1/19/2009 Draft Simulator > magicthegathering.com

2 years ago :: Jan 16, 2009 - 11:43AM #1
WotC_Monty Posts: 1,362 Date Joined: 11/05/03	This thread is for discussion of this week's Booster Draft Simulator, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago :: Jan 16, 2009 - 2:31PM #2
Hashinator89v2 Posts: 266 Date Joined: 12/05/07	4 Mountain 9 Plains 4 Swamp 2 Aven Cloudchaser 3 Benalish Knight 1 Icatian Priest 1 Serra Angel 1 Skyhunter Patrol 1 Skyhunter Prowler 1 Skyhunter Skirmisher 1 Windborn Muse 4 Angelic Blessing 2 Assassinate 3 Fists of the Anvil 1 Spirit Link 2 Warrior’s Honor
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2 years ago :: Jan 16, 2009 - 2:37PM #3
adamplays Posts: 61 Date Joined: 06/21/06	Round 1: Civic Wayfinder Verdant Force Hail of Arrows Craw Wurm Sift Soul Warden Skyhunter Patrol Pincher Beetles Chromatic Star Warrior's Honor Tundra Wolves Demystify Honor Guard Plague Beetle Forest Round 2: Incinerate Rampant Growth Mind Stone Canopy Spider Stalking Tiger Llanowar Elves Rampant Growth Commune with Nature Suntail Hawk Angelic Blessing Festering Goblin Spirit Link Kraken's Eye Contaminated Bond Plains Round 3: Windborn Muse Wall of Swords Treetop Village Serra Angel Paladin en-Vec Youthful Knight Voice of All Soul Warden Drudge Skeletons Heart of Light Tundra Wolves Luminesce Holy Day Honor Guard Plains ------------------------------- Deck: Creatures: Soul Warden Soul Warden Llanowar Elves Youthful Knight Canopy Spider Civic Wayfinder Pincher Beetles Paladin en-Vec Skyhunter Patrol Stalking Tiger Windborn Muse Voice of All Wall of Swords Serra Angel Craw Wurm Verdant Force Spells: Chromatic Star Spirit Link Mind Stone Rampant Growth Rampant Growth Incinerate Hail of Arrows Land: Treetop Village 1 Mountain 8 Forests 8 Plains Some pretty amazing white creatures in this deck. Low on removal, but the possibility of cashing in on a huge Hail of Arrows is high with all the mana fixing. Also the combo with Verdant Force and Soul Warden is so good. A turn 3 Serra Angel is possible as well.
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2 years ago :: Jan 18, 2009 - 9:51PM #4
Qwyrxian Posts: 5,051 Date Joined: 01/06/06	Okay, I think that if you're not in Red, you're doing it wrong. But anyway, assuming you are in red, pack 3 pick 1: Blaze vs. Beacon of Destruction. I'm fairly certain Blaze is always correct here, but are there any circumstances where the Beacon might be correct? EDIT: Ah, I see that the previous posts were actually last week's deck...those did seem like odd cards. Anyways, for this week.... All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.
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2 years ago :: Jan 18, 2009 - 10:01PM #5
DarkSun2012 Posts: 3,899 Date Joined: 07/25/03	Round 1: Furnace Whelp Incinerate Snapping Drake Puppeteer Counsel of the Soratami Merfolk Looter Sage Owl Wall of Fire Squee, Goblin Nabob Lava Axe Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Primal Rage Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Merfolk Looter Air Elemental Persuasion Counsel of the Soratami Uncontrollable Anger Aven Fisher Boomerang Cancel Demolish Vampire Bats Cryoclasm Beacon of Immortality Demolish Demolish Mountain Round 3: Blaze Guerrilla Tactics Bogardan Firefiend Whispersilk Cloak Gravedigger Thundering Giant Festering Goblin Cloud Sprite Cloud Sprite Shimmering Wings Fugitive Wizard Smash Firebreathing Plague Beetle Plains Pretty average... :/ I went with blaze, but maybe between the two looters and the two counseil, beacon could potentially be better... but I doubt it.
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2 years ago :: Jan 18, 2009 - 10:02PM #6
Gnomeitall Posts: 16 Date Joined: 08/10/05	Round 1: Furnace Whelp Incinerate Snapping Drake Puppeteer Counsel of the Soratami Lava Axe Sage Owl Wall of Fire Lava Axe Lava Axe Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Robe of Mirrors Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Hill Giant Air Elemental Persuasion Counsel of the Soratami Uncontrollable Anger Aven Fisher Cloud Sprite Cancel Crafty Pathmage Shimmering Wings Cryoclasm Reminisce Demolish Demolish Mountain Round 3: Beacon of Destruction Guerrilla Tactics Earth Elemental Bloodrock Cyclops Firebreathing Incinerate Firebreathing Cloud Sprite Cloud Sprite Shimmering Wings Fugitive Wizard Firebreathing Angelic Wall Plague Beetle Plains
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2 years ago :: Jan 18, 2009 - 10:45PM #7
TOAO_Mac_Daddy Posts: 6 Date Joined: 12/09/06	Round 1: Furnace Whelp Incinerate Snapping Drake Puppeteer Counsel of the Soratami Lava Axe Sage Owl Rock Badger Squee, Goblin Nabob Lava Axe Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Primal Rage Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Soul Feast probably should have just taken Hill Giant, hated Air Elemental Persuasion Counsel of the Soratami Horseshoe Crab was hoping for that plinking enchantment. Aven Fisher Boomerang Cancel Manabarbs rare drafting Vampire Bats Cryoclasm Reminisce Demolish Demolish Mountain Round 3: Beacon of Destruction wasn't sure about this or blaze. Guerrilla Tactics Bogardan Firefiend Whispersilk Cloak Ancestor's Chosen hate drafting Thundering Giant True Believer Kraken's Eye Cloud Sprite Heart of Light Holy Strength Smash Firebreathing Plague Beetle Plains My Deck Creatures Cloud Sprite Sage Owl Puppeteer Squee, Goblin Nabob Horseshoe Crab Bogardan Firefiend Furnace Whelp Snapping Drake Aven Fisher Rock Badger Air Elemental Thundering Giant Other Spells Incinerate Boomerang Guerrilla Tactics 2x Counsel of the Soratami Cancel Whispersilk Cloak 2x Lava Axe Persuasion Beacon of Destruction x8 Mountain x9 Island Blaze probably is the better pick in pack 3 but the recursing rare was too tempting for me to pass on. I think I hate drafted a little to much. Deck doesn't have good early beats Cloud Elemental or that Red 3/3 for 3 should have been drafted at some point for earlier pressure. I may go back and try drafting the other colors but I think U/R was the way to go.
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2 years ago :: Jan 19, 2009 - 12:37AM #8
thenightsshadow Posts: 309 Date Joined: 01/12/09	Round 1: Lava Axe Lava Axe Giant Growth Might Weaver Primal Rage Karplusan Forest Shatterstorm Wall of Fire Squee, Goblin Nabob Natural Spring Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Angelic Wall Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Manabarbs Lightning Elemental Might of Oaks Overrun Skyshroud Ranger Llanowar Elves Raging Goblin Elvish Berserker Rampant Growth Natural Spring Duct Crawler Skyshroud Ranger Demolish Skyshroud Ranger Mountain Round 3: Beacon of Destruction Wall of Fire Canopy Spider Paladin en-Vec Llanowar Elves Incinerate Firebreathing Terramorphic Expanse Raging Goblin Contaminated Bond Contaminated Bond Firebreathing Firebreathing Plague Beetle Plains Deck: Land (17) Mountain x8 Forest x7 Karplusan Forest x1 Terramorphic Expanse x1 Creatures (14) Llanowar Elves x2 Raging Goblin x2 Skyshroud Ranger x3 Duct Crawler x1 Canopy Spider x1 Wall of Fire x2 Might Weaver x1 Lightning Elemental x1 Squee, Goblin Nabob x1 Other Spells (9) Giant Growth x1 Primal Rage x1 Rampant Growth x1 Incinerate x1 Might of Oaks x1 Overrun x1 Lava Axe x2 Beacon of Destruction x1
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2 years ago :: Jan 19, 2009 - 1:03AM #9
repsac777 Posts: 1 Date Joined: 09/06/07	Round 1: Civic Wayfinder Giant Spider Commune with Nature Llanowar Elves Grizzly Bears Karplusan Forest Goblin Piker Rock Badger Squee, Goblin Nabob Natural Spring Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Primal Rage Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Hill Giant Goblin Piker Rootwalla Rootwalla Skyshroud Ranger Llanowar Elves Recollect Llanowar Wastes Rampant Growth Natural Spring Duct Crawler Forest Mountain Forest Mountain Round 3: Rampant Growth Guerrilla Tactics Goblin Piker Rushwood Dryad Llanowar Elves Incinerate Spineless Thug Terramorphic Expanse Skyshroud Ranger Natural Spring Contaminated Bond Forest Swamp Mountain Plains could someone comment on my draft.... will the cards i picked in each round enough for a game....
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2 years ago :: Jan 19, 2009 - 1:33AM #10
prophet666 Posts: 48 Date Joined: 10/16/08	Round 1: Furnace Whelp Incinerate Snapping Drake Puppeteer Counsel of the Soratami Merfolk Looter Sage Owl Rock Badger Squee, Goblin Nabob Lava Axe Duct Crawler Duct Crawler Robe of Mirrors Wall of Wood Island Round 2: Hill Giant Air Elemental Persuasion Whispersilk Cloak Horseshoe Crab Aven Fisher Boomerang Cancel Crafty Pathmage Shimmering Wings Cryoclasm Beacon of Immortality Demolish Demolish Mountain Round 3: Beacon of Destruction Guerrilla Tactics Boomerang Whispersilk Cloak Soul Warden Thundering Giant True Believer Kraken's Eye Cloud Sprite Shimmering Wings Fugitive Wizard Firebreathing Firebreathing Plague Beetle Plains The Furnace Whelp is the best card in the pack, but is a double-red; I'm leery of committing to red right away, but the Whelp can win games so I take it over the Wayfinder. It's always nice to get rewarded for those picks with immediate reinforcement. P1p3 is tough because I need another color; I've passed at least three good green cards, neither white or black calls out here, but the Drake is reasonable ... and immediate reward in the form of the Puppeteer is nice again. I like Beacon of Destruction over Blaze. Blazing something for two is a lose, and for equal mana BoD is instant-speed and more damage. If you get to seven+ mana and draw the Blaze, that might be better, but instant-speed and re-usable still looks better to me. I wondered what people took to pass the Air Elemental and friends ... and then I saw the guy who opened double Shivan Hellkite! Furnace Whelp Snapping Drake Puppeteer Merfolk Looter Sage Owl Rock Badger Squee, Goblin Nabob Hill Giant Air Elemental Horseshoe Crab Aven Fisher Thundering Giant Cloud Sprite Kraken's Eye Incinerate Lava Axe Beacon of Destruction Guerrilla Tactics Persuasion Counsel of the Soratami 2xBoomerang 2xWhispersilk Cloak 8xIsland 8xMountain
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