Gamescape North was doing Friday sealed. I wasn't feeling like playing at the Friday sealed, mainly because there are SO many freaking people who go to Gamescape now. After how dehydrated I got at the prerelease, I didn't feel like playing there if was going to be packed to the gills with people. Also Khans of Tarkir sealed is super slow, and not interesting to me.
I went to Two Cats Comics to draft. I bought a box of Khans of Tarkir to be nice, even though I can't actually afford to spend that much money on packs of cards.
P1P1: Anafenza was the rare. Abzan Falconer and Incremental Growth was in the pack as well. Taking Anafenza was kind of a trap.
P2P1: Bloodstained Mire was the rare. Had to pass a Murderous Cut.
P2P2: I took Murderous Cut over End Hostilities. Maybe that was wrong.
P3P1: Icy Blast was the rare.
Tough choices:
Drafted Longshot Squad over a second Abzan Battle Priest
Drafted Tuskguard Captain over Ainok Bond-kin
Drafted Seeker of the Way over Abzan Charm
I passed Flying Crane Technique in pack 2, which sucked. I suspect I should have just been drafting Jeskai the whole time, since blue seemed kinda open and there were a few white cards coming through as well. Red was a little weak, though. I think I could have made a decent blue/white deck just splashing red, though.
Turned out the guy on my right (who went 4-0) was in Sultai, splashing white, so that's why my colors seemed cut. I knew I was gonna get hurt because I passed Abzan Falconer and Incremental Growth.
The draft got screwed up during pack 2, because someone stacked two piles of cards together AND took an extra card from a pile.
For some reason I drafted the Witness of the Ages even though I don't
think that card is actually good in draft. In drafts you should be able
to get better than a 4/4 for 6, unless you're playing mostly red creatures (the black delve creatures can beat a 4/4 ground guy).
DECK:
Black: 6
1 Disowned Ancestor
1 Unyielding Krumar
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1 Bitter Revelation
1 Dutiful Return
1 Murderous Cut
1 Rite of the Serpent
White: 8
1 Jeskai Student
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Mardu Hordechief
1 Alabaster Kirin
1 Abzan Battle Priest
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1 Feat of Resistance
1 Suspension Field
1 Smite the Monstrous
Green: 3
1 Tuskguard Captain
1 Longbow Squad
1 Pine Walker
White/Black/Green: 4
1 Anafenza, the Foremost
1 Armanent Corps
2 Abzan Guide
Artifact: 1
1 Witness of the Ages
Lands: 18
7 Plains
5 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Jungle Hollow
1 Blossoming Sands
1 Nomad Outpost
I think I messed up on the drafting base, because I ended up black/white with too many green cards (7 cards that require green mana, actually).
Blue: 3
2 Scion of Glaciers
1 Mystic of the Hidden Way
Black: 4
1 Rakshasa's Secret
1 Shambling Attendants
2 Krumar Bond-Kin
Green: 1
1 Hooting Mandrills
Black/green: 1
1 Death Frenzy
White: 1
1 War Behemoth
Blue/red/white: 1
1 Warden of the Eye
Black/green/blue: 1
1 Sultai Soothsayer
Artifact: 1
1 Abzan Banner
LANDS: 3
1 Rugged Highland
1 Mystic Monastery
1 Bloodstained Mire
Match 1: Abzan (2-0)
This guy wasn't in my draft pod
Game 1:
I curved out with Seeker of the Way into Anafenza into
Game 2:
The board state gets a bit complex, with my opponent getting out a Mer-Ek Nightblade, a Kin-Tree Warden, a Sage-Eye Harrier, and a Swarm of Bloodflies. Of course, I'm gaining life like crazy thanks to my Abzan Battle Priest, my Abzan Guide, and my Armament Corps. I topdeck a Rite of the Serpent to kill his Bloodflies and swing for lethal. My opponent gets salty because I topdecked.
Match 2: Sultai splashing white (0-2)
This guy was on my right
This is the guy who was annoying to me during a BNG/THS/THS draft, and kinda hyper-aggressive to me during a JOU/BNG/THS draft. Bleargh.
Game 1:
I kept 3 lands on the play. Proceeded to not draw any more land until I died.
Game 2:
Mulled to 5, similarly got mana screwed, but managed to make this game last longer, until I died from 4/5 flyers.
I suspect my second round opponent was drawing cards when I wasn't looking, because he always had at least four cards in hand. One turn, he ended with four cards, then next turn I saw him play a card, and he had five cards in hand. Of course, my second round opponent ended up going 4-0 at the end.
Match 3: Black/white aggro (2-0)
My opponent was a young kid. I think he may have been in my draft pod.
Game 1:
Opponent said his deck was really good. He proceeded to play turn 1 Mardu Hateblade into turn 2 Lens of Clarity. Ok.
He proceeded to play like three Kill Shot, but it doesn't matter, because my creatures are way better than his.
Game 2:
I was beating my opponent, and then he asked me for a draw. I told him it was too late. Then he started pretending to cry. I said it was far too late for him to ask for a draw.
Match 4: Sultai (0-2)
This guy was definitely not in my draft pod.
Game 1:
I kept a 2 lander on the draw. Proceeded to lose to turn 2 Jeskai Elder, where he looted 6 cards off it. Singing Bell Strike wrecked me.
When he attacked into my 2/3 Mardu Hordechief with his 1/2, I don't think I should have snap called him. I should have waited until I had mana up for Feat of Resistance, because of course he had the +3/+3 pump.
Game 2:
This game ended up dragging out. I had to use my removal spells on his double Jeskai Windscout, then use Smite the Monstrous on his 4/5 Bellowing Saddlebrute. Then I popped my Suspension Field on his 3/3 flyer, instead of using it on his 2/3 Outlast guy. I end up dying to the 2/3 Outlast guy, after he pumped it 4 times. (Actually, I died to the fact that my opponent was playing SUPER SLOW, so there was no chance I could win game 2).
Double Singing Bell Strike worked well against me, because of all my Outlast guys.
Result: 2-2
It was 10:40 by the time the tournament was over. I felt awful because the reason I didn't go to the Gamescape North sealed is because I didn't think it would be over until 11:30 p.m. But then I ended up not getting home from Two Cats until 11:15 p.m., which wasn't much difference.
I just realized that if I'm avoiding Gamescape North and Versus Games because I think there are douchebags who play there, that I'm going to run into annoying people everywhere I go. So what's the point of driving extra distance to play against annoying people when I could just stick with Gamescape North and Versus Games.
Also drafting at Two Cats means dealing with cross-pod pairings (ugh) and four rounds of draft (also crappy).
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