OK, this deck turned out pretty solid, although the mana base could be a little frustrating.

Draft started out with a very tough pick of Heliod's Emissary over sylvan carytid Turns out in the deck I ended up with, the mana dork would have been pretty boss. But HE is a great card.

P1P2 was a lightning bolt that my son passed me, but he picked a red rare over it so my red pretty much dried up. I shipped a bunch of green to the left and ended up just picking some random cards in 4 colors (no blue) becuase white and red were getting cut.I did get a pretty early Purphorus's Emissary but that was it.

P2P1 I crack... Polukranos, the world eater. So I take it and I see what goes. Pack two wasn't awesome but I got a few green cards and a few white cards (hundred handed one) Pack 3 saved - me cracking a boon satyr and the green flowed freely. I did have to take a Nessian Asp over Hero's Downfall which my KID passed me thinking I would have to take it for the $10. He even ended up in black!

1 Hopeful Eidolon
2 Leafcrown Dryad
1 Voyaging Satry
1 Boon Satyr
1 Observant Alseid
1 Reverent Hunter
1 Hundred-Handed One
1 Karametra's Acolyte
1 Polukranos, World Eater
2 Nylea's Disciple
1 Purphoros's Emissary
2 Heliod's Emissary
1 Nessian Asp
1 Vulpine Goliath

2 Last Breath
1 Nylea's Presence
1 Lightning Strike
1 Time to Feed
1 Fade into Antiquity
10 Forest
5 Plains
2 Mountain

Non-board
1 Hunt the Hunter - this I did board in against a green deck.
2 Ray of Dissolution
1 Satyr Hedonist
2 Agent of Horizons
2 Cavalry Pegasus
1 Battlewise Valor
1 Satry Rambler
1 Ill-Tempered Cyclops
1 Priest of Iroas

Deck oddly ended up really light on non-creature spells. Given the _8_ 4 drops I figured that the last breath would be of more utility than the pegasi.

I don't really have much of a games report. Match 1 I drew after mulliing to 5 game 1 and winning a long game 2.

The long game 2 was kind of funny. I ended up trading a hundred-handed one for a sedge scorpion with ordeal of erebos on it. Then played an Asp only to have him play Keepsake Gorgon on his turn! But I ended up with a huge voltron asp (with lifelink and heliod's emissary) before he mostrified to kill it. Still the Emissary kept him tapped down.

Matches 2 and 3 were dominated by my opponent getting mana screwed, although one game I won after mulling to 5. I never got to activate the monsterous on Polukranos because the only time I had the mana and the need I was facing deathtouch guys... and hydrae apparently can't eat poison.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if Hundred handed one was too greedy a splash here. He wasn't hard to cast... but I think getting might have been a bit of a reach. Maybe not though.

Also because it was my birthday, the store let me draft for free and cracked another Polukranos. So that made up for passing the carytid ($6) and hero's downfall ($8).

no wonder, i don't have those two rares

Polukranos: 9.75
Downfall: 3.44
Caryatid: 0.93

Oh the joys of drafting online!

About the draft: well done passing that Downfall. Pack three is the decider all right. If your colors flow, you end up with a deck. If not, you struggle. Also, I'd play six plains in that.

I actually didn't realize I was only running 5 plains until I broke the deck down. Running the Red was pretty greedy... not sure if I should have tried to cut a mountain or a forest... I really thought I needed 10 forests, because of boon and 3 [mc]gg2]/mc]. Obviously the mana dorks helped. This deck could have used another voyaging satyr or even a unicorn... but the unicorns all got snapped up and I think i got the only voyaging satyr in the pod.

I suppose I could have cut the read and run agents or pegasi...ironically the only humans are the agents. I don't think I ever actually used lightning strike except in a friendly game post tourney....

Wow that's weird about the paper /online gap. Cheapest paper downfall is $ Car.49+shipping and you can't even get a playset. I guess there's so much RDW in the online standard meta? I thought that mono-black beats it though...

No, for current sets, most everything but the chase rares is below a ticket online. Downfall is one of the priciest non-mythic cards. There are just so many opened, and the market is so fluid. Also, nobody but the traders/speculators needs more than four, ever.

deck builders unless swap between decks is effortless