Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thursday Night Draft 12-11-08

Pack 1 Pick 1:
Rare: Godsire
Uncommon: Behemoth's Heral
Common: Oblivion Ring

I made the wrong pick, Godsire. Should have taken the Oblivion Ring, Pick 3 gave me a Branching Bolt, soI started leaning towards green red at this point. I picked up a Resounding Silence around pick 4, followed by a Sprouting Thrinax somehow, got grixis land next, .

Pack 2 Pick 1: I take the Bant Charm since there's not much for me in the pack. Get Passed Violent Ultimatum. I also get another Sprouting Thrinax, a Carrion Thrasher, a Tidehollow Sculler(I think pick 5!) and a couple of obelisks.

Pack 3 I start off picking my second Branching Bolt, use the rest of the picks to kind of flesh things out, Wild Nacatl, a Cavern Thocter is a nice pick in their, a Naya Charm and a second Gift of the Gargantuan.

final deck:
Creatures
1x Wild Nacatl
1x Cylian Elf
1x Tidehollow Sculler
1x Hissing Iguanar
2x Sprouting Thrinax
1x Carrion Thrash
1x Waveskimmer Aven
1x Cavern Thoctar
1x Ridge Rannet
1x Godshire
Spells
2x Gift of the Gargantuan
2x Branching Bolt
1x Naya Charm
1x Bant Charm
1x Resounding Silence
1x Violent Ultimatum
Artifacts
1x Obelisk of Bant
1x Obelisk of Jund
1x Obelisk of Grixis
1x Obelisk of Esper
Lands
1x Crumbling Necropolis
4x Plains
6x Forests
6x Mountains

Sideboard Playables:
1x Cylian Elf
1x Rip Clan Crasher
1x Thorn-Thrash Viashino
1x Exuberant Firestoker
1x Naturalize
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Match 1: Boogie (0-0)
I win 2-1, the early good creatures mixed with good removal just turn out to be a little much. Gift of the Gargantuan gives me the extra push to finish things off.

Match 2: Will (1-0)
I lose (0-2) to a mirror that is faster than mine with just about as much removal. He just out gasses me

Match 3: George (1-1) (I get paired up)
Its George. + for the first time for the night, I cant get the fixing to work right. When I lose game 2, Im holding Violent Ultimatum, Sprouting Thrinax, Bant Charm, and Branching bolt, he has 4 creatures on board to my 1 and no Black or blue available, I never draw my sources. :( I lose 0-2

Match 4: Scott (2-1)
He's playing Necrogenesis, I just have too many beefy creatures and dont leave him very many targets in the graveyards. early hissing iguanars make him squirm a lot. I win 2-0

Finish 2-2 fifth place. out of 12.

6 comments:

Sean said...

Nice post. I like to know these things, especially since I don't ever seem to make it down to the draft, ever. Fifth ain't bad, though, especially when you played will and george and boogie all on the same night.

DRokRoss said...

Yea, I was happy with it. Scott is a pretty good player too.

Shirolotus said...

diddo, sean's comment. don't know scott though.

Sean said...

I don't know scott either, I guess

DRokRoss said...

Its Scott Brenner, He's a good drafter from W. Memphis Area, goes to school up here, mostly plays limited I believe.

Sean said...

who's got the crap-card-of-the-week, by the way? i think i volunteered the last one