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Draft:

Pack 1:

Llanowar Elves, Remove Soul, Seething Song, Pacifism, Fear, Rootwalla, Sea Monster, Grizzly Bears, Scathe Zombies, Glory Seeker, Baleful Stare, Elvish Bard, Urza's Tower, Archivist, Island

Pick: Archivist

Pack 2:

Goblin Brigand, Sage Aven, Wood Elves, Looming Shade, Warrior's Honor, Time Ebb, Reflexes, Aven Flock, Plague Beetle, Rampant Growth, Circle of Protection: Red, Orcish Artillery, Phyrexian Hulk, Swamp

Pick: Orcish Artillery

Pack 3:

Lightning Elemental, Storm Crow, Highway Robber, Infantry Veteran, Rogue Kavu, Dehydration, Goblin Chariot, Honor Guard, Raise Dead, Tanglebloom, Diabolic Tutor, Battle of Wits, Plains

Pick: Dehydration

Pack 4:

Scaled Wurm, Dehydration, Goblin Chariot, Honor Guard, Raise Dead, Lumengrid Warden, Coercion, Foot Soldiers, Goblin Piker, Diabolic Tutor, Enrage, Swamp

Pick: Dehydration

Pack 5:

Lightning Elemental, Storm Crow, Trained Armodon, Highway Robber, Infantry Veteran, Rogue Kavu, Wind Drake, Goblin Sky Raider, Razortooth Rats, Phantom Warrior, Mountain

Pick: Wind Drake

Pack 6:

Giant Growth, Fishliver Oil, Shatter, Contaminated Bond, Sift, Zodiac Monkey, Giant Cockroach, Creeping Mold, Consume Spirit, Mountain

Pick: Sift

Pack 7:

Reclaim, Firebreathing, Bog Imp, Wanderguard Sentry, Order of the Sacred Bell, Spineless Thug, Angelic Blessing, Lava Axe, Forest

Pick: Order of the Sacred Bell

Pack 8:

Treetop Bracers, Serpent Warrior, Sea's Claim, Anaba Shaman, Sacred Nectar, Elvish Berserker, Ornithopter, Island

Pick: Anaba Shaman

Pack 9:

Seething Song, Fear, Scathe Zombies, Glory Seeker, Baleful Stare, Urza's Tower, Island

Pick: Urza's Tower

Pack 10:

Goblin Brigand, Looming Shade, Warrior's Honor, Reflexes, Plague Beetle, Swamp

Pick: Looming Shade

Pack 11:

Storm Crow, Honor Guard, Raise Dead, Tanglebloom, Plains

Pick: Storm Crow

Pack 12:

Honor Guard, Raise Dead, Coercion, Goblin Piker

Pick: Goblin Piker

Pack 13:

Storm Crow, Rogue Kavu, Goblin Sky Raider

Pick: Rogue Kavu

Pack 14:

Fishliver Oil, Contaminated Bond

Pick: Fishliver Oil

Pack 15:

Firebreathing

Pick: Firebreathing

Pack 16:

Goblin Mountaineer, Sleight of Hand, Tree Monkey, Festering Goblin, Crossbow Infantry, Fugitive Wizard, Shock, Holy Day, Gravedigger, Norwood Ranger, Icy Manipulator, Gift of Estates, Demolish, Wildfire, Swamp

Pick: Wildfire

Pack 17:

Elvish Berserker, Crafty Pathmage, Hill Giant, Demystify, Horned Turtle, Giant Spider, Mind Rot, Veteran Cavalier, Raging Goblin, Serra's Blessing, Whip Sergeant, Urza's Mine, Relentless Assault, Island

Pick: Hill Giant

Pack 18:

Goblin Brigand, Sage Aven, Wood Elves, Looming Shade, Warrior's Honor, Flowstone Shambler, Aven Windreader, Firebreathing, Bog Imp, Puppeteer, Tanglebloom, Blanchwood Armor, Island

Pick: Puppeteer

Pack 19:

Goblin Mountaineer, Sleight of Hand, Tree Monkey, Festering Goblin, Crossbow Infantry, Aven Windreader, Firebreathing, Bog Imp, Scaled Wurm, Blessed Orator, Puppeteer, Swamp

Pick: Puppeteer

Pack 20:

Norwood Ranger, Wind Drake, Goblin Sky Raider, Aven Cloudchaser, Natural Spring, Elvish Warrior, Unholy Strength, Holy Strength, Spellbook, Soul Feast, Island

Pick: Wind Drake

Pack 21:

Balduvian Barbarians, Mending Hands, Overgrowth, Foul Imp, Sandstone Warrior, Flight, Mending Hands, Hollow Dogs, Tidings, Mountain

Pick: Tidings

Pack 22:

Fishliver Oil, Shatter, Contaminated Bond, Storm Crow, Trained Armodon, Infantry Veteran, Venerable Monk, Fellwar Stone, Mountain

Pick: Fellwar Stone

Pack 23:

Natural Spring, Reflexes, Rampant Growth, Wanderguard Sentry, Order of the Sacred Bell, Angelic Blessing, Telepathy, Mountain

Pick: Order of the Sacred Bell

Pack 24:

Goblin Mountaineer, Tree Monkey, Fugitive Wizard, Holy Day, Norwood Ranger, Gift of Estates, Swamp

Pick: Gift of Estates

Pack 25:

Elvish Berserker, Crafty Pathmage, Horned Turtle, Whip Sergeant, Urza's Mine, Island

Pick: Horned Turtle

Pack 26:

Sage Aven, Firebreathing, Bog Imp, Tanglebloom, Island

Pick: Sage Aven

Pack 27:

Goblin Mountaineer, Tree Monkey, Firebreathing, Swamp

Pick: Firebreathing

Pack 28:

Norwood Ranger, Spellbook, Island

Pick: Spellbook

Pack 29:

Flight, Mountain

Pick: Flight

Pack 30:

Mountain

Pick: Mountain

Pack 31:

Scaled Wurm, Dehydration, Goblin Chariot, Honor Guard, Raise Dead, Kavu Climber, Counsel of the Soratami, Treetop Bracers, Serpent Warrior, Venerable Monk, Withering Gaze, Web, Drudge Skeletons, Weathered Wayfarer, Plains

Pick: Counsel of the Soratami

Pack 32:

Rootwalla, Flight, Volcanic Hammer, Mending Hands, Hollow Dogs, Aven Windreader, Counsel of the Soratami, Treetop Bracers, Serpent Warrior, Venerable Monk, Elvish Bard, Urza's Tower, Cruel Edict, Island

Pick: Volcanic Hammer

Pack 33:

Flowstone Shambler, Lumengrid Warden, Craw Wurm, Coercion, Foot Soldiers, Goblin Piker, Sea's Claim, Anaba Shaman, Sacred Nectar, Thought Courier, Stream of Life, Bog Wraith, Swamp

Pick: Thought Courier

Pack 34:

Stone Rain, Aven Fisher, Elvish Warrior, Unholy Strength, Holy Strength, Flight, Mending Hands, Hollow Dogs, Reclaim, Blessed Orator, Ogre Taskmaster, Plains

Pick: Aven Fisher

Pack 35:

Panic Attack, Mana Leak, Naturalize, Ravenous Rats, Suntail Hawk, Remove Soul, Seething Song, Fear, Sanctum Guardian, Sudden Impact, Swamp

Pick: Remove Soul

Pack 36:

Goblin Mountaineer, Sleight of Hand, Tree Monkey, Festering Goblin, Crossbow Infantry, Crafty Pathmage, Demystify, Exhaustion, Megrim, Forest

Pick: Sleight of Hand

Pack 37:

Fugitive Wizard, Holy Day, Sea Monster, Grizzly Bears, Scathe Zombies, Glory Seeker, Stone Rain, Enrage, Mountain

Pick: Sea Monster

Pack 38:

Norwood Ranger, Wind Drake, Goblin Sky Raider, Razortooth Rats, Overgrowth, Foul Imp, Sandstone Warrior, Mountain

Pick: Wind Drake

Pack 39:

Scaled Wurm, Goblin Chariot, Honor Guard, Serpent Warrior, Withering Gaze, Web, Plains

Pick: Withering Gaze

Pack 40:

Flight, Mending Hands, Treetop Bracers, Serpent Warrior, Urza's Tower, Island

Pick: Urza's Tower

Pack 41:

Flowstone Shambler, Goblin Piker, Sea's Claim, Sacred Nectar, Swamp

Pick: Flowstone Shambler

Pack 42:

Holy Strength, Flight, Mending Hands, Plains

Pick: Mending Hands

Pack 43:

Panic Attack, Seething Song, Fear

Pick: Seething Song

Pack 44:

Goblin Mountaineer, Crafty Pathmage

Pick: Goblin Mountaineer

Pack 45:

Fugitive Wizard

Pick: Fugitive Wizard

Final Decklist:

Maindeck:

1 Archivist
1 Aven Fisher
1 Counsel of the Soratami
1 Dehydration
1 Horned Turtle
2 Puppeteer
1 Remove Soul
1 Sea Monster
1 Sift
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Thought Courier
1 Tidings
3 Wind Drake
1 Anaba Shaman
1 Hill Giant
1 Orcish Artillery
1 Rogue Kavu
1 Volcanic Hammer
1 Wildfire
11 Island
7 Mountain

Sideboard:

1 Dehydration
1 Fellwar Stone
2 Firebreathing
1 Fishliver Oil
1 Flight
1 Flowstone Shambler
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Gift of Estates
1 Goblin Mountaineer
1 Goblin Piker
1 Looming Shade
1 Mending Hands
1 Mountain
2 Order of the Sacred Bell
1 Sage Aven
1 Seething Song
1 Spellbook
1 Storm Crow
2 Urza's Tower
1 Withering Gaze

This draft went very well. I opened two excellent rares, and got passed a number of great cards that combo very well with those rares. Puppeteer and Archivist for example, or turn 5 Tidings turn 6 Wildfire. I won the draft fairly easily, with the exception of round 2 in which I had two very close games, which really shouldn't have been close. They involved a miraculous series of topdecks by my opponent and poor draws on my part, post Wildfire, when I had spells and lands in my hand, and my opponent had few lands and no hand.

Until tomorrow,

Rich

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