Code Yellow

On to week 4 and again we have a single pod of 12 at the table for another round of M13 draft.

Pack 1's open around the table with a good number of groans, probably a lot of pretty awful rares out there. My pack 1 has a lot of really average cards and a Clone, so that is my pick 1. Next pack is similarly average but includes a Searing Spear; easy pick (the rare in the pack was Wit's End, explaining my neighbours groan). As the pack continues I get a Rancor, Divination, Rummaging Goblin, and some green creatures. It seems I still have 3 options to focus on going ahead.


Pack 2 I see a good number of decent green creatures, picking up a Primal Huntbeast, Centaur Courser, Flinthoof Boar, and 2 Timberpack Wolves. It seems that green is going to form the core of my deck with quite possibly a splash of red to take advantage of the boar's boost. Having said that, the red picks I get from this pack are rather weak and the splashable blue is great, 2 Essence Scatters, an Unsummon, and Faerie Invaders!


Pack 3 is pretty average with only a few exceptions, a Sentinel Spider, a second Flinthoof Boar, a Deadly Recluse, Bladetusk Boar, and a second Faerie Invaders. With that, I was totally ready to create a green deck with a splash of .... red? blue? I didn't really know! So in the end I made a core deck of green along with 2 interchangeable splashable modules, 1 blue, 1 red.

This week we once again had a single large pod, this time with 12 people, and set to drafting M13 once more.

My first pack opened up to reveal a Sublime Archangel. This was an almost immediate first pick, though I was sad to pass on an Oblivion Ring. The Archangel gave me an immediate focus/theme to attempt to draft revolving around exalted and massing evasive creatures. With enough exalted and flying hanging around it'd be a real struggle for other players to cope with the sheer damage potential. Carrying on with the first pack I grabbed a War Falcon, Attended Knight, Aven Squire, and considered splashing into blue with a Fog Bank and Faerie Invaders.

The second and third packs both pretty much stayed on the same theme, I grabbed a ton of cheap white creatures, got as much flying as I could, and picked up some more exalted here and there. Of note I took a Cathedral of War which is a nice bonus for any deck trying to push some exalted. Even better I picked up 2 Arctic Avens, a very solid card in any W/U deck; 1 and blue for a (probably) 3/2 flyer that can gian lifelink for W? Sign me up!

By the end of the draft I had the following deck and sideboard ready to go:

Results of the matches, the final results, and the deck in 3 cards can be found below the fold (or at least they will be when I get to writing them).