Magic: The Gathering

I just had a look at that draft and wow... you got some insane cards passed to you in packs 2 and 3.

Why the drum as p1p1? I think that the bolt was the obvious pick there if you don't want to draft blue, you definitely have the problem that red is quite overdrafted in btg and then you get fucked with the 2 theros boosters, but still its a risk worth taking, but man it just came back to you, quite a strong signal that red is wide open .

Other than that I think that you made the right picks. I would have definitely picked the hundred handed one over time to feed in p2p1 and then would have regreted it, good call.
Just one thing why did you pick the akroan crusader over the stoneshock giant in p3p4 i think that stoneshock is one of the best red uncommons in theros and curve or not its a great finisher .

 

My experience with born of the gods is that red went from the worst color to draft to one of the best if you can get your hands on the right cards in the btg booster(bolt of keranos, everflame eidolon, kragma butcher for example from the pack 1 in that draft). The biggest problem is that too often many people jump on that bandwagon and you end up fighting for the few scraps of good red cards that you can get in the theros boosters.

I would say that you are probably right as you did pick up some very good bombs before that(nemesis, polis crusher, nessian asp), still the giant is a great finisher when the game stalls, because you can basically force your huge ass bombs for lethal when you monstrous it. The problem with acroan crusader in my opinion is that its a dead draw in anything else but your opening hand.

 

2 gorgons and 2 shipwreck singers wow... only thing missing was a grey merchant or 3. Awesome draft btw grats for the win.

 

Ok lets contribute something:
http://www.raredraft.com/watch?d=9gn49#all

I just went 3-0 with the deck I built from that draft.

I definitely made some questionable picks and I was thinking about switching to blue the whole first booster, but in the end I was very happy with how the deck turned out.

I'm getting an error when I try to upload the decklist to raredraft so here's the list:

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1 Archetype of Courage
1 Fearsome Temper
1 Kragma Butcher
1 Bolt of Keranos
1 Vanguard of Brimaz
1 Excoriate
1 Observant Alseid
1 Lightning Strike
2 Dauntless Onslaught
1 Two-Headed Cerberus
1 Minotaur Skullcleaver
1 Traveling Philosopher
1 Satyr Rambler
1 Ordeal of Purphoros
1 Phalanx Leader
1 Divine Verdict
1 Stoneshock Giant
1 Borderland Minotaur
2 Heliod's Emissary
1 Leonin Snarecaster
9 Plains
8 Mountain
1 Cavalry Pegasus

Sweet sweet victory:

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Pack 2 and 3 shows you must be just about the only person at the table draftin' the best deck in the format. I more or less agree with your picks. Why not Deathbellow instead of the Cerberus, though? At this point, your deck can pretty much support it, especially with stuff like Elmer backing you up.

 

1.1 generally, skyguard is considered to be a better card. archetype is good, but it's a pretty defensive card whereas white wants to play agressively in this format (unless we're talking BW).

1.5 loyal pegasus, probably. yeah, rollicker is bestow, but it's the weakest kind of bestow that there is.

3.5 borderland is too early here - you usually pick them 9+. not many great alternatives, of course, mb elder?

 

Non-online fag here, been hanging out with some old friends and spent some time during the past week observing people at local tourneys/pre-going out magic games among bros.

Rediscovered one of my old Darksteel decks. Hot damn, those things worked very neatly.

On another note, every faggot I've seen playing has at least one green-black deck with at least 3 deathfire shamans and spinning top cheesing techniques.

Then there's people with decks full of stacked Legacy shit and Wasteland and FUCK YOU full blown removal that I felt like grabbing both of them and smashing their heads repeatedly on the table. What the fuck is Wizard thinking?

It's like someone combined red Burn decks with blue Mage/removal-cancer to break your mind and have you flee blindly into the wilderness while projectile voming uncontrollably.

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This almost made me nostalgic for Legend of the 5 Rings

 

Pretty much what idonthavetimeforthiscrap said about the archetype, plus an added bonus is that its a human and when you attack with the cavalry pegasus it gets flying hurrr

I consider the loyal pegasus to be a horrible card, you have to have it in your starting hand and it starts attacking on turn 3.. anywhere else its just a dead draw, not that the nyxborn rollicker is better, but at least it works better with heroic. Still I picked up both of them I think, but didn't played them.

My primary reason for picking the borderland over the elder was because I had like 15 3cmc spells and only the 2 elmers on 4.

 

Sweet, just one thing p3p2 why the omenspeaker over the emissary?

EDIT: I tried forcing blue black at a draft at my local store yesterday... it didn't went that well. There were like 5 people drafting black in the pod...

 

magic is truely a game for great intellectuals

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Also: fucking love drafting shards

never take it down omg wizards plz

 

I think I've moved out of the pants-on-head-retarded magic player category now. Just won and 2-1'ed two 8-4's with what felt like solid but low-key decks rather than lucky bombing or somesuch. Can anyone give me a noob-guide on how to post my drafts most easily so you guys can tell me I suck and give my picks some criticism?

(also, is it just me or does Setessan Starbreaker overperform more often than not? still not a great card, but it's definetely not a dud)

 

Hmm. I don't have a Games/Magic The Gathering Online folder. Is there a setting you have to turn on to make the client save the .txts?