So where we in my futile attempt to draft white green? Oh yes, pack 3 pick one. Shall we?
Pack 3 pick 1:
My Pick:
Flying First stiker at the 3 drop spot is exactly what I was looking for. The noble or Moan would have been great if I were drafting black.
Pack 3 pick 2:
My Pick:
Human that taps things. Good stuff. Lumberknot and the Spider also got a look, but I needed tricks like this guy had.
Pack 3 pick 3:
My Pick:
He's pretty easy to flip, he's human on both sides, and was the best thing in my color. See, I skipped on that rare land this time
Pack 3 pick 4:
My Pick:
Too many choices this time. I feel that this card is necessary in many situations, so snapped it up.
Pack 3 pick 5:
My Pick:
Yup, said enough about this guy already.
Pack 3 pick 6:
My Pick:
Should have been the Viper. I would have had a sick green deck if I had paid more attention to what I was doing!
Pack 3 pick 7:
My Pick:
Village bell ringer might be the right pick, but I had a lot of one toughness dudes that thanked me for taking this....
Pack 3 pick 8:
My Pick:
Bad removal is bad. Sideboard card that I didn't use once.
Pack 3 pick 9:
My Pick:
I was anxious to see if this random ability would be worthwhile.
Pack 3 pick 10:
My Pick:
The Vengeance deck is really quite ridiculous when it works, and there wasn't anything else for me, so I hated this one out, just in case someone had 2 of them already.
Pack 3 pick 11:
My Pick:
Nothing really good here.
Pack 3 pick 12:
My Pick:
Pack 3 pick 13:
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Pack 3 pick 14:
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Pack 3 pick 15:
My Pick:
So I finished up with the only logical choices and had a mediocre green white deck that looked something like this:
1 Darkthicket Wolf
1 Spare from Evil
1 Unruly Mob
1 Avacynian Priest
1 Thraben Sentry
2 Island
1 Delver of Secrets
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
7 Plains
1 Selfless Cathar
1 Gavony Township
1 Silent Departure
2 Villagers of Estwald
1 Rebuke
1 Bramblecrush
1 Boneyard Wurm
1 Dearly Departed
1 Woodland Sleuth
1 Voiceless Spirit
1 Urgent Exorcism
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Grizzled Outcasts
1 Ambush Viper
1 Sharpened Pitchfork
7 Forest
1 Hollowhenge Scavenger
So it turned out that it had only 9 humans, 4 of which were werewolves, which is actually good against Victim of Night . The all star card in that first round victory was Silent Departure, as I drew it both games I won. I splashed the blue for both that and the Delver, who sucked, but he's human on both sides and flies on one, so I put him in. I should have made much better picks, that I am sure of. Hindsight is 20/20, and in this case might be even better than that, as looking back I can see just how much better I could have done.
So that is my main focus on this blog (2 blogs at that) post, is to go back and analyze what decisions you made and what other chioces you might have had in a draft situation. Turn on the draft recorder in MTGO. If you don't know how, it's in your gameplay -> advanced settings, just check the box. Then the files are saved as text, and you can look at those packs later on and think about how you could have done things differently.
I suppose that will be the best you can do to improve without entering another live draft, until maybe they introduce a simulator for more than just the core set. Hope you've found this interesting if you've taken the time to read it!
TTFN!
