Draft 47 - TPF

Draft:

Pack 1:

Spiketail Drakeling, Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Amrou Scout, Keldon Halberdier, Dream Stalker, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor's Clutch, Smallpox, Fool's Demise, Knight of the Holy Nimbus, Gauntlet of Power, Spitting Slug

Pick: Knight of the Holy Nimbus

Pack 2:

Benalish Cavalry, Orcish Cannonade, Strangling Soot, Gemhide Sliver, Mindstab, Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor's Clutch, D'Avenant Healer, Truth or Tale, Aspect of Mongoose, Undying Rage, Word of Seizing, Claws of Gix

Pick: Benalish Cavalry

Pack 3:

Mana Skimmer, Chromatic Star, Looter il-Kor, Gorgon Recluse, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser's Sliver, Pendelhaven Elder, Saltcrusted Steppe, Careful Consideration, Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, Fiery Justice

Pick: Looter il-Kor

Pack 4:

Lightning Axe, Mogg War Marshal, Temporal Isolation, Think Twice, Ashcoat Bear, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Durkwood Tracker, Flagstones of Trokair

Pick: Lightning Axe

Pack 5:

Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Search for Tomorrow, Icatian Crier, Chameleon Blur, Subterranean Shambler, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Gustcloak Cavalier, Trickbind, Disenchant, Ignite Memories

Pick: Search for Tomorrow

Pack 6:

Crookclaw Transmuter, Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Aether Web, Sprout, Foriysian Interceptor, Aetherflame Wall, Dementia Sliver, Evangelize, Might of Old Krosa

Pick: Crookclaw Transmuter

Pack 7:

Fortify, Coal Stoker, Tolarian Sentinel, Children of Korlis, Sangrophage, Viashino Bladescout, Mystical Teachings, Thrill of the Hunt, Dread Return

Pick: Fortify

Pack 8:

Drudge Reavers, Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Detainment Spell, Bewilder, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Spirit Loop

Pick: Cancel

Pack 9:

Scarwood Treefolk, Orcish Cannonade, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor's Clutch, Fool's Demise

Pick: Watcher Sliver

Pack 10:

Shadow Sliver, Bogardan Rager, Traitor's Clutch, Truth or Tale, Aspect of Mongoose, Claws of Gix

Pick: Shadow Sliver

Pack 11:

Chromatic Star, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser's Sliver

Pick: Venser's Sliver

Pack 12:

Sage of Epityr, Divine Congregation, Mindlash Sliver, Durkwood Tracker

Pick: Durkwood Tracker

Pack 13:

Ironclaw Buzzardiers, Chameleon Blur, Screeching Sliver

Pick: Screeching Sliver

Pack 14:

Aether Web, Sprout

Pick: Aether Web

Pack 15:

Sangrophage

Pick: Sangrophage

Pack 16:

Battering Sliver, Whitemane Lion, Mire Boa, Utopia Vow, Veiling Oddity, Evolution Charm, Reality Acid, Deadly Grub, Vampiric Link, Brute Force, Prodigal Pyromancer, Dormant Sliver, Sulfur Elemental, Malach of the Dawn, Body Double

Pick: Whitemane Lion

Pack 17:

Utopia Vow, Spitting Sliver, Aven Riftwatcher, Stingscourger, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Sinew Sliver, Bog Serpent, Skirk Shaman, Dismal Failure, Enslave, Shrouded Lore, Akroma, Angel of Fury

Pick: Sinew Sliver

Pack 18:

Needlepeak Spider, Mire Boa, Dreamscape Artist, Cradle to Grave, Brain Gorgers, Fury Charm, Wistful Thinking, Primal Plasma, Essence Warden, Mana Tithe, Hunting Wilds, Frenetic Sliver, Spellshift

Pick: Primal Plasma

Pack 19:

Dead / Gone, Reflex Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Citanul Woodreaders, Firefright Mage, Pallid Mycoderm, Uktabi Drake, Bog Serpent, Prodigal Pyromancer, Piracy Charm, Mycologist

Pick: Poultice Sliver

Pack 20:

Midnight Charm, Firefright Mage, Blightspeaker, Ghost Tactician, Fury Charm, Essence Warden, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Sinew Sliver, Sophic Centaur, Harmonize, Lavacore Elemental

Pick: Sinew Sliver

Pack 21:

Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Giant Dustwasp, Dawn Charm, Stingscourger, Deadly Grub, Dust Corona, Reality Acid, Healing Leaves, Hammerheim Deadeye

Pick: Synchronous Sliver

Pack 22:

Ridged Kusite, Poultice Sliver, Brain Gorgers, Keldon Marauders, Ghost Tactician, Fa'adiyah Seer, Revered Dead, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Venarian Glimmer

Pick: Poultice Sliver

Pack 23:

Erratic Mutation, Midnight Charm, Evolution Charm, Fury Charm, Simian Spirit Guide, Piracy Charm, Fa'adiyah Seer, Psychotrope Thallid

Pick: Erratic Mutation

Pack 24:

Battering Sliver, Utopia Vow, Veiling Oddity, Deadly Grub, Vampiric Link, Brute Force, Dormant Sliver

Pick: Veiling Oddity

Pack 25:

Utopia Vow, Spitting Sliver, Vitaspore Thallid, Deadly Grub, Aquamorph Entity, Shrouded Lore

Pick: Aquamorph Entity

Pack 26:

Mire Boa, Brain Gorgers, Wistful Thinking, Mana Tithe, Frenetic Sliver

Pick: Frenetic Sliver

Pack 27:

Reflex Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Citanul Woodreaders, Bog Serpent

Pick: Citanul Woodreaders

Pack 28:

Firefright Mage, Ghost Tactician, Fury Charm

Pick: Ghost Tactician

Pack 29:

Veiling Oddity, Dust Corona

Pick: Veiling Oddity

Pack 30:

Fa'adiyah Seer

Pick: Fa'adiyah Seer

Pack 31:

Augur of Skulls, Lost Hours, Fatal Attraction, Petrified Plating, Judge Unworthy, Thornweald Archer, Death Rattle, Blind Phantasm, Lumithread Field, Grinning Ignus, Edge of Autumn, Yixlid Jailer, Storm Entity, Nacatl War-Pride, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade

Pick: Korlash, Heir to Blackblade

Pack 32:

Leaden Fists, Quiet Disrepair, Saltskitter, Unblinking Bleb, Llanowar Augur, Deepcavern Imp, Fomori Nomad, Logic Knot, Lucent Liminid, Vedalken Aethermage, Ramosian Revivalist, Arcanum Wings, Street Wraith, Shapeshifter's Marrow

Pick: Lucent Liminid

Pack 33:

Lost Hours, Wrap in Vigor, Knight of Sursi, Leaden Fists, Gift of Granite, Frenzy Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Patrician's Scorn, Sarcomite Myr, Henchfiend of Ukor, Mistmeadow Skulk, Dryad Arbor, Spin into Myth

Pick: Knight of Sursi

Pack 34:

Bogardan Lancer, Knight of Sursi, Grave Peril, Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Infiltrator il-Kor, Mass of Ghouls, Vedalken Aethermage, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Phosphorescent Feast, Narcomoeba, Daybreak Coronet

Pick: Infiltrator il-Kor

Pack 35:

Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Marshaling Cry, Unblinking Bleb, Grinning Ignus, Mass of Ghouls, Lucent Liminid, Fleshwrither, Skizzik Surger, Centaur Omenreader, Muraganda Petroglyphs

Pick: Lucent Liminid

Pack 36:

Llanowar Empath, Grave Peril, Kavu Primarch, Foresee, Patrician's Scorn, Logic Knot, Grave Scrabbler, Bloodshot Trainee, Aven Mindcensor, Shivan Sand-Mage

Pick: Aven Mindcensor

Pack 37:

Venser's Diffusion, Oblivion Crown, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Patrician's Scorn, Logic Knot, Bloodshot Trainee, Spellwild Ouphe, Mistmeadow Skulk

Pick: Venser's Diffusion

Pack 38:

Emberwilde Augur, Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Henchfiend of Ukor, Zoetic Cavern, Bonded Fetch, Witch's Mist

Pick: Bonded Fetch

Pack 39:

Augur of Skulls, Lost Hours, Petrified Plating, Thornweald Archer, Blind Phantasm, Lumithread Field, Yixlid Jailer

Pick: Blind Phantasm

Pack 40:

Leaden Fists, Quiet Disrepair, Saltskitter, Llanowar Augur, Logic Knot, Vedalken Aethermage

Pick: Leaden Fists

Pack 41:

Lost Hours, Wrap in Vigor, Gift of Granite, Mesmeric Sliver, Sarcomite Myr

Pick: Sarcomite Myr

Pack 42:

Bogardan Lancer, Grave Peril, Samite Censer-Bearer, Phosphorescent Feast

Pick: Phosphorescent Feast

Pack 43:

Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Mass of Ghouls

Pick: Mass of Ghouls

Pack 44:

Grave Peril, Logic Knot

Pick: Logic Knot

Pack 45:

Oblivion Crown

Pick: Oblivion Crown

Maindeck: 1 Knight of Sursi 1 Benalish Cavalry 1 Infiltrator il-Kor 1 Knight of the Holy Nimbus 1 Looter il-Kor 2 Sinew Sliver 1 Whitemane Lion 1 Aven Mindcensor 1 Cancel 1 Erratic Mutation 1 Fortify 1 Leaden Fists 2 Poultice Sliver 1 Shadow Sliver 1 Crookclaw Transmuter 1 Primal Plasma 1 Watcher Sliver 2 Lucent Liminid 1 Synchronous Sliver 1 Venser's Sliver 7 Island 10 Plains

Sideboard: 1 Aether Web 1 Aquamorph Entity 1 Blind Phantasm 1 Bonded Fetch 1 Citanul Woodreaders 1 Durkwood Tracker 1 Fa'adiyah Seer 1 Frenetic Sliver 1 Ghost Tactician 1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade 1 Lightning Axe 1 Logic Knot 1 Mass of Ghouls 1 Oblivion Crown 1 Phosphorescent Feast 1 Sangrophage 1 Sarcomite Myr 1 Screeching Sliver 1 Search for Tomorrow 2 Veiling Oddity 1 Venser's Diffusion

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p1: i think it's among nimbus, slug, scout, and drakeling with nimbus probably being the strongest.
p2: i love me a soot, but already passed the scout for the bw rebels. decided on the nimbus analogue.
p3: i have a soft spot for endrek, but so much blue is a sign. i'm looking for a quicker deck at this point and an unanswered looter can draw you pretty deep.
p4: i hate passing an axe, but isolation is definitely a better pick. even if it does shut off my looter.
p5: i'm keeping things open since i haven't gotten strong signals yet (except for blue, which is absent). pretty blah pack.
p6: kinda wishing i had grabbed the soot with the 2nd syphon mage here, but transmuter and snapback are as good a sign as you need.
p7 & 9: and this reinforces white's not a bad idea.
p13: i'm letting the slivers get to me; def should've cut buzzardiers.
p16: this was pretty hard. i still considered maybe grabbing pyromancer and seeing where red took me. malach was very tempting, but you can't beat whitemane for beatdown tricksiness.
p17 & 19: what did i say about red :(?
p21: why is a dustwasp still here?
p24: why is force still here?
p31: rare. judge would've been nice, though.
p33: i love me a spin, but it's not cheep.

round one i played against a decent gwr deck. g1 i go looter and he casts edge of autumn. i probably make a bad play discarding my liminid for a land. on his turn he casts an empath getting a courser and i cast mindcensor eot. next turn i discard my other liminid for a venser's sliver and cast sinew. he responds with nomad and next turn i drop my vensner's. he then drops the courser. he flashes in a ranger during my attack and blocks mindcensor, untapping nomad to block vensner's. i erratic mutation the nomad but come up 1 short with fists and he deads my sinew. he judges my looter, revealing marshalling cry, and i drop a primal as a blocker. eot he bounces empath with whitemane. on attack he taps for marshalling cry and then undos. he empath's for ashcoat and ships. next turn he tromps for the win. g2 i keep a risky hand with sinew, calvary, two plains, plasma, and two liminids. i have a massive start going calvary into sinew into sinew. he deads my calvary and i drop a looter. he then drops a nomad. i suspend an infiltrator and ping; he responds with courser. i ping again and he drops a pendelhaven elder. eot i flash in crookclaw for the win. g3 i keep a much better looking hand. he casts edge of autumn and i drop sinew. he responds with riftwatcher and i hold back. he drops empath revealing tromp and i flash in mindcensor eot. i attack in and whitemane my sinew, killing his empath. he drops saltskitter and i drop looter and swing, casting calvary after combat. his riftwatcher finally dies and he drops a gemhide. i drop sinew to phase saltskitter out and attack with everything, drawing poultice with looter and dropping a cancel (only 1 island in play). eot he drops scryb ranger and returns fire next turn, cycling marshalling cry. i cast another sinew and swing again. he judges my poultice, showing dead/gone, which i let go and blocks calvary with gemhide. then, he taps for mana, taps two more, untaps with ranger and hangs for a little bit with 3 in his pool. i ask 'marshalling cry?' and he goes 'drinking too much'. i respond 'haha, been there'. i draw and discard poultice sliver. he attacks with skitter and i take, diffusioning it eot. i do the math and even with him casting an ashcoat and dead to compliment his ranger, i'll get in for enough, so i swing with everything. he blocks mindcensor with ranger, and i fortify for the win. he goes 'w/e' and i respond 'indeed'. if you're a 1770 and you try to cast marshalling cry as an instant twice, well, sucks to be you.

round two i played against a ridiculous 5 color monstrosity. g1 he suspends sand mage. i drop sinew and he responds with ignus. i'm wary of ignus's acceleration so i attack and fortify +0/+2, killing it. he drops an empath for a courser and i flash in crookclaw to flip sand mage. he then drops shell dweller and courser. i drop venser's and he drops a morph with no attacks. i drop a liminid and ship back. he casts deathspore and doesn't attack again. i put him to 8 with 6 damage in the air and erratic his deathspore with the shell dweller at two counters, having another liminid in hand. he swings with the morph. i think for a little bit, decline to block, and he flips cloudscraper (putting me to 3) and concedes with no cards in hand. i think if he would've waited and drawn anything relevant i'd have lost. that game i saw mountains, forests, saltcrusted steppe, plains, and swamp. kinda scared of tromp here. g2 i lead off with a suspended knight of sursi and then drop a sinew. he snaps it back and drops brain gorgers (yes, off swamp, island, and forests). i consider flashing in mindcensor to counter, but decide that i should win a race. i drop it in eot and my sursi comes in. i replay sinew and decline to block. he drops grave scrabbler. next turn i flash in crookclaw to flip gorgers. he drops sporoloth ancient. he's at 10 and i'm at 12. i bash for 7 though the air and drop plasma as a 1/6. he utopia vows it and i block gorgers with sinew, taking the concession.

round three i play a nice ru deck. g1 i drop nimbus and he embraces it :(. i drop calvary and he casts dream stalker, bouncing land. i drop watcher and he casts ghost ship. i drop plasma as a 3/3 and he attractions my watcher. i then drop poultice and sinew, saving my watcher. he thinks twice and casts suq'ata lancer. i do nothing and he flashes back the twice. i cast liminid and then he wipes away my sinew to off the watcher. he then attacks with lancer for the first damage of the game and drops a morph. i drop sinew and attack with everything. he blocks with his walls and i fortify to kill them. he pumps ship to kill liminid, too. i've taken him to 11. i attack with poultice sliver. he blocks with morphs and flips redkroma :(. i then cast looter. nothing doing, though. next turn i finally draw my erratic. g2 i keep a very sketchy hand with one plains, a nimbus, sinew, and looter. i draw a sursi and suspend. he suspends ephemeron. i draw island and drop looter. he embraces it and i respond with sinew. he then ghostfires the sinew and i drop nimbus. he makes a morph and i respond with liminid. he casts pyromancer and decides to race. i have no problem with this. i drop a poultice and swing. he swings back and makes another morph. he's tapped out so i alpha strike and fortify for the win. g3 i keep a land heavy hand with infiltrator, fortify, and synchronous. i suspend infiltrator and he drops skycutter. next turn he drops pyromancer and i do nothing. he makes a morph and i diffusion his pyromancer eot. i make poultice and he recasts pyromancer. he attacks and flips up raiders. i decide to drop in mindcensor to take out the skycutter instead of making synchronous. he kills infiltrator, i flash in mindcensor, and he sacs skycutter. he then casts aethermage to bounce my poultice and i make synchronous and pass. he thinks twice and swings. i block raiders and he forces. i drop liminid. he thinks again and i block, getting the liminid bewildered. he swings into poultice and i block and fortify, but he wipes away the raiders and with an empty hand that's about all she wrote. he makes raiders again and i rawdog a topped sursi. he then flips raiders with a mountain and ghostfires my knight. savage.