Before I get into the draft results I think it may be nice to once again see an overview of all the previous drafts, as we have not yet done that for this blog.The very first draft that we play was last summer, and since then we have drafted in tournaments eleven times as a group.
The first draft was an M11 draft, and I took first place.
The second draft was another M11 draft with the victory also belonging to me.
The third draft was again, M11 with me taking a third straight victory.
The fourth draft was a disaster draft with a mix of Scars of Mirrodin, Zenidkar and M11. I took a fourth straight victory.
The fifth draft was full Scars of Mirrodin. Felix won this draft.
The six draft was also Scars of Mirrodin, and I took the victory for a fifth draft win.
The seventh draft was a full Rise of the Eldrazi set and Paul grabbed his first victory.
The eigth draft was again Rise of the Eldrazi and Chris came away with his first victory in drafts.
The ninth draft was another M11 draft and Paul grabbed his second draft victory in brutal domination of the crowd.
The tenth draft was a smaller group draft of Mirrodin Besieged and Snape took a victory for the first time.
The eleventh and most recent draft? Well let us jump into it.
The eleventh draft was a five person draft of the people who paid to buy into the case of Mirrodin Besieged. Don, Chris, Snape, Paul and Me. We did a round robin style tournament with each stop along the way being a best of three match.
Don drafted particularly well getting a lot of marquee cards and making a seemingly brutal black and white infect deck. It seemed that luck was not on Don's side as he ended the night with only 2 victories to his name and came in fourth place.
Snape drafted the most creative deck, utilizing some interesting blue and black cards creating a lot of draw power for him, and discarding for his opponents, mixed in with some mill. His luck was not so good though, and he got swept each match. Snape took 5th with his efforts.
Chris drafted red, of course and attempted to burn the house down and slam some bad dudes down some throats and ended up smack dab in the middle at 3rd place.
Paul draft white and blue artifact hate, that could also become an infect deck in a pinch grabbing 4 victories and enough for second place.
I drafted red and green and not a lot of artifacts for Paul's artifact hate, and focused on battlecry and Fangren Marauder for health. I grabbed 6 victories going undefeated and grabbing my 6th draft win, and breaking a slough of losses across many months of drafting.
The draft pool prize was rich with bounty. There was enough Tezzerets for everyone, Massacre Wurms aplenty, Hero of Bladehold and Oxridge, Glissa, Thrun, and a coveted Sword of Feast and Famine. The winner was awarded three booster packs. The second place was awarded two and third place took one all in addition to the mythic rares that we had pooled.
All in all I felt like the draft format and pooling mythic rares from the case of cards was a fun and successful way to draft. It certainly gave the draft a different feel to it, with quite a bit of card value on the line.
Keep posted back, as I am putting together our first group deck building contest. I will post the rules and criteria after I finalize it, and then I will give a timeline on when we will have a deck tournament with the constructed decks. Prizes for the top finishers will be awarded I think, so maybe a small donation from each participating member will go towards that.
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