fbpx

Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #26

Draft with Luis Scott-Vargas every day... At StarCityGames.com!
Monday, January 26th – Luis Scott-Vargas continues his daily Draft series, sharing each pick from a draft in the Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

  Pack 1 pick 1:

















  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 2:
















  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 3:















  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 4:














  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 5:













  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 6:












  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 7:











  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 8:










  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 9:









  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 10:








  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 11:







  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 12:






  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 13:





  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 14:




  My Pick:

  Pack 1 pick 15:



  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 1:

















  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 2:
















  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 3:















  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 4:














  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 5:













  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 6:












  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 7:











  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 8:










  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 9:









  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 10:








  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 11:







  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 12:






  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 13:





  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 14:




  My Pick:

  Pack 2 pick 15:



  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 1:

















  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 2:
















  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 3:















  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 4:














  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 5:













  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 6:












  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 7:











  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 8:










  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 9:









  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 10:








  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 11:







  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 12:






  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 13:





  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 14:




  My Pick:

  Pack 3 pick 15:



  My Pick:

This draft converter created by Benjamin Peebles-Mundy.
Visit the draft converter today!

1 Kathari Screecher
1 Battlegrace Angel
2 Yoked Plowbeast
2 Metallurgeon
1 Tidehollow Sculler
1 Sharding Sphinx
1 Fatestitcher
1 Sphinx Sovereign
3 Courier’s Capsule
2 Sanctum Gargoyle
2 Cloudheath Drake
1 Resounding Wave
1 Esper Charm
2 Excommunicate
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Obelisk of Esper
1 Esper Panorama
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Arcane Sanctum
6 Plains
6 Island
2 Swamp

Sideboard
1 Rockcaster Platoon
1 Resounding Scream
1 Cathartic Adept
1 Tortoise Formation
1 Plains
1 Vectis Silencers
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Bant Battlemage
1 Glaze Fiend
1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
1 Minion Reflector
1 Forest
1 Angel’s Herald
2 Coma Veil
1 Etherium Astrolabe
2 Plains
1 Obelisk of Esper

P1p1 Wheeee!
P1p2 Ultimatum isn’t the most castable and trilands are always a good bet.
P1p7 I could conceivably go Bant even though I’m not a huge fan.

P2p3 With two Courier’s Capsules at this point the potential three-for-one off Gargoyle outweighs the Executioner’s Capsule.
P3p3 I still don’t like Infest particularly in a deck that looks to be heavily UW.

Round 1 versus Naya
G1 My opponent led with a Dragon’s Herald which is usually good news. Even if they do have a Hellkite (bad) the Herald is pretty sketchy so that helps your cause. I never saw a Black creature so it’s possible the Herald was just a Mons’s Goblin Raiders. Either way I used Courier’s Capsules and Sanctum Gargoyles to draw a bunch of cards and kill him with an ever-increasing army of fliers.
G2 This was much like the first game as my opponent’s deck seemed a bit subpar and mine certainly wasn’t. I played some fliers Excommunicated a guy and finished it with Battlegrace.

Round 2 versus Jund/Grixis
G1 I’m not really sure what my opponent is doing as I see all the colors but White. The deck seems fine though and I trade my creatures for his removal coming out ahead thanks to all the two-for-ones in my deck. I eventually manage to land the Angel and he has no way to stop it.
G2 He mulliganed to 5 and I had a very good draw. I was maybe three turns away from winning when my internet died for half an hour which was pretty annoying. I figured that even though I lost to random disconnection this was still a good draft especially given that I likely make the finals at the very least (I had a pretty huge advantage over my opponent this game although I guess it is technically possible for me to lose).

Until tomorrow…

LSV