Dan Draft #5

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Pick was between Vendetta and Keening Stone.  Stone is too much of a bomb to take the removal.

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Predator or Bolt here.  I just think Predator is a better card, and I definitely want to be drafting G in this format.


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Now we have 3! - Show me the Hartebeests please!

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Unimpressive pack.  I don't really want to take Guard Duty #4, and Ondu Giant will help us splash Vendetta and any other removal we get.


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Knight is consistently good, and I'd have to splash another color to take Heat Ray.  This archtype also has trouble beating small fliers, and Knight definitely helps that.

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Sol Ring get in my deck!

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VALUE!

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Again, take the Knight cause we have trouble beating it, and because Knight helps us beat other small fliers (U levelers, Gloomhunter, etc)

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Wall also would have been good in our deck, but we're low on win conditions now.

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1 Swamp
1 Ondu Giant
1 Sporecap Spider
1 Totem-Guide Hartebeest
3 Guard Duty
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Vendetta
1 Growth Spasm
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Keening Stone
7 Forest
1 Ancient Stirrings
8 Plains
1 Ulamog's Crusher
1 Dawnglare Invoker
3 Knight of Cliffhaven
1 Soulbound Guardians
1 Kozilek's Predator
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Wildheart Invoker
2 Smite
1 Prophetic Prism

Sideboard
1 Hyena Umbra
1 Grotag Siege-Runner
1 Sporecap Spider
1 Shrivel
2 Living Destiny
1 Nema Siltlurker
1 Lavafume Invoker
1 Raid Bombardment
1 Distortion Strike
1 Forest
2 Naturalize
1 Perish the Thought
1 Kiln Fiend
1 Demystify
1 Glory Seeker
2 Goblin Tunneler
1 Swamp
1 Wildheart Invoker
1 Makindi Griffin





I think the deck turned out pretty well.  I would’ve liked one more win condition that wasn’t Ulamog’s Crusher, and one more Value-Hartebeest, but the plethora of removal should be enough to pull it out.

Round 1 – v GW Aura Gnarlid (do nothing)
Game 1, he did nothing.  I played Keening Stone.  Did see that he has a Eldrazi Conscription when I milled it…
Game 2, he did nothing.  I played Dawnglove Invoker.  Tapped his team a bunch of times.  Saw his whole deck g1, his only outs were Oust and Puncturing Light, so I slowly killed him.  Even got to the point where I wasn’t leveling my Knight of Cliffhaven, so if he cast Oust, I could sac my Dreamstone Hedron and still have the mana to replay Invoker and tap his team next turn.  He took 2 a turn for a while, and died.

1-0

Round 2-
Replays showed that he had Sarkhan the Mad, Drana and Disaster Radius.  We’re in for a grind here……
Game 1 –
I played Treespeaker and Totem-Guide Hartebeest.  He played Battle-Rattle Shaman and Dread Drone.  Drone traded for the Beast.  Later, I cast Smite on the Shaman, and Guard Duty’ed a Null Champion, and played Keening Stone. He Cadaver Imp’ed back a Battle Rattle Shaman, and I played a blocker and Stone’d him.  Then he Disaster Radius’ed me, and I died a turn before I could mill him.  But I did see most of his deck.  He’s also got 2x Corpse Hatch, Heat Ray, etc
Game 2 –
I cast Knight of Cliffhaven and Treespeaker, he cast a Null Champion.  I already had Keening Stone in my hand, so I traded levelers, and started ramping my mana with Growth Spasm.  He Bala Ged Scorpion’ed my Treespeaker, and we traded a couple more creatures.  He Imp’ed back Null Champion, I guard duty’ed it, and started milling him.  He didn’t have another real spell in time, and his 1/1 couldn’t race my Stone.
Game 3 –
I mulled to 5, but he missed his 4th land drop for infinite turns, while all I did was draw lands.  For a long time, I had Predator in play, and he had a Gloomhunter, and we just traded damage.  He finally drew a 4th land, and cast Battle Rattle Shaman.  I traded some guys with him, and Smite’d his Shaman, and drew Soulbound Guardians, who brick walled him until it was Corpse Hatched.  A couple more turns passed, I Guard Duty’ed a flier, and then he drew Sarkhan.  Then I ripped Keening Stone, and started milling him, and Guard Duty’ed his first 5/5 Dragon.  I got there 1 turn before he could Sarkhan me out.  

2-0

Round 3-
He has the Pestilence Demon, a lot of UB levelers and 3x Domestication…..
Game 1 –
He played Pestilence Demon…and I couldn’t play my Keening Stone around his counterspells….
Game 2 –
He missed his second Island, and I played an early Stone. He milled soon after....
Game 3 –
He played Fliers, and my Tiny Spider got Domesticated.

Comments on draft would be much appreciated.