The First Pack First Pick:
The only notable cards were
Fathom Mage and
Cinder Elemental When offered the choice between
Blaze on a stick and a card that required both being U/G and building around I of course chose
Fathom Mage.
P1P2: Only thing of any worth here was
Consuming Aberration My reaction was "5-Mana
Lord of Death Meh."
P1P3:
Gruul Charm was the only non-jank card Competing the 4 mana by pick 3 achievement
P1P4:
Ground Assault was the pick as I remembered Kijin saying it was pretty good.
P1P5:
Urban Evolution Was there letting me know that U/B was open. Of course Splash Blue
Harmonize+ [card]
Rampant Growth[/card] was the pick.
P1P6:
Agoraphobia was the only thing of note and I remembered a similar card from ROE.
P1p7:
Pit Fight! At this point I was thinking of going Gruul with a U splash.
P1Pd8
Keymaster Rouge was the only non-White or Black Card in the pack.
P1P9:
Drakewing Krasis was the best card by FAR
P1P10:
Frilled Ocuus to shore up my Early game if I ended up opening something great in U/G in pack 2.
P1P11: An
Angelic Edict Removal;only playable, enough said.
P1P12:
Metropolis Spritelol
P1P13:
Tin Street Marketlol
After Pack One I'd got the feeling that B,W,R were being Drafted heavily next to me. Cards of note I'd passed were
Assemble the LegionFive-Alarm Fire,[
card]Urbis Protector[/card] and infinity
Mugging.
Pack 2 Pick One: My choices were on color
Crocanura or
Merciless Eviction while suppressing the urge to yell "I'M CONLEY WOODS" I picked Merciless. With no Mana Fixers for those colors or even relevant cards.
P1P2:
Nimbus Swimmer by a mile, continued to pass Red Cards.
P1P3: Windmill slammed
Prophetic Prism for my 5 color Control{Shitty Draw, Shitty Removal} Deck.
P1P4:
Mindeye Drake for that asssssss.
P1P5: Pit Fight as a snap pick despite my dismal Early Creatures.
P1P6:
Voidwalk; Flicker is good enough, Flicker that can target their defenders is even better.
P7:
Dimir Guildgate above other "playables"
P8:
Drakewing Krasis Kijin
Mentioned it so it must be good! Doomed to be pronounced as Krakis for the rest of the night.
P9"
Millennial Gargoyle, Yes a 2/2 flying Colorless for Four was 9th Pick somehow.
P10:
Disciple of the Old Ways Bear that could see Play.
P11: Hatedrafted
Shielded Passage due to the awesome Boros Deck I was passing.
P12:
Metropolis Sprite
P13:
Righteous Charge Hate-Draft.
P14:
Gutter Skulk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Notables I'd passed were:
2 Ivy Lande Denizen,
Scab-Clan Charger and
Slaughterhorn
Pack 3; Pick One:
Rapid Hybridization was the only playable(and I use this term loosely) card in any of my 5-Colors. But
Pongify was awesome in Time Spiral. [card]
Biovisionary[/card] was the only other "playable"
P3P2:
Voidwalk above some Red Cards, bouncing Mage seems awesome and it can go on Krasis.
P3:
Miming Slime was the only thing maternally playable. And that was as a Spell dependent on Creatures.
P4: Frilled Oculus to fill in curve and Turtle it up.
P5:
Simic Guildgate as the Goddamn second Piece of fixing I'd seen in the whole draft.
P6:
Dimir Charm is Dimir Charm.
P7: Millennial Gargoyle, at this point I got worried that Creep had made it shitty somehow.
P8
Biovisionary I snapped pick because it was a Beefier
Gray Ogre and I needed that shit what with being 5 Drop.Dec.
P9:
Dimir Guildgate was the pick above yet more Red cards.
P10: [card]Sage's Row Denizen[/card] for his 2/3 body.
P11: [card:
on1nwj5z]Psychic Strike[/card]
P12:
Leyline Phantom
P13:
Bioshift
P14:
Furous Resistance
Notables I'd passed were
Clan Defiance(4th pick or so for some reason) and
Ordruun Veteran.
I ended up with this:
[deck]Fathom Mage
Biovisionary
Merciless Eviction
Consuming Aberration
Miming Slime
2Voidwalk
Rapid Hybridization
Urban Evolution
Agoraphobia
Mindeye Drake
Nimbus Swimmer
Clinging Anemones
2Millennial Gargoyle
2Drakewing Krasis
2Pit Fight
2 Frilled Oculus
Sage's Row Denizen
Prophetic Prism
2 Dimir Guildgate
Simic Guildgate
1Plains
6 Forest
7 Island[/deck]
Duel One: Normal Dude.
Match One: After a customary Good Luck and Handshake He beat down with Extort Derps. It was horrible. At one point I swung for 7
damage and knocked him down to 23 life.
Match Two: I managed to stabilize only to lose to his single Forest apparently being a splash for Slaughterhorn as I died with Wrath in Hand I was saving for Value. Aberration had gotten to past Eldrazi size at that point and I was too reluctant to sweep.
Duel Two: Irish Nerd. Playing Dimir 2
Shadow Alley Denizen and 3
Deathcult Rogue with
Riot Gear and
Gift of Orzhova
Game One was a close one due to Deathcult Rouge equipped with Riot Gear being insane. However Agoraphobia just wrecked anything he played. I managed to Play a Mage and then Next turn dropped a 1/1 Aberration and followed it up with Mimic Slime to somehow lucksac a card into my hand and two 5/5's onto the field. Next turn I followed up with Swimmer{drawing Playable Wrath} and that was game.
Game Two:
His Play Turn Two: Gutter Skulk.
Turn Three was a Gift of Orzhova on
said Skulk.
After summiting a bit I played Voidwalk ciphering on Krais and made him join a new site.
Game Three: White Guy with Glasses.
His Turn One was
Cloudfin Raptor and he followed it up with a
Forced Adaptation. It turns out Adaptation was in his deck due to
Simic Manipulator. I overran him with my junk creatures fairly quickly.
Match Two: Cloudfin Raptor, Forced Adaptation, Simic Manipulator, Ivy Lane, Ivy Lane, 6/2 Guy. He beat my face in.
Match Three: He played
Diluvian Primordial and
Simic Manipulator to steal my defenders while I curved out perfectly with Kasis,Kasis, Gargoyle,Mindeye and just beat his face in with fliers.
It turns out that's I'd qualified for Top Four somehow with my 1 blockable Bomb Deck. 2 of the players had [card]Aurelia's Fury[/card](The Girl) and Aurelia(The hipster) in Just brutal
Boros Decks.
Match One was Pot-head with W/B Extort deck.
After Pongifying his
Ogre Slumlord I killed his
Smog Elementalwith a
Pit Fight and bounced his 4/4 Flying Angel Token with Voidwalk and Then Ciphered his 3/3 Lizard Token away. Then he played
Balustrade Spy and milled
Merciless Eviction and then a land taking me out of the game.
Match 2:
Spammed Extort and despite me Pit Fighting a Karsis to death as he played 1000Lashes got Exorted from 4 health after a close race.
I ended up 4th place and got a free pack.
In it was:
[deck]Zameck Quildmage, Simic Charm and Deathpact Angel[/deck][/quote]