Kelley Draft #6 (8-4)

Ok everyone, here is how you draft mythic rares and lose in the first round:

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I finally manage to open a good mythic in a draft.  Usually I am rareless in M11 drafts, or at least mythicless.

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Subpar pack...best card is either Cloud Crusader or Mana Leak.  I like being able to attack.

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Keeping my options open.  I'm R/x right now.

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Basilisk is obviously better then Minotaur but I don't need a fourth color now.

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Red seems open.

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Ice Cage tech.

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Haven't been this lucky in awhile!  Two Titans and on color.

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Figured I could splash it, and I did, though now I'm not sure I should have.

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Finally some fliers.  Just what I need.




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Can't beat this card.

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Can't beat this card either.

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Green sure seems open.

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I can either take a second Palace Guard that will most likely not make the cut, or I can hate a guy that can beat most of my guys in the face.

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Team Griffins!

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Cloud Crusaders are knights :)

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I didn't save a screenshot of the deck but I played all of the white except Holy Strength, and almost all the red after it dried up in pack 2.  I splashed one Swamp for the Doom Blade though I had no fixing.  Last cuts were Canyon Minotaur (all the other four drops were better) and the second Solemn Offering.

I wait 5 minutes while my opponent's timer ticks down and he doesn't respond to me asking if he's there, so I relog MODO and of course when I log back in in 30 seconds he has passed priority back to me.  Not sure if he was trying to catch my computer freezing or something.  I keep a hand with 3 Mountains, Ember Hauler, Cloud Crusader, Shiv's Embrace, and Palace Guard.  I didn't draw a land until T7 and it was a Plains.  By that time he played out two Llanowar Elves, Basilisk, Giant Spider, and then Waraxe which when he equipped I just conceded at 4 lands and no real outs being at 10ish life.

I side out the War Priest of Thune for the second Solemn Offering because he's likely playing no enchantments and I don't need the 2/2 body.

I choose to play again and get a hand with one Mountain, ship, get a hand with 0 lands, ship to 5, keep a hand with two Plains, Inferno Titan, Shiv's Embrace, Wild Griffin.  I drew Condemn and owned his Forest off of Awakener's Druid.  I don't get a third land (it's a Plains) until about t4 but it was in time to Solemn Offering his Waraxe.  At this point (or earlier) I complained in chat and he remarked 'lolz' which I probably deserved for chatting on MODO.  Then I drew my Doom Blade...yay.  He had played Llanowar Elf, some things, then Packleader.  He had also put Volcanic Strength on his Awakening Druid.  Of course next turn I drew the Mountain, but I didn't have a choice if I wanted to get Titan out.  I played Juggarnaut and of course on his turn he played Protean Hydra for 6.  Next turn I didn't draw the Mountain I needed for Embrace and I just scooped. 

Frustrating to lose two games to mana screw when I had a decent deck and didn't even get to cast a Titan.  Figures.