Pack 1 pick 3:
Nyxborn Wolf
Floodtide Serpent
Rise to the Challenge
Griffin Dreamfinder
Charging Badger
Kragma Butcher
Aspect of Hydra
Mortal's Resolve
Divination
--> Reap What Is Sown
Peregrination
Fanatic of Xenagos
Island
Pack 1 pick 4:
Warchanter of Mogis
Revoke Existence
Scouring Sands
Charging Badger
Nyxborn Rollicker
Karametra's Favor
Stratus Walk
Pharagax Giant (FOIL)
Pheres-Band Tromper
--> Akroan Conscriptor
Dawn to Dusk
Plains
Pack 2 pick 3:
--> Gods Willing
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Prescient Chimera
Scourgemark
Coastline Chimera
Rage of Purphoros
Satyr Hedonist
Read the Bones
Boon of Erebos
Setessan Griffin
Rescue from the Underworld
Purphoros's Emissary
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 4:
March of the Returned
Dragon Mantle
Spearpoint Oread
Breaching Hippocamp
Vulpine Goliath
Asphodel Wanderer
--> Voyaging Satyr
Savage Surge
Vanquish the Foul
Akroan Hoplite
Colossus of Akros
Island
Pack 3 pick 3:
March of the Returned
Lightning Strike
Fleshmad Steed
Cavalry Pegasus
Rage of Purphoros
Satyr Hedonist
Read the Bones
Last Breath
Felhide Minotaur
Shredding Winds
--> Dauntless Onslaught
Flamespeaker Adept
Plains
Pack 3 pick 5:
Guardians of Meletis
Demolish
Two-Headed Cerberus
Aqueous Form
Silent Artisan
Blood-Toll Harpy
--> Sedge Scorpion
Scholar of Athreos
Artisan's Sorrow
Decorated Griffin
Forest
Pack 3 pick 6:
Battlewise Valor
Loathsome Catoblepas
--> Last Breath
Unknown Shores
Crackling Triton
Portent of Betrayal
Commune with the Gods
Destructive Revelry
Dark Betrayal
Forest
No need for a deck list or game recaps, you can see from the draft here that it was going to be a total disaster.
So my question for you all is, where would you have switched it up?
I'll leave my answer in a spoiler for fun:
I think the BNG pack was absolute junk, so no real force into any colors. The Nimbus Naiad in P2P1 was tempting, but not enough to completely change colors. I think the real signal was when I got shipped Gary in P2P3 that black was wide open. If I had switched to WB at that point, I think I would have been much better off.
P1P4 and P1P5 are probably what confused the drafters near you and helped screw you up. You already have three outstanding GW cards - why ditch them when Tromper is potentially better than the card you picked anyway. Then pick 5 should definitely have been the Skirmisher.
I agree with Jermo. I would have gone for Pheres-Band Tromper and Elite Skirmisher there. You wound up with a dearth of 3 and 4 drops and they would have helped. But, the second and thrid packs really did not break your way ultimately. It must have seemed amazing getting all of those Voyaging Satyrs and then things completely dried up after that. Other people must have been taking all of the Wingsteed Riders and Nessian Asp. You really just got no access to top tier G/W creatures in those Theros packs.
Time: 3/31/2014 3:16:11 PM
Players:
crisis909
lamnz3
Longobarda
davidyendall
Kilgore23
fampire
FriedrichR
--> Psyjedi
------ BNG ------
Pack 1 pick 1:
Nyxborn Wolf
Floodtide Serpent
Rise to the Challenge
Griffin Dreamfinder
Nyxborn Eidolon
Charging Badger
Kragma Butcher
Aspect of Hydra
Mortal's Resolve
Divination
Ashiok's Adept
Thunder Brute
--> Raised by Wolves
Whims of the Fates
Forest
Pack 1 pick 2:
Pharagax Giant
Sphinx's Disciple
Ephara's Radiance
Setessan Starbreaker
Forsaken Drifters
Excoriate
--> Akroan Skyguard
Claim of Erebos
Impetuous Sunchaser
Pheres-Band Tromper
Forlorn Pseudamma
Drown in Sorrow
Noble Quarry
Mountain
Pack 1 pick 3:
Nyxborn Wolf
Floodtide Serpent
Rise to the Challenge
Griffin Dreamfinder
Charging Badger
Kragma Butcher
Aspect of Hydra
Mortal's Resolve
Divination
--> Reap What Is Sown
Peregrination
Fanatic of Xenagos
Island
Pack 1 pick 4:
Warchanter of Mogis
Revoke Existence
Scouring Sands
Charging Badger
Nyxborn Rollicker
Karametra's Favor
Stratus Walk
Pharagax Giant (FOIL)
Pheres-Band Tromper
--> Akroan Conscriptor
Dawn to Dusk
Plains
Pack 1 pick 5:
Nyxborn Eidolon
Mortal's Ardor
Eye Gouge
Loyal Pegasus
Elite Skirmisher
Mortal's Resolve
Asphyxiate
Reckless Reveler
--> Stormcaller of Keranos
Lightning Volley
Plains
Pack 1 pick 6:
Scouring Sands
Felhide Brawler
Griffin Dreamfinder
Eye Gouge
Deepwater Hypnotist
--> Crypsis
Reckless Reveler
Grisly Transformation
Archetype of Imagination
Mountain
Pack 1 pick 7:
Floodtide Serpent
Felhide Brawler
Ephara's Radiance
Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
Crypsis
Culling Mark
--> Loyal Pegasus
Pillar of War
Swamp
Pack 1 pick 8:
Epiphany Storm
Great Hart
Impetuous Sunchaser
Culling Mark
Necrobite
Archetype of Endurance
--> Gorgon's Head
Forest
Pack 1 pick 9:
Floodtide Serpent
Griffin Dreamfinder
Charging Badger
--> Aspect of Hydra
Divination
Whims of the Fates
Forest
Pack 1 pick 10:
Ephara's Radiance
--> Setessan Starbreaker
Forsaken Drifters
Claim of Erebos
Impetuous Sunchaser
Mountain
Pack 1 pick 11:
Floodtide Serpent
Griffin Dreamfinder
--> Charging Badger
Peregrination
Island
Pack 1 pick 12:
Warchanter of Mogis
Scouring Sands
--> Dawn to Dusk
Plains
Pack 1 pick 13:
Eye Gouge
--> Lightning Volley
Plains
Pack 1 pick 14:
--> Felhide Brawler
Mountain
Pack 1 pick 15:
--> Swamp
------ THS ------
Pack 2 pick 1:
Ephara's Warden
Fleshmad Steed
Nimbus Naiad
Returned Phalanx
Coastline Chimera
Pharika's Cure
Defend the Hearth
Leonin Snarecaster
Shredding Winds
Boulderfall
Karametra's Acolyte
Purphoros's Emissary
Evangel of Heliod
--> Reverent Hunter
Plains
Pack 2 pick 2:
Nylea's Presence
Fleetfeather Sandals
Demolish
Yoked Ox
Blood-Toll Harpy
Benthic Giant
--> Voyaging Satyr
Spearpoint Oread
Wavecrash Triton
Traveler's Amulet
Vanquish the Foul
Dark Betrayal
Sealock Monster
Forest
Pack 2 pick 3:
--> Gods Willing
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Prescient Chimera
Scourgemark
Coastline Chimera
Rage of Purphoros
Satyr Hedonist
Read the Bones
Boon of Erebos
Setessan Griffin
Rescue from the Underworld
Purphoros's Emissary
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 4:
March of the Returned
Dragon Mantle
Spearpoint Oread
Breaching Hippocamp
Vulpine Goliath
Asphodel Wanderer
--> Voyaging Satyr
Savage Surge
Vanquish the Foul
Akroan Hoplite
Colossus of Akros
Island
Pack 2 pick 5:
Sip of Hemlock
Bronze Sable
Messenger's Speed
--> Voyaging Satyr
Spearpoint Oread
Unknown Shores
Asphodel Wanderer
Disciple of Phenax
Anvilwrought Raptor
Akroan Horse
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 6:
Mnemonic Wall
Cavalry Pegasus
Loathsome Catoblepas
Defend the Hearth
Leonin Snarecaster
Priest of Iroas
Read the Bones
Thassa's Bounty
--> Chronicler of Heroes
Mountain
Pack 2 pick 7:
Nylea's Presence
Fleetfeather Sandals
Demolish
--> Vulpine Goliath
Annul
Ray of Dissolution
Peak Eruption
Glare of Heresy
Forest
Pack 2 pick 8:
--> Gods Willing
Crackling Triton
Spark Jolt
Last Breath
Scourgemark
Gainsay
Kragma Warcaller
Plains
Pack 2 pick 9:
--> Ephara's Warden
Fleshmad Steed
Coastline Chimera
Defend the Hearth
Boulderfall
Evangel of Heliod
Plains
Pack 2 pick 10:
Fleetfeather Sandals
Demolish
Yoked Ox
Benthic Giant
--> Vanquish the Foul
Forest
Pack 2 pick 11:
Scourgemark
Boon of Erebos
--> Setessan Griffin
Rescue from the Underworld
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 12:
March of the Returned
Vanquish the Foul
--> Akroan Hoplite
Island
Pack 2 pick 13:
--> Messenger's Speed
Unknown Shores
Swamp
Pack 2 pick 14:
--> Loathsome Catoblepas
Mountain
Pack 2 pick 15:
--> Forest
------ THS ------
Pack 3 pick 1:
Guardians of Meletis
Prescient Chimera
Demolish
Asphodel Wanderer
Voyaging Satyr
Titan's Strength
Baleful Eidolon
Benthic Giant
Traveler's Amulet
Boulderfall
Rescue from the Underworld
Triton Fortune Hunter
Arena Athlete
--> Thoughtseize
Forest
Pack 3 pick 2:
--> Leafcrown Dryad
Chosen by Heliod
Pheres-Band Centaurs
Nylea's Presence
Spearpoint Oread
Vulpine Goliath
Yoked Ox
Baleful Eidolon
Borderland Minotaur
Scholar of Athreos
Ordeal of Thassa
Flamespeaker Adept
Witches' Eye
Mountain
Pack 3 pick 3:
March of the Returned
Lightning Strike
Fleshmad Steed
Cavalry Pegasus
Rage of Purphoros
Satyr Hedonist
Read the Bones
Last Breath
Felhide Minotaur
Shredding Winds
--> Dauntless Onslaught
Flamespeaker Adept
Plains
Pack 3 pick 4:
Bronze Sable
Ephara's Warden
Sip of Hemlock
Stymied Hopes
Ill-Tempered Cyclops
Breaching Hippocamp
Aqueous Form
--> Opaline Unicorn
Peak Eruption
Decorated Griffin
Meletis Charlatan
Swamp
Pack 3 pick 5:
Guardians of Meletis
Demolish
Two-Headed Cerberus
Aqueous Form
Silent Artisan
Blood-Toll Harpy
--> Sedge Scorpion
Scholar of Athreos
Artisan's Sorrow
Decorated Griffin
Forest
Pack 3 pick 6:
Battlewise Valor
Loathsome Catoblepas
--> Last Breath
Unknown Shores
Crackling Triton
Portent of Betrayal
Commune with the Gods
Destructive Revelry
Dark Betrayal
Forest
Pack 3 pick 7:
Viper's Kiss
Dragon Mantle
Annul
Wild Celebrants
Two-Headed Cerberus
Sedge Scorpion
Felhide Minotaur
--> Ordeal of Heliod
Plains
Pack 3 pick 8:
Fleetfeather Sandals
Guardians of Meletis
--> Vulpine Goliath
Annul
Yoked Ox
Akroan Crusader
Warriors' Lesson
Mountain
Pack 3 pick 9:
--> Guardians of Meletis
Demolish
Asphodel Wanderer
Benthic Giant
Boulderfall
Rescue from the Underworld
Forest
Pack 3 pick 10:
Pheres-Band Centaurs
--> Vulpine Goliath
Yoked Ox
Scholar of Athreos
Witches' Eye
Mountain
Pack 3 pick 11:
March of the Returned
Fleshmad Steed
Satyr Hedonist
--> Last Breath
Plains
Pack 3 pick 12:
Stymied Hopes
Peak Eruption
--> Decorated Griffin
Swamp
Pack 3 pick 13:
Demolish
--> Silent Artisan
Forest
Pack 3 pick 14:
--> Loathsome Catoblepas
Forest
Pack 3 pick 15:
--> Plains
No need for a deck list or game recaps, you can see from the draft here that it was going to be a total disaster.
So my question for you all is, where would you have switched it up?
I'll leave my answer in a spoiler for fun:
I think the BNG pack was absolute junk, so no real force into any colors. The Nimbus Naiad in P2P1 was tempting, but not enough to completely change colors. I think the real signal was when I got shipped Gary in P2P3 that black was wide open. If I had switched to WB at that point, I think I would have been much better off.
Thanks!
PJ
If you switched at Gary, you probably would have been better off. You would pick up 3 Scholar of Athreos it seems. You also would have a Disciple of Phenax and maybe some Sip of Hemlock along with a Baleful Eidolon or two. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.