With the CubeOpen on the horizon, I expected that to be the next big thing. But this tuesday, something else happenend. After weeks of trying, with the help of my new friend Lukas, we managed to get a playgroup together in Oldenburg, the city where I go to university. We were six (would've been eight almost), they all adored my cube and we'll have these drafts every other tuesday now.
Great news, and here come the results:
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Tokens/Lifegain Midrange 2-1 (5-3)
This was that person's first draft. Ever. And while he got a little bit help during deck building ("you should play these cheap removal spells!"), he drafted and played like an expert. Only the mana base tells you, that there was room for improvement.
2. Lands Midrange 2-1
This was the guy at who's place we're meeting, and I already figured out, that he has a weakness for 3+ colored value piles involving land stuff. Looks sweet. I didn't see much from this deck myself, but I witnessed a lethal Voldaren Epicure finish on an empty board lol.
This deck was perfectly equal with...
2. Aggro 2-1 (4-3)
Very strong aggro deck, that had some staying power with it's card advantage creating three drops. I had a close match against it, that I couldn't win because in game three the Battle Screech tokens disabled my ninjas.
As you can see next:
4. Ninja Tempo 1-1-1 (3-3)
I realized a little late, that I was essentially the only one in blue, or else I would've tried mono blue control probably. But I'm also happy with drafting Ninjas for the first time in so long. Some of the new additions like Grazilaxx felt great. And some old favorites like Man-o'-War or Okiba-Gang Shinobi are still as awesome as they were 2/5/10 years ago.
I ended up with the exact same win rate but had slightly more succesful opponents than ...
5. Madness Midrange 1-1-1 (3-3)
Tbh, this deck looks a bit all over the place. The story behind it was, that this guy, who also never played my cube before, thought for most of the draft, that Madness was in, as that's what modern sets usually do. He somewhat salvaged this by going three color and the deck played a bit better than it looks.
6. Dredge Midrange 0-3 (0-5)
Poor golgari. The player he claimed, that the bad result was due to him playing a selfmill deck for the first time and making mistakes because of that. However, he still had fun as he got to "go off" with LftL and Worm Harvest.
After a bunch of fun and intense games and with a new (regular?) playgroup, I'll enter the CubeOpen on a real high. As I'm posting this, I am on the bus to berlin. Let's go cubing!
Great news, and here come the results:
1.
Tokens/Lifegain Midrange 2-1 (5-3) | | | | |
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This was that person's first draft. Ever. And while he got a little bit help during deck building ("you should play these cheap removal spells!"), he drafted and played like an expert. Only the mana base tells you, that there was room for improvement.
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Lands Midrange 2-1 | | | | | |
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This was the guy at who's place we're meeting, and I already figured out, that he has a weakness for 3+ colored value piles involving land stuff. Looks sweet. I didn't see much from this deck myself, but I witnessed a lethal Voldaren Epicure finish on an empty board lol.
This deck was perfectly equal with...
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Aggro 2-1 (4-3) | | | |
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Very strong aggro deck, that had some staying power with it's card advantage creating three drops. I had a close match against it, that I couldn't win because in game three the Battle Screech tokens disabled my ninjas.
As you can see next:
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Ninja Tempo 1-1-1 (3-3) | | | |
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I realized a little late, that I was essentially the only one in blue, or else I would've tried mono blue control probably. But I'm also happy with drafting Ninjas for the first time in so long. Some of the new additions like Grazilaxx felt great. And some old favorites like Man-o'-War or Okiba-Gang Shinobi are still as awesome as they were 2/5/10 years ago.
I ended up with the exact same win rate but had slightly more succesful opponents than ...
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Madness Midrange 1-1-1 (3-3) | | | |
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Tbh, this deck looks a bit all over the place. The story behind it was, that this guy, who also never played my cube before, thought for most of the draft, that Madness was in
, as that's what modern sets usually do. He somewhat salvaged this by going three color and the deck played a bit better than it looks.6.
Dredge Midrange 0-3 (0-5) | | | | | |
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Poor golgari. The player he claimed, that the bad result was due to him playing a selfmill deck for the first time and making mistakes because of that. However, he still had fun as he got to "go off" with LftL and Worm Harvest.
After a bunch of fun and intense games and with a new (regular?) playgroup, I'll enter the CubeOpen on a real high. As I'm posting this, I am on the bus to berlin. Let's go cubing!