Dark confession time: COVID-19 has lured me into getting into K-pop. A good overview article lured me, and let’s be honest, I’ve always been K-pop-curious. There’s also a decent chance that the Benalish Momma made an ill-thought out desire, “I wish he would stop listening to that stupid orchestrated video game music.”

(finger closes on the monkey’s fist)

Draft log

Pretty easy Basri’s Lieutenant in P1p1. Such a good teacher, arguably his Acolyte has surpassed him. Then the draft rapidly went YOLO when I tried to pull off (and wheeled) double Griffin Aerie while ALSO identifying blue as the open lane. Immediately punished by opening a P2p1 Sublime Epiphany I gritted my teeth and tried to find enough lifegain triggers to get there. Reader, I did not.

Summary

Pretty medium deck, with some fun potential mini-synergies but nothing good enough to justify putting swamps into an M21 deck. Round one was facing a much… better BW deck (with Vito and Tempered Veteran, doing work in a slow match up). However it ground out two wins with small synergies mostly centered around spewing zombies with the Liliana’s Devotee.

2-1