Tough choice: butcher would put me in RW, but I have no clue if red is really open. The white guy leaves me more open for a second color. The chimera is mostly good if you're ahead, and even then can be tricky if they got a good follow-up play.
Pack 1 pick 3:
Mortal's Ardor
Eye Gouge
Nyxborn Triton
Swordwise Centaur
Crypsis
Reckless Reveler
Grisly Transformation
Snake of the Golden Grove
Elite Skirmisher
--> Oreskos Sun Guide
Gorgon's Head
Sunbond
Plains
I could go for double skirmisher, but I wanted to diversify and have lower drops. Triton would have been a good choice to select a 2nd colour.
Pack 1 pick 4:
Ephara's Radiance
Setessan Starbreaker
Forsaken Drifters
Scouring Sands
Chorus of the Tides
Crypsis
Culling Mark
--> Loyal Pegasus
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass (FOIL)
Peregrination
Noble Quarry
Mountain
Again, quarry is great but I don't like WG. Chorus is okay, but pegasus leaves me on-colour and is quite aggressive.
Pack 1 pick 5:
Mortal's Ardor
Eye Gouge
--> Nyxborn Triton
Stormcaller of Keranos (FOIL)
Reckless Reveler
Grisly Transformation
Snake of the Golden Grove
Kraken of the Straits
Stormcaller of Keranos
Bile Blight
Island
Well, 5th pick triton seems about right to choose a 2nd colour.
Pack 1 pick 6:
Great Hart
Weight of the Underworld
Rise to the Challenge
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
Necrobite
Sudden Storm
--> Kragma Butcher
Kraken of the Straits
Mischief and Mayhem
Swamp
Pack 1 pick 13:
--> Eye Gouge
Grisly Transformation
Island
Pack 1 pick 14:
--> Necrobite
Swamp
Pack 1 pick 15:
--> Swamp
------ THS ------
Pack 2 pick 1:
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Guardians of Meletis
Battlewise Valor
--> Leonin Snarecaster
Priest of Iroas
Read the Bones
Thassa's Bounty
Lost in a Labyrinth
Scholar of Athreos
Felhide Minotaur
Kragma Warcaller
Karametra's Acolyte
Insatiable Harpy
Temple of Triumph
Swamp
Very underwhelming pack.
Pack 2 pick 2:
Minotaur Skullcleaver
Chosen by Heliod
Mnemonic Wall
Lagonna-Band Elder
Lost in a Labyrinth
Pharika's Cure
Rage of Purphoros
Feral Invocation
Savage Surge
Disciple of Phenax
Horizon Chimera
--> Ordeal of Heliod
Dark Betrayal
Island
Pack 2 pick 3:
Leafcrown Dryad
Chosen by Heliod
Pheres-Band Centaurs
Griptide
Commune with the Gods
Spark Jolt
Returned Phalanx
Cutthroat Maneuver (FOIL)
Setessan Battle Priest
Purphoros's Emissary
Ordeal of Erebos
--> Dauntless Onslaught
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 5:
Island (FOIL)
Lash of the Whip
Portent of Betrayal
Commune with the Gods
--> Lagonna-Band Elder
Lost in a Labyrinth
Glare of Heresy
Destructive Revelry
Flamecast Wheel
Colossus of Akros
Forest
Pack 2 pick 8:
--> Lash of the Whip
Messenger's Speed
Fade into Antiquity
Returned Centaur
Commune with the Gods
Traveler's Amulet
Rescue from the Underworld
Plains
Pack 2 pick 9:
Guardians of Meletis
Priest of Iroas
Thassa's Bounty
Lost in a Labyrinth
--> Scholar of Athreos
Felhide Minotaur
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 10:
--> Chosen by Heliod
Mnemonic Wall
Lost in a Labyrinth
Horizon Chimera
Dark Betrayal
Island
Crap, crap, crap. Three choices?!? I really don't know what is best between gods willing and eidolon.
Pack 3 pick 3:
Loathsome Catoblepas
Omenspeaker
March of the Returned
Agent of Horizons
Fade into Antiquity
Satyr Rambler
Observant Alseid
Scourgemark
Borderland Minotaur
Nylea's Presence (FOIL)
Nylea's Emissary
--> Favored Hoplite
Mountain
Phew, at least I got one.
Pack 3 pick 4:
Bronze Sable
Messenger's Speed
Mnemonic Wall
Defend the Hearth
Agent of Horizons
Crackling Triton
Spark Jolt
--> Last Breath
Ray of Dissolution
Tormented Hero
Triton Fortune Hunter
Island
Maybe triton was the right pick here. I felt I'd rather play my heroic enablers on something else though.
Pack 3 pick 5:
--> Stymied Hopes
Lash of the Whip
Unknown Shores
Commune with the Gods
Returned Phalanx
Traveler's Amulet
Boulderfall
Mogis's Marauder
Shipwreck Singer
Sentry of the Underworld
Plains
Pack 3 pick 6:
--> Prescient Chimera
Fleetfeather Sandals
Fate Foretold
Defend the Hearth
Agent of Horizons
Felhide Minotaur
Shredding Winds
Anvilwrought Raptor
Pharika's Mender
Island
Pack 3 pick 7:
Nessian Courser
March of the Returned
Feral Invocation
Thassa's Bounty
--> Lagonna-Band Elder
Triton Shorethief
Cavern Lampad
Vanquish the Foul
Plains
Pack 3 pick 8:
--> Divine Verdict
Bronze Sable
Aqueous Form
Silent Artisan
Traveler's Amulet
Sentry of the Underworld
Cutthroat Maneuver
Plains
I'd rather have more creatures and better ones, but I can't draft what is not there. I thought I had cut white a lot in pack one.
The Games
First match vs BR.
First game, he gets no mountain out. I slow play my hand thinking he plays nothing because he wull have bile blight or sorrow. But no. In the second game, I have i'm almost dead, but then my chance turns and I start drawing lands while he gets flame-wreathed phoenix and multiple removals. The third game I get an early favorite hoplite which does his own usual silly thing.
Second match vs WU.
This match was quite hard. My opponent had many better creatures than me: phalanx leader, wingsteed rider, perplexing chimera and... brimaz himself. In the first game, he probably showed his inexperience with the chimera and stole my eidolon with it. Sure, he had lifelink now, but I had gotten the heroic trigger and now he could not play good stuff. I play my hand, including my how prescient chimera and he could not get opposing flyer out since I had the perplexing chimera. In the second game, I took the early lead with favorite hoplite while he got a phalanx leader. Unfortunately, my heroic enablers are slow to come and he played the chimera which was hard to play around. I get the chimera when I play hopeful eidolon (which lands on his phalanx leader). He nows has a 5/5 leader, but I got a retraction helix. Unfortunately, while he's at 5 life and I got a 6/10 favorite hoplite and he's sure to die, he top decks excoriate which I can't redirect because only my guy is tapped! I'm left with a bunch of smaller dorks to his big lagona-band elder. I get a vaporkin out and may get there... but he got the upper hand in the end thanks to a griptide. Griptide on the chimera... I'm not getting ahead anyway I play it. I was sooooooo close to winning this, but he drew the cards he needed to turn the game around just at the right time. Frustrating. In the third game, I got an early lead but he got an early brimaz out and later chimera again. There is not much I can do against those powers.
It was annoying to see someone in the same exact colors but with better cards. That second game was soooo close.
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Pack 1 pick 1:
Felhide Brawler
Claim of Erebos (FOIL)
Griffin Dreamfinder
Eye Gouge
Evanescent Intellect
Fearsome Temper
Nyxborn Rollicker
Sudden Storm
Aspect of Hydra
Claim of Erebos
--> Archetype of Courage
Thunderous Might
Acolyte's Reward
Fated Return
Forest
Everybody with first strike? Sounds good.
Pack 1 pick 2:
Ephara's Radiance
Setessan Oathsworn
Marshmist Titan
Stratus Walk (FOIL)
Kragma Butcher
Loyal Pegasus
--> Elite Skirmisher
Mortal's Resolve
Asphyxiate
Archetype of Endurance
Sanguimancy
Mischief and Mayhem
Perplexing Chimera
Swamp
Tough choice: butcher would put me in RW, but I have no clue if red is really open. The white guy leaves me more open for a second color. The chimera is mostly good if you're ahead, and even then can be tricky if they got a good follow-up play.
Pack 1 pick 3:
Mortal's Ardor
Eye Gouge
Nyxborn Triton
Swordwise Centaur
Crypsis
Reckless Reveler
Grisly Transformation
Snake of the Golden Grove
Elite Skirmisher
--> Oreskos Sun Guide
Gorgon's Head
Sunbond
Plains
I could go for double skirmisher, but I wanted to diversify and have lower drops. Triton would have been a good choice to select a 2nd colour.
Pack 1 pick 4:
Ephara's Radiance
Setessan Starbreaker
Forsaken Drifters
Scouring Sands
Chorus of the Tides
Crypsis
Culling Mark
--> Loyal Pegasus
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass (FOIL)
Peregrination
Noble Quarry
Mountain
Again, quarry is great but I don't like WG. Chorus is okay, but pegasus leaves me on-colour and is quite aggressive.
Pack 1 pick 5:
Mortal's Ardor
Eye Gouge
--> Nyxborn Triton
Stormcaller of Keranos (FOIL)
Reckless Reveler
Grisly Transformation
Snake of the Golden Grove
Kraken of the Straits
Stormcaller of Keranos
Bile Blight
Island
Well, 5th pick triton seems about right to choose a 2nd colour.
Pack 1 pick 6:
Great Hart
Weight of the Underworld
Rise to the Challenge
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
Necrobite
Sudden Storm
--> Kragma Butcher
Kraken of the Straits
Mischief and Mayhem
Swamp
Diversity... butcher this late might be a signal.
Pack 1 pick 7:
Mortal's Ardor
Servant of Tymaret
Satyr Wayfinder
Pharagax Giant
--> Retraction Helix
Reckless Reveler
Nullify
Fated Return
Swamp
Helix too!
Pack 1 pick 8:
Griffin Dreamfinder
Nyxborn Eidolon
Charging Badger
--> Sphinx's Disciple
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
Forlorn Pseudamma
Heroes' Podium
Swamp
Tough choice. I think it was a mistake power-wise, but I prefer WU to WR and this curs the U.
Pack 1 pick 9:
Felhide Brawler
Claim of Erebos (FOIL)
Griffin Dreamfinder
--> Eye Gouge
Evanescent Intellect
Claim of Erebos
Forest
Pack 1 pick 10:
Ephara's Radiance
Setessan Oathsworn
Marshmist Titan
Sanguimancy
--> Mischief and Mayhem
Swamp
Seems late, I'm cutting it out.
Pack 1 pick 11:
Eye Gouge
--> Crypsis
Grisly Transformation
Sunbond
Plains
Pack 1 pick 12:
--> Forsaken Drifters
Culling Mark
Peregrination
Mountain
Pack 1 pick 13:
--> Eye Gouge
Grisly Transformation
Island
Pack 1 pick 14:
--> Necrobite
Swamp
Pack 1 pick 15:
--> Swamp
------ THS ------
Pack 2 pick 1:
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Guardians of Meletis
Battlewise Valor
--> Leonin Snarecaster
Priest of Iroas
Read the Bones
Thassa's Bounty
Lost in a Labyrinth
Scholar of Athreos
Felhide Minotaur
Kragma Warcaller
Karametra's Acolyte
Insatiable Harpy
Temple of Triumph
Swamp
Very underwhelming pack.
Pack 2 pick 2:
Minotaur Skullcleaver
Chosen by Heliod
Mnemonic Wall
Lagonna-Band Elder
Lost in a Labyrinth
Pharika's Cure
Rage of Purphoros
Feral Invocation
Savage Surge
Disciple of Phenax
Horizon Chimera
--> Ordeal of Heliod
Dark Betrayal
Island
Pack 2 pick 3:
Leafcrown Dryad
Chosen by Heliod
Pheres-Band Centaurs
Griptide
Commune with the Gods
Spark Jolt
Returned Phalanx
Cutthroat Maneuver (FOIL)
Setessan Battle Priest
Purphoros's Emissary
Ordeal of Erebos
--> Dauntless Onslaught
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 4:
Pheres-Band Centaurs
Guardians of Meletis
Prescient Chimera
Sealock Monster (FOIL)
Asphodel Wanderer
Breaching Hippocamp
Silent Artisan
--> Vaporkin
Felhide Minotaur
Chronicler of Heroes
Steam Augury
Mountain
Pack 2 pick 5:
Island (FOIL)
Lash of the Whip
Portent of Betrayal
Commune with the Gods
--> Lagonna-Band Elder
Lost in a Labyrinth
Glare of Heresy
Destructive Revelry
Flamecast Wheel
Colossus of Akros
Forest
Pack 2 pick 6:
Fleshmad Steed
Feral Invocation
--> Fate Foretold
Thassa's Bounty
Priest of Iroas
Setessan Griffin
Triton Shorethief
Satyr Piper
Decorated Griffin
Forest
Pack 2 pick 7:
Fleetfeather Sandals
Demolish
--> Ephara's Warden
Satyr Hedonist
Satyr Rambler
Boon of Erebos
Chronicler of Heroes
Cutthroat Maneuver
Mountain
Pack 2 pick 8:
--> Lash of the Whip
Messenger's Speed
Fade into Antiquity
Returned Centaur
Commune with the Gods
Traveler's Amulet
Rescue from the Underworld
Plains
Pack 2 pick 9:
Guardians of Meletis
Priest of Iroas
Thassa's Bounty
Lost in a Labyrinth
--> Scholar of Athreos
Felhide Minotaur
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 10:
--> Chosen by Heliod
Mnemonic Wall
Lost in a Labyrinth
Horizon Chimera
Dark Betrayal
Island
Pack 2 pick 11:
Pheres-Band Centaurs
Returned Phalanx
Cutthroat Maneuver (FOIL)
--> Setessan Battle Priest
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 12:
--> Guardians of Meletis
Asphodel Wanderer
Chronicler of Heroes
Mountain
Pack 2 pick 13:
Island (FOIL)
--> Flamecast Wheel
Forest
Pack 2 pick 14:
--> Triton Shorethief
Forest
Pack 2 pick 15:
--> Mountain
------ THS ------
Pack 3 pick 1:
Fleshmad Steed
Cavalry Pegasus
Nylea's Disciple
Coastline Chimera
Rage of Purphoros
Satyr Hedonist
Read the Bones
Last Breath
Vaporkin
Setessan Battle Priest
Peak Eruption
--> Ordeal of Thassa
Coordinated Assault
Fleecemane Lion
Forest
Could I splash green for lion? I don't think it is worth it, but it is a beating. I'm really short on heroic dudes to go with ordeal, unfortunately.
Pack 3 pick 2:
Messenger's Speed
Gods Willing
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Pharika's Cure
Feral Invocation
Returned Centaur
--> Hopeful Eidolon
Setessan Griffin
Vaporkin
Artisan's Sorrow
Mogis's Marauder
Erebos's Emissary
Nighthowler
Plains
Crap, crap, crap. Three choices?!? I really don't know what is best between gods willing and eidolon.
Pack 3 pick 3:
Loathsome Catoblepas
Omenspeaker
March of the Returned
Agent of Horizons
Fade into Antiquity
Satyr Rambler
Observant Alseid
Scourgemark
Borderland Minotaur
Nylea's Presence (FOIL)
Nylea's Emissary
--> Favored Hoplite
Mountain
Phew, at least I got one.
Pack 3 pick 4:
Bronze Sable
Messenger's Speed
Mnemonic Wall
Defend the Hearth
Agent of Horizons
Crackling Triton
Spark Jolt
--> Last Breath
Ray of Dissolution
Tormented Hero
Triton Fortune Hunter
Island
Maybe triton was the right pick here. I felt I'd rather play my heroic enablers on something else though.
Pack 3 pick 5:
--> Stymied Hopes
Lash of the Whip
Unknown Shores
Commune with the Gods
Returned Phalanx
Traveler's Amulet
Boulderfall
Mogis's Marauder
Shipwreck Singer
Sentry of the Underworld
Plains
Pack 3 pick 6:
--> Prescient Chimera
Fleetfeather Sandals
Fate Foretold
Defend the Hearth
Agent of Horizons
Felhide Minotaur
Shredding Winds
Anvilwrought Raptor
Pharika's Mender
Island
Pack 3 pick 7:
Nessian Courser
March of the Returned
Feral Invocation
Thassa's Bounty
--> Lagonna-Band Elder
Triton Shorethief
Cavern Lampad
Vanquish the Foul
Plains
Pack 3 pick 8:
--> Divine Verdict
Bronze Sable
Aqueous Form
Silent Artisan
Traveler's Amulet
Sentry of the Underworld
Cutthroat Maneuver
Plains
Pack 3 pick 9:
Fleshmad Steed
Coastline Chimera
Satyr Hedonist
--> Last Breath
Setessan Battle Priest
Peak Eruption
Forest
Pack 3 pick 10:
Messenger's Speed
--> Pharika's Cure
Returned Centaur
Setessan Griffin
Artisan's Sorrow
Plains
Pack 3 pick 11:
Loathsome Catoblepas
March of the Returned
--> Fade into Antiquity
Scourgemark
Mountain
Pack 3 pick 12:
Messenger's Speed
--> Mnemonic Wall
Defend the Hearth
Island
Pack 3 pick 13:
--> Commune with the Gods
Boulderfall
Plains
Pack 3 pick 14:
--> Defend the Hearth
Island
Pack 3 pick 15:
--> Plains
The Deck
1 Loyal Pegasus
1 Hopeful Eidolon
1 Favored Hoplite
1 Vaporkin
1 Oreskos Sun Guide
1 Leonin Snarecaster
1 Setessan Battle Priest
2 Lagonna-Band Elder
1 Elite Skirmisher
1 Nyxborn Triton
1 Archetype of Courage
1 Ephara's Warden
1 Prescient Chimera
1 Crypsis
1 Fate Foretold
2 Last Breath
1 Chosen by Heliod
1 Retraction Helix
1 Ordeal of Thassa
1 Divine Verdict
1 Dauntless Onslaught
1 Ordeal of Heliod
Lands (16)
7 Island
9 Plains
1 Sphinx's Disciple
1 Scholar of Athreos
1 Guardians of Meletis
1 Triton Shorethief
1 Stymied Hopes
I'd rather have more creatures and better ones, but I can't draft what is not there. I thought I had cut white a lot in pack one.
The Games
First match vs BR.
First game, he gets no mountain out. I slow play my hand thinking he plays nothing because he wull have bile blight or sorrow. But no. In the second game, I have i'm almost dead, but then my chance turns and I start drawing lands while he gets flame-wreathed phoenix and multiple removals. The third game I get an early favorite hoplite which does his own usual silly thing.
Second match vs WU.
This match was quite hard. My opponent had many better creatures than me: phalanx leader, wingsteed rider, perplexing chimera and... brimaz himself. In the first game, he probably showed his inexperience with the chimera and stole my eidolon with it. Sure, he had lifelink now, but I had gotten the heroic trigger and now he could not play good stuff. I play my hand, including my how prescient chimera and he could not get opposing flyer out since I had the perplexing chimera. In the second game, I took the early lead with favorite hoplite while he got a phalanx leader. Unfortunately, my heroic enablers are slow to come and he played the chimera which was hard to play around. I get the chimera when I play hopeful eidolon (which lands on his phalanx leader). He nows has a 5/5 leader, but I got a retraction helix. Unfortunately, while he's at 5 life and I got a 6/10 favorite hoplite and he's sure to die, he top decks excoriate which I can't redirect because only my guy is tapped! I'm left with a bunch of smaller dorks to his big lagona-band elder. I get a vaporkin out and may get there... but he got the upper hand in the end thanks to a griptide. Griptide on the chimera... I'm not getting ahead anyway I play it. I was sooooooo close to winning this, but he drew the cards he needed to turn the game around just at the right time. Frustrating. In the third game, I got an early lead but he got an early brimaz out and later chimera again. There is not much I can do against those powers.
It was annoying to see someone in the same exact colors but with better cards. That second game was soooo close.