Draft

Well pretty easy P1p1, snagging the Cavalier of Gales over Murder. With a card that powerful, I do lean blue in the next few picks, taking Winged Words over Flame Sweet, Temple over Chandra’s Outrage. P1p5 of Chandra’s Outrage vs. Bloodthirsty Aerialist was a toughy, and the blue does start drying up. I move into green, reap some blue in pack 2, and put together a decent-enough deck.
Draft Log

Deck

So the deck has a plan: stall, draw cards until you find a bomb. Control the ground, go slow, and grind it out. The big decision was whether or not to splash for the treasure dragon. Rule #5 is don’t splash for fixing. But given that there are two dual lands already, and the UUU/GGG bombs are the game plan, I can see the treasure tokens actually being quite useful.

Results

  • Round 1 vs UW: Oppo starts out with back-to-back Faerie Miscreants, then another, then a Cloudkin, then the buffing eagle. Yeah I lose that one pretty good. Second game I snag his Eagle with a counterspell and get both the Cavalier and Gargos down. Oppo does some work with the Brineborne Cutthroat but I overwhelm. They have six Miscreants! And the pattern matcher! I get overwhelmed (really missing that other spider) in the air.
  • Round 2 vs WB: quickly goes to a grind where his air force backed up by equipment got me. Second game I get Cavalier and Gargos (SENSE A THEME) and pummel oppo’s lack of removal. In game 3 I keep a semi-sketchy hand with no early plays. I get bailed out and draw into key mana & a Scorpion. I land my bombs and those do indeed win the game for the match.
Sketchy keep, but those bombs!
  • Round 3 vs RG: we play out our dudes. I flood hard (9 lands, 4 spells) and he lands the Ceratops to polish me off. Also I lose to two fliers. Game two I aaaaalmost stabilize but he powered through with the Chandra’s Spitfire (+3/+0 if you Shock the opponent) on a last-ditch attack.

Learnings

Remember that there a bunch of fliers in this set. Don’t forget your spiders! (Lords of Limited today confirmed that spiders are awesome and frequently trump the fliers)

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