Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Drafting with JT: ACR #2

1x Shards of Alara, 1x Conflux, 1x Alara Reborn.
Drafted on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at a Magic Online 4-3-2-2 queue.

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I need to learn this format because all I know so far does not seem to work. Start with the basics; do not overcommit.

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After pack 1, it seems that I will either be going for Esper or Grixis.

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Esper I guess.

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I don't know what the hell went over me. Alchemist was just there.

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Another alchemist wasted. I must not have been thinking straight.

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It's confirmed. I was drafting like a retard.

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Wrong pick; I used to value this card highly. Deny Reality or the leech would have been much better picks.

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The 3/1 flyer is much much better than this.

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Again, take the 3/1 flyer. I took this for the money, so that I could salvage the cost of this messed up draft.

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the leech... The Leech... THE LEECH!

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Hackblade should have been taken instead of this.

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This draft would have been so much better had I known what to do. Anyway, I learned so much from this because I lost the 1st round with what I thought was an ok deck.