Pinoy RareDrafter

2009-11-17T23:22:00.001+08:00

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Zen Draft 4322

2009-11-15T22:37:00.004+08:00

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The 2 good cards here in the pack are Surrakar Marauder and the Plated Geopede. I choose the geopede since there is another good black card in the pack - Vampire Hexmage. I would not want to be sending bad signals. Its been a while since I drafted mono-red, lets see if I can force the archetype.
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The only good card here is Hideous End. THIS PACK STINKS.
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I'll try to stick with red 1st. Worst case its a grizzly bear.
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So far it looks like i'm going RB.
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There is no pick for me here, I'll just take the one I hate to face the most.
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There are some debates on the viability of this card in zen draft. Some say its slow for a very fast format and pros would rather be casting a surrakar or a geopede insted of this on turn 2.
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Electropotence is extremely slow in draft, but very good in sealed. I can't believe I'm picking a magma rift for my Pack 2 Pick 1.
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Nice.
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Keep 'em coming.
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There aren't alot of Nonbasics in draft. so The ruinblaster is out of the question. On the other hand, there's his brother.
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Must be nice.
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Really nice. Looks like the signal is paying off. Punishing fire is the better card, but if I'm going monored, I will need a beatstick. And I lack critters right now.
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I should've taken the shieldmate.
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There's my best beater!
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I'm still lacking playables to go mono-red. my deck will be good if I can pick up a couple of Spire Barrages and some more ravagers.

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man, that catacombs will complete my collection and is really tempting... hopefully I can still salvage my draft. I get the machete because it makes all my guys into large threats. Trust me, that ravager will table- in an Ogie Jaro sort of voice.
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There's my barrage!
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this goblin is very under-rated in zen draft. I wonder why. Looks very good to me.
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things are falling into place..
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What the? SERIOUSLY??? Anytime!
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here is the deck I played:

I went straight mono-red. Therefore I had to make use of some fillers like the hedron scrabbler. Triggering landfall will not be a problem since I am playing with 18 lands, and I have 2 Trusty Machetes to equip the scabbler to.

I played the deck to the finals but lost to manascrew. Yep, 18 lands and I lost to manascrew. The MTGO Shuffler can be cruel at times. 3 packs. not bad.

M10 MTGO 4-3-2-2 Draft

2009-09-08T20:47:00.007+08:00

Wow it has been more than 2 months since I updated this site.
After Nationals, I've been playing a lot of Online and Paper M10 Drafts. And have been trying out as much draft archetypes as possible.
Card advantage is somewhat lacking in M10, well at least compared to Shards Block so everyone just hopes to open a Bomb.

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Possible picks in this pack are Blinding Mage, Gravedigger, Wind Drake, and Prodigal Pyromancer.
I can argue that wind drake is 1st Pick-able especially since the UW skies Archetype is one of the stronger archetypes in M10 draft because of its aggressive and evasive qualities.
The tapper in Blinding Mage is also worth a 1st pick since it shuts down your opponent's biggest guy. However, it doesn't remove it. I've had experiences wherein I had a tapper but cannot answer the activated abilities of my opponent's bomb. (last weekend, I drafted a very aggressive Wu deck in a Rarepool draft featuring bombs like Captain of the Watch, a ton of soldiers, drakes, griffins, an Honor of the Pure, and even a Pack 3 Pick 1 Baneslayer. So in order to get the Baneslayer in the Rarepool, I had to go 3-0. So I was in the finals against a GW deck and lost to an Ant Queen as I had no way to remove it. Goobye Baneslayer)
The Pyromancer is also good IMO especially in multiples and if equipped with a Gorgon Flail, though it dies easily to a Sparkmage Apprentice. I pick the Gravedigger because it not only provides Card Advantage that is lacking in M10 draft, but also playing straight up black is very rewarding.
Let's see how things go.
By the way, I can't raredraft the Needle because it only costs 1 tix in Mtgo which is more or less worth 1USD.
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Notable cards in this pack are Ice Cage, Giant Growth, and Drudge Skeletons, but all probably are not worth a 2nd pick. I already have 2 Birds of Paradise in my collection and its worth approximately 2 tix, so I guess taking it to help me complete my playset won't hurt.

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Merfolk Looter is touted to be the best common and for good reasons. It can win games on its own on sheer Card Quality.
Pyroclasm is also a good card since board sweepers are always good.
I take the Tendrils of Corruption since it is the same color with my 1st pick, and I don't like to branch out to a secondary color this early on. Also, a third pick Tendrils might be a good indication that black is open.

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Child of Night is a good early drop and it can help you in the damage race when push comes to shove.
I choose Deathmark because it is an extremely efficient removal spell against Big Green Monsters, and Pesky White Fliers. It is worth a Maindeck slot.
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I choose Bog Wraith primarily because of its landwalk ability over the random 5cc 4/3 dude.
Right now, all I'm taking are Black cards. So it should appear to my opponent that I'm forcing Monoblack. If the persons I'm passing to right now know how to read signals, I should expect a very good Pack 2.
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I'm currently short on creatures so I did not take the Vampire Aristocrat.
The Looming Shade should be good in MonoBlack but it goes around quite a lot so I take the Black Knight which is an Uncommon, and has very relevant abilities.

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Not Bad! Kill an opposing Bomb and borrow it.
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Certainly worth a maindeck slot. My opponents shouldn't be able to cast a Fireball or Overrun.

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Can come in handy to fight against Illusionary Demons and Ice Cages.

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So far, I've essentially picked Black Cards over anything. That should steer away my neighbors from playing that color. It is now time to reap the rewards.

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Here's Black's Phantom Warrior. I hear evasion in Limited is good.
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A hard one! Doomblade practically kills anything and is an Instant.
But I choose Consume Spirit since I'm heavy black. Besides, I will have a lot of swamps in play by the time my opponents cast their bomb, so Consume Spirit will be able to deal with it. And an X Spell to the dome should be sweet too.
Gorgon Flail is also good here since i can basically attach it to a First Striking Black Knight that will be able to kill anything that blocks its path, or to a measly Drudge Skeleton, which will make any Craw Wurm to think again before attacking.

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another source of Card Advantage.
I just hope no one plays mono-green as I passed a Howl of the Night Pack.
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And another X Spell. Keep 'em coming!

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Amazing, this table has no respect for the mighty Looter. I don't have any picks here so might as well take the strongest card.

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Black's Centaur Courser.
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I seriously lack creatures.
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Must resist the temptation of taking the Fireball. hehe
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Wow this will be my 3rd Tendrils. Mind Shatter is also a good pick here.
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Hmmm.. interesting, I take the Underworld Dreams as I have never experimented with it before, well at least its a clock that's hard to remove. lol
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My deck featured 3 Tendrils, 2 Consume Spirits, 2 Gravediggers, but no bomb critters.
Well at least my opponent thinks my deck is broken after chaining a double Gravedigger and multiple Tendrils to clear the board. lol
I was once able to chain a Rise from the Grave, to double Gravedigger to a random critter. Cool.
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I won the draft and got 4 packs for it. Woot woot!

Shard Block 8-4 MTGO Booster Draft # 3

2009-06-25T11:38:00.006+08:00

I recently have been playing 8-4 pods exclusively in MTGO since the Philippine Nationals is getting nearer(July 25-26).I need all the practice I can get for my 1st ever appearance in Nationals. I also have been losing a lot of my paper magic drafts in JT's shop (www.whatwouldjtdo.blogspot.com) and thus decided to re-examine the way I draft and hopefully I can snap out of it before its too late.

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A relatively unexciting 1st pack/pick. This card has become better since Alara reborn came out. I'm looking at you Turbo Blades. I hope some other goodies come along.
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A common is missing... the guy feeding me must've picked either an Oblivion Ring, or a Branching Bolt (since those 2 cards are part of the print run). OR a foil card. I choose Bull Cerodon as I've won a lot of games with it, and it is red (which is the same color as my 1st pick. Executioner's capsule and Sanctum Gargoyle are fine picks too IMO. Let's see how things go.
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So far, Grixis, Jund, and Naya seem open... All of those shards has Red. So I'll take the Vithian Stinger here. I've passed 2 Executioner's Capsules already, I hope that is a good signal enough to my neighbor that I'm playing a shard that does NOT have black.
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Red is indeed open. I'll get the Bloodpyre Elemental to stay on color with all of my picks, and branch out later on what will be my secondary color and my splash.
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I have this feeling that the one passing to me wants me on Grixis or Jund. Bone Splinter, Alghae Gharial, Rockslide Elemental and the Tri-land are all good here. If I make a 2color deck with a very light splash, I think I can do away with the Tri-land. I already passed a couple of Capsules, might as well continue passing the splinters for good signaling. That leaves me with the Rockslide and the Alghae which are both good with my Vithian Stinger. I'll choose the Gharial because it is untouchable. And can reasonably grow rather big unmolested compared to the 1st-Striker.
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It looks like I'm playing Naya.
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RG with a white splash maybe?
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To keep my options open.
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There is nothing I will be playing here, so I'll hate on the Fiend as it is a monster if esper curves out.
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Wow what an awful pack for me... I can't get the Rhox Meditant as I lack green permanents to activate it.. Lets go with the Gray Ogre..
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I would've have picked the Beacon Behemoth but something tells me to stick with red 1st.
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Leotau, Dark Temper, or the Squire? Dark temper is best if I'm playing black, which I'm not, so that one is out. Leotau is double green and may hamper my mana development for my high CC spells. So the Squire must be the correct pick here.
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I thought about the Plowbeasts for a moment, but its too damn expensive. A 3cc 2/3 flier that will fit my curve ain't half bad I suppose.
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What is this card still doing here?
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Might be the wrong pick, I think it should've been the Trailblazer. What are your thoughts?
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Might make the cut if I'm short on playables. Besides, I've an exalted sub-theme.
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Hate draft this huge blocker.
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And this Isamaru
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Quite expensive, but he seems like the best card here for me.
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Wrong pick, I didn't realize there was a Griffin.
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I got into an argument with Paolo Go with this pick, he's for the blade. But I chose the Rhox Brute primarily because the brute will always be a 4cc 4/4 while the blade is a 2cc critter which may sometimes be a 3/2 or just a measly 2/1. Besides, I don;t have borderposts yet to get full effect from the blade. What do you think?
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there's a fixer. It looks like I'll be playing with a lot of Mountains, which will be supported with 1 triland, 1 bant panorama, and this borderpost for my other 2 colors.
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I almost needlessly hatedrafted the Hulk if I had not realized that I can at least cycle this card. So I count him as a white spell.
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I have never played this card before. I've seen Nick Ortega use this once and he was loudly proclaiming that it is a bad card that just skipped him his drawstep. I might experiment on this for this draft since I think I can push my manabase a little and splash an Island. We'll see how it goes.
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Don't you think its a little too early to not have anything for a 7th pick???!
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What in the world is Soul Manipulation doing here??? Reality check, did I really join an 8-4 queue? or I mis-clicked and joined a 4-3-2-2?
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Just the last thing that I needed to make sure my deck runs smoothly.
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Hate draft.. or I can go really greedy and play this monster.
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It looks like I can splash the blue after all.
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Here is the list that I played. Click on the image to enlarge.
I felt a little adventurous and went ahead and played the Lorescale Coatl, and the Sages of the Anima since I have a Fiery Fall and a Bant Panorama that can look for the lone Island, and I have a Seaside Citadel. My RGW manabase looks solid thanks to the panorama, citadel and 3 borderposts.

Notes: The Sages of the Anima was insane, I got a little lucky and cascaded it from an Enlisted Wurm, then next turn, the Sages gave me a Bull Cerodon and a Squire. Talk about Card Advantage.
An opponent was able to resolve a Cruel Ultimatum against me, but I was far ahead in terms of board position that the Cruel did not matter.
I won the draft and got 8 packs for it.
How would you have drafted the deck? Do you think I pushed the manabase a little too far?
Comments will be highly appreciated.

Shrads Block 8-4 Draft

2009-06-17T22:20:00.008+08:00

I played an 8-4 draft today in MTGO, Its a single elimination pod with prizes of 8 packs to the 1st placer and 4 packs to the 2nd. Since Nationals is approaching, I decided to try to improve my game more and what better way than to draft in an 8-4 queue. Here's how things went.
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Pretty interesting pack 1. Most of the good cards are more or less the same power level. Let's try Mr. Ruel for today and hope we get passed some Wild Nacatls or Akrasan Squires.
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There's the Squire! I don't see anything wrong picking it(I actually think the Pros will), but the Cerodon has won me far too many games to ignore. Besides, its still white. If I go Naya, its a perfect surprise. So I'd go with the Big Guy.
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UW exalted splash Red is feasible as per Conley Woods, I've never drafted that archetype before, Maybe I'll give it a try... For more information on the RWU archetype, Visit this site http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=8433
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Or I can go Naya.
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There is still a chance that UW is open. I'll take the duelist. This card got a whole lot better with Reborn with support cards like Ethercaste Knight. And It can go head to head against most of the blades and live to tell about it.
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Just in case I splash anything.
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I'd like to maximize the usage of combat tricks before I say goodbye to them when M10 hits the streets.
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Can probably make the cut if I go straight up UW.
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I can't believe this guy is still here.
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There's nothing I'd really want to play here. I'll take the Obelisk just in case.
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If GMA has ZTE, I have PTE!
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I reckon that purge is the better card between it and the outlander for my deck. So far, I don't have bombs yet, I hope some really good "I win" cards go my way...
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Not bad..
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Hmmm... Maybe I can try going UW splash RGB. I've heard a lot of good things about that archetype.. The question is can I still draft UWrgb when I already passed an Armillary Sphere and a Rupture Spire?
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Perfect fixer..
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It's white, has 1st strike, and can potentially win me games if I get my mana right. I may have some use for those Obelisks after all.
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There's my bomb. Good thing it came back.
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Kind of greedy, But in the 2color/5color archetype, you can practically get any bomb, as long as you can fix your mana. (and still be alive to be able to cast them)Now the late game is mine to dominate! But I have to scour for fixers, good thing Reborn has a lot to offer in terms of fixing.
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The only good UW card here is the Crystallization, but I need to start fixing my mana.
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Fixing or the stormblade? I'll get the stormblade; its a very good threat and is UW.
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Fixer, I'm not heavy in artifacts to warrant a shieldmage.
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My deck's beginning to look like it has a good early game with a very strong late game.
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Here is the list that I played. Click the image to enlarge.

Thoughts on the deck. Its an Aggressive UW deck splashing RGB for Lavalanche, Bull Cerodon, and for the activation of the Dragonsoul Knight and the Paragon of the Amesha. I can either be the aggressor or just chump in the early game then take over the late game with my bombs. I feel pretty confident with the deck's manabase even if it doesn't have an Armillary Sphere or Rupture Spire, thanks to my Obelisks, and land cyclers.
I won up to round 2 and lost in the 3rd round when both me and my opponent were on topdeck mode(damage race mode as well) and I had a Leviathan and got him down to 1. I was able to hit twice with the Leviathan post lavalanche. Too bad he topdecked a removal spell to kill one of my blockers and go all in with his other guys.

Shards Block #4

2009-06-12T13:38:00.007+08:00

Here's another draft I played last night in a 4-3-2-2 MTGO Shards Block queue.
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There seems to be an MTGO bug going around that prevents me from capturing my 1st pack. Anyway, my 1st pack is mediocre so I take the Tri-Land to keep my options open.
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Nothing really excites me in this pack aside from the scourge devil and the Tri-Land. I guess taking the land won't hurt. Let's see.
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The only cards I feel like taking here are either the Bone Splinters or the Connoisseur. Maybe I can build around the Connoisseur... Lets see how things go.
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Esper Battlemage is the strongest card here, but I don't feel like playing blue right now, besides, there's a leotau that'll be good with my connoisseur.
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If I will go straight Jund, I will not get any mana problems.
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This is the only card for me here, I hope I can get a Dragon Fodder or Kathari Bomber.. Anyway, Unearth cards will suffice.
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A solid sideboard card. Perhaps I can even maindeck it.
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Perfect for my Jund colors, Black for removal, Red for direct Damage, Green for big critters. What more can you ask for? It seems that this obelisk is best with jund colors.
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Drag Down or Shambling? Shambling works well with the connoisseur. And is a solid 3 drop/ 5turn clock.
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There's my Drag Down!
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Perfect! A very solid 2 drop for my deck. I hope I get another one or a Putrid Leech in pack 3.
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The rioters will be a 3cc 3/3 only, lets get the removal.
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A good underrated card that fits very well in my BRg deck.
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I think I should've taken the might of alara here..
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Can be good with my devour guy and my bone splinters.
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Damn, I really should've taken that Might of Alara instead.
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Kathari Bomber usually wheels.
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Bebe!
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There's my leech! hehe
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Looking good.
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Ambush Beetle or the Brute? I want a strong manabase, and since green is my splash, I'll get the beetle. They're both 4 power, and the beetle can bully smaller creatures with its ability.
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Good.
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And another one!
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The Carabid is nice but I think I'm a little top heavy.
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Hmmm... Can this make the cut?
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Here's the deck I played. I'm quite confident with this deck since it has a good manabase, a fast start, a good mid-game and late game thanks to the obelisk.

Too bad I lost round 1 against a bad deck (playing 50 cards) due to mana problems. I kept a hand with no black sources, thinking I will be able to draw it since it is my main color. Game 2 I won quickly via slauthermaster and Putrid Leech. Game 3 was a stalemate when my opponent casted a Rockaster Platoon, which killed my drakes, and me in a few turns. I got him down to 3 and cycled a Ridge Rannet, I got a Singe-Mind Ogre and he has one card in hand. is that card 3cc for the win? No, It was a quasali pridemage, damn. And he won next turn on his counter attack. Stupid Obelisk never showed up lolz.