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So, I know it isn't the best draft deck EVAR, like the title says, but it's the best one I've built in a long time, and I thought I'd share.
Noone around me was really drafting black, clearly, so I just kept on scooping up not only great removal, like Doom Blade and 2 freaking Corrupts, but pretty marginal removal, like Quag Sickness and Assassinate. The point is, lots of removal, and Rise from the Grave wasn't bad for reanimating the dudes I killed.
1st pack 1st pick was Nantuko Shade versus a bunch of mediocre cards. I was torn between committing heavily to black so early on, or picking a weaker card. I eventually thought that the Shade would be good even if black wasn't my main color: at least I could always pump it twice. Pack 2 presented an amazing equipment: Sword of Vengeance, which should NEVER get passed, outside of a foil Grave or Primeval Titan. And I was passed a Phylactery Lich in the 3rd pack, and I figured it'd work well with the Sword and two Warlord's Axes I already had. Lich and Sword? Kinda like constructed!
I didn't lose a game in my 3 match rounds. Granted, it was only against the local players, but still. This deck was brutal. It took down Baneslayers and reanimated them as zombies, scoffed at Leviathans, and Corrupted people to death. In other words, just my play style.
Round 1, I played against a blue/white/green deck, and I had basically the best draw this deck could have in game one: T1 Viscera Seer, T2 Child of Night (a friend looked over and jokingly asked if I got Captivating Vampire as well at this point), T3 Sword, and T4 Lich. My opponent had a T4 Giant Spider. I won that game. The second game, he didn't draw land and had to discard, and I tutored for the Sword after I had the Lich in hand.
Round 2 I played a good player with a Red/White burn/angel deck. He had good draws, including the Baneslayer I knew he had, an Angelic Arbiter I didn't know about, plus solid burn to back it up like Fireball and Chandra's Outrage. But my deck just clicked: I killed his Baneslayer with Corrupt when he played it and reanimated it the next turn with Rise from the Grave, even though he Fireballed it. I eventually just overpowered him with a mix of another Corrupt and some Sword-wielding Liches.
For the final round, I played a Blue/Black controllish type build, and I knew from insider information that he had 3 Mana Leaks main. The first game was a pretty good battle: I played out my minor spells, trying to draw his Mana Leaks, and succeeded by playing my big spells later in the game. Two big Corrupts sealed the deal. I wish the second game was closer, but he stalled out on mana.
The deck was just amazing, it just killed EVERYthing it saw and stomped with big, indestructible creatures. It was exactly my playstyle, and it performed beautifully. I won some packs for getting in first, and because my little brother didn't do so well in the draft, I threw him a pack, and in it contained an Ajani Goldmane for the deck he needed!! He was so excited, and all of my friends were like "sucks for you! you just gave away a planeswalker!!", but I was just happy to see my brother so happy. It was a great event.
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