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P1P2 - I considered Thrinax here but Devil is as good if not better and keeps me in one color for now. I'm obviously hoping for BR after opening Assault though.
P1P4 - If it wasn't a near certainty that Deathgreeter would table here, I'd have taken it.
P1P6 - I could see Blightning here later in the draft.
P2P1 - Open the nuts much?
P2P4 - I guess I'm forced to hate draft here.
1 Broodmate Dragon
1 Magma Spray
1 Hissing Iguanar
1 Goblin Assault
1 Grixis Battlemage
1 Dragon Fodder
1 Deathgreeter
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Archdemon of Unx
1 Scourge Devil
1 Vithian Stinger
1 Blightning
1 Skeletal Kathari
1 Scavenger Drake
1 Dregscape Zombie
1 Lightning Talons
1 Obelisk of Esper
2 Bloodpyre Elemental
1 Predator Dragon
1 Incurable Ogre
1 Blister Beetle
1 Goblin Deathraiders
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8 Mountain
2 Forest
1 Jund Panorama
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1 Jungle Weaver
1 Soul's Might
1 Mountain
1 Mountain
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Steward of Valeron
1 Deathgreeter
1 Cylian Elf
1 Kederekt Creeper
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Excommunicate
1 Resounding Scream
1 Shadowfeed
1 Lush Growth
1 Kathari Screecher
1 Cathartic Adept
1 Deft Duelist
1 Onyx Goblet
1 Island
1 Kiss of the Amesha
1 Island
1 Plains
After the draft I again felt like I'd been hooked up in this draft and was just hoping I could actually take it down.
Round 1 was against GWr. Game 1 I went for the Lightning Talons on Dregscape Zombie on turn 3 and he had the Oblivion Ring. I ended up getting stuck with Broodmate Dragon in hand and lost to his Rhox Charger when the rest of our men traded up. Game 2 I kept a great hand and got blown out by multiple pump spells and my Predator Dragon looked mighty puny as a 4/4 on turn 6 against his fatties.
I feel like I must be running pretty terrible in these drafts as all of my decks look insane and then don't play out so well for me. I guess the only thing to do is to keep plugging away as long as I'm drafting well, and I feel that I am.
Until Monday...
Nick
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