schild's drafts

[schild]

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

[schild]

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.

[schild]

Draft #2:



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

[Ingmar]

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).

[schild]

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.

[Ingmar]

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. 

[schild]

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.

[Hoax]

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.

[Johny Cee]

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.

[schild]

Draft #4, Pool:


BEHOLD, CHEESE.
Draft #4, Deck:

[schild]

If only he had Telepathy.

[schild]

Draft #5, Pool:


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

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

[Ingmar]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Thrawn]

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

[schild]

Seriously, folks.

Seriously.

Not even using a spoiler.

[schild]

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.

[schild]

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

[schild]

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

[schild]

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

[Johny Cee]

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

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.

[schild]

[schild]

2 decks:

[schild]

[Xilren's Twin]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Thrawn]

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.

[schild]

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



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

[schild]

Lost first match. Not enough gas.

[schild]

Suck on that, fellow drafters.

[schild]

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

[schild]

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

[Thrawn]

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

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

[schild]

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

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

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

[Johny Cee]

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!