Draft
Draft Log
Early Picks
P1p1: Eagle vs. Fenlurker vs. Druid. I think it’s between Druid and Fenlurker and I take the Fen on the strength of the 2-for-1.
P1p2: Sad pack. Raise the Alarm I guess?
P1p3: Bone Splinters vs. Dragon vs. Reduce. Unconditional removal first I suppose. When in doubt, take the one-drop over the five-drops.
P1p4: Of note, Undead Servant that might wheel but I take Soul Salvage.
p6: late-ish Smuggler
p7: Shock. It’s red time people!
Self-Assessment
The late red in pack 1 (Smuggler & Shock) put me in red and the Audacious Thiefs & Murder plop me into black. Felt like the signals were clear there!
Deck
16 land or 17 land, that is the question. 16 lands is… (frantically alt-tabs) 87% to have three lands on the 3rd draw step, 92% by the 4th. 17 lands ups that to 90% and 94%, respectively. This deck looks to run well on a low curve, and the 4x (!) Audacious Thief will draw me into additional lands as needed.
Results
- Round 1 vs. Bant: I kill a Risen Reef wildly unnecessarily. Unfortunately I fall a little behind on the race, did not get a good start. Game 2 I run over pretty easily and game 3 turned into a surprisingly close race as my own Audacious Thief probably did 6-7 points of damage to me, which got a little dangerous as they had their own fliers turn it into a race. Fortunately the “buff-all” ability of the Cavalier allowed unblockable attackers to finish the job. Distressingly close.
- Round 2 vs. UG fliers: Deck ran smoothly on all cylinders and just crunched through with unblockable damage.
- Round 3 vs. UGw: Oppo splashed white for two Ironroot Warlords. First game I successfully race with some help from my lifelink-ing friend. Second game I don’t have good blocks for a 3/3 troll, but once again lifelink came to my rescue. I’m grinding out advantage when oppo dropped Gargos! Incredibly I topdeck the mountains I need to push through an inflated Pack Hound and then a final Shock for the coup de grace.
Learnings
Never, ever underestimate anything that has recurring unblockable.
Benalish Dad 
love the fenlurker pick. i feel like that’s the card Hymn to Tourach should have been all along.
Oh man just looked that card up to get the spelling right. It had 4 arts. Serious 4 arts for a common. That set musta been a money maker.
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Despite the fact that multiple art for a card makes playing the game harder because of cognitive recognition blah blah MAN I miss that! So much fun getting the extra art and flavor text!
And I definitely would have spelled it, “Torach”
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