Drafting like it's my job

     So I played in a booster draft friday at my local game shop. it was an innistrad block draft and we ended up having a total of twelve players, 2 pods of six (a bit unorthodox but was better for payouts). the draft started beautifuly for me, pulling enough good black and white to make a run for the top slot, or so I thought, the biggest pulls I made however, I'm sad to say were cards I just couldn't bring myself to pass, namely a Snapcaster Mage in pack 3. but thats not really the point.
   
     Set one was a real kick in the teeth, I was playing against one of the shop owners/DCI Judges. He had managed to pull together a beast RB Vampire deck, and scored 2 Stromkirk Captains. Game one I had to mulligan to 5 and was still hosed for mana, only being able to drop 2 all game and dealing a total of 2 damage.... moving on. Game 2 was much better, I had a beautiful opening hand was was smacking for 3 second turn, my deck curved out beautifully and I was able to get ahold of the minimal control I'd drafted to handle the captain he dropped. I won game 2 still sitting on 13 life. Game three was the best game by far however, even though I ended up losing. Both decks opened and curved well and it ended up being the most fun game of the set. Like I said, fun, but not productive, I was now 0-1 going into round 2.

     When round 2 pairing were posted I was the lucky(?) bastard to get the bye. it set me up as 1-1 automatically which is nice, but it also left me basking in the shame and disappointment of round 1 for an hour or so.  oh well

     Round 3 started with my deck opening well, and my opponents just simply not. he ended up scooping on round 4. it's a win, but I don't like winning that way, it's just not any fun. We kicked off Game 2 both pulling decent opening hands and basically ended up racing to deal enough damage, I ended up losing this game to myself, but thats what happens when you don't think your turn through and shoot yourself in the foot. Game 3 I managed a turn 2 Thalia, Gaurdian of Thraben, which shut down his mana light UB Control... and I wiped the board with his tears...

     All in all I pulled 2nd in my pod, 3rd over all, which pulled me 2 packs in prizes, out of which I managed to pull Archangels Light. making for a fun and profitable day of drafting, I promptly traded off the snapcaster for 2 copies of Gideon Jura and 4 copies of Doomed Traveler, all of which I needed for my standard deck (which I'll outline in a future post)

Heres the Deck I drafted and played:

9 Plains
8 Swamp
  17 Lands


2 Thraben Sentry
2 Typhoid Rats
1 Midnight Guard
1 Village Bellringer
1 Highborn Ghoul
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Manor Skeleton
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Gavony Ironwright
1 One-Eyed Scarecrow
1 Loyal Cathar
1 Avacinyan Priest
  14 Creatures


2 Night Terrors
1 Lingering Souls
1 Wooden Stake
1 Tragic Slip
1 Deadly Allure
1 Curse of Exhaustion
1 Inquisitors Flail
1 Rebuke
  9 Spells