Draft 42 - LLL

Draft:

Pack 1:

Aethersnipe, Tarfire, Herbal Poultice, Kithkin Greatheart, Oakgnarl Warrior, Lash Out, Zephyr Net, Scarred Vinebreeder, Gilt-Leaf Seer, Ingot Chewer, Scattering Stroke, Summon the School, Pollen Lullaby, Dread, Zephyr Net

Pick: Dread

Pack 2:

Hillcomber Giant, Sentinels of Glen Elendra, Stinkdrinker Daredevil, Dreamspoiler Witches, Battlewand Oak, Oaken Brawler, Flamekin Brawler, Tideshaper Mystic, Rootgrapple, Triclopean Sight, Nightshade Stinger, Silvergill Adept, Sentry Oak, Boggart Shenanigans

Pick: Dreamspoiler Witches

Pack 3:

Kithkin Daggerdare, Herbal Poultice, Warren Pilferers, Lowland Oaf, Amoeboid Changeling, Kinsbaile Skirmisher, Lace with Moonglove, Scarred Vinebreeder, Springjack Knight, Woodland Guidance, Flamekin Harbinger

Pick: Warren Pilferers

Pack 4:

Stonybrook Angler, Fertile Ground, Moonglove Winnower, Plover Knights, Elvish Eulogist, Wings of Velis Vel, Caterwauling Boggart, Goldmeadow Dodger, Faerie Trickery, Vivid Marsh, Veteran of the Depths, Horde of Notions

Pick: Wings of Velis Vel

Pack 5:

Kithkin Greatheart, Footbottom Feast, Lowland Oaf, Lignify, Weed Strangle, Kithkin Healer, Boggart Birth Rite, Ingot Chewer, Soaring Hope, Shimmering Grotto, Captivating Glance

Pick: Lowland Oaf

Pack 6:

Boggart Sprite-Chaser, Thieving Sprite, Kinsbaile Balloonist, Boggart Loggers, Adder-Staff Boggart, Fertile Ground, Wings of Velis Vel, Facevaulter, Warren-Scourge Elf, Familiar's Ruse

Pick: Boggart Sprite-Chaser

Pack 7:

Oakgnarl Warrior, Kithkin Daggerdare, Surge of Thoughtweft, Gilt-Leaf Seer, Boggart Birth Rite, Zephyr Net, Vivid Crag, Seedguide Ash, Zephyr Net

Pick: Vivid Crag

Pack 8:

Battlewand Oak, Hurly-Burly, Paperfin Rascal, Runed Stalactite, Nath's Elite, Nath's Buffoon, Tideshaper Mystic, Elvish Handservant

Pick: Hurly-Burly

Pack 9:

Herbal Poultice, Oakgnarl Warrior, Zephyr Net, Scarred Vinebreeder, Gilt-Leaf Seer, Scattering Stroke, Zephyr Net

Pick: Scattering Stroke

Pack 10:

Tideshaper Mystic, Rootgrapple, Triclopean Sight, Nightshade Stinger, Sentry Oak, Boggart Shenanigans

Pick: Nightshade Stinger

Pack 11:

Herbal Poultice, Lace with Moonglove, Springjack Knight, Woodland Guidance, Nath's Buffoon

Pick: Nath's Buffoon

Pack 12:

Moonglove Winnower, Elvish Eulogist, Caterwauling Boggart, Goldmeadow Dodger

Pick: Caterwauling Boggart

Pack 13:

Boggart Birth Rite, Soaring Hope, Captivating Glance

Pick: Boggart Birth Rite

Pack 14:

Thieving Sprite, Warren-Scourge Elf

Pick: Thieving Sprite

Pack 15:

Gilt-Leaf Seer

Pick: Gilt-Leaf Seer

Pack 16:

Fistful of Force, Quill-Slinger Boggart, Surge of Thoughtweft, Cloudcrown Oak, Tarfire, Wanderer's Twig, Ponder, Bog Hoodlums, Protective Bubble, Fire-Belly Changeling, Veteran of the Depths, Prowess of the Fair, Ghostly Changeling, Thoughtweft Trio, Island

Pick: Ghostly Changeling

Pack 17:

Pestermite, Hurly-Burly, Peppersmoke, Lys Alana Huntmaster, Consuming Bonfire, Wispmare, Stonybrook Angler, Faultgrinder, Faerie Trickery, Warren-Scourge Elf, Lairwatch Giant, Ceaseless Searblades, Hunter of Eyeblights, Eyes of the Wisent

Pick: Peppersmoke

Pack 18:

Wanderer's Twig, Hornet Harasser, Axegrinder Giant, Woodland Changeling, Kithkin Greatheart, Lace with Moonglove, Blind-Spot Giant, Exiled Boggart, Ponder, Heal the Scars, Hunter of Eyeblights, Treefolk Harbinger, Thundercloud Shaman

Pick: Thundercloud Shaman

Pack 19:

Hillcomber Giant, Sentinels of Glen Elendra, Battlewand Oak, Blades of Velis Vel, Cenn's Heir, Ringskipper, Black Poplar Shaman, Shimmering Grotto, Fodder Launch, Incremental Growth, Sylvan Echoes, Ashling's Prerogative

Pick: Blades of Velis Vel

Pack 20:

Mudbutton Torchrunner, Woodland Changeling, Springleaf Drum, Kithkin Healer, Bog Hoodlums, Judge of Currents, Inkfathom Divers, Needle Drop, Soaring Hope, Giant Harbinger, Merrow Commerce

Pick: Giant Harbinger

Pack 21:

Hornet Harasser, Deeptread Merrow, Fistful of Force, Soulbright Flamekin, Glimmerdust Nap, Spring Cleaning, Exiled Boggart, Shields of Velis Vel, Sylvan Echoes, Hearthcage Giant

Pick: Hearthcage Giant

Pack 22:

Smokebraider, Moonglove Winnower, Broken Ambitions, Boggart Forager, Facevaulter, Hunt Down, Entangling Trap, Twinning Glass, Nath's Buffoon

Pick: Smokebraider

Pack 23:

Leaf Gilder, Adder-Staff Boggart, Wispmare, Nightshade Stinger, Blades of Velis Vel, Elvish Handservant, Dawnfluke, Benthicore

Pick: Benthicore

Pack 24:

Fistful of Force, Quill-Slinger Boggart, Bog Hoodlums, Protective Bubble, Fire-Belly Changeling, Prowess of the Fair, Island

Pick: Fire-Belly Changeling

Pack 25:

Hurly-Burly, Wispmare, Faultgrinder, Faerie Trickery, Warren-Scourge Elf, Ceaseless Searblades

Pick: Ceaseless Searblades

Pack 26:

Lace with Moonglove, Exiled Boggart, Ponder, Heal the Scars, Treefolk Harbinger

Pick: Treefolk Harbinger

Pack 27:

Battlewand Oak, Cenn's Heir, Black Poplar Shaman, Sylvan Echoes

Pick: Battlewand Oak

Pack 28:

Bog Hoodlums, Soaring Hope, Merrow Commerce

Pick: Merrow Commerce

Pack 29:

Spring Cleaning, Exiled Boggart

Pick: Spring Cleaning

Pack 30:

Hunt Down

Pick: Hunt Down

Pack 31:

Thieving Sprite, Kinsbaile Balloonist, Whirlpool Whelm, Boggart Loggers, Adder-Staff Boggart, Fertile Ground, Moonglove Extract, Giant's Ire, Lairwatch Giant, Spellstutter Sprite, Spiderwig Boggart, Thorntooth Witch, Briarhorn, Vivid Grove, Nettlevine Blight

Pick: Thieving Sprite

Pack 32:

Thieving Sprite, Gilt-Leaf Ambush, Hillcomber Giant, Streambed Aquitects, Stinkdrinker Daredevil, Spiderwig Boggart, Boggart Forager, Ringskipper, Hunt Down, Triclopean Sight, Knight of Meadowgrain, Vivid Creek, Ego Erasure, Mosswort Bridge

Pick: Stinkdrinker Daredevil

Pack 33:

Peppersmoke, Paperfin Rascal, Nath's Elite, Boggart Sprite-Chaser, Oaken Brawler, Giant's Ire, Dawnfluke, Spellstutter Sprite, Black Poplar Shaman, Flamekin Spitfire, Fallowsage, Lammastide Weave, Shapesharer

Pick: Peppersmoke

Pack 34:

Cloudcrown Oak, Hornet Harasser, Axegrinder Giant, Woodland Changeling, Needle Drop, Springjack Knight, Heal the Scars, Inkfathom Divers, Burrenton Forge-Tender, Vivid Meadow, Marsh Flitter, Kithkin Daggerdare

Pick: Marsh Flitter

Pack 35:

Lys Alana Huntmaster, Runed Stalactite, Neck Snap, Pestermite, Leaf Gilder, Broken Ambitions, Nath's Buffoon, Faultgrinder, Goldmeadow Dodger, Hunter of Eyeblights, Swamp

Pick: Runed Stalactite

Pack 36:

Footbottom Feast, Lowland Oaf, Lignify, Kithkin Healer, Deeptread Merrow, Skeletal Changeling, Elvish Branchbender, Familiar's Ruse, Veteran of the Depths, Jagged-Scar Archers

Pick: Lowland Oaf

Pack 37:

Avian Changeling, Skeletal Changeling, Aquitect's Will, Kinsbaile Skirmisher, Spring Cleaning, Crush Underfoot, Glen Elendra Pranksters, Silvergill Adept, Wanderer's Twig

Pick: Crush Underfoot

Pack 38:

Footbottom Feast, Lignify, Quill-Slinger Boggart, Bog-Strider Ash, Wellgabber Apothecary, Aquitect's Will, Nectar Faerie, Woodland Guidance

Pick: Footbottom Feast

Pack 39:

Whirlpool Whelm, Boggart Loggers, Adder-Staff Boggart, Fertile Ground, Giant's Ire, Spellstutter Sprite, Vivid Grove

Pick: Boggart Loggers

Pack 40:

Spiderwig Boggart, Boggart Forager, Ringskipper, Hunt Down, Triclopean Sight, Ego Erasure

Pick: Spiderwig Boggart

Pack 41:

Boggart Sprite-Chaser, Oaken Brawler, Dawnfluke, Spellstutter Sprite, Lammastide Weave

Pick: Boggart Sprite-Chaser

Pack 42:

Needle Drop, Heal the Scars, Inkfathom Divers, Vivid Meadow

Pick: Vivid Meadow

Pack 43:

Broken Ambitions, Nath's Buffoon, Goldmeadow Dodger

Pick: Broken Ambitions

Pack 44:

Lignify, Deeptread Merrow

Pick: Lignify

Pack 45:

Aquitect's Will

Pick: Aquitect's Will

Maindeck: 2 Peppersmoke 1 Runed Stalactite 1 Blades of Velis Vel 2 Boggart Sprite-Chaser 1 Crush Underfoot 1 Fire-Belly Changeling 1 Boggart Loggers 1 Footbottom Feast 1 Ghostly Changeling 1 Spiderwig Boggart 1 Stinkdrinker Daredevil 2 Thieving Sprite 1 Dreamspoiler Witches 2 Lowland Oaf 1 Marsh Flitter 1 Giant Harbinger 1 Thundercloud Shaman 1 Warren Pilferers 1 Dread 8 Mountain 8 Swamp 1 Vivid Crag

Sideboard: 1 Aquitect's Will 1 Battlewand Oak 1 Benthicore 1 Boggart Birth Rite 1 Broken Ambitions 1 Caterwauling Boggart 1 Ceaseless Searblades 1 Gilt-Leaf Seer 1 Hearthcage Giant 1 Hunt Down 1 Hurly-Burly 1 Lignify 1 Merrow Commerce 1 Nath's Buffoon [FOIL] 1 Nightshade Stinger 1 Scattering Stroke 1 Smokebraider 1 Spring Cleaning 1 Treefolk Harbinger 1 Vivid Meadow 1 Wings of Velis Vel

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p5: i thought oaf was kind of late and didn't want to pick feast yet.
p6: i really considered thieving, but decided i'd want the chaser earlier.
p8: didn't feel like grabbing the stalacite this early with one chaser.
p12: might've been better to go with winnower as a blocker.
p14: nice.
p16: i really wanted the tarfire, but the changeling is so nice.
p17: considered the mite to route myself into ub faeries, but peppersmoke is always a nice card.
p18: wow. so at this point i'm looking to run the early game faeries and then bust out lategame giants if i can get them.
p19: didn't think i'd end up with enough goblins for launch. i hear +4 damage through the air is good, though.
p20: this is the moment of truth where i put a foot down for giants or no. i hated passing muddbutt, but harbinger for thundercloud is too much to pass up.
p21: i let myself be blinded here, though. hearthcage is so expensive. i really feel this should've been harasser.
p22: thought about helping out with the dread and any other stuff i got.
p23: maybe moving into elemental faeries? i think adder-staff might've been better.
p31: considered briarhorn to all in on elementals, but i'd rather have another smokebraider before adding a fourth color. extract was probably more correct here.
p32: gogo giants!
p34: nice.

going u then would've changed the following:

- chaser; + thieving
- crag; + birth rite?
- hurly-burly; + rascal
- caterwauling; + winnower
- peppersmoke; + pestermite
- thundercloud; + harasser or ponder
- blades; + sentinels
- harbinger; + divers
- hearthcage; + harasser
- braider; + ambitions
- firevelly; + quillslinger
- searblades; + trickery
- treefolk harbinger; + ponder
- thieving; + whelm
- stinkdrinkger; + thieving
- stalacite; + pestermite
- oaf; + skeletal
- crush; + skeletal
- loggers; + spellstutter
- chaser; + spellstutter

i think it would've been comparable, but the giants didn't seem to kludgy and i really like the way this played.

round one i play a uw goodstuff deck. g1 i go stalacite into sprite-chaser and equip and he bounces. i recast and equip and he pestermites. he drops a veteran and i go stinkdrinker into oaf. block his veteran and he has no tricks. he drops mulldrifter and i attack both into him and kill drifter on daredevil with blades. he aethersnipes my sprite-chaser. i equip daredevil and thieving sprite for springjack. he attacks and i trade sprite for mite. he casts mulldrifter and i drop pilferers getting back oaf, block his aethersnipe and peppersmoke it drawing thundercloud shaman. he drops harrier and next turn i attack, he casts sentinels to block, and i go sprite-chaser which is countered, oaf, shaman for the concession.

g2 i take a mulligan and he casts skirmisher and i follow with sprite chaser. he kills sprite chaser with sentinels that i attack into like an idiot. i get out flitter. he mulldrifters and i cast ghostly changeling. he follows up with another mulldrifter. i get back sprite-chaser with feast and he naps my changeling. he casts veteran and i kill it with crush. i then trade sprite chaser and blades for both mulldrifters. i cast harbinger but he counters. then he gets out balloonist, rascal, and pestermite. i can't hold up and he's at 17 to my 8.

g3 i start out with changeling which is ambitioned. i then cast flitter and it sticks. he casts mulldrifter and i pilferers changeling to attack in. he naps the flitter and mites the pilferers. i attack with both goblin tokens and he blocks with mulldrifter so i pestermite then cast changeling. he aethersnipes my changeling and i attack in with the remaining token and a stacited pilfers, crushing the aethersnipe. he responds with mulldrifter and springjack and i switch stalacite to token and trade for springjack. i then theiving sprite a balloonist and he casts a third mulldrifter. this whole time, though, my trades have been more than equitable and with recursion and draw while he just bounced, i have five cards to his four. he taps out for veterans and i trade an equipped pilferers for his mulldrifter and veteran then cast changeling. board is his mulldrifter, three cards, and seven life to my changeling, five cards and fourteen life. i draw spiderwig and think about trying to put it away. he casts plover knights and my harbinger gets countered. he hits me down to 9 and i swing him down to 5 and cast and equip sprite chaser. he casts rascal and bottoms a douser while i top my blades - it's go time. i take a risk and assume he has no more counters in his two cards and spiderwig the equipped sprite chaser, swing and blades for the win.

round two i play a Gb deck. game one i cast a thieving sprite early and catch a fertile ground so i can more effectively peppersmoke his gilder. he goes huntmaster and i cast flitter. he drops a cloudcrown and i cast witches. he revels and i save my flitter, casting blades to kill his huntmaster. i follow up with loggers into thieving sprite and catch a thorntooth. his ambush into growth is a little scary, but i kill the oak with loggers and footbottom feast the flitter, thieving sprite, and witches, first taking a battlwand out of hand, then killing his 4/4 token, casting witches and holding off his 3/3 token. he drops branchbender with a token, two cards and 10 life, and i attack with fliers and drop dread for the concession.

game two i keep a land-heavy hand and start off with loggers. he drops green changeling, another, then ambushes. my board's slow to develop and he gets out an ash before i can get another creature in oaf. he o-rings it and then i drop dread. i think i might stabilize and take it but he unfortunately revels for the win.

game three i have to mulligan into a weak hand. i go firebelly and he goes woodland. i take it out with crush and start beating. i then get out flitter and he gets cloudcrown. he revels and i'm left with equipped flitter and oaf to his cloudcrown and thorntooth. i try to lure into a bad block with blades, but he doesn't block and casts dourbark to kill oaf. i get him down to 6 and he growths cloudcrown, thorntooth, and a 10/10 dourbark to my single blocker and 14 life.