This was the first time I had gone to Gamescape since the mana-screw incident back on 4/11/14.
There were a total of 35 people. I ended up in the draft pod with 10 people.
P1P1: Rare was Deicide. I took Banishing Light.
I took a Felhide Petrifier over Nightmarish End, and a War-Wing Siren over Feast of Dreams. I ended up mostly white in this pack.
I got a sixth pick Reprisal. Most colors seemed super cut for some reason, so I didn't know what second color to go into, though if I could pick black I would for sure, since I had Underworld Coinsmith, Pharika;s Chosen, and Felhide Petrifier.
P2P1: Rare was Fated Infatuation and foil Rare Felhide Spiritbinder. I wasn't really locked into a second color yet, so I took the Felhide Spiritbinder over an Oreskos Sun-Guide.
Had to pass a Hunter's Prowess and two Akroan Conscriptors. The pain.
P3P1: Rare was Arbor Colossus, which I ended up taking over Wavecrash Triton/Traveling Philosopher. If I was passing Hopeful Eidolon or Thassa's Emissary I would not have done that.
I got passed a Bident of Thassa, which won me three games with it.
Guy on my right was black/red, and guy on my left was black/white. Apparently only three people were in green.
The guy on my right-right was white/blue, which explains the low number of blue cards in pack 1, and the low number of white cards in my pack 3.
DECK:
WHITE: 14
1 Nyxborn Shieldmate
1 Loyal Pegasus
1 Leonin Snarecaster
1 Traveling Philosopher
1 Stonewise Fortifier
2 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Observant Alseid
1 Akroan Phalanx
1 Skyspear Cavalry
1 Ajani's Presence
1 Reprisal
1 Banishing Light
1 Excoriate
BLUE: 9
1 War-Wing Siren
1 Nyxborn Triton
1 Coastline Chimera
1 Chorus of the Tides
1 Siren of the Fanged Coast
1 Horizon Scholar
1 Retraction Helix
1 Divination
1 Bident of Thassa
LANDS: 17
9 Plains
8 Island
I put in 8 Islands because I had a bunch of double blue mana costs in my deck.
SIDEBOARD:
BLACK:
1 Pharika's Chosen
1 Felhide Petrifier
1 Forsaken Drifters
1 Dreadbringer Lampads
BLUE:
1 Crackling Triton
2 Nullify
GREEN:
1 Agent of Horizons
1 Arbor Colossus
RED:
1 Felhide Spiritbinder
1 Wild Celebrants
WHITE:
1 Ephara's Warden
1 Mortal Obstinacy
1 Oppressive Rays
1 Glare of Heresy
1 Last Breath
MULTICOLOR:
1 Underworld Coinsmith
1 Siren of the Silent Song
ARTIFACT:
1 Traveler's Amulet
Match 1: UR (2-1)
Game 1:
I had counted out my plains and islands before the draft, and shuffled my deck. Apparently I somehow forgot to put my islands in my deck. That was a quick loss.
Game 2:
This is sort of a grindy match, but I end up winning.
Game 3:
Apparently my opponent got screwed on blue mana, so this was a quick win for me.
Match 2: Mono-green (w/b splash)
Game 1:
I kept a 2 lander on the play, and had to discard Horizon Scholar. I lost to Strength of the Fallen into double Nyxborn Wolf into Centaur Battlemaster. Geez.
Game 2:
This game was very close, but I managed to win (barely) because of Bident of Thassa forcing her team to attack.
Game 3:
Opponent played a Bassara Tower Archer (5/2) bestowed with Nyxborn Wolf, and a Graverobber Spider with a +1/+1 counter from Satyr Grovedancer. That basically shut down my team. She also had Golden Hind, Nyxborn Wolf (unbestowed), and a Satyr Wayfinder.
I didn't attack in, fearing a trick, and not able to get through 3/5 flyer anyways.
I had:
Loyal Pegasus (2/1)
Skyspear Cavalry (4/5) bestow with Nyxborn Triton and Mortal Obstinacy
Horizon Scholar (4/4)
War-Wing Siren (1/3)
Chorus of the Tides (3/2)
On turn 1 of time, I topdeck a Ajani's Presence but don't feel like attacking, even though I have 9 mana to make three of my guys indestructable.
On turn 5 of time, I topdeck a Banishing Light but it's too late now to swing in and do enough damage to win.
I think I drew this game due to being too cautious, honestly.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have sided out Retraction Helix in that game. That might have given me an opening to attack through the Graverobber Spider.
Match 3: WB (2-0)
Game 1:
I get out a turn 1 Loyal Pegasus into turn 2 Leonin Snarecaster. My opponent plays turn 1 Oppressive Rays on my Loyal Pegasus and a turn 2 Lagonna-Band Trailblazer and turn 3 Eagle of the Watch. Geez. Fortunately, I get a turn 4 Bident of Thassa. He has Viper's Kiss for my Coastline Chimera, and enchants his Trailblazer with his Hopeful Eidolon, making a 2/6 lifelink. He also plays a Setessan Battle-Priest into Ephara's Radiance. Of course, I have him on a clock with my Loyal Pegasus and 5/5 Chorus of the Tides (bestowed with Nyxborn Triton). Bident of Thassa ends up drawing me a bunch of cards, too.
Game 2:
In comes the Mortal Obstinacy and the Glare of Heresy.
My opponent stacks up Nyx Infusion and Chosen by Heliod on a Hopeful Eidolon, making a 3/5 lifelinker. I use my Banishing Light on it. Of course, my opponent has Dictate of Erebos in hand.
I cast my Bident of Thassa again, but my opponent has Pyxis of Pandemonium to punish me, threatening to cause me to mill out.
I attack with my Swiftclaw into his 1/1 Asphodel Wanderer while he's tapped out, since he didn't cast Dictate of Erebos yet. Then next turn he casts Dictate of Erebos. That's ok, I have no plans to interact with his creatures at all. He exiles his Asphodel Wanderer with Ritual of the Returned, making a vanilla 1/1.
I manage to make a 6/7 Skyspear Cavalry with Vigilance, attack with a 3/1 Swiftclaw and a 1/3 War-Wing Siren while he's at 16 life. Before blocks, I cast Retraction Helix on my Skyspear Cavalry, and bounce his token out of the way. That's GAAAME.
Result: 2-0-1. 4th place out of all the drafters. In fact, I think I was top in my draft pod of 10 people, but since I didn't go 3-0 I didn't get the promo card (which I don't want anyways).
Two drafts in a row, 2-0-1, unable to make it a 3-0, but it was ok.
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