Repack Draft #(n+9): Tim Team (WUBRG Drafting)

I held a repack draft on the last Saturday in March.  It happened with short notice, but we had four and that's enough to draft.

Although there wasn't amazing Sunburst cards like last time, I saw a bunch of pinging Tim-type creatures come by, so I grabbed them: Spikeshot Goblin, Crossbow Infantry, Vithian Stinger, Flamewright and Viridian Longbow all found their way into my pile.  Here were all of my picks:

I don't remember what was in that second pack that got me to first-pick a land.

Here's the deck I put together from all that:

I wanted to run the 2/2s with protection (e.g. Yavimaya Barbarian) but had to cut them both.

We played best-of-three rounds.  In the first round I was matched up against a first-time drafter running a slick Orzhov deck.  Spikeshot Goblin was the MVP here, especially since I got it equipped with Goldvein Pick in both games.  In the second game I had it out on turn 5 while my opponent was mana screwed.  Two points of repeatable direct damage was too much for them to overcome and I won both games.  1-0.

In the second round I was paired up against my WUBRG rival, against whom I was undefeated.  The first game was very tough.  I took out their Gold Myr with my Spikeshot friend, but they returned the favor by using Dire-Strain Rampage on my Unknown Shores.  That was followed up with Drain the Well on my Orzhov Guildgate.  I won the game with only four land out.  In the second game, they cursed my Moonstone Harbinger with Morgul-Knife Wound, but I kept it around because I'd made it an archer.

Pew pew deathtouch arrows!

I got Relic Sloth out, which was enough to race the wound damage.  My rival was forced to Decommission my longbow, but I still beat them.  This was my first game without the Spikeshot Goblin, but the win was more due to the fact that my opponent had a hand of blue cards without blue sources.  2-0  My undefeated streak continues!

My third round opponent was on Bant, with a bit of mill power with Drowned Secrets.  In the first game their Sludge Monster threatened to give me a bad day, but I drew into Command the Storm.  Relic Sloth became the big creature to beat and won the game.  In the second game, Spikeshot came up big again, controlling the board until Relic Sloth could win it again for me.  3-0.

Others may make fun of me for how much I draft Razorfin Hunter, but Tims are great in draft!  I got lucky and my opponents played into things a bit, but this deck still felt really strong.  I'm not sure whether I'm just good at drafting from these weak "packs" or whether the set of cards I pull them from is biased in my favor.  In any case, it was really fun!  Happy Magicking!