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Definitely living the mono-red dream. Because, why not. Not enough creatures, but, whatever.

I just miclicked for a game loss. I fucking hate this client. So fucking much.

Edit: In truth, it was the match loss. First game I won in 7 turns. Second game I drew land. Third game I fucked up. Awesome.

Draft #2:

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I don't like this deck as much. Seems clunky.

It isn't too bad from a dudes standpoint, but having a 100% removal free deck isn't going to do you any favors. Whispersilk Cloak should be good for some cheese wins (that thing is hilarious on an archon especially).

Right now Armored Ascension on a Sacred Wolf is going the distance.

Edit: Whispersilk Cloak is absolutely not cheese. It is a gamebreaker. It's one of the best cards in the format imo.

It can be a major enabler in an otherwise weak deck is all I mean, I lost a game once to a whispersilk cloaked, primal cocooned goldenglow moth.  :uhrr:

Roflstomping my way through this draft. Whispersilk on an animated 4/5 tree is lulz.

Edit: Deck went 2-1. Finals, guy was fucking topdecking like a champion. It was unreal.

If you curve out properly and draw well you can win by just laying down guys on turns 1-4 against a lot of the decks people seem to want to make.

I have noticed that many people are surprised that you will trade with them early game....  It's like people are stuck in an aggro mindset, and think that every game is a race.  They're surprised when you go 1 for 1 with their early beats.

Draft #4, Pool:
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BEHOLD, CHEESE.
Draft #4, Deck:

If only he had Telepathy.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/004_08312010_telepathy.png)

Draft #5, Pool:
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The schild power-beatdown hour.
Draft #5, Deck:

Won the first game already. Didn't have time to post before it started.

The casting costs in that last one look a little awkward to me, I might have skipped Garruk's Companion just because he's unlikely to be castable turn 2, and you can never go turn 2 Garruk's, turn 3 aether adept and bounce the blocker anyway. You have a pretty good tempo build available there with all that bounce and scry/card draw to get you to your big creature drops, I think I'd probably just run ice cage in there in that 2 drop spot to play that up a bit more, it is kind of mediocre removal but it is a nice early staller. The giant spider fits into that pretty well but your curve is awfully heavy at 4 already. I might have run it in place of the cudgel troll though just to make the mana that much more predictable.

Garruk's was me being greedy.

I have greed issues. Right now I have decks built solely to drop stuff turn 3 that costs 6, 7 mana.

Edit: By game up there, I meant match.

Can't believe how many solid blue picks you got, was no one else in the color?

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/007_09042010.png)

Seriously, folks.

Seriously.

Not even using a spoiler.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/007_09042010_deck.png)

Decided to replace the Harbor Serpent with a Unsummon at the last second. Harbor can be sideboarded in this deck, that seems unreasonable.

Edit: Also, I just want to say how much less I like Blinding Mage than Dawnglare Invoker. Blue/White Levelers was a lot more fun than M11 Fliers. Bleh.

I just, in this order, to a llanowar elf, made my opponent concede:

Turn 2: Unsummon
Turn 3: Aether Adept Bounce
Turn 4: Aether Adept Bounce
Turn 5: Mana Leak

God damnit. Last guy I'm playing has a grave titan. Beat him first game, not so much second game.

Lost. Goddamn corrupt and quag sickness. Alas poor control deck, you did not go the distance despite being STACKED.

So.  Last night, my dinner plans fall through and I decide to do a draft. 

First round and first game, my UB deck with piles of removal is chipping away at my opponent while I keep his board under control.  Nightwing Shade and Nantuko Shade are doing their thing.

Guy drops a Frost Titan, tapping Nantuko.  Well, no problem.... Corrupt is in hand and I have the mana to pay off the Mana Leak effect.  Swing away and now my opponent is at 5.  Next turn, he drops a fucking Sun Titan getting back an Augury Owl. 

I get a phone call that some friends are going out for drinks, so I thank the guy for the game and drop from the Swiss game 1/round 1.


Really?  Frost and Sun Titan?  The only rare I was playing was Nantuko Shade.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/draftpack01.png)

2 decks:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/008_09042010_deck.png)

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/009_09042010_deck.png)

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/010_09042010_deck.png)

Drafted this to a second place last night.  Little creature light, but that was what the 2 mind controls were for :)


Edit by schild: Spoilered that, was huge.

Ended up playing the guy who obviously had this pack in the draft. He had a Jace. He lost.

I did well tonight. Four packs left in my collection. Wooo, going infinite.

Ah, the dream of MTGO drafters everywhere.

I always got close, just had to put in for 1 pack or a couple tickets for most drafts, but never actually quite made it to drafting for free.

Too ashamed to post the card pool. This deck is a piece of shit.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/011_09052010_deck.png)

I got cut off both directions in blue-white. Got a Glacial Fortress from a pack. What a disaster.

Lost first match. Not enough gas.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/012_09062010_deck.png)

Suck on that, fellow drafters.

First match done. Fucker almost out-tempo'd me 3rd game. Second game I got blown out. Kept drawing junk.

Flabbergasting, I won the whole tournament with that deck. Never would have expected it.  :uhrr:

Really? I thought it looked fairly solid.  Beaters, removal, mana accel.

Sarchasm. You're in it. That deck was amazing.

That fauna shaman is lols.

Round 2, game 3 of my present draft my opponent kept a 2 land hand with fauna shaman.  Flashfreezed his shaman, and developed my board while he was stuck on land.  He conceded and I showed him my aether adept and 2x sleep in hand.  Heh.

The real big difference in that game was I threw my first hand back (which was unreal besides the fact it had one land) and went to 6, while my opponent kept a bonkers hand with no land and counted on the draw.

Remember to mulligan!

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/013_09072010_deck.png)

I almost never have any luck going three colors in limited, especially with 6 double color casting costs.  I'm guessing Day of Judgement makes the draft almost profitable by itself anyways though.

With 1 cultivate and 1 terramorphic expanse you can get away with 3 colors, but I think I would have skipped either the white or blue double CC spells anyway. Probably blue, day of judgement is just a much better spell than sleep (which I find a little overrated in general).

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39720/mtgo/drafts/014_09082010_deck.png)

Day of Judgment is in the sideboard, I guess. Had to hate it out over a Serra Angel, sigh.