Pack 1 pick 1:
My Pick:
I considered Goblin Assault, as it can be good in the right Jund deck. Mr. Bowles's suggestion, however, prevailed.
Pack 1 pick 2:
My Pick:
Why hello Mr. Necrogenesis! How have you been?
Pack 1 pick 3:
My Pick:
And here's your brother. I asked Mr. Bowles whether you can play two Necrogenesis together . . . he slapped me and told me not to ask anymore stupid questions.
Pack 1 pick 4:
My Pick:
And you were wondering what we were going to do with those saprolings once we got them. Why turn them into cards. Obvsly.
Pack 1 pick 5:
My Pick:
This is where Mr. Bowles and I disagreed. He wanted Naya Panorama. I wanted to take the Knight, because it's way late. Meaning that the things may have turned. I convinced him, though he would later mock me for our lack of fixing. I think it's because he just enjoys mocking me.
Pack 1 pick 6:
My Pick:
And when we much those skulls, our Gharial will grow. Yeah, that knight was an aberration.
Pack 1 pick 7:
My Pick:
Meh. I'm never a fan, but he's the best pick for us.
Pack 1 pick 8:
My Pick:
Fixing is as fixing does.
Pack 1 pick 9:
My Pick:
I'm a moron. I'm not a huge fan of the devil, but Mr. Bowles convinced me. I wanted to take the Carrion Thrash. I just like it because of the card advantage and it's multicolor to help turn on any blades.
Pack 1 pick 10:
My Pick:
More fixing that we won't use.
Pack 1 pick 11:
My Pick:
Wow. Late Zombie shows how we're in the right place.
Pack 1 pick 12:
My Pick:
Still a playable at 12.
Pack 1 pick 13:
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Pack 1 pick 14:
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Pack 1 pick 15:
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Pack 2 pick 1:
My Pick:
This is me. This is Mr. Bowles. This is us, being underwhelmed by our open. The Bloodhall Ooze was actually pretty solid. That said, if I'm going to open a Jund rare in Conflux, I'd prefer Channelhoard Wurm.
Pack 2 pick 2:
My Pick:
I love this guy. Him and Colossal Might are BFFs.
Pack 2 pick 3:
My Pick:
I convinced Mr. Bowles on this one, as he hadn't played the Slime much. As it turns out, the Slime would play an important role. (See that. That's foreshadowing . . . natch.)
Pack 2 pick 4:
My Pick:
I questioned whether this was our deck. Mr. Bowles told me, "I've only passed a Sphere once." I relented if he promised to stop mocking my Knight over Naya Panorama pick. Two words: He. lied.
Pack 2 pick 5:
My Pick:
I wanted the Plowbeast, as a big ass finisher and semi-hate. I mean, we had just picked a Sphere. I figured we could pick up a Molten Frame later. Mr. Bowles disagreed. Since he was right, that was what we took.
Pack 2 pick 6:
My Pick:
Underwhelmed.
Pack 2 pick 7:
My Pick:
I love the Vis. I briefly championed the Voices, as I figured getting our opponent's best guys in the bin as Necro food would be okay. But, again, mana base is king.
Pack 2 pick 8:
My Pick:
Seems good in a devourish deck.
Pack 2 pick 9:
My Pick:
This was really close with the Beacon. We finally concluded that the double green and the tension with our theme kind of tilted it towards the burst.
Pack 2 pick 10:
My Pick:
Not playing it.
Pack 2 pick 11:
My Pick:
Devour food.
Pack 2 pick 12:
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Pack 2 pick 13:
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Pack 2 pick 14:
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Pack 2 pick 15:
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Pack 3 pick 1:
My Pick:
Yes. That's a first pick border post. Maybe I should have titled this draft "Underwhelming Opens."
Pack 3 pick 2:
My Pick:
In the words of Mr. Lynn, who Mr. Bowles quoted, "I only see one card in the pack."
Pack 3 pick 3:
My Pick:
Pretty much the same here, although I wish the Backlash would have been in our first pack.
Pack 3 pick 4:
My Pick:
Deathtouching two drops? Yes please. It's just better than the Sojourners and we already had a number of 3 drops.
Pack 3 pick 5:
My Pick:
I kind of wanted to go with the Minotaur, but Mr. Bowles convinced me that we needed a big monstar.
Pack 3 pick 6:
My Pick:
This was close between the Renegades and the blade. We eventually went with the card advantage, even though we had a number of threes.
Pack 3 pick 7:
My Pick:
Late Brute. Seems good.
Pack 3 pick 8:
My Pick:
Reach . . . ? That's all we got for this one. And it's technically in our colors, although not in our theme.
Pack 3 pick 9:
My Pick:
Hate.
Pack 3 pick 10:
My Pick:
Hate.
Pack 3 pick 11:
My Pick:
Hate.
Pack 3 pick 12:
My Pick:
Neither one of us had played this. Probably won't again either.
Pack 3 pick 13:
My Pick:
This card led to the following exchange between Mr. Bowles and me, with me, as always playing the annoying devil's advocate: "That card is so bad. It says 'skip your draw step.' That's bad." Me: "Necropotence said skip your draw step. . . ."
Pack 3 pick 14:
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Pack 3 pick 15:
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I would love to share the deck we made with these picks . . . but apparently all I have is the capture from the first draft deck, as Mr. Lynn and Mr. Dittert have aptly pointed out. So, just build the deck as you would have . . . but put Morbid Bloom in, and you have it.
Our first round, we played a weird five color concoction. The first game, we put up a good fight, but when you draw 15 of your lands . . . makes it difficult to win. As for the second game, this was our starting hand:
Seems good. And it was. The game ended on a six mana shock:
But, it worked. Okay, now the third game was pretty epic . . . all because I didn't double block at this point:
I had distracted Mr. Bowles by putting the television on a nature channel that was heavy-handedly profiling deep sea fish. My failure to double block lead to an extended stalemate, in which we would make Saproling chumpers and he would gain life, while our Gharial grew. Oh. And Angelic Benediction meant that our opponent could tap two of our guys, not counting Gharial. Shortly after this chain of pain began, we drew our Gluttenous Slime, which we knew could be a beating with our Gharial in the proper circumstances. We just had to find the right time. Well, eventually the "right time" was thrust upon us when the opponent found a flyer to put the clock to two turns. After his Strix took us from 15 to 5 in one turn, this is what the board looked like on our last turn, him at 16.
So he needed to not block Gharial, which neither of us thought he would miss. This is how he blocked:
We then played the slime, devouring enough saprolings to take it down. This led to the following, where both Bowles and I had to smack ourselves from not typing "WHY DIDN'T YOU BLOCK THE GHARIAL?"
Nice play? Or horrible misplay? Me thinks the latter. Bowles said this is a Modophoto. I'm not so sure But still.
After that, the second round was anti-climatic to say the least. Actually, going over the first round tired me out. I might edit this post tomorrow to finish up. The short version is that Ryan stuck around for the first game, helped me pull it out and I ground out the second on the back of Necrogenesis. I split in the finals to go to sleep.
I look forward to Mr. Bowles's additions, since he is now an editor for this blog.
