My first DGR draft
2/0 A golgari build. T2 woodlot crawler vs a T5 Vraska. A 30 minute game where guardian. smog elemental and assault griffin eventually overpowered several balustrade spies and a trestle troll.
2nd game Crawler - Wind drake - Assault griffin - Guardian for win.
1/2 A simic deck
T4 and 5 Ogre jailbreakers won me the game backed up by flyers.
Game 2 and 3 were one singlehandly by a master biomancer. Mindstatic boarded in for last game but had to be used on a wielder. Strike was drawn the turn after biomancer was played. Ultimate price in both hands ._.
2/1 A Boros deck splashing green
Strong flyers and a pretty much uncontested sky meant the win.
Was fairly even until he was at 2 and I was at 8. Traded a bit unnecessary to make sure combat tricks wouldn't kill me. Eyes in the skies, mugging and a scion of vitu ghazu wiped out my entire flyer army and then dropped down towering thunder fist for game.
He was stuck on two plains and a grull guildgate for 3 turns. Flyers and removal caused him to lose in short order. First time I had to mulligan all day, but went down to 5. Multiple flyers had me under pressure to do something until I topdecked smog elemental.
Rare-redraft prizes
Steam vents
Pyrewild Shaman
Dragon shift
Misplayed lands cost me the second game against aggro. taking down the early fire fist striker would have made me not take so much damage. A woodlot crawler with swift justice was worth taking out the early aggression.I also failed to remember the riot control as a possible option against aggro.
Draft comments.
Tithe drinker first passing a trostanis summoner left. Far and away was passed 4th and saw two very late viashino firstblades. Priority of guildgates as they would be fought over. Took a sin collector over a deputy of acquittals.
Slampick guildgate and let a master biomancer go to my right. Bad idea. This was probably time to hatedraft. 2nd pick guardian of the gateless. 3rd pick Smog elemental.Saw two angelic edicts one after another, took an assault griffin instead of the second. Should have remembered BREAD rather than get worried about a curve.
A late guildgate and 3 ogre jailbreakers. An eyes in the skies I took instead of the last one. Hussar patrol came late also.
Swift justice is a good combat trick. Messes very well with race maths. Ogre jailbreakers with a few gates are very good 4 drops. Smog elemental, Skymark roc and Guardian of the gateless were the core cards in the deck I was waiting for. Woodlot crawler worked pretty well. It trades with most of the ground and occasional you will get some easy damage or blocks because of it.
Was actually surprised when they were collecting the rares when I realised I had none.
Strider was cut for a strike
Sprite was cut for a skulk
Cluestones seemed too slow but after playing the deck, they might have helped with digging for removal and ramping into my flyers.
Shadow was cut for being double black.
