Myself and my three most available friends scheduled to draft today. We invited five of our other friends, but they're adults and were all busy.
We did a draft where we picked one card for first pick and two cards for each pick after that.
I ended up in a 16 land BR deck with 6-7 one drops and 7-8 burn spells.
ROUND ONE
Opponent is on WR aggro midrange
Game one I kept a 2 lander with some one drops and stuff. Ended the game on 8 lands with 6 spells (meaning I drew 1 spell and 6 lands). Managed to win it.
Game two I draw a 6 lander and ship it back. Opponent mulligans and we agree to both draw 7. Kept a 3 lander that ended on 8 lands, 8 spells. Managed to win this one off of an 8/8 Shivan Devastator in my 16 land deck.
Matches 1-0
Games 2-0
Opponent wanted to play again, as the other two players had taken longer in deck building and had slower decks. Having drawn terribly and managing to go 2-0, I figure I'll crush him in the next game.
Game three I keep another 3 lander. Ends on 8 lands, 8 spells. I lose this one.
Game four I keep a 2 lander that ends on 6 lands, 8 spells. My Goblin Guide gave my opponent 5 lands in 6 attacks, including the first 4 attacks. I lost this one.
My draw steps against opponent one yielded 20 lands and 12 spells.
ROUND TWO
I played the winner of the other two. He was on GBr midrange ramp.
Game one I draw a decent hand. 2/1 into 3/2 with some burn. No flooding here. Easily take it.
Game two I don't fully remember my keep, but it must have been 2-3 lands. I remember I ended with 9 lands and 7 spells seen.
Game three I kept another 2 lander. Played Grim Lavamancer into Dreadhorde Arcanist and discovered that they don't really work in a format that isn't packed with fetches and cantrips. I flooded again in this game, but those two are on the chopping block. I drew both of them a few times each today and they hugely under performed. Lavamancer had a cute play against a Tarmogoyf, but it lacks fuel.
Matches 1-1
Games 5-4
ROUND THREE
This was against one of our newer players who is getting quite a bit better. Their deck was a pretty decent WU flyers with a few outlier cards that probably shouldn't have made the cut.
Before the round, I joked that I'll finally draw well and crush her.
I finally drew well and crushed her. Curved out every game, ended on 4-5 lands drawn every game, burned off anything she could play because her creatures were mostly small.
Matches 2-1
Games 8-4
THOUGHTS
I liked the draft format, but playables were short due to fewer cards seen. Might do 4 packs of 13 next time or something.
Warhost Frenzy sucks. It costs a lot for the deck that wants it and can easily do nothing.
Grim Lavamancer and Dreadhorse Arcanist lack the supporting cast to shine here.
I was playing black, but had almost no way to kill anything with 4 toughness. This is likely a side effect of trying to protect Eldrazi from getting removed too easily and needs to be looked into.
Gala Greeters seems really good. It feels like a 2 mana Baneslayer. Grow a bunch OR ramp OR gain life? Seems far too versatile and I surely would have lost to it alone had I not killed it immediately.
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