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Had a couple mis-plays with the new cards. One game I thought the black domain draw spell drew 2 no matter what you looked at, so I ended up only drawing 1 card off it when I thought skipping on a land would net me a new blind card off the top. Won the game but felt like a noob with the bone headed read. One of my losses I thought the WWB guy was WBB so I played out the wrong land T3 and had a dead turn when I could have had a great start. In the end I don’t think it was the reason I lost but it hurt my soul. The other loss I got cheesed out with 2 pump spells - decided to do an all out attack to put oppo dead in the air next turn - I was at 8 life and oppo had 4 power on board. Oppo’s last card and top deck were both pump spells for a lethal attack to hand me my first loss.

Both losses were to GW. One straight (the one that cheesed me out with pump) and one splashing U for what appeared to just be card draw and kickers. Wins vs mirror (1st match), UW, RW, UBr, GRw, GR (may have been more colors but they started slow while I started 2 drop into menace WWB guy on the play and oppo conceded with no board presence after their T3 draw), and one 5-color soup deck.

Already spoke to my favorite creature cards in the build - the knights, sengir, kicker Angel, multi color cards - and my removal package was solid. I think the Faithbonders were my worst card and I never got the cat combo with them, but in the end I think it was right to not swap in the 3/2 lose-2-life zombies for them. I was able to cheese out some free damage attacking with vigilance into bears early and oppo too scared to block thinking I had combat tricks. Also helped my 3/1s pull weight a couple times when oppo had 1/1s in play. I’d have traded them for the 2/1 goblins that give -1/-1 death triggers in a heart beat tho. Great sack fodder for my eaters and I pulled multiple 2-for-1s with the one I drafted thanks to the X/1s running around. Even rose from the graved the gobo once to get two 2-for-1s out of it in the same game, lol

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Caught a misread of new cards before starting matches. Thought the ramp kicker spells could fetch my duals like the 5 mana one. Cut them for the 2/4 wall that can sac creatures to draw cards and the scry bear. Waffled about running the green 2/2, meteorite, and the land that can do any color for to help with its kicker (since it’s also be another G permanent for wurm) but went the other way instead for now.

Did first match and currently 1-0 thanks (somewhat ironically considering my criticism of my draft) to the X/3 and two rootwallas attacking with 4 domain T5

2-0. Oppo shame scooped T5 after bad math caused them to waste their mana/turn pumping a creature trying to kill my spooder through my +3/+3 combat trick (they pumped to a 5/3 Branchrider but spooder was a 4/6). Thought it was a little premature. All I had was spooder on board but next turn I was casting the black mythic vs their no board presence and had the resurrect 2 permanents spell to back it up so prob was going to pull off the win anyways.



Both oppos were domain with at least 4 colors out before conceding, but first was primarily GW and 2nd primarily RG.

3-0 current run. The black mythic is stupid. It basically solo’d G3 oppo. Never bothered to attack after I cast it, just gummed up the ground and let them drain themselves with their draw step (felt bad for them when they played the phyrexian 2/2 draw and lose a life and then the terrible 3/2 zombie that drains you 2 to speed up the process). Oppo used their good removal on the wurm (they had to tho, I had 2 green 2 drop creatures in hand to get a bunch of counters if I had untapped with it) and didn’t draw anything for the mythic. Felt pretty unfair but I’ll take the gems to try and get another free draft.

Tail whip has been coming in clutch. Only costing 1 mana is huge.

4-0 current run


Oppo didn’t have an answer for the wurm, and I had the recursion spell in hand if they had non-exile answer. Bombs gunna bomb

Feels cheap having 2 cards that win the game on their own but draft 1 was an earn-it deck so I should appreciate this one I suppose.

Been busy so run is taking a while to finish.

Final results: 7-1



Two drafts in the format, two 7 win runs. ya i’m The Best Magic Player Ever *dabs*

Honestly tho, I ended in silver 2 so I’m not playing best of the best. At least I can say I’m better than the worst



Got another free draft. I’ll post my draft picks and the final results but will keep game by game posts to myself since I’m the only one active in this thread

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Prob worst draft so far, and should have focused on sticking to RW aggro rather than getting 4c mishmash. 1st picked the red 4d spell with white kicker out of a weak pack, 2nd picked the flash flyer that kicks to deal damage, 3rd picked Maro, 4th picked the 5 mana 4/4 that deals domain damage to face. Pivotal moment deciding direction and ended up trying to make the domain payoffs better and took some dual lands over playable RW creatures that could have kept me 2 color. Built as 4c mishmash cause I think the overall power level is higher than sideboard options in RW, and the cards that can’t be cast at all without the off colors are later game plays. As long as the mana works out, might get a positive win run.

Deck performed better than I anticipated. Jaya is a house - I cast her in 4 games and she won me all 4. 2 wins were thanks to going wide and casting a kicked charge, and the last was with dorks backed by removal spells.

The loss was to a very good UR spells deck that had the 1/3 flying and 5/4 multicolor creatures. I had a slow hand I prob should have tossed - kept cause it had all 4 colors I need and Maro - hoped I could draw into early plays but I didn’t. Oppo chipped in too much early damage; ended up one turn away from winning with a kicked charge and a perfect run (was 6-0), but was 2 points short of a lethal crack back on my last turn (could have attacked for 22 trample damage but oppo was at 20 life and had 2 blockers with 4 toughness between them - should have swung out and hoped they didn’t block but oppo was good player and I didn’t believe they wouldn’t realize I had charge - instead I didn’t attack hoping I could get lethal next turn after I played out 2 more creatures but I was dead before my next turn. I was def dead if they blocked and only dead if they drew removal, but they drew removal for my flying blocker).

Stand out cards: all my removal spells, Jaya (stupid good), the 3/1 haste doods, charge, the 2/2 flash flyer with kicker. I liked the white bears that kick for a +1/+1 counter (frequently cast the first as a bear, specially cause green was a splash and also cause I didn’t have many other 2 drops, but I appreciated the versatility in my deck), and the flying 2/3 that pumps with creatures ETB did serious work in some games (2 games I cast T4 and followed up with captains call for a big chunk).

Deck would prob have been better just as RW splashing G for the kickers, but I botched that taking some of the dual lands for Maro and it was good enough for another 7 win run so I’ll take it.

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Tried to do a naya build around the dragon. Got smoked by aggro and the only time I cast the dragon oppo cast removal before I could untap. Boo.

Mana base was excellent with on color dual lands, but it was just a little too slow. Didn’t think it was 0-3 bad but that’s what I got out of it

7-2 run. 4th 7 winner out of 5 drafts

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I didn’t think it would do that well. Didn’t have captains calls or the 3/1 haster you can kick for tokens, and wanted another charge - but aggro was aggro and carried me to another trophy going under the greedy decks like I tried in draft run 4.

Remarkable cards in the run: the 2/2 with enlist that scrys and can become indestructible is *very* good, especially in a build that doesn’t need a lot of lands and can turn excess into ‘removal spells’. The W saga did a lot of work (had a game I put one of the counters on oppos 3 toughness creature then hit it with destroy evil to enable attacks, which was a cool interaction). The stupid baby phoenixs did a looooooot of work (having 3 meant I had 1 on T1 almost every game and they helped win races with evasion). The equipment pulled a lot of weight in this build - all about closing games before oppos could take over with bigger creatures.

I wanted to splash G but someone was hogging all the dual lands in the draft and I didn’t get any to splash kickers or gold cards with. In the end I was happy being straight RW cause it was *very* important I closed games asap and couldn’t afford the downside of tapped lands