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Cultbrand Cinder
Wanderbrine Rootcutters
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Most of the drafts I do here will be 8-4s, but for the first time in my life I'm a busy man, so when the 8-4 queue refuses to fill I'm going to have to play some 4-3-2-2s, which you can kind of tell is what this draft is.
The second and third picks were by far the most interesting of this draft. With the second pick I took the Knollspine Invocation because it was the most powerful card in the pack. If there was something much less powerful but went in the same deck as Oona, like a Turn to Mist or Sickle Ripper, I probably would've taken that. The third pick was also tough because the Invocation is such a good start to a mono Red deck, but I don't know about you, but I find it pretty tough to just give up on an Oona. I made the safe pick and took the solid but unspectacular Trip Noose over all the potential that lay with Burn Trail.
In the first round I played against a solid Mono Red deck. In the first game he played Intimidator Initiate turn 1, which I Flame Jabbed, then I had Inside Out for his Cinder Pyromancer. I played some dudes and he was never able to get in the game because Flame Jab killed the vast majority of creatures he played. In the second game I had Flame Jab again, and the one real creature he played ran into a Plumeveil.
Round 2 my opponent said his wife was yelling at him and had to go, so I got a bye.
Round 3 I played against a decent Blue Green deck. In the first game he played some Mimics, but I had Flame Jab for them again. I eventually gained complete control by returning my Outrage Shaman to my hand every turn with Cache Raiders. The second game was even more of a blowout. I had the answer for everything he played and ended the game with eight lands in play and Oona and Hateflayer in hand, to his nothing.
Until next week...
Rich
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