This never happens to me. I... I don't really know what happened, but my fraudulent ways have been exposed.
That doesn't make sense yet, but it will very shortly. I got to participate in a bonus chaos draft after the Foundations Draft at Intergalactic Plastic last Friday. I brought three packs to use just in case it fired and the other five players also brought good stuff to play with.
I thought I did a pretty good job drafting. Here were all my picks:
I am a drafter with a gimmick. That's what I have going for me. The gimmick is that I need to play with a five-color deck. In order to do that, I have to draft cards that either include all colors or make explicit use of each of the colors in some way. I first stared WUBRG drafting around Shards of Alara, but I've really been dedicated to the bit for the last six or seven years. A few times I've only had a color represented in a deck by hybrid mana or an important ability on a card. This time, I got nada. There're no white spells, no white-mana abilities. No nothing.
I don't know how I messed up this bad.
I understand if you stop reading from here. The whole reason you read this dumb blog is probably to enjoy my struggles running five colors in limited all the time. I have failed you as well as myself. I won't hold it against you if you eject now.
Okay, you stayed. There are some real good parts of this deck. Most notably I got good landcyclers (the two Canyon Crawlers with Bebop) and raise-dead-effects with Vanille, Unbury, and the super lucky last pick of Fight On! Here's the... uhhh... four color deck I built:
As I got up to sit down against my first round match-up, I asked (to no one in particular): "Are we doing single-game rounds or normal matches?" I didn't get a response from the no one I was addressing, but I didn't wait very long. "Normal matches, I think." I responded.
All my friends I was engaged in conversation with are just out of frame.
In the first round I was up against an opponent who was running Ink-Treader (WURG). In the first game, they played Jem Lightfoote and put me in a bad position. I was able to keep them from drawing a ton of cards with it, but that meant they were instead playing big threats on their turn. I did not survive those threats.
In the second game, my opponent was stuck on Azorius colors, but I was simultaneously stuck on three lands. They chugged out of the trap first and started playing efficient threats. I got Omega late in the game, which might have got me back into competition, but it got Petrified. 0-1.
At this point we found out the other groups were just doing single-game rounds. Oops! We didn't finish that much later than the other two groups, but... oops.
In the second round I was up against Bant "Farquaad of Duloc". They played a turn three Brigid, Clachan's Heart, into a different (Tempest) Hart. I was on the back foot most of this game, and played Omega on their Swiftwing Assailant as I didn't have any flying blockers. Late in the game I actually used the cycling ability on Migration Path and flavorfully drew into Migrating Ketradon, which was much-needed support. In addition to the Omega and Ketradon, I played both Canyon Crawlers and won off of them and their delicious food. 1-1.
At this point the jig was up as the store was closing. It has been over a week and I have not yet taken apart the deck. (Mostly because I got to do a bunch of other Magic events and I just kept these cards together.) If I get in another match, I'll update the post here. Otherwise, I'll try to add an update when I take the deck apart. I am kind of hoping for that second one, just so the shame of my failure can end.
Happy Non-Fraudulent Magicking to you!
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