelavus
1 Dead // Gone
1 Intet the Dreamer
1 Forest
8 Island
7 Mountain
1 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard:
1 Cancel
1 Children of Korlis
1 Coalition Victory
1 Consecrate Land
1 Dandn
1 Dismal Failure
1 Durkwood Baloth
1 Dust Corona [FOIL]
1 Eternity Snare
1 Frozen Aether
1 Gustcloak Cavalier
1 Havenwood Wurm
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Ophidian Eye
1 Phantasmagorian
1 Reality Acid
1 Screeching Sliver
1 Shade of Trokair
1 Simian Spirit Guide
1 Venser’s Sliver
1 Volcanic Awakening
This deck could have been excellent if I had been more attentive to the signals in the draft such as the fifth pick Castle Raptors. Instead the deck ended up rather unimpressive if it weren’t for the rares. Fortunately the rares existed and they gave the deck the boost it needed.
Round 1 I played against a good Black/Red deck. In the first game he drew a lot of his good cards and I got flooded so he won fairly easily. For game 2 I boarded in Eternity Snare and Dismal Failure because his deck wasn’t very fast. The second game was weird. He didn’t do much of anything. He played a Deathspore Thallid and Basalt Gargoyle both of which I dealt with then he got to about six lands and stopped playing lands and spells. I didn’t have much going on either with the Snare and Failure in my hand. Eventually I drew into Teferi and Triskelavus which both came out at the end of one of his turns and put him away. Game 3 he had turn 1 Mindstab but I had Dismal Failure for that then a Grapeshot for three to kill his Mana Skimmer and Skulking Knight. From there I was able to win by attacking with some Goblins from Mogg War Marshal since I had run him out of cards.
Round 2 I played against a Blue/Black deck splashing Red for the Flashback on Strangling Soot (and maybe a bit more). Game 1 he Psychotic Episoded Intet to the bottom on turn 3 but I had drawn both Think Twices and was able to win fairly easily with the card advantage they provided by simply playing a creature each turn and attacking when possible. Game 1 I got stuck on three lands for a couple of turns but he didn’t have much going on either so I was able to take over the game with Teferi once I got to five mana.
I split the finals.
Until tomorrow
Rich
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