5c safra's cube grid draft

safra

safra

Grid Drafting - PM me if you want to draft this or another open Grid tonight. If you post in the thread I'll get a notification!
Pack 1




Row 1:
1 Mayor of Avabruck
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Tidehollow Sculler

Row 2:
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Impulse
1 Scavenging Ooze

Row 3:
1 Herald of Torment
1 Prohibit
1 Judge's Familiar

Column 1:
1 Mayor of Avabruck
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Herald of Torment

Column 2:
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Impulse
1 Prohibit

Column 3:
1 Tidehollow Sculler
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Judge's Familiar

Pack 2




Row 1:
1 Tundra
1 Soldier of the Pantheon
1 Path to Exile

Row 2:
1 Polluted Delta
1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
1 Vengevine

Row 3:
1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Roil Mage

Column 1:
1 Tundra
1 Polluted Delta
1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros

Column 2:
1 Soldier of the Pantheon
1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
1 Wooded Foothills

Column 3:
1 Path to Exile
1 Vengevine
1 Roil Mage

Pack 3




Row 1:
1 Mutavault
1 Remove Soul
1 Whirler Rogue

Row 2:
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Row 3:
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Mindshrieker
1 Phyrexian Revoker

Column 1:
1 Mutavault
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Verdant Catacombs

Column 2:
1 Remove Soul
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Mindshrieker

Column 3:
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Phyrexian Revoker

Pack 4




Row 1:
1 Toshiro Umezawa
1 Wasteland
1 Dig Through Time

Row 2:
1 Fabled Hero
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Jeskai Elder

Row 3:
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Scrubland
1 Scalding Tarn

Column 1:
1 Toshiro Umezawa
1 Fabled Hero
1 Noble Hierarch

Column 2:
1 Wasteland
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Scrubland

Column 3:
1 Dig Through Time
1 Jeskai Elder
1 Scalding Tarn

Pack 5




Row 1:
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Curse of Predation

Row 2:
1 Savannah
1 Life // Death
1 Polukranos, World Eater

Row 3:
1 Angelic Overseer
1 Dark Ritual
1 Terminus

Column 1:
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Savannah
1 Angelic Overseer

Column 2:
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Life // Death
1 Dark Ritual

Column 3:
1 Curse of Predation
1 Polukranos, World Eater
1 Terminus

Pack 6




Row 1:
1 Underground Sea
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Dryad Militant

Row 2:
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Knight of the Reliquary

Row 3:
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Eternal Witness
1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Column 1:
1 Underground Sea
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Snapcaster Mage

Column 2:
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Eternal Witness

Column 3:
1 Dryad Militant
1 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Pack 7




Row 1:
1 Helm of Possession
1 Student of Warfare
1 Void Grafter

Row 2:
1 Mother of Runes
1 Athreos, God of Passage
1 Windswept Heath

Row 3:
1 Vile Redeemer
1 Temple of Silence
1 Painful Truths

Column 1:
1 Helm of Possession
1 Mother of Runes
1 Vile Redeemer

Column 2:
1 Student of Warfare
1 Athreos, God of Passage
1 Temple of Silence

Column 3:
1 Void Grafter
1 Windswept Heath
1 Painful Truths

Pack 8




Row 1:
1 Temple of Malady
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Wooded Foothills

Row 2:
1 Cataclysm
1 Bayou
1 Birthing Pod

Row 3:
1 Thoughtseize
1 Darkblast
1 Languish

Column 1:
1 Temple of Malady
1 Cataclysm
1 Thoughtseize

Column 2:
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bayou
1 Darkblast

Column 3:
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Birthing Pod
1 Languish

Pack 9




Row 1:
1 Narset Transcendent
1 Imposing Sovereign
1 Phyrexian Metamorph

Row 2:
1 Courser of Kruphix
1 Sword of the Animist
1 Banisher Priest

Row 3:
1 Myth Realized
1 Dread Return
1 Collected Company

Column 1:
1 Narset Transcendent
1 Courser of Kruphix
1 Myth Realized

Column 2:
1 Imposing Sovereign
1 Sword of the Animist
1 Dread Return

Column 3:
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Banisher Priest
1 Collected Company

Pack 10




Row 1:
1 Ojutai Exemplars
1 Sphinx's Revelation
1 Graveblade Marauder

Row 2:
1 Augur of Bolas
1 Drown in Sorrow
1 Mnemonic Wall

Row 3:
1 Evolutionary Leap
1 Smother
1 Brainstorm

Column 1:
1 Ojutai Exemplars
1 Augur of Bolas
1 Evolutionary Leap

Column 2:
1 Sphinx's Revelation
1 Drown in Sorrow
1 Smother

Column 3:
1 Graveblade Marauder
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Brainstorm

Pack 11




Row 1:
1 Champion of the Parish
1 Managorger Hydra
1 Silent Departure

Row 2:
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Dismember
1 Eternal Witness

Row 3:
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Whip of Erebos
1 Temple Garden

Column 1:
1 Champion of the Parish
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Garruk Wildspeaker

Column 2:
1 Managorger Hydra
1 Dismember
1 Whip of Erebos

Column 3:
1 Silent Departure
1 Eternal Witness
1 Temple Garden

Pack 12




Row 1:
1 Remand
1 Baleful Strix
1 Experiment One

Row 2:
1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Phantasmal Image

Row 3:
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Scourge of Nel Toth

Column 1:
1 Remand
1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
1 Disdainful Stroke

Column 2:
1 Baleful Strix
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Oblivion Ring

Column 3:
1 Experiment One
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Scourge of Nel Toth

Pack 13




Row 1:
1 Condescend
1 Countersquall
1 Overgrown Tomb

Row 2:
1 Aetherling
1 Flooded Strand
1 Expedition Map

Row 3:
1 Emerge Unscathed
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Hermit Druid

Column 1:
1 Condescend
1 Aetherling
1 Emerge Unscathed

Column 2:
1 Countersquall
1 Flooded Strand
1 Glen Elendra Archmage

Column 3:
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Expedition Map
1 Hermit Druid

Pack 14




Row 1:
1 Epochrasite
1 Bring to Light
1 Godless Shrine

Row 2:
1 Brainstorm
1 Tropical Island
1 Bonesplitter

Row 3:
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Scatter to the Winds
1 Feeling of Dread

Column 1:
1 Epochrasite
1 Brainstorm
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Column 2:
1 Bring to Light
1 Tropical Island
1 Scatter to the Winds

Column 3:
1 Godless Shrine
1 Bonesplitter
1 Feeling of Dread

Pack 15




Row 1:
1 Innocent Blood
1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
1 Misty Rainforest

Row 2:
1 Brainstorm
1 Profane Command
1 Obstinate Baloth

Row 3:
1 Mardu Strike Leader
1 Song of the Dryads
1 Silumgar's Command

Column 1:
1 Innocent Blood
1 Brainstorm
1 Mardu Strike Leader

Column 2:
1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
1 Profane Command
1 Song of the Dryads

Column 3:
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Silumgar's Command

Pack 16




Row 1:
1 Shriekmaw
1 Miscalculation
1 Wasteland

Row 2:
1 Priest of the Blood Rite
1 Heartwood Storyteller
1 Porcelain Legionnaire

Row 3:
1 Soulfire Grand Master
1 Eidolon of Blossoms
1 Blade Splicer

Column 1:
1 Shriekmaw
1 Priest of the Blood Rite
1 Soulfire Grand Master

Column 2:
1 Miscalculation
1 Heartwood Storyteller
1 Eidolon of Blossoms

Column 3:
1 Wasteland
1 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Blade Splicer
 
Grillo_Parlante

Grillo_Parlante

Contributor
So those were some interesting games. Only got to play 1 match, but I enjoyed both games.

Here is the beast, in all of her glory

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Is this a good deck within the context of the format? No idea, but I enjoyed the games. I felt poorly positioned against safra mostly because of the manlands, which were going to be hard for me to answer. The only card that seemed actually bad was narset, as I was going to be playing so much catchup that engineering a clean board for her would be difficult. Disdainful stroke was also a bit punishing because of how low CC most of the cube is. Within the spectrum of what control decks want to do this is probably midling? Not really being able to actively get ahead on mana is tough, its fairly easy to sneak under my counter disruption, and once on board its pretty easy to outpace or overwhelm my spot removal. In return I have a pretty limited threat density that lines up poorly with most other decks I would think. I think I may have drafted the rock.

Its kind of funny, because I've been playing so much low power magic that I was kind of taking for a loop on a few things.

1.) fixing good enough where she could play colorless producing lands in a three-color shell! I didn't run the wasteland I picked (nor did I expect her to actually run gavony or mutavault) because of the color restrictions.
2.) You can fall waaaaay behind and still top deck your way out of bad situations.

M1G1 was a lot of fun, even though I felt like I was probably going to lose after her turn 1 thoughtseize taking my impulse, and it only got worse when her turn four play (which I felt like I needed to counter with disdainful stroke) turned out to be scavenging ooze. From that point on I'm firmly on the backpedal, as she had two manlands and township. When garruk came down I probably should have scooped to save time, but was having fun, so kept going.

I think I would have stabilized long term, but my own thalia kept my from disdainful stroking her obstinate baloth, and that was pretty much it, though I kept on playing. All of my careful plans came to naught in the end.

At the end I was trying to get you to misplay, because I felt that the only way I could win, but you refused to do so >.<

M1G2 I think I should win? I can't see the match from safra's side, but the atheros gives me inevitability as long as I throw garbage out in front of her army. At the end I should have gone shriekmaw->thalia->deathrite, but wasn't really thinking because of the clock (which I was also losing too).
 
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