I ended up 1-2ing, which I was very disappointed in. I've been having a lot of problems with this format where I keep mulliganing a lot, which isn't serving me, or I don't draw well.
If anyone has any advice for facing down Talrand (who I faced in R2) I would love to hear it. Talrand keeps following me around and then my removal always gets negated and my creatures to kill her always get essence scattered. I'm not sure how to beat Talrand!
Anyway, I've been having not a ton of luck in M13 and I'm hoping you guys can get me back on the right track.
Comments on the picks:
ReplyDeleteP1P9: Arms Dealer over Elvish Visionary? The Dealer can be removal in a pinch and is just awesome if you have extra goblins (like the Rummaging Goblin).
P2P2: Did you consider the Talrand's Invocation? Regarding Prey Upon, you didn't have many high power dudes (though you did have 2x Deadly Recluse).
P3P2: How about the Flinthoof Boar? I couldn't see how many creatures you had at the time or your curve...
Deck Building:
- Just a thought: maybe remove the Sunstriker (double White) for another Rummaging Goblin and -1 Plains, +1 Mountain. The Goblin could help you dig for answers or for a good synergy (like Kitesail + Attended Knight or Thragtusk). This might be wrong as I haven't played much with White.
P1P2: I think I would have taken either Rise or Chronomaton.
ReplyDeleteP1P3: I think I pick up the rare to see how it will do. You might wheel the Elvish Visionary from P1P1 and perhaps from this one too.
P1P4: There is also an Essence Scatter which is great in U/G.
P1P5: Fine pick but I think I'd have been U/G by now and the Augur is pretty good.
P1P8: What colors are you? I like the Provocateur here but I seem to go into Blue a lot...
P2P1: Nice pickup. I could see taking Knight, Huntbeast or Ring if not raredrafting here...
P2P2: If you had moved in on Blue, I think the Invocation is the pick here. As is, Prey Upon is fine.
P2P3: Chronomaton is a real card, Wilds is very marginal in a 2-colored deck.
P2P4: I'm still confused about your colors, but Griffin is a fine card.
P2P6: This is a fine pick, but if you took the Ring I could see taking the Huntbeast.
P3P4: Close - I think I take the Attended Knight here too.
p1p2 I would take Chronomaton but its not that bad of a pick.
ReplyDeletep1p3 I support the green doomblade here
p1p4 I support the Geyser. Removal is removal is removal is removal.
p1p6 I would consider the Farseek I respct the Recluse.
p1p7 I support this reasoning.
p1p9 I'm certain you've realized this in your drafting but that is LATE dealer.
p1p10 I like Fury more but its a toss up.
p2p1 If it weren't for the money I would take the Knight, agressive 2 drop with random black upside.
p2p2 The invocation is at least worth considering but I guess its better to stay on target.
p2p3 I love wilds here, any time I have a hardish decision I just default to wilds.
p2p4 Elf is far better here, more time with the format has given me a LOT of respect for the elf.
p2p6 Other people overstate the enchantments with Huntbeast but I love the cheaper dude here every time, green and red have a 4/5 drop clumping issue.
p3p2 Yep Pacifism is your card here.
p3p We have only the wilds at this point? This depends on fixing/curve but I like taking the removal.
p3p4 I may be a gambling man but in magic I prefer consistancy over raw potential power.
p3p5 I love bears so I may be biased...
p3p6 Holy late O-Ring batman.
p3p11 I know its a throwaway pick but Falcon is EASILY more applicable than Mastif in almost every scenario so.
As for the final deck I wouldn't splash for Goblin, I'd run Safe Passage over it, but other than that I like the deck.
p1p2 i'd also take chornomaton and its not close for me. Colorless, low curve and brings inevitability in the late game.
ReplyDeletep1p4 with thaggie, i'd probably take either the runmmaging or visionary. Had you picked the elf lord, visionary for certain. But geiser is a fine pick too.
p1p9 with a rummaging goblin, arms dealer is the pick i think.
p1p10 nothing wrong here, but if youre planning on 3-color'ing, id get jester (and i would have an arms dealer too)
p2p3 if you're planning (again) on 3 colors, wilds is certainly the pick. I'd, however, pick chronomaton again here.
p3p3 spear not even close
My humble opinion is that you should have moved to RW aggro, possibly splashing green for thragtusk and prey upons (maybe). At the end of pack 1 or 2, there was a free trumpet blast that you could have taken instead of an off-color card and with krenko, it would be a really though deck i think.