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Welcome to one of the last ISD drafts I’ll be posting up before Dark Ascension releases in a couple weeks. Innistrad has been among my favorite and most successful of Draft formats in a while. I hope the new set will continue that trend. As usual, the text recap follows the video links. Enjoy!
| Draft | Draft | ||
| Match 1 | Game 1 | Game 2 | |
| Match 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | |
| Match 3 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
Pack 1, Pick 1:
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I certainly won’t look a Bloodgift Demon in the mouth. It sucks that the next best card is black, but I’m not complaining.
Pack 1, Pick 2:
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Nothing too exciting here. I hope black is open, but for now, Voiceless Spirit is the best card in the pack.
Pack 1, Pick 3:
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Looks like I won’t get to play the Demon since I’m just slamming down Travel Preparations.
Pack 1, Pick 4:
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Or am I? There’s nothing for the G/W deck here, so I might as well switch back to black.
Pack 1, Pick 5:
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Okay, guys, let’s get serious here. Do you want me to draft U/B or G/W? U/B it is!
Pack 1, Pick 6:
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I can have a decent U/B or G/W deck, but by this point, I really need to commit one way or the other. Darkthicket Wolf is really good, and had I not opened Bloodgift Demon, I don’t think there’d be any question that I’d be in G/W, but I really want to play my rare.
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Just in case . . .
Pack 1, Pick 9:
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Our pack came back with only one black card missing, so it seems pretty reasonable that it will be quite open.
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I’m feeling much better about my decision to go U/B now.
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Pack 2, Pick 1:
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MISS. Shoulda been G/W, I tells ya.
Pack 2, Pick 2:
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Never mind; U/B it is!
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This is becoming kind of ridiculous. Every other pack has me questioning my colors. Stay the course!
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The past three picks have been pretty good, so I’m just going to pretend that I can’t see white cards from this point on.
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No one at the table must be drafting black if I get a tenth-pick Abattoir Ghoul.
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Pack 3, Pick 1:
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The way this Draft is going, I might even table the Stitched Drake.
Pack 3, Pick 2:
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All right, so we have three very good 5-mana flyers. This deck is starting to look pretty sweet.
Pack 3, Pick 3:
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I don’t see you, white cards—la la la!
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I’d rather have a second Victim of Night than a third Silent Departure, though that’s a good problem to have.
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This was actually a pretty tough pick. Morkrut Banshee is usually only good in aggressive decks. I already have three very good 5-mana cards, and don’t want any more. I also need to fill out the early part of my curve, so that’s why I went with the Think Twice.
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I think I might have ruined someone’s day by cutting both of those Burning Vengeances.
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Here’s the final decklist:
"Don’t Look a Bloodgift Demon in the Mouth"
- Creatures (13)
- 1 Abattoir Ghoul
- 1 Armored Skaab
- 1 Bloodgift Demon
- 1 Diregraf Ghoul
- 1 Makeshift Mauler
- 1 Murder of Crows
- 1 Selhoff Occultist
- 1 Sturmgeist
- 1 Typhoid Rats
- 1 Vampire Interloper
- 1 Walking Corpse
- 2 Ghoulraiser
- Spells (10)
- 1 Forbidden Alchemy
- 1 Think Twice
- 1 Tribute to Hunger
- 2 Victim of Night
- 1 Grasp of Phantoms
- 1 Moan of the Unhallowed
- 2 Silent Departure
- 1 Dead Weight
I had an overabundance of playables, so I had to bench quite a few decent cards. I normally don’t like Vampire Interloper in U/B, but this deck a bit more beatdown than usual. The matches went pretty well, and I easily won every game in which I didn’t have mana issues. I got the “full Kunkel” in the finals, which is what some of us in the Toronto area call winning a game and being mana-screwed and/or mana-flooded in the other two.
Hope you guys enjoyed the draft, and until next time, may your Draft decks be full of Air Elementals.
Nassim Ketita
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