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Draft:

Pack 1:

Dark Withering, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Amrou Seekers, Search for Tomorrow, Corpulent Corpse, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Phyrexian Totem, Telekinetic Sliver, Truth or Tale, Hivestone, Jasmine Boreal

Pick: Search for Tomorrow

Pack 2:

Snapback, Aether Web, Lightning Axe, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Psychotic Episode, Jedit's Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Clockwork Hydra, Fledgling Mawcor, Truth or Tale, Hypergenesis

Pick: Lightning Axe

Pack 3:

Think Twice, Ashcoat Bear, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Thallid Germinator, Pit Keeper, Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Clockwork Hydra, Fledgling Mawcor, Pull from Eternity, Moonlace, Scragnoth

Pick: Clockwork Hydra

Pack 4:

Goblin Skycutter, Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Screeching Sliver, Momentary Blink, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Cavalry Master, Vampiric Sliver, Quilled Sliver

Pick: Strength in Numbers

Pack 5:

Aether Web, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Foriysian Interceptor, Basal Sliver, Drifter il-Dal, Subterranean Shambler, Paradox Haze, Reiterate, Plains

Pick: Goblin Skycutter

Pack 6:

Cancel, Pentarch Ward, Assassinate, Zealot il-Vec, Havenwood Wurm, Chameleon Blur, Ghitu Firebreathing, Haunting Hymn, Mishra, Artificer Prodigy, Nicol Bolas

Pick: Assassinate

Pack 7:

Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Temporal Eddy, Mogg War Marshal, Bewilder, Detainment Spell, Psychotic Episode, Sprout, Aetherflame Wall, Firewake Sliver

Pick: Mogg War Marshal

Pack 8:

Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Jhoira's Timebug, Jedit's Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Foriysian Totem, Conflagrate

Pick: Conflagrate

Pack 9:

Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Drifter il-Dal, Havenwood Wurm, Telekinetic Sliver, Truth or Tale, Jasmine Boreal

Pick: Havenwood Wurm

Pack 10:

Drudge Reavers, Psychotic Episode, Jedit's Dragoons, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Truth or Tale

Pick: Drudge Reavers

Pack 11:

Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Pull from Eternity, Moonlace

Pick: Moonlace

Pack 12:

Zealot il-Vec, Snapback, Screeching Sliver, Ancient Grudge

Pick: Ancient Grudge

Pack 13:

Drudge Reavers, Foriysian Interceptor, Paradox Haze

Pick: Drudge Reavers

Pack 14:

Chameleon Blur, Ghitu Firebreathing

Pick: Ghitu Firebreathing

Pack 15:

Detainment Spell

Pick: Detainment Spell

Pack 16:

Fortify, Coal Stoker, Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Watcher Sliver, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Aspect of Mongoose, Skittering Monstrosity, Phantom Wurm, Magus of the Mirror, Stormbind

Pick: Stormbind

Pack 17:

Grapeshot, Scarwood Treefolk, Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Fathom Seer, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Prismatic Lens, Clockspinning, Harmonic Sliver, Durkwood Tracker, Premature Burial, Fiery Justice

Pick: Fiery Justice

Pack 18:

Looter il-Kor, Spinneret Sliver, Keldon Halberdier, Mindstab, Wormwood Dryad, Venser's Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Fallen Ideal, Ignite Memories, Sudden Shock, Gaea's Liege, Two-Headed Sliver

Pick: Sudden Shock

Pack 19:

Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Amrou Scout, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Durkwood Baloth, Clockspinning, Sidewinder Sliver, Viscid Lemures, Paradise Plume, Paradox Haze, Uthden Troll

Pick: Durkwood Baloth

Pack 20:

Slipstream Serpent, Nantuko Shaman, Gorgon Recluse, Spiketail Drakeling, Sangrophage, D'Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Yavimaya Dryad, Plated Pegasus

Pick: Nantuko Shaman

Pack 21:

Mindstab, Gaze of Justice, Brass Gnat, Dream Stalker, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Assembly-Worker, Plated Pegasus, Voidmage Husher, Flying Men

Pick: Blazing Blade Askari

Pack 22:

Chromatic Star, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Harmonic Sliver, Premature Burial, Ovinomancer

Pick: Chromatic Star

Pack 23:

Gemhide Sliver, Feebleness, Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Pull from Eternity, Locket of Yesterdays, Phantom Wurm

Pick: Gemhide Sliver

Pack 24:

Fortify, Deathspore Thallid, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Aspect of Mongoose, Skittering Monstrosity

Pick: Thrill of the Hunt

Pack 25:

Scarwood Treefolk, Slipstream Serpent, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Clockspinning, Harmonic Sliver

Pick: Scarwood Treefolk

Pack 26:

Venser's Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Fallen Ideal, Ignite Memories

Pick: Bogardan Rager

Pack 27:

Orcish Cannonade, Clockspinning, Paradise Plume, Paradox Haze

Pick: Orcish Cannonade

Pack 28:

Sangrophage, Two-Headed Sliver, Plated Pegasus

Pick: Two-Headed Sliver

Pack 29:

Brass Gnat, Glass Asp

Pick: Glass Asp

Pack 30:

Shadow Sliver

Pick: Shadow Sliver

Pack 31:

Poultice Sliver, Giant Dustwasp, Dead / Gone, Dreamscape Artist, Keldon Marauders, Dash Hopes, Shade of Trokair, Vitaspore Thallid, Prodigal Pyromancer, Vampiric Link, Piracy Charm, Shivan Meteor, Psychotrope Thallid, Ovinize, Roiling Horror

Pick: Giant Dustwasp

Pack 32:

Dawn Charm, Stingscourger, Whitemane Lion, Erratic Mutation, Midnight Charm, Keldon Marauders, Dust Corona, Uktabi Drake, Vampiric Link, Gossamer Phantasm, Prodigal Pyromancer, Dormant Sliver, Sulfur Elemental, Body Double

Pick: Prodigal Pyromancer

Pack 33:

Veiling Oddity, Saltfield Recluse, Needlepeak Spider, Ghost Tactician, Firefright Mage, Wistful Thinking, Fa'adiyah Seer, Brute Force, Revered Dead, Tidewalker, Mycologist, Fatal Frenzy, Skirk Shaman

Pick: Skirk Shaman

Pack 34:

Ridged Kusite, Dawn Charm, Shaper Parasite, Cradle to Grave, Brain Gorgers, Fury Charm, Wistful Thinking, Essence Warden, Sunlance, Gossamer Phantasm, Riftmarked Knight, Cautery Sliver

Pick: Sunlance

Pack 35:

Whitemane Lion, Dash Hopes, Aquamorph Entity, Shade of Trokair, Uktabi Drake, Sinew Sliver, Melancholy, Gossamer Phantasm, Kavu Predator, Blood Knight, Retether

Pick: Blood Knight

Pack 36:

Spitting Sliver, Blightspeaker, Aquamorph Entity, Evolution Charm, Pallid Mycoderm, Seal of Primordium, Mana Tithe, Riftmarked Knight, Venarian Glimmer, Shrouded Lore

Pick: Evolution Charm

Pack 37:

Spitting Sliver, Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Pallid Mycoderm, Melancholy, Seal of Primordium, Sophic Centaur

Pick: Seal of Primordium

Pack 38:

Stingscourger, Veiling Oddity, Brain Gorgers, Dust Corona, Piracy Charm, Seal of Primordium, Aether Membrane, Gossamer Phantasm

Pick: Stingscourger

Pack 39:

Poultice Sliver, Keldon Marauders, Dash Hopes, Vitaspore Thallid, Vampiric Link, Piracy Charm, Ovinize

Pick: Ovinize

Pack 40:

Dawn Charm, Keldon Marauders, Dust Corona, Vampiric Link, Gossamer Phantasm, Dormant Sliver

Pick: Dormant Sliver

Pack 41:

Ghost Tactician, Firefright Mage, Wistful Thinking, Fa'adiyah Seer, Revered Dead

Pick: Fa'adiyah Seer

Pack 42:

Ridged Kusite, Fury Charm, Wistful Thinking, Gossamer Phantasm

Pick: Fury Charm

Pack 43:

Dash Hopes, Uktabi Drake, Gossamer Phantasm

Pick: Uktabi Drake

Pack 44:

Seal of Primordium, Shrouded Lore

Pick: Shrouded Lore

Pack 45:

Dash Hopes

Pick: Dash Hopes

Final Decklist:

Maindeck:

1 Blazing Blade Askari
1 Blood Knight
1 Conflagrate
1 Goblin Skycutter
1 Lightning Axe
1 Orcish Cannonade
1 Prodigal Pyromancer
1 Skirk Shaman [FOIL]
1 Stingscourger
1 Sudden Shock
1 Durkwood Baloth
1 Evolution Charm
1 Gemhide Sliver
1 Giant Dustwasp
1 Havenwood Wurm
1 Nantuko Shaman
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Strength in Numbers
1 Thrill of the Hunt
1 Chromatic Star
1 Clockwork Hydra
1 Fiery Justice
1 Stormbind
8 Forest
8 Mountain
1 Plains

Sideboard:

1 Ancient Grudge
1 Assassinate
1 Bogardan Rager
1 Dash Hopes
1 Detainment Spell
1 Dormant Sliver
2 Drudge Reavers
1 Fa'adiyah Seer
1 Fury Charm
1 Ghitu Firebreathing
1 Glass Asp
1 Mogg War Marshal
1 Moonlace
1 Ovinize
1 Scarwood Treefolk
1 Seal of Primordium
1 Shadow Sliver
1 Shrouded Lore
1 Sunlance
1 Two-Headed Sliver
1 Uktabi Drake

Losing this draft was pretty frustrating. I felt that my deck was excellent. I had a good curve, a solid manabase, good removal, and one of the best cards in the format.

Things started off well. I had a pretty good draw, and my opponent played some Thallids. Eventually I Fiery Justiced away his team, and attacked a couple times, not wanting to show the Stormbind in my hand. Game 2 I kept a hand with two Mountains, a Plains, Blood Knight, Prodigal Pyromancer, Goblin Skycutter, and Fiery Justice. From there I proceeded to draw five Green cards before I drew a Forest. If I had drawn the Forest a turn earlier I would have won, but it was too late as he was able to get two attacks in with Jedit before I could deal with him. Game 3 I mulliganed a no-land hand into a one-land Chromatic Star hand, and didn't draw another land until turn 5. Ah, Magic...

Until Monday,

Rich

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