Sunday, August 8, 2021

Drafting WUBRG: Ikoria, Kaldheim, Cmdr Legends, and MH2

This weekend, I participated in a "Catchup Draft Weekend" where we drafted our way through as many sets that were released during the pandemic as possible.  I thought we would likely get 5 or 6 drafts in, but we were only able to get to 4: Ikoria, Kaldheim, Commander Legends, and then Modern Horizons 2.  We had six people for the first three drafts, then five for the last one.

I can't go into as much detail as normal, but I did take pictures of my pulls and my deck.  (In each of the photos of my pulls, the columns are in order of the drafts from left to right (with the front card as the first card I drafted).  Here's how it went:

Ikoria

Not only did I draft a WUBRG deck, I also drafted Keruga, who I used as my Companion throughout the tournament.  Here was my pool and then my deck:


In my first round, I managed to cast Mythos spells (with the bonus) three times, and ultimatums twice.  The other two rounds didn't go as well, however, so I was 1-2.  This might have been my favorite deck of the whole weekend, though.  It was so much fun to play!

Kaldheim:

I successfully drafted for WUBRG again, and got multiple copies of multiple legends.  (The first pack got a bit out of order, because I forgot to keep it in exact order, so the order in the photo is probably off by a bit.)  Otherwise, here are my picks: 

There was a bit of a giants theme to the deck I built, though I never cast some of them (e.g. Undersea Invader).  Multiple copies of Aegar were great, because that was a bit of a target.  Here's the deck:
I went 2-1, including a crazy win after being down 20-1 against Tristan!

Commander Legends:

It is not possible to draft a WUBRG deck here.  Nevertheless, I stayed "wide" in the first two packs, because I wasn't sure what to play.  When I opened pack 3, it became suddenly clear, and the first pick determined what I would be running.  Here are my picks:

I apparently didn't take a photo of my deck (oops) but it was very cascade-a-rific, with only one spell with mana cost lower-than-3 (Order of Nylea).  From our six-person pod, we played two "rounds" consisting of one three-player game each.  I won the first one, and lost the second.  In the second game, I had crazy amounts of mana, but Sengir, the Dark Baron and Liesa, Shroud of Dusk were too much to overcome.  

Modern Horizons 2:

I drafted for WUBRG again.  Here were my picks (yes, I first-picked a tap-dual):

I put together an affinity/tokens build without any black spells.  Nevertheless, I needed to be able to produce black mana for my two converge spells.  Here is my deck:


(Not pictured: basic land.)  I went 2-2 with this, and had a blast.  This is actually an excellent format for WUBRG drafting because of all the dual artifact lands. 

I had a blast drafting this weekend!

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