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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:01 am 
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Yeah, I don't really see anything else interesting in there for us. voyage's end for me as well.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:34 am 
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Pretty sad pack, I'll go with voyage's end as well


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:26 am 
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Well, we can see green's closed. White doesn't have creatures so someone to our right doesn't know Divine Verdict is good and is plucking up creatures instead. Red looks picked over a bit as well, thought Titan's Strength is actually pretty good. Black is opened so we should consider it.

Voyage's End is the pick in the mean time.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:51 pm 
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Hello Voyage's End #2


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I think if we're picking so many voyage's ends, we should try to be the purphoros' emissary deck, not the 0/3 dork deck.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:48 pm 
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So is this draft dead?

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Sorry guys! I have to replace someone who isn't making picks. It'll be a few minutes before I update this

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:36 am 
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That's a pretty bad pack... aqueous form?


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:54 am 
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I would pick Aqueous if we had heroic and needed enablers. Right now we have evasion so it seems a little redundant. I like the coastline chimera--big butt blocks most flyers, every common, survives Nessian Asp, wears bestow well... just all around a decent, middling card. My second pick would probably be spark jolt.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:24 am 
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I'll pick Gainsay. This is a bad pack, and Gainsay is a bad card, but it's a good sideboard card. There's really nothing here I'd want. I'm tempted to say Coastline Chimera, but I think our 4-drop slot needs more power behind it, not just a blocker.

EDIT: Change to ABSTAIN until I see a good reason for any of the options.

EDIT EDIT: Change to Coastline Chimera. It survives almost the entire set's removal, and can even live against bestowed/heroic/Nessian Asp for quite a while. Oftentimes it'll just be a wall that blocks anything, which isn't a bad spot to be in for a longer-term deck.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:55 am 
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Aqueous Form. Blue has a lot of good things to put it on and the scry 1 every turn is nice.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:18 am 
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Yarium wrote:
I'll pick Gainsay. This is a bad pack, and Gainsay is a bad card, but it's a good sideboard card. There's really nothing here I'd want. I'm tempted to say Coastline Chimera, but I think our 4-drop slot needs more power behind it, not just a blocker.

I think annul is a better SB card.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:23 am 
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Yeah, I don't even agree with my pick. I'll abstain it for now until I see some better arguments made for the other picks.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:35 am 
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Yarium wrote:
Yeah, I don't even agree with my pick. I'll abstain it for now until I see some better arguments made for the other picks.

To be frank, I'm not too sure about my own pick either. This is a pretty bad pack overall, but there are still several decent choices that can all fill a role, depending on where our deck goes. This kind of pick is much easier pack 3 when we know what our deck needs. I mean, it's easy to say "our creatures already have evasion!" when we only have 2 creatures that can attack. Similarly, we don't have heroic cards yet, but that doesn't mean our final deck won't have any.

I have no idea where our deck is going yet, but I do have an idea what ur is usually about in this format and it's a pretty aggressive tempo deck, especially if we're lucky enough to get a few Flamespeaker Adept (I mean, we already have 2 voyage's end!). UG is more of a tempo deck, but I don't know if it really needs blockers. I think evasion for the green fat is more valuable.

Overall, I think aqueous form, coastline chimera, annul and even spark jolt are all valid picks. I prefer aqueous form because it has bigger potential. I think chimera may be somewhat safer, but I'm not going to be happy about our ur deck if we feel chimera plays a role in it. It may be my natural bias towards aggressive decks, but I don't feel ur control is very good in this format.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:40 am 
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what do we even have?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:43 am 
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Zenbitz wrote:
what do we even have?

Technically, it's in the first post, but it hasn't been updated to show our pick 5...

What we have so far:

Sylvan Caryatid
Purphoros's Emissary
Horizon Scholar
Voyage's End
Voyage's End

@OP: Please update the first post. Also, you may consider posting our current deck in the post where you post the packs, so that we have both the deck and the pack in one place.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:19 pm 
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Aqueous form is good here. Unblockable is really, really nice and constant scrying isn't bad.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:09 pm 
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Annul. Annul x1 is maindeckable, it will almost always have a target

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:04 pm 
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Aqueous Form is amazing.

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