No April Fools, Chris and Jed are back in action!
Draft the First!
Seemed like a pretty good draft tbh. We stayed the right amount of open and built a passable midrange RW deck. It felt like we suffered a bit with the lack of beef in the 3/4 drop range, but that’s drafting for you. The only outright mistake we made was P1p5 where we took a Waterknot over a Bombard. We got overly swayed by seeing the open blue in the previous pack and we should have stayed more open, more splash-able, frankly outright better removal. But I don’t think that would have salvaged a “right-seat, bad-deck” trio of rounds.
Obviously we’re not going to end the night on THAT note.
Draft #2: Behold the Hypnotoad
The draft was a little funky. A P1p4 Needletooth Raptor and P1p5 Raging Regisaur gave us visions of Dinosaur glory. But the red and green rapidly dried up and we ended pack 1 in some terribly unfortunate Mardu blend. Fortunately we got some clarity in Pack 2 with some quality removal in white and black putting us in a firmly generic midrange midrange value deck. How does this deck even win? Oh I’ll show you how it wins:
Behold the majesty of the Hypnotoad! I’m not trying to say that this is a good card. It’s not. However, it can be the card you need. If you’re playing a control shell with loads of removal, the canal monitor can amble its way towards victory. Think of it like a worse version of Soul of the Rapids. Sure it lacks evasion and hexproof, but it DOES pack a wallop. And it can wear a pair of pants like Mark of the Vampire like nobody’s business!
I had to run downstairs and make chili so Chris piloted this majesty to another trophy! Three trophies! ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD
Benalish Dad 