Kai Draft #22 (M11 8-4)

This draft was a lot of fun. Hope you have fun reading about it.


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Smokey the Bear says only you can prevent forest fires.
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Juggernaut keeps us most open colorwise and archetype wise. But Foresee is the best blue common. And I'm fine having my color defined by it.
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Combos with Titan.
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For curve reasons this was selected over 5/5. Already had Titan and Earth Servant at 6.
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Better than the average grey ogre.
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The classic Pyromancer vs Bolt pick. I think Pyromancer is better in this style of deck as we don't need the reach of Bolt and Pyromancer locks down a lot of aggressive white creatures, which are very popular.
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Again, for curve reasons this was selected over Fire Servant.
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This pick is very close between the 3rd Foresee and 3rd Cloud Elemental. Foresee is slightly better as the Cloud Elemental is actually serving as a wall against Stormfront Pegasus and Wild Griffins. Foresee on the other hand finds Titan.
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Phantom Beast is a perfectly acceptable guy, but with so much Foreseeing to do, we're not going to play the second one. Leyline has its uses against counter heavy decks, and the fact it is card disadvantage can be made up for with the Foresees.
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Berserkers is actually terrible in a control deck since it can't brickwall anything.
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In case of Elite Vanguard/Sacred Wolf/Garruk's Companion.
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This pick was also very close since the Outrage is a 4-drop, which doesn't curve nearly as well with triple Foresee as the Adept would. But we do need an actual removal spell right now so I went with the Outrage.
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Hooooooot. Hooot Hoot.
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Wow.
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Can't let my Titan get Purged.
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Is a nonbo with Manic Vandals, but is still sideboard material in event Vandals have no targets and just need more beef.
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Stops all the early creatures we have. And can attack through all of them as well.
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Titans, Go!

Round 1: Chanadra with U/W

Game 1: I have turn 3 Cloud Elemental, while he has Blinding Mage and Excommunicate. After I miss my 4th land and replay Elemental, he decides to Pacify it and get in for 1. Sweet use of removal bro. The board gets bogged down by his Roc Egg and 2 Blinding Mages while I play all 3 Foresees. I manage to mess up terribly and not read the obvious Day of Judgment so he is able to finish me post-day with a combination of Sun Titan returning Aether Adept and then Pacisifm,a Mana Leak, and a Safe Passage for my Outrage.

Sideboard: -1 Phantom Beast +1 Berserkers of Blood Ridge
Beast is really bad against Blinding Mage and Aether Adept. Ice Cage is still okay as it requires another Blinding Mage to free the first one.

Game 2: My opponent chooses to be on the play and plays a Elixir of Immortality, 3 Tome Scours, a Cancel, and then dies.

Sideboard: +4 Swamp +3 Duress +1 Leyline of Anticipation +1 Goblin Piker
I boarded in these extra cards to counteract the Tome Scours, which I may actually have trouble beating. Plus Duress is very good against his deck.

Game 3: I mull to 6 on the play and keep Island, Swamp, Preordain, Foresee, Pyroclasm, Fire Servant, Titan. I get to four mana without incident and Foresee successfully gets me some more lands. I duress after playing Fire Servant and take Day of Judgment, leaving him Unsummon, Sun Titan, Water Servant(no second blue) and Pacifism. He Unsummons when I attack, and I replay my 4/3. On my next attack he blocks with his Titan, though he is at 20. I cast Pyroclasm and Cloud Elemental instead of using my Titan as he showed no patience game one with his removal. As predicted, he snap Pacifism's the flier and plays topdecked Island into Water Servant. I dominate him with Inferno Titan and the game ends shortly.

Round 2: Chrandersen with B/(?)

Game 1: He starts with Swamp into Visera Seer on the play. I had kept a slow hand with Clone and 6 drops and am worried that he is the Act of Treason deck. He was more worried that I would topdeck an out to his 1/1 and conceded the match before I could draw for my turn.

Round 3: bobcards2 with G/W

Game 1: I trade with multiple Garruk's Companions with my Manic Vandal and Canyon Minotaur. When he suits up Sacred Wolf with Holy Strength I'm forced to double block with the second Vandal and Pyromancer. After this his only pressure is a Runeclaw Bear so I have plenty of time to Foresee into Titan. He concedes on the spot.

Sideboard:
-1 Phantom Beast -1 Ice Cage +1 Goblin Piker +1 Stone Golem.

Game 2: His Stormfront Pegasus into Wild Griffin start gets brickwalled by my Cloud Elemental. He plays Sacred Wolf after missing a land drop. I play Canyon Minotaur instead of Manic Vandal to play around Holy Strength. I'm pretty sure that sentence has never existed until now. He just offers the trade instead, and follows up with Juggernaut. I did indeed know who he was, though I was not a bitch. He got Vandalized pretty hard on my turn. On his turn, he suicides Griffin into Cloud Elemental and postcombat it starts raining as my Elemental is disembodied by Stings from a swarm of Hornets and another Griffin of the Wild joins his team. I have Smokey the Bear putting out my forest fires and he apparently still has no outs and concedes again.

Lesson Taught