My friend and I quilt drafted one-on-one, came up with some really really sweet decks:
Junk Value
UB Control
Since it was a quilt draft, we just made the best decks we could without really try to screw eachother much (I did block a
Doomwake Giant). Both decks were fantastic, good fixing and executed each of their gameplans effectively.
G1 went to Junk with Tasigur shining as an amazing 2-drop and card advantage engine. UB would have been overwhelmed early, but a T3 Lily and T4 Jace helped keep the board under control for a bit before they both ended up using all their loyalty and dying. I think I bounced/killed Tasigur like twice before he eventually stuck on the board. Interesting sequences included thinking whether it was better to delve into Tasigur or leaving certain creatures there to bring back to hand. Too much off the
Phyrexian Reclamation. UB managed to bring down Junk to -5 life off of Persecutor, but I drew dead into land late in the game with like 2 straight turns drawing lands and I ended up one turn away from being able to Snapcaster back
Innocent Blood for the win. Instead, a
Boon Satyr bestowed Tasigur is too much to handle coming in with Mom protection.
G2 was a lot of jostling in the early game for position, Junk had a nut start with T1 Swamp, Reclamation into T2 Forest, Exploration, Plains,
Wall of Omens but then went dry on lands.
Perilous Myr eventually came in which led to a sequence with Pridemate + Ooze on one side, Myr and Blood Artist on the other. Junk didn't think it was worth it to trade the Ooze or Pridemate with the Myr, passed, then got wrecked by a Toxic Deluge. I finished him off with a Tezz coming in, animating
Coldsteel Heart and then following that up with draws of
Baleful Strix into
Serendib Efreet and then
Prophetic Prism. Wrecked his board after he was forced to chump two 5/5s to stay alive with
Far // Away to clear his board. I love that card so much.
G3 he had gone T1 Warden of the First Tree, T2 level it and swing, but then I drew into Devour Flesh the next turn. Then it was another grind with
Spear of Heliod having it's second ability be surprisingly relevant as Junk drew dead into lands while facing down a board of Lily, Efreet and Blood Artist with a single Deathrite Shaman. Spear forced me to ping myself with Efreet like two turns because it wasn't worth losing it to a random spear. Drawing into Jace and filtering away chaff with Brainstorms every turn made it pretty easy from that point onwards. Just dumb beats and Lily saccing any creature with Blood Artist on the field let me drain him down and then punch him with the Persecutor. I then Lily'd myself to kill Percy and win. Still, there was a turn where he had a nutty Eidolon into Eidolon play but he drew dorks. If I didn't have Lily or draw my key spells when I did, he might have been able to overrun me.
Double Eidolon is sweet, I really want to see Constellation come together in an actual 8 man draft. Tasigur is great if you can get him in for 3 or less. I only recurred one thing, but it was still good as just a 4/5 big butt beater. I like Warden quite a bit, applies a decent amount of pressure early on and is a 1-drop that's actually relevant late. Sure, it's a crappier impression of
Figure of Destiny most of the time, but it also has the ability to close out a game on its own in the late game by becoming stupid huge and lifeswingy. UB Tezz was something that I just recently added and thought it was pretty sweet, and I love
Perilous Myr more and more every time I play it. It's just good everywhere. Run two guys, it's awesome!