Very Fun Magic Draft at MTGO - DO ONline in Minutes!

[TheAbe]

Heya, over at the mtgo website they have a fun little simulation of a 1- booster draft. Everybody's got the same draft picks. Draft your deck! Then go to forums and compare, or do a different draft next week.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...ly/activity/76


Lotsa fun

[jrr]

Here was my first draft from the list... It started off GB, but all this nice white removal headed my way so I splashed white only to eventually become GW. It could be good, saving removal for big threats and drawing extra cards from the Kavu and having a silly high life buffer, which in limited means a hell of a lot more than in constructed.

Round 1:
Mind Stone
Elvish Piper
Kavu Climber
Mind Rot
Condemn
Severed Legion
Festering Goblin
Regeneration
Rampant Growth
Thrull Surgeon
Holy Strength
Firebreathing
Demon's Horn
Shatterstorm
Swamp


Round 2:
Hail of Arrows
Avatar of Might
Mind Rot
Condemn
Spineless Thug
Sylvan Basilisk
Grizzly Bears
Elvish Berserker
Natural Spring
Angelic Wall
Holy Strength
Honor Guard
Wall of Wood
Contaminated Bond
Island


Round 3:
Blanchwood Armor
Kavu Climber
Terramorphic Expanse
Kavu Climber
Holy Day
Creeping Mold
Commune with Nature
Venerable Monk
Natural Spring
Natural Spring
Overgrowth
Holy Strength
Bandage
Forest
Mountain

[TheAbe]

I think there are two obvious first picks - the Guerilla Tactics which eventually rewards you with 2 Shivan Hellites, and the Aven Windreader, a 3/3 flyer in Blue for 3UU.

Here is my Aven Windreader deck, which is really strong:

Round 1:
Aven Windreader
Wild Griffin
Discombobulate
Skyhunter Prowler
Kjeldoran Royal Guard
Suntail Hawk
Sage Owl
Bandage
Venerable Monk
Elvish Piper
Elvish Champion
Robe of Mirrors
Demon's Horn
Shatterstorm
Swamp


Round 2:
Hail of Arrows
Remove Soul
Incinerate
Condemn
Remove Soul
Loxodon Mystic
Aven Cloudchaser
Cancel
Lava Axe
Angelic Wall
Relentless Rats
Luminesce
Angelic Blessing
Contaminated Bond
Island


Round 3:
Loxodon Mystic
Pacifism
Angel of Mercy
Snapping Drake
Dehydration
Boomerang
Sea Monster
Telling Time
Twincast
Sudden Impact
Demolish
Crucible of Worlds
Holy Day
Duct Crawler
Mountain

<font color="#C0C0C0" size="1">[ December 10, 2008 01:15 PM: Message edited by: TheAbe ]</font>

[TheAbe]

My deck gets you 6 flyers that are bigger than 1/1, including three with a power of 3, several removal spells like Pacifism, Comdemn, Dehydration and the amazing Hail of Arrows (and a splashable Incinerate if you want), some strong defensive creatures - 2 Loxodon Mystics is great, plus the Royal Guard and Sea Monster, and four counters - two Remove Soul, a Cancel and a Discombobulate which is nice cause its two twos, and three and a four. You also run the Telling Time.

All told, 19 strong playable cards, and you have to find three or four more cards among Angelic Wall, Suntail Hawk, Boomerang, Bandage, Twincast, and Venerable Monk. (I'd go Hawk, Monk, Wall and and Boomerang).

[TheAbe]

Draft for this week:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...ly/activity/81

[TheAbe]

I just drafted like 6 times, trying to force people to change colors and such. Its fun. There was one draft where I didn't take green, and all three people down from me moved into green because there was so much solid green coming your way. Awesome! I love this utility.