At our chaos draft last night, all seven of us agreed to do Mystery Booster 2. This is my first! Let's do it!
I was terrible at drafting this. I whiffed on two tribes (one by being an idiot), let my greed get the better of me, and passed a Mox Poison. However, my desire for playtest cards actually paid off. Here are all of my picks, in order:
It's important to point out that the packs for this draft came from two different boxes. (15 from one and 6 from another.) According to the other players, there aren't doubles in the same box.
I ditched the Goblin tribe and realized I never drafted any merfolk, so Map to Lorthos's Temple was out, sadly. Here's what I went with:
Since we had seven, we decided to do single game rounds with the first mulligan being free. Right away I was paired up against a WUBRG player who had pulled O-Kagachi. Unfortunately, they got stuck on Red/Green land and even their Hymn of the Wilds couldn't get them out.
That was the worst of luck. 1-0.
In the second round I was up against a player who often runs Rakdos. I kept a many-land hand and they got flooded. I had a turn-4 Arcades the Strategist, so I was feeling pretty solid, except that Arcades wasn't strategic enough to block Order of Yawgmoth. Those discards cost me dearly, especially when I pitched my second island only to draw Spined Megalodon the next turn. The Rakdos removal killed Arcades and my other creatures and I perished. 1-1.
The third round had me up against someone who first-picked Hogaak. Their Golgari deck went deep into the graveyard recursion theme, complete with Buried Alive and Brood of Cockroaches. They played an amazing turn two Rotting Regisaur!
Thankfully one of the best cards I played with was in my hand: Questing Cosplayer! That card is so good. My opponent realized they had to attack into the trade, which I gladly took. Sadly, they didn't draw another land for many turns, and I was able to keep up the tempo to win. 2-1
My fourth and final round was epic. It went extremely long. My opponent was playing Bant and had pulled lots of good cards, including Teferi, Time Raveler, Noble Hierarch, and Uro. I got the Questing Role on my Spined Megalodon and was hoping to break through, but my opponent got their third plains with Brightling and was able to bounce it back to keep the shark in check.
Uro hit the board multiple times and I was down 32 to 20 even after dealing some dribs and drabs of damage. Teferi kept bouncing my creatures every few turns, but Momir Vig, Simic Visionary kept my hand full of creatures. I played creatures every turn for over ten turns, and searched all but one of them up to put on top of my library. With all that value, I finally broke through. The final attack included a 9/9 Quirion Dryad, the Questing Megalodon, Arcades and two Axebane Guardians, and a 10/10 A Girl and Her Dogs, and it was only barely enough damage to win that turn. This was a monster battle line game and the win wouldn't have happened without Momir Vig. 3-1
The 3-1 was enough to net me second place in the draft. I wish I had been able to get games in with the remaining two players. I was really glad with how my deck performed. I bet I would do well in another MB2 draft.
Happy Magicking!
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