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CommanderGreven
 Post subject: Alara block draft!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:59 am 
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I'm not sure about drafting a three-color format, but Tidehollow Strix looks like the best card in the pack to me.

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Resounding Thunder

This kills a lot of monsters, and if you ever get to cycle it, it becomes prime removal.

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I like Wind Drakes, so Screecher for me. Not opposed to removal, though.

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I guess the dragon is simply uncastable in this format with ...

Nice pack. Thunder since I think last time we went esper.

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Scavenging Drake. Guy is good.

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Strix

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Scav Drake.

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Resounding Thunder

This is quite a slow format and 5 colour control is incredibly powerful. This is a prime removal spell which, if you get to be 5 colours is awesome. Strix would be my second choice.

CG - great choice of draft though,


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Zlehtnoba
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Jund Charm

A lot of good cards in here. Sculptor and Fiend for the artifact deck, Paladin and Squire for the Exalted deck. Repeatable removal in the battlemage. Still, Jund rules.

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Jund Charm is probably the most powerful card here... the building blocks of other decks frightens me, however.


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Starting by picking multicolored cards is a really bold strategy.

And by bold, I mean unwise.

This format isn't that slow.

My pick for this pack is Sigiled Paladin, wishing that we had taken the drake.

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Remember, we're drafting alara reborn 3rd pack. We are almost 100% going to be in 3 to 4 colors. I think Jund Charm is entirely playable here.

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Charm... hoping the rest of the pod fights over the rest.

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All aboard the Jund train!

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I like the Paladin myself.

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Advocating Lush Growth with the caveat that I have 0 idea how this format works.

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Goblin
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I seem to recall Esper being quite good, so I'll go with Glaze Fiend over sculptor, although it's pretty close between those two.


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The problem with Paladin is the WW. In this format, it's hard to make a good deck going for only two colors. Oh, and did I tell you that Jund rocks?

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