{"id":303,"date":"2013-12-07T20:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2013-12-07T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:12:53","slug":"first-ever-draft-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/07\/first-ever-draft-win\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever draft win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have managed to win my first ever draft, having always got mana\/colour screwed any time I managed to pull together a decent deck. Here&#8217;s what I managed with other people in my colours too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/first-ever-draft-win\/9-11-2013-manadeprived-fabled-hero-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9-11-2013-ManaDeprived-Fabled-Hero-1.jpg\" alt=\"9-11-2013-ManaDeprived-Fabled-Hero-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spark Jolt<\/li>\n<li>Chained to the Rocks<\/li>\n<li>Messenger&#8217;s Speed<\/li>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Lightning Strike<\/li>\n<li>Setessan Battle Priest<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Sable<\/li>\n<li>Cavalry Pegasus<\/li>\n<li>Chosen by Heliod<\/li>\n<li>Akroan Hoplite<\/li>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Observant Heliod * 2<\/li>\n<li>Wingsteed Rider * 2<\/li>\n<li>Two Headed Cerberus<\/li>\n<li>Spear of Heliod<\/li>\n<li>Gift of Immortality<\/li>\n<li>Fabled Hero<\/li>\n<li>Anax and Cymede<\/li>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Divine Verdict<\/li>\n<li>Portent of Betrayal<\/li>\n<li>Heliod&#8217;s Emmisary<\/li>\n<li>Hundred-Handed One<\/li>\n<li>Bordeland Minotaur<\/li>\n<ul>\n<p>Relevant side:\n<\/ul>\n<li>Silent Artisan<\/li>\n<li>Last Breath * 2<\/li>\n<li>Satyr Rambler<\/li>\n<li>Prowler&#8217;s Helm * 2<\/li>\n<li>Anvilwrought Raptor<\/li>\n<li>Traveler&#8217;s Amulet<\/li>\n<li>Scholar of Athreos<\/li>\n<li>Opaline Unicorn * 2<\/li>\n<li>Burnished Hart<\/li>\n<li>Traveling Philosopher (had in game 1, swapped out for Portent of Betrayal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Round One vs Simon<\/h2>\n<p>Simon is a really good player who bested me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/theros-prerelease\/\">two headed giant tournament<\/a> we played at last time. He had what he described as <q>an insane Blue White deck<\/q>.<\/p>\n<p>I start and drop a land. He drops the 1\/1 lifelinker. I drop a land, he equips an ordeal and swings for 2 going to 22 life. I have a spear in hand so play that. He puts on a second ordeal, swings to make it a 4\/4, gaining 20 life going to 46 life, with me on 14. Not a good start for an aggro deck. He&#8217;s locked because of the spear now though. I gradually manage to drop Fabled Hero, Pegasus and Two-Headed Cerberus and the Setessan Battle Priest. I&#8217;m swinging for 12 a turn and win whilst on 6 life. Tense and a bit crazy. For game two I swap out the vanilla 2\/2 and put in a Portent of Betrayal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/first-ever-draft-win\/cavalry-pegasus-heroes-vs-monsters-spoiler\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cavalry-Pegasus-Heroes-vs-Monsters-Spoiler.jpg\" alt=\"Cavalry-Pegasus-Heroes-vs-Monsters-Spoiler\" width=\"265\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Game two I fight through 3 vaporkins? (he has 5!). Eventually besting him to win 2-0.<\/p>\n<h2>Round Two vs Kian<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m up against a blue\/black deck with Ashiok. Game one he drops and Ashiok but I managed to kill after 2 activations. I then turn attention on the player and after equipping on Fabled Hero and swinging in with a Pegasus it is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>Game two he manages to drop Ashiok and some deathtouch dudes, eventually I kill Ashiok with 6 cards in hand, no flyers and him having two deathtouch defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Game three is a bit more even, but I eventually manage to Chain a deathtoucher to rocks, and tap down another to win 2-1.<\/p>\n<h2>Round Three vs Dan <q>Birthday Boy<\/q> Rayner<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s the final and I&#8217;m up against the store owner and it&#8217;s his birthday. He&#8217;s playing a Green\/White deck and that explains why I was being cut from the right on packs 1 and 3. I still got passed 5 of the 6 rares in my maindeck though, Fabled Hero and Hundred Handed were definitely from the left though.<\/p>\n<p>Game One I drop a couple of dudes. He drops the Green 2\/2 who gets a counter when you target. He equips with two ordeals and swings through for 12. I had taken him down to about 14 at the time. It&#8217;s turn 4 and he&#8217;s tapped out with an 8\/8 on the table and I have about 5 power. Time for a Portent of Betrayal then!<\/p>\n<p>Game Two is a bit of a grind but he eventually manages to get me down to one life and he has three creatures on board.<\/p>\n<p>Game Three and it&#8217;s all to play for. Spear does it for me again, to kill blockers. I have Anax and Hoplite out, flying with Pegasus. I have 10 power on board and he has 12 life. I get the land I need and equip Anax with +2\/+2 so it&#8217;s game for my first ever draft victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/first-ever-draft-win\/anax\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Anax.jpg\" alt=\"Anax\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Spoils<\/h2>\n<p>Totally worth a quick Saturday afternoon. After doing terrible with my silly standard deck recently I then went 3-1 on Thursday with my Modern Goblins.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thassa, God of the Sea<\/li>\n<li>Temple of Mystery<\/li>\n<li>Bident of Thassa<\/li>\n<li>Pyxis of Pandemonium<\/li>\n<li>Sin Collector (promo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have managed to win my first ever draft, having always got mana\/colour screwed any time I managed to pull together a decent deck. Here&#8217;s what I managed with other people in my colours too. Spark Jolt Chained to the Rocks Messenger&#8217;s Speed Lightning Strike Setessan Battle Priest Bronze Sable Cavalry Pegasus Chosen by Heliod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,111,164],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-card-games","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-mtg","tag-theros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}