A few things before I get stared. I’m pretty excited about Finkle winning, but not only winning just absolutely destroying all weekend. 16-1-1 at a Pro Tour! Insane.
Anyways, last night me and some friends decided to sit down for a 6 man team draft. I didn’t keep notes or anything, but I still have the deck so I can go over it you guys.
3 Goldmeadow Stalwart
1 Cenn’s Tactician
1 Coordinated Barrage
1 Tarfire
1 Kindled Fury
2 Kithkin Greatheart
2 Order of the Golden Cricket
1 Knight of the Meadowgrain
1 Cenns Heir
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Lash Out
1 Redeem the Lost
1 Kinsbaile Borderguard
1 Burrenton Bombardier
1 Countryside Crusher
2 Lowland Oaf
1 Roar of the Crowd
1 Chandra Naalar
11 Plains
6 Mountains
I also had a Hostility which I didn’t play. I really didn’t need red mana until turn 4 and I didn’t want to run any more mountains than I had to. Some of the others disagreed with me, and by some I mean all. I still think it’s better to leave it out, but I could be wrong let me know what you guys think.
Round 1 VS Seth
Seth was playing G/R treefolk/elementals. Game one was very long, but mostly because we both stalled and drew nothing but lands for a bit. The board was pretty clogged up, and then I drew a Chandra and he was forced to make bad attacks to get rid of it. I won a few turns later.
Game two I came out really fast and with the help of Chandra got Seth all the way down to 1. I knew I was in trouble though because I had 6 lands in play and 4 in my hand and nothing else. I drew the Crusher and thought he might get me out of this predicament, but I still couldn’t draw a relevant spell. I had like 2.5 cards in my deck that just won me the game .5 being Lash Out, but I didn’t win the clash or draw the other cards so I lost.
Game three I kept a pretty decent hand and Seth mulled to 5. Then we both drew all lands. Except Seth had Unstoppable Ash in his hand and I had nothing good. I was pretty upset after this because I felt like I should’ve won both of those last to games.
Round 2 VS Andrew
I like playing against Andrew because I get to write down our life totals as BA. This cheered me up some and I remember making a comment about needing to calm down so I didn’t play on tilt.
Game one I had a pretty nuts draw and Andrew’s was a little slow. It looked like he was going to stabilize when he Lashed Out one of my dudes to pretty much even up the board, but the Clash revealed a Chandra on top of my library and he scooped them up.
Game two was more of the same. After these two quick games I felt even worse about losing because of poor draws, but I still had another match to play so I shook it off and got ready.
Round 3 VS Nick
Nick will tell you that he’s not much of a limited player, but don’t let that fool you, he plays very tight magic and always does well when we draft. He was playing U/B controlish type deck it was very slow, but had lots of removal.
Game one he didn’t play anything until turn 4 when he ran out a Latch Key Faerie and I had a Tarfire to run in for the win.
Game two I made a huge bone head play that probably cost me the game. He had a Oona’s Blackgaurd and a Nightshade Stinger with a 1/1 counter on it in play. He attacked with both and I played Coordinated Barrage targeting the Stinger. About 30 seconds later after he’d played a Pepersmoke to kill one of my dudes and fizzle my spell I realized how much a donk I was. It took a while to finish, but I feel like I lost the game on that play.
Game three I mulled to 5, but kept a hand of Goldmeadow Stalwart, Kinsbaile Skirmisher, Knight of the Meadowgrain, Cenn’s Tactician, and a Plains. It was probably better than any four cards ever could hope to be so I kept it. I drew Mountain and then Plains and by the time Nick Stabilized I was sitting at 20 and he was at 4. The game broke down to me swinging with dudes that he had to chump block while I dug for a direct damage spell. Just as he thought he was going to pull out of it I drew Roar of the Crowd for 4 and that was game.
2-1 on the day isn’t terrible unfortunately for me the rest of my team didn’t fair so well and we lost. I still feel like I could’ve 3-0ed if I had drawn better in the first round, but it happens. I also think this deck show cases just how strong aggressive strategies can be in LLM. I’ll try to show case some other colors next time I draft and I’ll remember to write down all my picks to give you guys more stuff to criticize/analyze. Either way let me know what you think the deck. Until next time.
Bob
Tags: Limited
