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3 Druid of the Anima
1 Gift of the Gargantuan
1 Woolly Thoctar
1 Soul's Fire
2 Cylian Elf
1 Naya Battlemage
1 Jungle Weaver
2 Rakeclaw Gargantuan
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Algae Gharial
1 Resounding Thunder
2 Rip-Clan Crasher
1 Resounding Roar
2 Cavern Thoctar
2 Vithian Stinger
1 Naya Charm
1 Branching Bolt
1 Savage Lands
5 Mountain
7 Forest
3 Plains
Sideboard
1 Lightning Talons
1 Resounding Scream
1 Necrogenesis
1 Mountain
1 Outrider of Jhess
1 Obelisk of Jund
3 Carrion Thrash
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Mighty Emergence
1 Tidehollow Strix
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Fatestitcher
1 Soul's Might
1 Forest
1 Steelclad Serpent
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Island
1 Viashino Skeleton
4 Swamp
1 Plains
P1p1 Fatestitcher is easily the pick here, although I end up abandoning it in short order.
This draft was pretty straightforward overall, as Naya seemed open the whole time. I could have played the Black, but as always I value mana, I chose not to.
Round 1 versus Bant
G1 This game was pretty short, as the classic combination of Sigil of Distinction and Rhox War Monk destroyed me pretty rapidly.
G2 This game took a turn for the worse when I attacked a Rakeclaw Gargantuan into his Guardians of Akrasa. He played Sigil Blessing, I had Resounding Roar, and he had the Resounding Roar to trump it. Losing my biggest guy was unfortunate, and although the game lasted a while after that, I just didn’t have the threats to finish him.
Until tomorrow…
LSV
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