I ran a chaos draft at the end of this weekend! (This means I managed to trick three other people into chaos drafting with me.) Here are the packs we opened:
I keep opening Ikoria hoping for some tri-land goodness.
These were pretty good packs for going five colors. One of the players was advocating for New Capenna, and that sounded just fine to me! Here's what I managed to pull:
From left to right, packs 1 to 3. Pick 1 in front, pick 15 in the back.
I unintentionally drafted a very strong combo in the first two picks of pack 3: Mount Doom and The Mightstone and Weakstone.
After drafting, I noticed what a great combo this was and started praying to Karona that I could pull it off. Here is my deck:
Will 6 non-basics be enough?
Aside from the color fixing land, I had:
- A bunch of removal, including Torch Breath, which was a card I didn't know existed.
- Some treasure synergy, with Bootlegger's Stash (which I never saw), Big Score, and Jetmir's Fixer.
- Some army cards (Grishnakh, Dunland Crebain, and Warbeast of Gorgoroth) to work with Mauhur.
- And a bit of a deathtouch theme with a Nazgul, a Midnight Assassin, and a Riveteers Initiate.
In round 1, I got matched up against a Gruul deck with a pretty good mana curve. I managed to get enough removal to squeak out the first game, but we didn't finish the second before time was called. We ended the five turns without a winner.
In round 2, I was up against a Bant deck with lots of mana fixing. I pushed through a victory in game 1, and then game 2 went to time with a battlefield full of creatures. In one of the first extra turns, I cast The Mightstone and Weakstone with Mount Doom on the board. I was ready to clear out the board and swing in for the win. However, on my opponent's turn, they tapped down my bigger blocker and swung in for the win.
In round 3, I matched up against an Esper deck with a lot of good value cards. I was winning the first game and tapped my attackers out to put my opponent at 1, while I was safely at 13. Then they played both Shriekdiver and Flowering of the White Tree, just enough to hit me for exactsies. In game 2, I was on the back foot. My opponent had gotten an extreme amount of value out of Cirith Ungol Patrol, using it to profit off of the times I had to use my removal on other creatures. (I never quite had enough to kill the patrol outright.) Although I had had the upper-hand early on, my opponent was clawing back into the game with all the extra life and card draw. Then I drew The Mightstone and Weakstone while Mount Doom was on the board. I activated Mount Doom the following turn and cleared all but my best two creatures, winning the game shortly thereafter. Yes!
While not quite a WUBRG-based accomplishment, Mount Doom + The Might- and Weakstones seems like a pretty good combo achievement to get in draft. Also, 1-0-2 is pretty good for me.
Let's hope I get to hold another of these drafts soon!
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