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I felt that all of the picks in pack 1 were self explanatory so please feel free to pose questions about any of them in the forums. The only pick I really thought I could go differently on was Death Baron over Dragger. Normally Baron should always be the pick in pack 1 since you have plenty of time to fill out with Skeletons and Zombies. This time though, I probably should've just taken Dragger since I already had two Splinters. and a cycled Dragger is awesome with those.

P2P4 Agony Warp is tempting here, but I've already committed to Green with Gharial and Necrogenesis.

P3P2 I definitely needed guys at this point in the draft, and Battlemage also combos with Mycoloth and everything else for free. I am confident this is the right pick over Jund Charm in this spot.
P3P3 If I had more Zombies I'd obviously just slam the second Baron here. Since I didn't have many Zombies I decided that being able to tutor up Scourge Devil would be much better.

1 Necrogenesis
1 Hissing Iguanar
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Carrion Thrash
1 Dreg Reaver
1 Death Baron
2 Undead Leotau
1 Scourge Devil
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Algae Gharial
1 Blightning
1 Skeletal Kathari
1 Mycoloth
1 Jund Battlemage
1 Dregscape Zombie
2 Bone Splinters
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Resounding Thunder
1 Infest
1 Obelisk of Jund
5 Forest
7 Swamp
2 Mountain
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Naya Panorama

Sideboard
1 Soul's Grace
2 Cancel
1 Dragon's Herald
1 Mountain
1 Glaze Fiend
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Deathgreeter
1 Kederekt Creeper
1 Steelclad Serpent
1 Excommunicate
1 Shore Snapper
1 Cathartic Adept
1 Island
1 Jhessian Lookout
1 Sangrite Surge
1 Jhessian Infiltrator
1 Tortoise Formation
1 Naturalize
1 Behemoth's Herald

The deck ended up pretty decent in my estimation thought I wasn't wild about playing two copies of Undead Leotau.

Round 1 I played against BR aggro. Game 1 he got stuck on three Swamps and while he did still kill a couple guys with Blister Beetle and Executioner's Capsule, I started playing some Black creatures and killed him before he could get up and running. Game 2 he played Dragon Fodder, Dregscape Zombie, and Magma Spray in the early turns of the game and I had a slow draw (since he killed my Jund Battlemage). After all of that I got Necrogenesis online and removed a couple of Unearth dudes and bought me some time. He Blightning'd me down to 3 life on the following turn and we traded up a bunch of tokens that were in play. I played a couple of guys and then returned the favor with a Blightning of my own, emptying his hand. He didn't draw anything lucky off of the top and soon I was on to round 2.

Round 2 was against Bant. Game 1 I mulled into a crappy draw that I had to keep. I Infested early in the game killing his first two Exalted guys, but my hand really had nothing else great in it besides Connoisseur. He rebuilt quickly with Sigiled Paladin and Rhox War Monk and I found myself in trouble in a hurry. When I finally drew a Splinters to deal with the Monk he was over 40 life and I was at 2. A couple alpha strikes later and he got the necessary damage through. Game 2 I mulled to five on the play and only played Hissing Iguanar before dying.

Nick