Ala Ala Cfx 4-3-2-2 No 6.

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 1671

Another draft I lost first round to an opponent who got the most ridic draws ever both games the deck felt really good but so was my opponents juding by the draws he got.

Event #: 236675
Time: 3/10/2009 1:59:08 PM
Players:
--> ElementalMox
damepon
Nickblack
jonathan627
Nivled
Shokra
Rainking471
Eliah_cze

------ ALA ------

Pack 1 pick 1:
Mountain (FOIL)
Viscera Dragger
Druid of the Anima
Thorn-Thrash Viashino
Courier's Capsule
Yoked Plowbeast
Obelisk of Bant
Branching Bolt
Incurable Ogre
Grixis Panorama
Qasali Ambusher
Dragon's Herald
Kiss of the Amesha
--> Scourglass
Plains

THe glass has got better as esper has got stonger and its less of a comitment than bolt

Pack 1 pick 2:
Resounding Roar
Viashino Skeleton
Etherium Sculptor
Akrasan Squire
Dreg Reaver
Sigil Blessing
--> Oblivion Ring
Carrion Thrash
Jund Panorama
Glaze Fiend
Crumbling Necropolis
Corpse Connoisseur
Jhessian Infiltrator
Mountain

Bombo with the glass but to strong to pass up

Pack 1 pick 3:
Jungle Weaver
Vectis Silencers
Deathgreeter
Kederekt Creeper
Goblin Mountaineer
Shore Snapper
Waveskimmer Aven
Coma Veil
--> Arcane Sanctum
Blood Cultist
Exuberant Firestoker
Salvage Titan
Island

Awsome mana fixing

Pack 1 pick 4:
Vectis Silencers
Welkin Guide
Bone Splinters
Deft Duelist
Savage Hunger
Steward of Valeron
Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
Tortoise Formation
--> Tidehollow Strix
Necrogenesis
Invincible Hymn
Plains

Keeping with the artifact theme, is late for a necrogenesis

Pack 1 pick 5:
Cancel
Obelisk of Jund
Volcanic Submersion
Rakeclaw Gargantuan
Onyx Goblet
Spell Snip
Steward of Valeron
Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
--> Esper Battlemage
Sunseed Nurturer
Forest

Things looking promising

Pack 1 pick 6:
--> Sanctum Gargoyle
Coma Veil
Shadowfeed
Cloudheath Drake
Obelisk of Naya
Esper Panorama
Hindering Light
Wild Nacatl
Corpse Connoisseur
Plains

Woot this must have been a strong pack

Pack 1 pick 7:
Cylian Elf
Yoked Plowbeast
--> Naturalize
Obelisk of Grixis
Resounding Scream
Cavern Thoctar
Thoughtcutter Agent
Ad Nauseam
Mountain

Pack 1 pick 8:
Tortoise Formation
Cylian Elf (FOIL)
Outrider of Jhess
--> Glaze Fiend
Gift of the Gargantuan
Bant Battlemage
Sangrite Surge
Island

Pack 1 pick 9:
Mountain (FOIL)
Druid of the Anima
--> Yoked Plowbeast
Incurable Ogre
Grixis Panorama
Dragon's Herald
Plains

Pack 1 pick 10:
Viashino Skeleton
Etherium Sculptor
Dreg Reaver
Sigil Blessing
--> Glaze Fiend
Mountain

Pack 1 pick 11:
Vectis Silencers
Deathgreeter
Goblin Mountaineer
--> Exuberant Firestoker
Island

Pack 1 pick 12:
Savage Hunger
--> Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
Tortoise Formation
Plains

Pack 1 pick 13:
--> Cancel
Onyx Goblet
Forest

Pack 1 pick 14:
--> Coma Veil
Plains

Pack 1 pick 15:
--> Mountain

------ ALA ------

Pack 2 pick 1:
Sigil Blessing
Court Archers
Viashino Skeleton
Call to Heel
Bant Panorama
Gustrider Exuberant
Soul's Might
Undead Leotau
--> Obelisk of Esper
Magma Spray
Bull Cerodon
Rockcaster Platoon
Topan Ascetic
Stoic Angel
Mountain

Outright awful pack for me but Im okay as my deck still looks strong

Pack 2 pick 2:
Dregscape Zombie
Cylian Elf
Soul's Fire
Vectis Silencers
Undead Leotau
Bant Panorama
Obelisk of Grixis
Blister Beetle
Cavern Thoctar
Spell Snip
Savage Lands
--> Puppet Conjurer
Skill Borrower
Mountain

Nice

Pack 2 pick 3:
Court Archers
Jhessian Lookout
--> Resounding Silence
Obelisk of Grixis
Blister Beetle
Cavern Thoctar
Spell Snip
Dispeller's Capsule
Volcanic Submersion
Thoughtcutter Agent
Angelic Benediction
Minion Reflector
Swamp

Also nice

Pack 2 pick 4:
Covenant of Minds (FOIL)
Vectis Silencers
Welkin Guide
Bone Splinters
Deft Duelist
Grixis Panorama
Glaze Fiend
--> Cloudheath Drake
Bant Battlemage
Sphinx's Herald
Clarion Ultimatum
Forest

Tough call between this and the splinters I think the splinters is the better card but the drake better fits my deck

Pack 2 pick 5:
Vectis Silencers
Deathgreeter
Kederekt Creeper
Resounding Roar
Obelisk of Naya
Esper Panorama
Hindering Light
--> Arcane Sanctum
Exuberant Firestoker
Cunning Lethemancer
Island

Thats my mana issues solved:)

Pack 2 pick 6:
Banewasp Affliction
Jungle Weaver
Mountain (FOIL)
--> Angelsong
Obelisk of Jund
Cathartic Adept
Lightning Talons
Dawnray Archer
Keeper of Progenitus
Forest

Is pretty good in decks like this where you can race

Pack 2 pick 7:
Steelclad Serpent
Marble Chalice
Resounding Roar
Viashino Skeleton
Etherium Sculptor
Windwright Mage
--> Tidehollow Sculler
Swerve
Swamp

Strong pack for me sculler seemed like the best of the bunch

Pack 2 pick 8:
Lightning Talons
Angelsong
Undead Leotau
Obelisk of Grixis
Blister Beetle
Lush Growth
--> Skeletal Kathari
Swamp

Hmm I do not have much late game punch at this point so i took this over bettle

Pack 2 pick 9:
--> Court Archers
Viashino Skeleton
Bant Panorama
Gustrider Exuberant
Soul's Might
Undead Leotau
Mountain

Pack 2 pick 10:
Cylian Elf
Vectis Silencers
--> Undead Leotau
Spell Snip
Skill Borrower
Mountain

Pack 2 pick 11:
--> Spell Snip
Volcanic Submersion
Thoughtcutter Agent
Minion Reflector
Swamp

Pack 2 pick 12:
Vectis Silencers
Sphinx's Herald
--> Clarion Ultimatum
Forest

Pack 2 pick 13:
Vectis Silencers
--> Deathgreeter
Island

Pack 2 pick 14:
--> Banewasp Affliction
Forest

Pack 2 pick 15:
--> Swamp

------ CON ------

Pack 3 pick 1:
Absorb Vis
Ember Weaver
Kranioceros
Mana Cylix
--> Gleam of Resistance
Lapse of Certainty
Scattershot Archer
Yoke of the Damned
Nacatl Savage
Wandering Goblins
Shard Convergence
Celestial Purge
Aerie Mystics
Rakka Mar
Plains

Fixing plus trick seems like the best option to me

Pack 3 pick 2:
Sylvan Bounty
Canyon Minotaur
Traumatic Visions
Rhox Meditant
--> Zombie Outlander
Kaleidostone
Infectious Horror
Rhox Bodyguard
Wandering Goblins
Might of Alara
Jhessian Balmgiver
Dreadwing
Scarland Thrinax
Island

Not really what you want second pick

Pack 3 pick 3:
Canyon Minotaur
--> Esper Cormorants
Unsummon
Rhox Meditant
Vedalken Outlander
Rotting Rats
Asha's Favor
Nacatl Outlander
Grixis Illusionist
Filigree Fracture
Viashino Slaughtermaster
Font of Mythos
Swamp

Solid pick

Pack 3 pick 4:
Toxic Iguanar
--> Faerie Mechanist
Bone Saw
Sedraxis Alchemist
Vedalken Outlander
Vectis Agents
Quenchable Fire
Tukatongue Thallid
Lapse of Certainty
Controlled Instincts
Unstable Frontier
Forest

Im not sure which is better overall but I do not have that many blue creatures and I want a stream of artifacts for my glaze fiends

Pack 3 pick 5:
Kranioceros
Faerie Mechanist
Valeron Outlander
Sylvan Bounty
--> Aven Squire
Asha's Favor
Vectis Agents
Molten Frame
Scornful Æther-Lich
Unstable Frontier
Plains

I think this is better than lich not sure though

Pack 3 pick 6:
Toxic Iguanar
Faerie Mechanist
Bone Saw
Gleam of Resistance
--> Sedraxis Alchemist
Vedalken Outlander
Quenchable Fire
Tukatongue Thallid
Controlled Instincts
Swamp

I have very few 3 drops at this point in time I suddenly notice which is wierd for this format and as I am now more happy with my artifact count, this time i take the alchemist

Pack 3 pick 7:
Sylvan Bounty
Rhox Meditant
--> Zombie Outlander
Infectious Horror
Rhox Bodyguard
Might of Alara
Reliquary Tower
Elder Mastery
Mountain

Solid

Pack 3 pick 8:
--> Esper Cormorants
Kaleidostone
Nacatl Savage
Valiant Guard
Grixis Illusionist
Vectis Agents
Corrupted Roots
Forest

Very nice

Pack 3 pick 9:
--> Ember Weaver
Mana Cylix
Lapse of Certainty
Scattershot Archer
Nacatl Savage
Wandering Goblins
Plains

2 cards I really do not want to play vs in this pack the weaver felt more problatmatic

Pack 3 pick 10:
--> Kaleidostone
Infectious Horror
Rhox Bodyguard
Wandering Goblins
Scarland Thrinax
Island

Pack 3 pick 11:
Rotting Rats
--> Nacatl Outlander
Grixis Illusionist
Viashino Slaughtermaster
Swamp

Pack 3 pick 12:
Toxic Iguanar
--> Bone Saw
Tukatongue Thallid
Forest

Pack 3 pick 13:
Asha's Favor
--> Vectis Agents
Plains

Pack 3 pick 14:
--> Tukatongue Thallid
Swamp

Pack 3 pick 15:
--> Mountain

The deck

2 glaze fiend
1 puppet conjurer
1 tidehollow sculler
1 tidehollow strix
1 angelsong
1 aven squire
1 zombie outlander
1 esper battlemage
1 obelisk of esper
1 oblivion ring
1 sedraxis alchemist
2 esper comorants
1 faerie mechanist
1 santum gargoyle
1 resounding silence
1 cloudheath drake
1 scourglass
1 vectis agent
1 gleam of resistance
1 skeletal kathari
1 yoked plowbeast
2 Arcane Sanctum
6 plains
4 islands
5 swamps

sb
1 zombie outlander
1 bonesaw
1 kaledistone
1 sighted caste sorcerer

Feedback appreciated

rdeg87 · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 277

Deck seems quite weak compared to your usual. I mean your playing 2 Glaze Fiend, Angelsong(2 mana cantrip) and an Obelisk you dont need.
Dont see much you could have done, I think probably 2 guys to your left jumped into Esper when they realised how open it was ( Late Sanctum Gargoyle)

Ludz · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 79

Seems good overall, nice draft

P3P5: I probably would've gone with the Faerie here.

*EDIT*

Oh, your mana is probably good enough without the Obelisk. Go with the 2-drop instead!

TugaChampion · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 566

Scourglass is as open as Branching Bolt. Usually it's not that good in naya but I would still play it in most naya decks. It's amazing in esper and good in bant (where you'll have more artifact than in naya). Braching Bolt puts you in jund or naya but it's also easy to splash in bant or grixix. It's still thr right pick.

P1P4: you should at least consider bone splinters.

P1P10: Etherium Sculptor

P2P1: clear mistake. I don't usually splash but this is the time to pick the bomb and see if you can play it in the end. I mean if you were picking something like a Tidehollow Strix (not that's that good but it's fairly good and in your colors) I would pick strix. But an obelisk? At the very least you take out a bomb from someone that's good against you and the cost is a mere obelisk. At best you'll have another amazing card in your deck if the mana allows it. And the obelisk is probably coming back anyway.

P2P4: were you sleeping on this one? Covenant of Minds is the obvious pick and even after that I would pick Bone Splinters which goes nicely with puppet conjurer.

P2P9: had to picked stoic angel this would be an excellent time to get that bant panorama. You didn't so Undead Leotau was the pick just in case you need a filler.

P2P10: correct but if you had picked the undead the pac before than spell snip because you would never want 2 undead leotau without access to red.

P2P11: again probably correct with the previews picks but with 1 spell snip already I would take volcanic because it's good against esper.

P3P1: Gleam of Resistance goes so late you didn't need to pick it right now. I would have eitehr hated out Rakka Mar or taken the awsome sb card Celestial Purge.

P3P5: I have no experience with Lich but a friend of mine says it's very good against non-black decks. EDIT: didn't see the faerie. That should have been the pick I think.

Your deck could have been better. Since you like doing these reports, with a little mopr effort you could put them in http://puremtgo.com They pay 18 credits in a site which means 18 dollars in that store. So for each draft you do this you'll get 18 tix to recover what you spent even if you lost in the first round.

zturchan · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 46

Yeah I definitely would've taken the Angel P2P1, It's just too good when compared to an obelisk.

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 1671

Ah yeah I missed the minds I did consider it but the reason i did not take it was it did not fit my plan, I was going a more aggro route dispite the glass. Simply swarm with fliers I had two glaze fiends already and had seen another I was hoping to wheel. Yeah I think i should have took the stoic angel now also thinking about it.

The cyclers no longer go late I have found on modo at the start you could rely on getting them late but now everyone takes them early.

The bone splinters was considered I simply omitted to say, as I try to get these things up as quick as possible and often miss things I did think about when typing up, I felt the strix was more synergistic with what I was trying to do.

The idea was to to race most decks in the air thats where song becomes okay and gleam better than it already is, plus if Im to far on the backfoot i can play the card advantage game. I've had sucess drafting similar decks before.

The problem was my opponets draws were nuts game 1 turn 2 deathraider, turn 3 shambling remians, turn 4 scavenger drake, the drake became huge reall quick and won game.

Game 2 he mulled to 5 had turn 2 death raider, follwed by iguana and proceed to kill every single creaure I played, he magama sprayed one, blister beetled another, the used splinters and bettle for another plus souls fire another guy, I stabalized at 2 life but he sill had iguana as I had to oring strix just to stay alive as i had no flyer, he was playing of top of this deck, i got down esper battlemage and a freshly drew aven squire, he untaps and plays blister bettle ftw. I think its the strongest game ive ever seen played off 5 cards.

Site looks like a little more effort than I want to go to plus I only play on modo so store crdit is not much use to me. Anyway thanks for suggestion and thoughts.

TugaChampion · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 566

Store credit that you can use on mtgo stuff. Also if you do just 1/3 of the drafts instead of every draft and put the triple of the effort for each one you do you'll get paid for it.

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 1671