GR Draft May 22, 2008

XXX Draft RG, May 22, 2008 result: Eliminated in the finals.


3 Spitting Earth
1 Spined Wurm
1 Rampant Growth
1 Canopy Spider
1 Might Weaver
1 Rootwalla
1 Guerrilla Tactics
1 Shock
1 Overrun
1 Incinerate
8 Forest
1 Raging Goblin
2 Prodigal Pyromancer
2 Bloodrock Cyclops
1 Bloodfire Colossus
1 Viashino Runner
9 Mountain
1 Rock Badger
1 Uncontrollable Anger
2 Giant Spider

Match 1: Jon_Ma, 1705 GUb
Mulled on the draw. Nice and close first game, i think if I had played just a shade tighter 1 turn (I waited a turn to cast my collossus, wanting to have 9 so I could sac it right away in case he had removal also it would discourage an outright attack by him for an extra bit of damage...but i neglected to factor in that mirri he just cast had forestwalk. Derf. I might have been able to win it (would have been at i suppose 4 instead of 2, but i suppose that's still lethal to a rootwalla...still i would have hit him an extra turn with the cyclops...so yeah i blew it.) , but he played the better game and beat me after a close first game. It ended with an interesting play, I was at 2 after a colossus went off, and had cyclops hit him...he was able to get a rootwalla out with the mana to use it, i had overrun and guerilla tactics in play. So I cast overrun to see if he'd take the bait...i think he hemmed and hawwed, but in the end made the right decision. Game 2 mulled again, I hit him hard from the start, got him down to 10, kept him on the defensive until I was able to bring him to zero. Game 3 started with a nice hand, I brought in 3 threats, he brought out 3 removals. I managed to get him down eventually to around 12, and we stabilized a bit. The colossus changed things, i was able to keep attacking and he had to keep blocking poorly.

Match 2: 1600 WUbr Featuring: Blaze and Wrath of God. I'm not sure what the black was for aside from two unholy strengths i saw game 2 though. Kinda wild. We played two fairly quick games.

Match 3: LtDale, 1590. BW. Game 1 goes well, I hurt him early, and fill in the gaps at the end.
Game 2 starts, after a pause to welcome our newest clan member, sakic19. I stall out a bit and then use an overrun to clear out some of his creatures that are beginning to overtake board position (first strike ruining my cyclops' day)...and it seems to work well until he casts Reya Dawnbringer. What can I say, I wasn't expecting that. With loads of critters in his graveyard, including robber and a gravedigger, life is bad for someone with no removal on hand. Too bad, one of the many spitting earths would have done the trick. A game 3 in finals is always a good thing right? Game 3 he does very well keeping the graveyard recursion thing going and slathering on a lord of the pit. Big and Beefy wins the day.



I tried recording the draft with jing, but got caught up in the 5 minute limit. (only got as far as the first pack really) I can see I'll have to do it next time using the pause button a bit more. I'm gonna try to get a draft recorded and put up here at some point. If someone else can get a draft recorded and posted that would be terrific.

Hatter