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Topic: I finally won an online draft!
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scrum Banned
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posted September 04, 2011 10:06 AM
I just won my first magic online draft, and got the FOUR BOOSTER reward. I had to use the bathroom for #2 during the draft but i was forced to befoul myself as I had no way to bring my computer into the bathroom. I was determined to win after this since i did not want it to be for nothing. DRAFT RECAP: I GOT: Mythics: Time Reversal Sorin Markoff Rares: Flameblast Dragon Glacial Fortress goblin Warcheif Grand Abolisher Honor of the Pure Jace's archivist Quicksilver Amulet Redirect Garruk's horde Sundial of the infinite Rites Of Flourishing Monomania Foils: Worldslayer Greater Basilisk Flight Wall Of Torches Arachnus Web MATCH 1: Game 1:
I used a white-blue-red deck that had flameblast dragon, a bunch of white creatures, honor of the pure, and then blue for counters and levitation. I got the honor of the pure and my white creatures out early, and then drew levitation and my creatures flew over him and killed him. Game 2: He only drew two swamps and I got a creaure and kept attacking. he was at 7 when he got another land but i mana leaked his creature and he immediatly forfeited. MATCH 2: Game 1: He had a green red deck that had a creature-based strategy. I countered some of his creatures but he got too many out and eventually used overrun to kill me. the game took like 20 minutes because he too forever to do stuff.
game 2: we both got a ton of creatures out and no one could really get through. he used overrrun but i got flashfreeze so i countered it. He ended up running out of time on his clock and I won since he took like 30 seconds everytime it was his turn to do something. Match 3: He had a black deck with call to the grave and a lot of zombies. He also had red damage spells. game 1: I got a lot of counters and flameblast dragon in my hand, but no mountains, so i kept countering stuff with mana leaks and such. He got call to the grave and then i was forced to sacrifice my dragon. He played more creatures and killed me Game 2: he mulliganed three times but only had one land and i got serra angel and honor of the pure out and he conceded. Game three: he went first but had only mountains and no swamps. i got a griffin rider + griffin and attacked early before he drew a swamp and i won. What do you guys think
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MeddlingMage Member
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posted September 04, 2011 10:18 AM
quote: Originally posted by scrum:
i was forced to befoul myself
I stopped reading after this part. ~MM __________________ I am MeddlingMage...YOUR Motl Survivor 11 Champion, 2007 Captain N award winner, 2010 Marlboro award winner, and 2011 Champion Tournament Pick'em MOTL NCAA Bracket Challenge winner!CM Punk "OMG Kevin Nash WTF, thought he was dead, LOL" New keeper of the Logout button
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Thanos Member
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posted September 04, 2011 10:56 AM
Scrum I have to give it to you.Your posts/ topics are far and few between, but when you do post, they are almost always gems
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nderdog Moderator
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posted September 04, 2011 10:58 AM
quote: Originally posted by Thanos: Scrum I have to give it to you.Your posts/ topics are far and few between, but when you do post, they are almost always gems
I think this one started off like crap. __________________ There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here!All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please! Report rules violations. Remember the Auctions Board!
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Volcanon Member
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posted September 04, 2011 03:08 PM
Jeez, it can't take any more than a couple minutes to go to the can.So lets take a deeper look at your matches. Match 1: (1) Drew your bomb, beat for win. (2) He got manascrewed Match 2: (1) Guy beats you with his bomb (2) Guy times out. Match 3: (1) Drew a pile of removal, lose to damage. (2) Guy gets manascrewed (3) Guy gets manascrewed So you won four games because your opponents whiffed on luck, including a match you probably would have lost. Where's the decklist? I'm not really all that sure that a three-color deck full of flyers can really put Levitation and Honor of the Pure to use all that well.
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scrum Banned
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posted September 04, 2011 03:36 PM
9 plains 2 mountain 6 island 1 glacial fortress1 honor of the pure 1 flameblast dragon 5 mana leak/ dispel/ flashfreeze in some combination 1 Serra angle 1 jace archivist 1 benalish veteran 1 Belltower sphinx 1 that 3/3 drake that gives stuff flying 1 the 3/1 that can't block w/o flying 1 levitation 1 2/4 vanilla blue guy for 3 and island. 1 2/1 lifelink giver Mage 1 griffin rider 1 2/4 first strike flying griffin Or something like that. I always build my deck around whatever rare I get first pack and I got honor of the pure.
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Volcanon Member
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posted September 04, 2011 04:35 PM
Something tells me you should have been U/R.9 plains 2 mountain 6 island 1 glacial fortress > Flameblast is 4RR, so you MUST draw both mountains to even cast it? 1 honor of the pure > I count six white creatures. That's a bit low, really. 1 flameblast dragon > Pretty much your best card, but very unsplashable. 5 mana leak/ dispel/ flashfreeze in some combination 1 Serra angle 1 jace archivist 1 benalish veteran 1 Belltower sphinx 1 that 3/3 drake that gives stuff flying 1 the 3/1 that can't block w/o flying 1 levitation
> Most of your threats fly anyway... This would have been stronger, probably, if you were U/R. 1 2/4 vanilla blue guy for 3 and island. 1 2/1 lifelink giver Mage 1 griffin rider > Not all that great when you have so few griffins. 1 2/4 first strike flying griffin > I'm really sorry, but it looks more like you lucked out here, especially against the overrun green deck. The goblin lord you got is Honor of the Pure in creature form, and for some reason you're not playing Grand Abolisher? Your blue is fine, but your white is basically serra angel and the lifelink guy, while your red is already a hyperbomb slam and a goblin lord in a format with piles and piles of goblins.
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ryan2754 Member
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posted September 04, 2011 04:35 PM
quote: Originally posted by scrum: 9 plains 2 mountain 6 island 1 glacial fortress1 honor of the pure 1 flameblast dragon 5 mana leak/ dispel/ flashfreeze in some combination 1 Serra angle 1 jace archivist 1 benalish veteran 1 Belltower sphinx 1 that 3/3 drake that gives stuff flying 1 the 3/1 that can't block w/o flying 1 levitation 1 2/4 vanilla blue guy for 3 and island. 1 2/1 lifelink giver Mage 1 griffin rider 1 2/4 first strike flying griffin Or something like that. I always build my deck around whatever rare I get first pack and I got honor of the pure.
That's not necessarily the greatest strategy if you want to win mroe drafts. I can say with full confidence that my P1P1 in drafts only makes it into my decks roughly 60% of the time - just so happens that my Pack 1 seems to suck all the time and I get better cards from P1P2-P1P5 in different colors. __________________ -Schmitty 7th in Refs [193] in OH-IO (Catching up to jmedina) 2nd in Posts [5887] in OH-IO (Have a long way to go to catch Val) “If Brad Stevens is the future of coaching in college basketball, the sport is in a good place.” - Rick Pitino
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super324 Member
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posted September 04, 2011 07:16 PM
quote: Originally posted by Volcanon:
So you won four games because your opponents whiffed on luck, including a match you probably would have lost.
Haters gonna Hate.
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Jazaray Moderator
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posted September 04, 2011 09:41 PM
So.. was it a stronghold draft? Did you get any rares? Thanks, Jazaray Edit: Why'd you post this in GD anyways? This is an MD post.. __________________ A Plastered Dragon Original Limerick: There was a nice lassie named Jaz Many wished to have what she has, A delicate face, A soft warm embrace, And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.WeedIan: Jazaray is like MOTL's Mom. Have dinner with Jaz
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-PoX- Member
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posted September 04, 2011 10:26 PM
Liar, I'm the one who won that draft!And if anyone asks, it wasn't luck, I psyched out my opponents so they'd time out / get screwed. It's called BLUSHING!
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Volcanon Member
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posted September 04, 2011 11:41 PM
Well I just won a UZ draft with this pile. None of the matches were particularly close, even when a guy played geddon, as he did it with my Rumbling Crescendo in play, so when he got up to five lands I just geddoned him again.Spells 1x Arc Lightning 1x Curfew 1x Fatigue 1x Fodder Cannon 3x Misdirection 1x Rumbling Crescendo 1x Sigil of Sleep 1x Slow Motion 1x Treachery Creatures 1x Avalanche Riders 1x Bouncing Beebles 1x Cinder Seer 1x Fledgling Osprey 1x Ghitu Slinger 1x Pendrell Drake 1x Raven Familiar 3x Reteromancer 1x Thornwind Faeries 1x Wild Colos 8x Mountain 8x Island Yes 16 land. Almost nothing costs more than 4. Nothing in the board except the firebreathing mountainwalker guy.
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Volcanon Member
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posted September 05, 2011 11:23 AM
quote: Originally posted by Volcanon: Well I just won a UZ draft with this pile. None of the matches were particularly close, even when a guy played geddon, as he did it with my Rumbling Crescendo in play, so when he got up to five lands I just geddoned him again.Spells 1x Arc Lightning 1x Curfew 1x Fatigue 1x Fodder Cannon 3x Misdirection 1x Rumbling Crescendo 1x Sigil of Sleep 1x Slow Motion 1x Treachery Creatures 1x Avalanche Riders 1x Bouncing Beebles 1x Cinder Seer 1x Fledgling Osprey 1x Ghitu Slinger 1x Pendrell Drake 1x Raven Familiar 3x Reteromancer 1x Thornwind Faeries 1x Wild Colos 8x Mountain 8x Island Yes 16 land. Almost nothing costs more than 4. Nothing in the board except the firebreathing mountainwalker guy.
And since I won a free draft: Next draft match 2 the opponent has every damage prevention ever printed, and then F6's with me having a tim in play. He conceedes.
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Kyosukee Member
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posted September 05, 2011 01:42 PM
Giant spiders and stormfront pegasus win drafts. Completely. Totally.__________________ What a willou tree thinks about.
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dwiz Member
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posted September 05, 2011 07:04 PM
quote: Originally posted by Kyosukee: Giant spiders and stormfront pegasus win drafts. Completely. Totally.
I played Spiders.dec in one of the drafts at nationals. Had 9 of them and 3 Arachnus Webs. Worked great for a while, then didn't.
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