Matt Draft #3

Haven't run a Rise draft in a while, since I tilted a little after losing 4 straight to my opponent playing t5 drana in at least one of the games.
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I didn't really want to be UW levelers going into the draft, but the grounds is powerful enough that I'm going to take it here. The next best cards are dawnglare and knight, which is somewhat awk, but that's not a concern right now.
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My vote for best non-rare in the set
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Levelers seems like the obvious deck here
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Nothing outstanding, but deprive is fine in the levelers deck
Pack 1, Pick 5:

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This is pretty bad. At this point, since UW is fairly overdrafted online, I figure its drying up. With a looter and a deprive, wall moves us into the removal/value UBx deck, which I like a lot. Wilds is considerable to stay open, but I think wall is a strong enough card to take here.
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Vom. None of these cards are good enough, so I take the solid board card in case we stay white.
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Good for the removal deck and good against uw
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By now, there's no way we can be levelers unless pack 2 ends up being stupid. Memoir is pretty insane in the value deck, so I snap take it.
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Naturalize is considerable, but distortion strike, along with some of our earlier picks, allows the kiln fiend UR beats deck to be a possibility.
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1/7 blocks in the grixis deck, and is pretty insane in the UR deck as a 7 power unblockable beatstick
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No black cards at this point, so bolt gets the nod over last kiss. No reason to take beastbreaker and jump ship. Also there's both a kiln fiend and a strike in this pack, so that might be worth looking into.
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Not much else for us, but regress is solid in grixis or UR
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3rd pick vendetta is a pretty clear signal. Time to start getting max value
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You can never have too many
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Now we have 2 ways to win the game. Only 1 more to go
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Both the fiend and the strike tabled, but at this point we only have 2 creatures capable of attacking, and crusher isn't that good in the fast red aggro deck. Wilds assures us the ability to splash vendetta and perhaps lets us splash something else down the line
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Now we're set on win cons
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That's a nice gift. Definitely fits in our deck
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Must. Get. More. Value.
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acceptable board card
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Final Deck
1 Enclave Cryptologist
1 Vendetta
1 Forked Bolt
2 Fleeting Distraction
2 Prophetic Prism
3 Deprive
1 See Beyond
1 Spawning Breath
2 Regress
1 Staggershock
2 Surreal Memoir
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Valakut Fireboar
1 Sphinx Bone Wand
1 Ulamog's Crusher
1 Artisan of Kosilek
1 Heat Ray
10 Island
5 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds

Round 1: Vs. RG Beats
Game 1, he plays a t2 nest invader into a turn 3 daggerback basilisk. We staggershock them both, then play surreal memoir. He times out

Round 2: Vs. UW Value Auras
From watching replays, I see that while he's uw, he doesn't have many levelers, but multiple totem beasts, eel umbras, hyena umbras, and eldrazi conscription.
We Win the roll and choose to draw
Game 1: I keep a hand of mnemonic wall, vendetta, 3 islands, swamp, and bone wand. Although it doesn't have red, I figure the vendetta and wall should be enough, since his deck appears pretty slow. He then proceeds to curve soul's attendent into outrider into teacher. The outrider gets vendetta'd, but then we proceed to draw 5 consecutive red spells, and when we finally draw a land he has lay bare for the wall.
Board: +1 puncturing light, -1 fireboar. +1 plains -1 island I cut the fireboar since it didn't brick wall the dudes I should actually lose to, and it's not much of an attacker in this matchup. Game 2: We kill everything and he concedes to a turn 8 artisan
Game 3: We again kill everything he plays for a while. At turn 9, we get into a scenario where neither player is playing anything, but our hand is 4 removal spells to his hand of 2 cards. He then rips teacher into outrider into survival cache into 2x antelopes, while we drawn 4 lands and a regress. We draw a bone wand, but the 2 eel umbras that he fetched make it impossible to kill all his guys, which by then included a max-level skywatch adept. Once we've played out our hand, including a crusher, he slams the eldrazi conscription on his last remaining antelope and we die.