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 Post subject: Bad BTT draft
PostPosted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:27 pm 
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Well, it can't all be success stories... this one was bad.
It's not a good thing to P1P1 Nessian Demlock but pack was pure garbage.
Went into blue got cut from the right (UB), green was just plentiful (I won't say "open") because the draft was won by another mono-green player and the guy to my right was GB. I guess I should have somehow ended up RW or RG or GW but that's just not how the picks came.

I got a third pick xenagos, the plainswalker (rare-redraft).

Ended up with this pile:
awful BTT deck

Sedge Scorpion
Satyr Hedonist
Leafcrown Dryad
2 Agent of Horizons
Burnished Hart
Setassan Oathsworn
Nyxborn Wolf
Nyxborn Triton
Pheres-Band Tromper
2 Nylea’s Disciple
Nessian Demlock
Centaur Battlemaster

Xenagos, the Reveler

Warrior’s Lesson
Mortal’s Resolve
2 Voyage’s End
2 Karametra’s Favor
Feral Invocation

sideboard
Fated Infatuation
Whip of Erebos
Wavecrash Triton
Sphinx’s Disciple
Coastline Chimera
Kraken of the Straits
Shredding Winds
2 Nylea’s Presencr
2 Fade to Antiquity
Charging Badger

Big problem with this deck is no finishers, other than a suited up Agent... and basically no removal... Lots of ramp and no where to go. Kraken was the last cut - seemed awful with essentially no evasion.

I ended up P2P1 the whip in a pack that was empty except for the whip and keepsake gorgon. 2 picks later got the Xenagos, which seemed the superior splash.

Round 1 vs. "mirror" (not really the case when the other guys' deck was better) actually was my best - it seems like I was almost in it after he got manascrewed game 2. Round 2 blown out by RW heroic (actually took 11 turn 4, gained 6 then took 15 turn 5).
Round 3 I ran bad and lost 1-2 to a pretty bad UB deck. Game 2 I lost --- I **** you not -- to Perplexing Chimera He prevented me from flashing feral invocation for the win, because he would have grabbed it and put it on a guy I couldn't block. Lost 3 turns there until I got put away. Game 3 I mulled to 5 and went down quietly.

I ran bad - 5 or 6 mulligans in 8 games, never seemed to draw the bounce when I needed it. Possibly I screwed up the mana base... I never really hurt for any color but I think I almost never used the Favor's either. I don't think I played very well either. I think I should have borded in the Fades since I lost more than 1 game to a bestow guy... but I wasn't sure what to take out.

There is a minor heroic theme here and that just screws you. Maybe a better default build is to put in the blue creatures for the green heroes and run 2x Fade instead of a couple tricks. Xenegos is not good in this deck.

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