GW robble robble aggro

XXX Draft, GW, May 24, 2008 result: Won draft.

1 Overrun
1 Treetop Bracers
1 Giant Spider
1 Craw Wurm
2 Rushwood Dryad
1 Stampeding Wildebeests
1 Civic Wayfinder
1 Ghost Warden
2 Pacifism
1 Spined Wurm
1 Bandage
1 Suntail Hawk
1 Giant Growth
1 Viridian Shaman
9 Forest
1 Aggressive Urge
1 Rootwalla
1 Pincher Beetles
1 Serra's Embrace
1 Llanowar Elves
8 Plains
1 Tundra Wolves
1 Skyshroud Ranger

First match was uneventful, my opponent was obviously quite new to the game. The deck worked as it should, and my opponent put up some resistance (it had a lot of random cheap creatures, which was a nice set of obstacles to run around, but he also attacked way too much).

The 2nd match was also against an inexperienced opponent, and I won fairly quickly and easily. I mean its fun to win by tempo and all, but I wanted to figure out if this actually had legs. I used my overrun on one game for the first time this tournament. (the bug i reported earlier did not occur)

The 3rd match was against 1750+ opponent, whose name I don't remember. This was a good test, he played well and had a nice deck. I was exceptionally fortunate that I won game 2, it was quite close and I truly did topdeck like a bastard for the win (serra's embrace was literally the only card that would have won me the game...and he had me next turn).

Overall, for only having used overrun twice...I thought it did quite well. I would have loved to snag a warrior's honor in drafting, it would have been very good in here, but I didn't. The numerous one drops really upped the ante on getting out a swarm reliably and fast. Like I said though, a bit more support for that theme in the form of warrior's honor would have been far more effective than some of the lesser tricks. Treetops and the embrace made excellent late game break through for the win cards. A tree-top on a craw wurm sure pokes through well for those final points sometimes and is worthwhile...IF you reliably hit hard and early for a good bit each game. I was fortunate though I didn't hit a foil deck to this kind of thing.