I was originally planning on going to Versus Games to play on Saturday. However, I figured it would be more efficient to get my housework/errands done on Saturday, then just sign up for two drafts on Sunday, instead of signing up for a draft on Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, that would mean I would need to potentially sit through six hours of drafting in one sitting. That is difficult at my age (35) due to getting tired/hungry.
I ended up leaving from home kinda late, and there was traffic on 19th ave. I ended up getting to the store exactly at 1 p.m.
P1P1: Temple of Plenty over Fall of the Hammer.
P1P2: Got passed a Hero of Iroas. What.
P1P6: Reap What is Sown. Green/white is open maybe?
P1P10: Fanatic of Xenagos. How does this go 10th pick. Yikes.
P2P1: Hundred Handed-One
P3P1: Arbor Colossus.
DECK:
12 white
2 Hopeful Eidolon
1 Leonin Snarecaster
1 Hero of Iroas
2 Oreskos Sun Guide
1 Observant Alseid
1 Elite Skirmisher
1 Wingsteed Rider
1 Hundred Handed-One
1 Gods Willing
1 Excoriate
7 green
1 Leafcrown Dryad
1 Agent of Horizons
1 Staunch-Hearted Warrior
1 Arbor Colossus
1 Vulpine Goliath
1 Karametra's Favor
1 Feral Invocation
3 multicolor
1 Chronicler of Heroes
1 Reap What Is Sown
1 Daxos of Meletis
1 artifact
1 Opaline Unicorn
1 Temple of Plenty
8 Forest
7 Plains
1 Unknown Shores
SIDEBOARD:
1 Blood-Toll Harpy
1 Necrobite
1 Omenspeaker
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
1 Portent of Betrayal
1 Demolish
1 Satyr Hedonist
1 Commune with the Gods
1 Artisan's Sorrow
1 Revoke Existence
1 Griffin Dreamfinder
1 Vanquish the Foul
1 Fanatic of Xenagos
1 Destructive Revelry
1 Temple of Malice
Many bombs, handle them.
Hero of Iroas, Hundred-Handed One, Arbor Colossus, and Daxos of Meletis is pretty stronk.
Splashing for Daxos was a bit controversial. As you can see, I got kinda cut out of my colors, but I kept going with white/green anyways because of what I opened.
I felt like I was getting cut pretty bad on my colors too. I was white/green, and these were the other people:
Green/black
Green/white
White/blue/black
Red/green
Red/black
Green/blue
White/black
So four other people in green, and three other people in white.
Match 1: UG 2-0
Game 1:
He drags the game out a bit with Wavecrash Triton taps, and a Nylea's Disciple with Aqueous Form.
Even with Curse of the Swine for my Wingsteed Rider voltron + Hundred Handed One + Oreskos Sun Guide, I end up with 5 2 power creatures (3 boars, Observant Alseid, Leafcrown Dryad) for his 3 blockers, when he's at 4 life, and is tapped out. So I win.
Game 2:
He plays a Wavecrash Triton with Aqueous Form + Stratus Walk. When he goes to bestow Thassa's Emissary I have Artisan's Sorrow to destroy the aura.
He played a Bow of Nylea but I played an Arbor Colossus and he scooped.
Match 2: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
I manage to get up to 29 life off Daxos of Meletis with Feral Invocation and Hopeful Eidolon, and Wingsteed Rider with Hopeful Eidolon. He gets me down to 5 life with Anthoussa, Setessan Hero and Fabled Hero and a 5/5 Setessan Oathsworn. But then I swing for the kill.
Game 2:
He gets me down to 12, but I get him down to 4, then he scoops to Arbor Colossus.
Match 3: BR (1-2)
Game 1:
My opponent plays a turn 2 Deathbellow Raider and turn 4 Purphoros's Emissary
I play a turn 2 Hero of Iroas
Turn 3 Leafcrown Dryad bestow
Turn 4 Observant Alseid bestow
Turn 5 Hopeful Eidolon bestow
Game over.
Game 2:
I lose to double Tormented Hero opening into Purphoros's Emissary. I have Revoke Existence for the Purphoros's Emissary, but then I start flooding out.
I end up having to trade a Wingsteed Rider + Reap What is Sown for a 4/3 Tormented Hero with Ordeal of Erebos.
I manage to get my third forest for Arbor Colossus on turn 12 or so, but he has Asphyxiate for it, then swings for lethal.
Game 3:
This was a tough game. He gets turn 1 Tormented Hero into turn 2 Tymaret, the Murder King. I have Excoriate for the Murder King. He plays a Borderland Minotaur, I play a Staunch-Hearted Warrior. He attacks with his Hero and the Minotaur, I block with the Warrior, and pop Gods Willing, making a 4/4 with protection from red.
I swing in with a 6/6 Staunch Hearted Warrior and leave a Leafcrown Dryad (unbestowed) behind to block.
Ultimately, he gets me down to 5, and I lose to a Tormented Hero with Purphoros's Emissary.
P1P1: Courser of Kruphix.
P1P2: Got passed a Hero of Iroas again. What.
P1P3: Took Bile Blight over Setessan Oathsworn.
P1P4: Took Sudden Storm over Archetype of Imagination and Chorus of the Tides and a second Setessan Oathsworn. Gah.
I got a fifth pick Tromokratis, and passed a sixth pick Kraken of the Straits (bad, but still a card). I should have just started forcing blue at this point.
Passed literally three Setessan Oathsworn.
I was still hedging my bets as it seems like the packs didn't have many actual playables.
P2P1: Took Dauntless Onslaught over Steam Augury and Hopeful Eidolon. Maybe this was wrong.
P2P2: Took Nemesis of Mortals over Temple of Mystery. MISSED value.
P2P3: Nessian Asp.
P2P4: Wingsteed Rider over Sea God's Revenge/Triton Tactics.
P3P1: Passed Akroan Horse for Ordeal of Heliod.
Took Observant Alseid over a second Ordeal of Heliod.
Person on my left was white/black. Person on my right was red/green.
Basically looked like this:
Me (white/green)->red/green->white/black->white/green->5 color->white/green->blue/red->white/black. Seriously?
So 3 other people in green, and 4 other people in white.
It also wasn't nice that the two people on my right (who came in together) never drafted before, and were asking each other for advice. They were also asking the store employee for advice on picks. Huh.
DECK:
green: 11
1 Satyr Hedonist
2 Voyaging Satyr
1 Courser of Kruphix
1 Nylea's Emissary
1 Nylea's Disciple
1 Nessian Asp
1 Centaur Battlemaster
1 Nemesis of Mortals
2 Savage Surge
white: 7
1 Hero of Iroas
1 Oreskos Sun Guide
1 Observant Alseid
1 Lagonna Band Elder
1 Wingsteed Rider
1 Chosen by Heliod
1 Ordeal of Heliod
blue: 1
1 Sudden Storm
multicolor 2
1 Horizon Chimera
1 Ephara's Enlightenment
artifact 1
1 Traveler's Amulet
2 Island
8 Plains
7 Forest
SIDEBOARD:
1 Felhide Brawler
1 Boon of Erebos
1 Pharika's Cure
1 Bile Blight
1 Weight of the Underworld
1 Vaporkin
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Tromokratis
1 Stymied Hopes
2 Crypsis
2 Stratus Walk
1 Griptide
1 Thassa's Bounty
1 Eternity Snare
1 Centaur Battlemaster
1 Fade into Antiquity
1 Last Breath
Match 1: 5 color Chromanticore (1-2)
Game 1:
I mull to 6.
My opponent plays turn two Fleecemane Lion.
However, I curved out with turn two Hero of Iroas into turn 3 Savage Surge to kill his Centaur Courser, then turn 4 Observant Alseid into turn 5 Nylea's Emissary bestow. Craycray.
Game 2:
My opponent gets out TWO Akroan Horse on me. How absurd.
He also plays Prophet of Kruphix but I have Last Breath to exile it. I try to use Nessian Asp with Observant Alseid bestow to whittle down his soldier tokens, but without Nylea's Emissary I can't make any real effort. I have to rely on Horizon Chimera to try and get through his Chorus of the Tides (which he recurs twice with Pharika's Mender. He kinda punts and attacks all out with his Pharika's Menders and Fleecemane Lion. I block his Menders with the Akroan Horses he gave me.
I had my opponent down to 2 life, then he plays Chromanticore and turns the game around.
Game 3:
I mull to 5. First hand was a one lander with Hero of Iroas, Ordeal of Heliod, and Chosen of Heliod. On the play I left like this was really bad. Ended up with another one lander, then mulled to 5.
My opponent gets out TWO Akroan Horse out on me again. It still turns out to be kinda close game, but he manages to resolve Prophet of Kruphix into Bestow Manticore on Pharika's Mender into Whip of Erebos. Geez.
Match 2: UR (0-2)
Game 1:
Lost to Nimbus Naiad bestow on Wavecrash Triton, and Archetype of Imagination.
Game 2:
Lost to Archetype of Imagination and Stoneshock Giant.
Time to pack it up and go home, and have a few (four beers).
Result: 2-1, 0-2 drop
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