At last I found the time to write my walkthrough of 2nd Drafting at Pod 3 after 4-2 results overall. In the pod I’ve sat yet again with Pang Ming but this time I’m feeding him with Hari’s teammate (forgot his name) feeding me. I’ve opened my favourite green baloth over Serrated Arrows and Amrou Scout (Pang Ming fav card). I should have gone with the artifact card since it is playable with whatever my coloured deck will be. I got a second pick Lightning axe but a third pick Castle Raptor could signal white to open. Indeed a couple of Benalish Cavalry and an Amrou Seeker got passed by but a 7th / 8th pick Durkwood Baloth staring at me and say ‘Play Me!’ Oh my god! No one wants to play green ke? My pod might have underestimate the power of green but with future sight provides powerful decent fatty guys, I’m not! I took Herd Gnarr over Fortify which could have given a wrong signal to Pang Ming but I’m surprised my Amrou Scout came back and I’m set for Green/White beats deck. Looking forward to Sunlance, Utopia Vow and Giant Duskwasp.
I’ve opened Harmonize which good to drawing my creatures over a Shaper Parasite. But after that seems like No quality green or white cards coming from Pang Ming side. I worried for a moment passing 2 Blightspeaker which could actually set me into White/Black Rebel deck. But I remember statement says that ‘You’ll be getting twice cards from your right partner” which feeding me g/w and I should stick with that. I took 5th pick Utopia vow and 2 Aven Riftwatcher and a Saltfield Recluse (over Whitemane Lion because combat tricks) which I could find with my scoutie. Late Pouncing Wurm and Uktabi Drake get into my pick but that’s about it. I hope Future Sight don’t screw me up.
I took Judge Unworthy over Sporoloth Ancient for scrying and combat factor but getting a second Unworthy just make me relief cause now I should be getting my quality cards now. Glad that I stick to the colour after getting passed vast amount of green cards with Kavu Primarch, Llanowar Empath, Sporoloth Ancient, Nessian Courser and 2 Thornweald Archer. I even got 2 Knight of Sursi and one of them I took over the green Pact (debatable). A late Llanowar Reborn just make my day. Here is my decklist:-
| Main Deck 60 card | |
| 8 Forests 17 lands 5 Spells | 2 Durkwood Baloth 18 creatures |
I have a Krosan Grip and Return to Dust in sideboard for enchantment/artifact removal, a Lightning Axe splashed red if necessary, and Wistful Thinking against annoying sprout swarm if opponent has it like my 1st Draft. I didn’t got passed by any Sprout Swarm but I’m happy with my deck with tempo. 1st turn, Baloth or Baloth or Sursi or Sursi is the bomb!
I paired with Joe Soh and usually had bad memory when fighting against him. I can called him my jinx. He turns out to play Red/ Black aggro with plenty of removal I supposed and has Phyrohemia. Nice!
I played Benalish Cavalry on 2nd turn but met with Small Pox which I discarded a land, sac my cavalry and lose one point of life. He stabilize with a morph later but I got Harmonize to replenish my cards. Yeah! Joe Soh did cast his Henchfiend of Ukar but later I need to block that guy with my Raptor. He cast again another Ukar but my Riftwatcher slow the beating for a moment until I bring back my Raptor from my Charm. Soon, my Sursi hit the table but a timely Phyrohemia put me on the clock with 6 life. I need to beat him down and he was forced to activate Hemia ability on the stack at end of his turn to avoid me casting any creature on my turn. But a Baloth and Pouncing Wurm with kicker join my team spells misery to Joe Soh first game.
My second game I side in Krosan Grip for his Hemia and I took out Vow and to cut the story short I beat his ass with 1st Sursi, 2nd turn Benalish Cavalry, 3rd turn Cessian Cousar, 4th turn Empath and 5th turn Raptor with Reborned graft counter. Nice job!
I fought Andrew Lee from
I went the first game with the bomb hand. 1st turn Baloth. 2nd turn Sursi and Baloth. My opponent gave the look and says what the hell!! He later mentioned he was afraid to fight with the guy who playing green in the pod after passing so many quality cards and guess his nightmare has just hit him on the table. But Andrew managed to cast 2 Rebel Imp and Tolarian Sentinal but my Amrou Scout finding Recluse and Riftwatcher just slow the beating. He has Rathi Trapper for my Baloth and wither away my Sursi and sudden death my Courser. But my second Baloth join the team and made the calculation much complicated. Castle Raptor made an appearance and stop the flyer beating. He scooped to go to 2nd game.
I suspended my Sursi and Andrew starts well with 2nd turn Infiltrator Kor suspended. I was afraid of the Kor cause I don’t have shadow creature to deal with him until I drew my Unworthy. Selamat!! He tries to beat me down again with his creatures but my recluse and riftwatcher again slowing the tempo. The inevitable came when my Primarch and Wurm kicker came to the battle and he says good luck to me for the next round.
Next round I fought Ben my teammate and we sat down and chat whether to give me the win and push for me upwards or play. But after showing my bomb deck and plays the 2 games, he recognize my drafting skills. Sorry Ben tough luck!
3-0 and tak sia-sia aku berlatih draft selama ni!!
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