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Draft:

Pack 1:

Durkwood Baloth, Fathom Seer, Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Gorgon Recluse, Herd Gnarr, D'Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Tectonic Fiend, Fallen Ideal, Foriysian Totem, Pentarch Paladin, Hunting Moa

Pick: Pentarch Paladin

Pack 2:

Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Amrou Scout, Keldon Halberdier, Mana Skimmer, Wormwood Dryad, Venser's Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, Spirit Loop, Molten Slagheap, Stuffy Doll, Squire

Pick: Amrou Scout

Pack 3:

Coal Stoker, Deathspore Thallid, Tolarian Sentinel, Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, D'Avenant Healer, Wormwood Dryad, Locket of Yesterdays, Evil Eye of Urborg, Pardic Dragon, Desolation Giant

Pick: Benalish Cavalry

Pack 4:

Corpulent Corpse, Cancel, Jhoira's Timebug, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver, Voidmage Husher, Pull from Eternity, Lim-Dul the Necromancer, Feldon's Cane, Saltcrusted Steppe

Pick: Corpulent Corpse

Pack 5:

Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Momentary Blink, Greenseeker, Pit Keeper, Divine Congregation, Phantom Wurm, Pendelhaven Elder, Vhati il-Dal

Pick: Momentary Blink

Pack 6:

Viscerid Deepwalker, Ashcoat Bear, Search for Tomorrow, Jedit's Dragoons, Savage Thallid, Ancient Grudge, Flickering Spirit, Call to the Netherworld, Yavimaya Dryad, Consecrate Land

Pick: Viscerid Deepwalker

Pack 7:

Terramorphic Expanse, Snapback, Pentarch Ward, Bonesplitter Sliver, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Jhoira's Timebug, Pull from Eternity

Pick: Snapback

Pack 8:

Chromatic Star, Ground Rift, Dream Stalker, Clockspinning, Durkwood Tracker, Truth or Tale, Might of Old Krosa, Call to the Netherworld

Pick: Dream Stalker

Pack 9:

Chromatic Star, D'Avenant Healer, Mystical Teachings, Two-Headed Sliver, Tectonic Fiend, Fallen Ideal, Foriysian Totem

Pick: D'Avenant Healer

Pack 10:

Scarwood Treefolk, Wormwood Dryad, Venser's Sliver, Clockspinning, Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage

Pick: Venser's Sliver

Pack 11:

Bogardan Rager, Sangrophage, Wormwood Dryad, Locket of Yesterdays, Evil Eye of Urborg

Pick: Evil Eye of Urborg

Pack 12:

Cancel, Chameleon Blur, Cyclopean Giant, Screeching Sliver

Pick: Cancel

Pack 13:

Pentarch Ward, Greenseeker, Divine Congregation

Pick: Pentarch Ward

Pack 14:

Ashcoat Bear, Ancient Grudge

Pick: Ancient Grudge

Pack 15:

Divine Congregation

Pick: Divine Congregation

Pack 16:

Utopia Vow, Spitting Sliver, Aven Riftwatcher, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Firefright Mage, Blightspeaker, Sunlance, Mana Tithe, Prodigal Pyromancer, Riftmarked Knight, Cautery Sliver, Harmonize, Magus of the Arena

Pick: Sunlance

Pack 17:

Cradle to Grave, Reflex Sliver, Dreamscape Artist, Blightspeaker, Aquamorph Entity, Evolution Charm, Pallid Mycoderm, Brain Gorgers, Mana Tithe, Melancholy, Simian Spirit Guide, Stormfront Riders, Frenetic Sliver, Hedge Troll

Pick: Stormfront Riders

Pack 18:

Saltfield Recluse, Synchronous Sliver, Needlepeak Spider, Dreamscape Artist, Wistful Thinking, Keldon Marauders, Dash Hopes, Simian Spirit Guide, Sinew Sliver, Gossamer Phantasm, Riftmarked Knight, Venarian Glimmer, Braids, Conjurer Adept

Pick: Saltfield Recluse

Pack 19:

Whitemane Lion, Erratic Mutation, Midnight Charm, Needlepeak Spider, Shaper Parasite, Shade of Trokair, Fury Charm, Fa'adiyah Seer, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Psychotrope Thallid, Riptide Pilferer, Heroes Remembered

Pick: Shaper Parasite

Pack 20:

Spitting Sliver, Battering Sliver, Aven Riftwatcher, Keldon Marauders, Dust Corona, Uktabi Drake, Bog Serpent, Rathi Trapper, Healing Leaves, Phantasmagorian, Frozen Aether

Pick: Aven Riftwatcher

Pack 21:

Dawn Charm, Deadly Grub, Dust Corona, Reality Acid, Blightspeaker, Skirk Shaman, Healing Leaves, Revered Dead, Muck Drubb, Tidewalker

Pick: Blightspeaker

Pack 22:

Aven Riftwatcher, Cradle to Grave, Vitaspore Thallid, Brain Gorgers, Fury Charm, Wistful Thinking, Seal of Primordium, Essence Warden, Treacherous Urge

Pick: Aven Riftwatcher

Pack 23:

Reflex Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Firefright Mage, Mana Tithe, Vampiric Link

Pick: Veiling Oddity

Pack 24:

Spitting Sliver, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Firefright Mage, Blightspeaker, Mana Tithe

Pick: Blightspeaker

Pack 25:

Reflex Sliver, Blightspeaker, Brain Gorgers, Mana Tithe, Melancholy, Frenetic Sliver

Pick: Blightspeaker

Pack 26:

Synchronous Sliver, Wistful Thinking, Keldon Marauders, Dash Hopes, Venarian Glimmer

Pick: Synchronous Sliver

Pack 27:

Midnight Charm, Needlepeak Spider, Fa'adiyah Seer, Heroes Remembered

Pick: Midnight Charm

Pack 28:

Dust Corona, Bog Serpent, Healing Leaves

Pick: Bog Serpent

Pack 29:

Healing Leaves, Revered Dead

Pick: Revered Dead

Pack 30:

Wistful Thinking

Pick: Wistful Thinking

Pack 31:

Foresee, Emberwilde Augur, Putrid Cyclops, Augur il-Vec, Ichor Slick, Petrified Plating, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Ghostfire, Fomori Nomad, Shivan Sand-Mage, Soultether Golem, Lost Auramancers, River of Tears, Whip-Spine Drake

Pick: Ichor Slick

Pack 32:

Bogardan Lancer, Venser's Diffusion, Oblivion Crown, Saltskitter, Patrician's Scorn, Logic Knot, Nessian Courser, Grave Scrabbler, Henchfiend of Ukor, Whip-Spine Drake, Cryptic Annelid, Stronghold Rats, Dakmor Salvage, Imperial Mask

Pick: Whip-Spine Drake

Pack 33:

Samite Censer-Bearer, Aven Augur, Ichor Slick, Bogardan Lancer, Mesmeric Sliver, Deepcavern Imp, Flowstone Embrace, Nessian Courser, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Sarcomite Myr, Dust of Moments, Cloudseeder, Minions' Murmurs

Pick: Ichor Slick

Pack 34:

Grave Peril, Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Homing Sliver, Edge of Autumn, Lymph Sliver, Llanowar Reborn, Char-Rumbler, Utopia Mycon, Quagnoth

Pick: Quagnoth

Pack 35:

Cutthroat il-Dal, Llanowar Augur, Augur of Skulls, Lymph Sliver, Sporoloth Ancient, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Arc Blade, Llanowar Mentor, Sliversmith, Patrician's Scorn

Pick: Lumithread Field

Pack 36:

*, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *

Pick: *

Pack 37:

Llanowar Empath, Marshaling Cry, Unblinking Bleb, Lost Hours, Virulent Sliver, Vedalken Aethermage, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Second Wind, Fleshwrither

Pick: Blade of the Sixth Pride

Pack 38:

Wrap in Vigor, Gift of Granite, Augur of Skulls, Lost Hours, Grinning Ignus, Lucent Liminid, Bloodshot Trainee, Aven Mindcensor

Pick: Lucent Liminid

Pack 39:

Putrid Cyclops, Augur il-Vec, Petrified Plating, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Soultether Golem, Lost Auramancers

Pick: Lost Auramancers

Pack 40:

Oblivion Crown, Saltskitter, Patrician's Scorn, Henchfiend of Ukor, Stronghold Rats, Dakmor Salvage

Pick: Stronghold Rats

Pack 41:

Samite Censer-Bearer, Mesmeric Sliver, Nessian Courser, Sarcomite Myr, Dust of Moments

Pick: Nessian Courser

Pack 42:

Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental

Pick: Samite Censer-Bearer

Pack 43:

Cutthroat il-Dal, Llanowar Augur, Grave Scrabbler

Pick: Cutthroat il-Dal

Pack 44:

Lost Hours

Pick: Lost Hours

Pack 45:

*, *

Pick: *

Final Decklist:

Maindeck:

1 Midnight Charm
1 Sunlance
1 Amrou Scout
1 Benalish Cavalry
1 Blade of the Sixth Pride
3 Blightspeaker
1 Lumithread Field
1 Momentary Blink
2 Aven Riftwatcher
2 Ichor Slick
1 Saltfield Recluse
1 Shaper Parasite
1 Lost Auramancers
1 Lucent Liminid
1 Pentarch Paladin
1 Stormfront Riders
1 Whip-Spine Drake
1 Corpulent Corpse
2 Island
9 Plains
7 Swamp

Sideboard:

1 Ancient Grudge
1 Bog Serpent
1 Cancel
1 Cutthroat il-Dal
1 D'Avenant Healer
1 Divine Congregation
1 Dream Stalker
1 Evil Eye of Urborg
1 Flowstone Embrace
1 Lost Hours
1 Nessian Courser
1 Patrician's Scorn
1 Pentarch Ward
1 Quagnoth
1 Revered Dead
1 Samite Censer-Bearer
1 Snapback
1 Stronghold Rats
1 Swamp
1 Synchronous Sliver
1 Veiling Oddity
1 Venser's Sliver
1 Viscerid Deepwalker
1 Wistful Thinking

This is actually one of my favorite draft decks in recent memory. The draft was most certainly an interesting one. The first pick once again came down to color preference, and since I hadn't played with White cards in a while I figured I'd give them a run. With the second pick my thinking was that there's a decent chance the guy behind me takes Amrou Scout if I take Stuffy Doll here, and getting White in pack 2 is very important since that's where it's at it's best. The third pick is where thing's get really interesting. No matter what I take here I'm not seeing any Red in Planar Chaos, so I decided to stick with the White plan and hope the person who takes Desolation Giant doesn't get into White too heavily. From there I was White, but finding a second color proved difficult until I got the late Blightspeakers. I played eighteen lands since I had four rebel searchers and enough rebels that I'd be hard to beat once I started searching.

Round 1 I played John Pelcak. In the first game he suspended Halberdier turn 1 and Deepwalker turn 2. Things looked good for a while, but he had just enough removal to keep getting his guys through, while I drew too many lands without a rebel searcher to compete. Game 2 I once again had lots of land, but this time I had a Blightspeaker online before he could get any pressure on me. I got another Blightspeaker first for protection, then the steady stream of rebels from my deck took care of business. Game 3 we both had pretty good draws. He had a morph on turn 3, and Coal Stoker and another morph on turn 4, while I had Blightspeaker and Aven Riftwatcher on turns 2 and 3. When he attacked on turn 4 I searched up a Blade of the Sixth Pride to block his Coal Stoker and blocked a morph with the Riftwatcher. He unmorphed Fathom Seer with damage on the stack and Thunderblade Charged my Blightspeaker after combat. From there I had to play very defensively so as to not lose to the Charge, and the lands my deck kept delivering weren't helping. It did look like I was going to get back in the game at one point when he Second Winded my Riftwatcher, which allowed him to attack with his Aven Augur, so I Momentary Blinked the Riftwatcher, but he had Venser's Diffusion to save his Augur. Eventually my Riftwatcher faded away and I still hadn't drawn any action so his Thunderblade Charge first killed my ground creatures then me. He also played Pyrohemia, but by that time I'd already lost.

Until tomorrow,

Rich

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