If this slide in performance continues unabated, I feel like I should start adding my recent cooking successes. Significantly less of a failure in that arena!

Draft log

Strange draft. Green was clearly my color in pack 1 with some good blue (though nothing showstopping) sprinkled in. Then white “opened” up in pack 3 and blue disappeared leaving me somewhat awkwardly straddling three colors. But I have a deck packing three Drowsy Ts and ways to wake them up, so I don’t feel too bad.

Summary

Not the ideal UG deck, as it’s a little aggressive and lacking card advantage. But there’s a plan, some decent removal, and some drowsy-Ts. WILL IT GET TO TWO WINS?!?!

Lost game 1 to stumbling on mana but won the round with SO MANY 3/3 dinos. Round 2 was against another similar UG tempo deck. We traded games. I almost pulled out game 3 agggainst a 9/9 Coatl and drove oppo to 1 life, but I stalled out and they reloaded with Rain of Revelation. Just a matter of time at that point. I lost the third round to a vicious little UW deck with aggression and Breath of Frost at Bad Times.

Interesting Moments

bant can’t

White bizarrely opened up for me in pack 3, with a second Conclave Mentor and Daybreak Charger just sitting there. However, upon putting it together, there wasn’t any “there” there. My only source of +1/+1 counters was a Pridemalkin and Hunter’s Edge, so the Mentors were really just glorified Bears that would give me two life.

Keep or mull

This feels like a classic “bad keep”. 5 lands is never ideal, but there’s early action and cantriping into another card. Result: 5 out of the next 6 cards were lands. I didn’t win this game you guys.

1-2

It’s official: 1-2 is the new 2-1.