Saturday, January 30, 2016

Oath of the Gatewatch Online Prerelease Draft

Here is my pool. I went Black/Red/Colorless, though mostly Black and Colorless.






Here is the deck I went with.




I played against a control deck.


I could swing with my flyer but my opponent was able to make many land drops while I wasn't.


And I could have done a better job picking bombs while I was picking Wastes.


By this stage in the game its pretty much gg.


Final swing.


I won the second game as a blow-out with a Sludge Crawler.


I kept winging.


Here I have it quipped and hitting for 6.


Its gg by now.


Variance is a thing, and I got really lucky with the second game.


Here are the standings after the second game in the match.


I wasn't as lucky during the third game of the match.


Eldrazi Mimic is definitely a fun creature, but its just as good as your last creature to enter the battlefield or as good as its base values.


I need to learn to pick tappers for limited. My opponent did...


I was able to remove one of my opponent's creatures, but this is not an efficient way to do that.


We took turns at swinging.


I was going to cause a discard but I miss-clicked and did not cause this discard... ouch.


Drafts are lost when the card pool is chosen. My lesson learned here is to pick some bombs and some tappers. I got too trigger-happy picking Wastes!