Alara Release Championship

by Shadowin 7. November 2008 18:54
I'm qualified to play in the Alara release championship on MTGO tomorrow at 11am EST. This tournament is invite only: I gained entry by making Top 8 in one of the qualifier tournaments.

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Draft 59483

by Shadowin 20. August 2008 19:37

I just won another Eventide-Eventide-Eventide draft. Here is my deck.

8 Mountain
1 Riverfall Mimic
1 Shrewd Hatchling
1 Snakeform
8 Island
2 Slippery Bogle
2 Shorecrasher Mimic
1 Noggle Bandit
1 Crag Puca
3 Stream Hopper
2 Clout of the Dominus
1 Favor of the Overbeing
1 Inside Out
1 Duergar Cave-Guard
2 Puncture Blast
1 Cascade Bluffs
2 Flame Jab
1 Noggle Ransacker
1 Crackleburr

As usual, it was all about evasion. I had several turn 5 wins.

I've played 5 of these drafts so far. I've found that it really helps to be flexible. If one guild dries up, start picking up good cards from another guild. It's great if they happen to share a color. I won at least one game on the back of slippery bogle, shorecrasher mimic, and favor of the overbeing despite my deck being primarily blue/red.

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UR Stream Hoppers for the Win

by Shadowin 18. August 2008 18:22

I just won tournament 57869 on Magic Online. It was an Eventide-Eventide-Eventide draft.

Although I picked up a Deity of Scars as first pick, I ended up in UR. No one seems to want Streamhoppers and for good reason; 1/1 with jump usually sucks. However, when you enchant them with Clout of Dominus it is a completely different story. Turn 2 swing for 3. It's got shroud, do something about it! I easily had turn 5 wins unless my opponent had enough blockers. I only lost won game to an 1806 player running White Mimic.

1 Battlegate Mimic
3 Clout of the Dominus
1 Crag Puca
1 Double Cleave
1 Duergar Mine-Captain
1 Fire at Will
1 Flame Jab
1 Inside Out
1 Jawbone Skulkin
3 Noggle Bandit
1 Outrage Shaman
3 Puncture Blast
1 Riverfall Mimic
4 Stream Hopper
1 Thunderblust
1 Unwilling Recruit
16 Mountain

The trick to this deck was to  turn out stream hoppers and pump them. It would be better to have more Riverfall Mimics, but I was cut off on them. Noggle Bandit is great evasion. When equipped with a Clout of Dominus it is unstoppable. I think if I were to do this again I would cut out the Jawbone Skulkin and the Unwilling Recruit. Recruit is awesome, but it never did anything for me. The deck is too fast for skulkin to make a difference.

A typical game went like this:
Turn 1: Stream Hopper
Turn 2: Stream Hopper, Clout of Dominus, swing for 4
Turn 3: Noggle Bandit, swing for 4
Turn 4: Cloud on Bandit, swing for 8
Turn 5: Swing, blocked hopper, Puncture Bolt, win

Inside Out works great with the Mine-Captain. I would use the captain's abilty to pump it, stack damage, then cast Inside Out to save the captain and draw a card.

Be careful of White Mimic. They can play Double Cleave as well, which can mess up your math when staring down their WB mimics.

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