M15 Sealed Daily: Mercy Ruled

Of course I was streaming as I got the best down of my life. It was so bad that afterwords, my mother called me asking if everything was OK.

My pool looked flashy, but it lacked the support cards that are all so important in limited. I drew Chandra, Pyromancer, Burning Anger, 2 Chords of Calling and a Hornet Queen. My last rare was some bullshit artifact or something. 

Immediately, of course, I want to do Red/Green and at firs glance it doesn't look too bad. Chandra isn't great, but her power is basically a frost lynx every turn and can take care of annoying x/1 creatures. Burning Anger is a card that I've seen Kenji use to great success ad I really wanted to try it out. Hornet Queen is a card that I've gotten blown out by before, and Chord isn't great, but it could help me get out one of my big boys with its convoke. 

Contrary to popular belief, Planeswalkers aren't auto-wins...

The rest of the deck "looked good" although in hindsight, if I'm main decking 2 Crowd's Favor, that's not a good sign. I had a Borderland Marauder, Generator Servant (to ramp into Hornet Queen obviously, which happened a total of 0 times),

The rest were 1 of Living Totem, Belligerent Sliver, Roughrider, Invasive Species, Enforcer, the usual suspects. I DID have 2 Netcaster Spiders who I drew a grand total of twice.

I usually top 5 pick you. wtf?

The biggest thing I think I learned from this draft is this:

Lesson: I need to value enchantments more.

Yes, I had Burning Rage, but that was the only enchantment I had in my deck. Every other spell was an instant and not good ones at that. I had no hammerhand, no vinewift, nothing else, and I seemed to get wrecked when my opponent played an enchantment on a flier and beefed up it's defense. 

I also did well in Theros/Theros/Born drafts and that was because I always played enchantments. I was consistently going 2-1 and fighting for 3-0, and I think it's no surprise that it's because I valued enchantments more there.

This card won me so many games...

So in the end, I went 1-3 and sold my card for 3 boosters, getting me a free draft, so all is not lost, and in this draft, I'll be valuing enchantments much higher.

M15 Draft: Phytotitan... More like Ghost Titan...

I did my first M15 draft after doing a few M15 sealed and I got absolutely blown out. After messing around on the Decked Drafter app for IOS (which I absolutely recommend) I put my hat into the ring and drafted my first event, an M15 swiss.

My deck was BG (NOT graveyard) and I was fairly excited to play it. I had 3 Runeclaw Bears, a Carrion Crow, 2 Ulcerates, 2 Crippling Blights, 2 Living Totems, a Seige Wurm and the card I was most excited to play, the unkillable Phytotitan.

And of course, in all my games played, I did not once see the damned Phytotitan. I didn't even draw it.

Not pictured: My saltiness

Also, I'm a huge Limited Resources fan, but where are all these white decks I heard so much about. I didn't see white one, but I sure as hell saw Red being played in all three matches.

I ended up going 1-2 in matches and 2-5 in games. I got Mana flooded once and stuck on 3 forests for 6 turns in another with all black cards in my hand. The other games though I got destroyed by one card in particular from the two players who beat me:

The bane of my existence

It wouldn't have been that bad if I had a netcaster spider or two, but once this card gets going, there's no way to stop it, especially since all the the decks I played had Red as their main color and the other as their secondary. Whenever Brood Keeper came out, I knew Hammerhand or inferno fist was close by.

The one guy I actually beat ended up going 0-3 and played Red/Black. I beat him with Seige Wurm once and then with Carrion Crow and Shadowcloak Vampire the other time. I also lost to him because he had a buffed Vampire of his own and I messed up the order of a removal leading to my loss.

Nevertheless, I have enough packs and tickets for 3 more drafts and am looking forward to winning my first ever draft in this format! OK, that's probably a stretch, but I'm going to do at least 3 more before Khans comes out.

By the way, I don't really like the new font they have on the cards.  know it's a petty pet peeve, but they don't look like "Magic" cards with the new font. I know I'll get over it, but I just really wanted to say that.

You know you're screwed when you main deck this...