hey guys. First of all i am back and my health is fine now so i can draft a coherent deck again.this week i actually have a treat for you, i remember my pick orders for every pack and as usaul i have my deck and results from rounds. please note 10 man pod.
Pack 1
Sword of vegence (foil)
lillana's specter (passing almost no black, maybe a rotting legion.)
assassinate (still passing little black)
assassinate
foresee
gravedigger
diabolic tutor
forsee
negate
manic vandal
non important card x3
pack 2
sleep
destructive force (i took cause the pack was weak and i can trade it to someone)
chandra's outrage (considering a red splash)
pyroclasm (considering a red switch)
lightning bolt (yeh switching into red but not sure who to drop)
lightning bolt (guy next to me is my best friend now)
serra angel (hate draft)
combust (board tactics)
thunderstrike (tricks)
pacifism (should not be here but i am hating it since it is)
azure drake
elixir of immortality
scroll theif (i really like the guy next to me.)
non important card x2
pack 3
juggernaut (ok pack, rare was merfolk guy, not caring too much)
preordain (sadly saying goodbye to black)
aether adept (yep black goes)
mystifying maze (i found out later he misred and though maze got sacrificed)
aether adept other guy not in blue i assume)
harbor serpent (even as a wall i like this guy)
terramorphic expanse (mana help)
augury owl
azure drake
ice cage (foil) thought it would help against thigns i passed)
manic vandal
unsummon
vulshok berserker (almost dropped pack, what was he doing here????)
goblin tunnler
I went to deck build and looked over my for sure cards (bolt bolt outrage, sleep sword, etc) and relized that i have allot of tempo and mid-range creatures but no beaf, except juggy. so i went though my cards a few times and though it out and i came to the conclusion of this deck.
creatures:11
augury owl:1
aether adept:2
harbor sepent:1
juggernaut:1
manic vandal:1
vulshok berserker:1
azure drake:2
scroll thief:1
goblin tunneler:1 (mainly for the thief)
spells:12
foresee:2
ice cage:1
unsummon:1
lightning bolt:2
sleep:1
pyroclasm:1
chandra's outrage:1
thunderstrike:1
preordain:1
destructive force:1
artifact:2
elixir of immortality:1
sword of vegence:1
land:18
mountain:8
island:8
terramophic:1
mystifying maze:1
total cards 43.
i know 43 is a little overboard but i figured with all draw power i would be ok i assumed that thief would be going crazy. i also only played the tunneler for the theif on times when sword is not out. my sideboard plan was combust, and a second manic vandal.
Round 1 g1
my opponent was 3 colors (jund) but had no mana support so he was stuck holding red cards and having no mountains in play until turn 9 at which i had him dead on board without the sword and when he bolted my adept i just untapped played and equiped sword and he was history.
g2
after boarding nothing, and he board in a few things we went at it, this time he had black/red spells and mana going fine but my adepts were still to much for him to deal with cause i bounced his 6/4 wurm twice before outraging it.
round 2 g1
i was playing against joel, he was black/green with fatties. in game one he had a few mana problem, he missed drops 3,5, and thenher missed 6 totally he never got to 6 mana, but on turn 4 he played a sword of his own to go onto his child of night, i just untapped and played vandal which irritated him as much as his mana. then he playyed land four finally and played jugernaut, i though about for a little and played land 6 then cast adept bounce my own vandal and then played it again destroying the naut aswell he scooped in anger.
g2
he came off strong with a turn 1 elf into a turn 2 sacred wolf, i played ice cage on elf to which he answed unholy strength and pounded me, i played an adept and bounced his elf and he played child and packleader i untapped swong and played a pyroclasm hoping to slow him down. he played packleader and passed. i untapped played forsee cause my hand was empty and i found 2 land sleep and sword but no more creatures so i grabbed the sleep and shipped the rest. he untapped swong and casted a 6/4 wurm. i played sleep and passed. he untapped and played the 7/7 wurm. i untapped and played a very underwhelming scroll theif and decided to call it a game, *he showed me overwhelming stampede* i told him that was just overkill.
g3
he had mana problems again but recovered quickly i had sweet man and curved preordain, into ice cage his guy. scrol theif into adept and unsummon for more cards and then he played 6/4 agains and packleader, he drew leader after wurm, lol. I waited 1 turn by playing a drake and passing, he played a second 6/4 wurm and i answer with destructive force clearing the feild and passing turn he kept 2 swamps no green. he drew and played child of night. i answed with adept for child he put it back down without land and i played sword he played second child and swong i took it and then i equpped sword and swong, he took ti and i played bolt to both children. he drew another nonland and scooped it up.
round 3
g1 (before the game jake and i were talking about our decks and he said he had nothing to fear from my sword his blinding mage would handle it (i remembered that) so when he played turn 2 mage on my 3 i played adept bouncing it he played it back with and elite vanguard, i played turn four adept and bounced mage again, then i swong and he took next turn he played the mage (3rd time) and he played (+2 +2 mountain walk) on vanguard and swong leaving him no mana untapped so i unsummoned it. next trun i played juggernaut and swong into him. he untapped played another mage and passed i bolted the mage that could do anything and untapped and swong all out he played and outrage to my juggy on his turn and left a white open. i swong 1 mage (he tapped other) and then i casted the sword and left red open. he played pacifism on mage and played a canyon minotaur leaving white open, bolted mage at end of turn. he scooped and commited *my poor mage*
g2 once agains he played turn 2 mage i passed, he played turn 3 mage and vanguard and swong for 1, i played adept but bounced his vanguard instead, (reason coming up) he thought about it and then played 2/2 griffin and the vanguard again, i swong and he took it so i casted sleep (being greedy) he untapped and played assault griffin and passed. i swong again he decided to block but before damage i casted unsummon on my adept and played pyroclasm and he was devastated but he untapped and played serra angel and i just played a land and passed, (i had force in hand) he swong the angel and played hoarding dragon fetching nothing. i made a comment *the skys are against me* he smiled and was caught offgaurad as i played force and dropped a land afterwards. he drew no land for next 3 turns and i played berserker followed by sword and he was out of game.
round 4 (mitch finally relized that he need more rounds) my opponent asked to draw cause he had to run and grab food for other people i agreed only cause i got food aswell.
Top 8
round 1
playing against greg (friend of whom is good but usally loses to me) he was plaing an american deck spalshing white for pacifismand sun titan, he had 2 pyormancers and 2 crystal balls his removal was lightning bold and outrage, he also had 2 adepts, i knew all this going in. I watched his game earlier and was liking his deck.we had stupid turn s 4-6 he played a 2/2 lion on 2 and on three i bounced it with adept, he adepted my adept i adepted his adept he adepted mine replaying wolf, i double adepted and he doubled back, i laughed and casted pyroclasm. Enough adepts? he played the wolf and a canyon minotaur, and commited *should i return them?* i told him nope just toss them i untapped played a land and casted force with a land in hand, he saced all but a mountain. he played a land and played a piker, i adepted it and he played crystal ball and passed. i untapped swong and casted vandal, he looked at me then scooped *is there anything in your deck that doesn't answer mine?*
game 2
he mulled two 6 i kept and he played t3 ball and i played sword. He red sword and made commit about nice foil then he played lion with red open. i played scroll theif he scyed. he untapped swong i let it through he casted mightly leap and then bolted my theif. i untapped and played tunnler, equiped and swong. he untapped and played shiv;s embrace on guy and swong again, i played adept and he said *yep not surprised, then i equipped adept and swong, he answered with pacifism on adept and pyromancer. i casted sleep and swong with tunnler. he played serra angel. i unsummoned my adept at end of turn and he was like *oh crap here we go.* i reassured him that i would not bounce his guy. i just played vulshok with a red open and he took it, he untapped and swong flyersi took all. *oh no bolt?* no reason to i told him. i equip vulshok with sword and then i casted the adept targeting the angel and attcked he bolted my guy. then he replayed angel and swong flyer again, i untapped and played force he lost all creatures and all land. i was left with mountain and island still holing island and adept (i swong first obviously). he showed me sun titan in hand and then flipped over top card to reveal a plains *which he was short* well this is too late, he proceed to dead draw 4 turns while i dream land land land and played azure daze who took sword next turn and greg shook my hand enough i got nothing coming.
round 2 i had to face jake again and this time he was more then ready for me, game one was me controling his blinding mage again, but in g2 he sided them out (i wouldn't) he brough in more red creatures and was able to get out a stronger force them me and i did not draw land 7 for force. game thrre was going ok until he turn 6 lava axed me after a turn 5 fireservant. i attacked all in and brought him down to 5 me at 3 and i casted the force leaving him landless and nothing in play and me with just 2 island (i only had 2 out and i had an adept in hand) he passed, i played a land and played the sword, he passed. i played augury owl and scyred and passed. he passed. i equipped the owl and swong. he drew mountain and bolted me. he confessed holding the bolt whole time.
all in all i thought the deck was underwhelming but apparently with all tempo control i had it was ok. until next time draft greedy and win. Peace!!
