I usually play Vintage, but the only format that is really played locally is limited so I am trying to learn more about it. Here is my recent MTGO draft, I would be appreciate your suggestions on how to improve. Thanks in advance for the help.
Draft:
Pack 1:
Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Fathom Seer, Flamecore Elemental, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Ignite Memories, Saltcrusted Steppe, Clockwork Hydra, Ith, High Arcanist, Lord of Atlantis, Spirit Loop
Pick: Clockwork Hydra
Pack 2:
Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Penumbra Spider, Pentarch Ward, Assassinate, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Phantom Wurm, Outrider en-Kor, Molten Slagheap, Walk the Aeons
Pack 17:
Whitemane Lion, Mire Boa, Utopia Vow, Dash Hopes, Shade of Trokair, Vitaspore Thallid, Brain Gorgers, Fury Charm, Seal of Primordium, Healing Leaves, Simian Spirit Guide, Circle of Affliction
Pack 34:
Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Rift Elemental, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Mesmeric Sliver, Deepcavern Imp, Flowstone Embrace, Sword of the Meek, Even the Odds, Mystic Speculation
ya, i agree w/ neon that 2nd pick should have been out-rider or spider. I'm a bit of a green fan, so i'd probably take the spider.
on almost every pick after that pack you're passed heavy white! i might not have taken griffin guide over lava axe, but it is a serious signal. plus there's things like a 7th pick chronosavant that support this.
some people are pretty big fans of eddy, but i would have taken either the goblin or , following signals, the blink.
i feel that you missed the boat by forcing yourself into blue early for a pretty weak card (walk to aeons).
again to agree w/ neon, benalish commander is a pretty good card in limited, especially if you've got a fortify, plan on getting or marshalling cry and even better w/ rescue beasts.
I might have taken Ith first pack and tried to go blue/white, which actually might have worked. I agree somewhat with the comments about the second pack. Outrider, Wurm, Spider are all good, solid second picks, but I actually like Walk the Aeons quite a bit. Taking an extra turn can often mean gg, since no one usually expects that to happen. If I could count the number of times I have done the math on the board and thought to myself, "if only I had an extra turn."
I of course would have cried a little if I had gone u/w and then had to pass a thrid pick PYROHEMIA. That card is unbelievably awesome in so many ways. Since you were still thinking about red, I would have probably taken it over Dead/Gone, and hit red harder. It would have been worth it, in my opinion.
Draft:
Pack 1:
Slipstream Serpent, Gaze of Justice, Strangling Soot, Fathom Seer, Flamecore Elemental, Two-Headed Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Ignite Memories, Saltcrusted Steppe, Clockwork Hydra, Ith, High Arcanist, Lord of Atlantis, Spirit Loop
Pick: Clockwork Hydra
Pack 2:
Goblin Skycutter, Cancel, Penumbra Spider, Pentarch Ward, Assassinate, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Savage Thallid, Screeching Sliver, Phantom Wurm, Outrider en-Kor, Molten Slagheap, Walk the Aeons
Pick: Walk the Aeons
Pack 3:
Urborg Syphon-Mage, Snapback, Aether Web, Lightning Axe, Cloudchaser Kestrel, Drudge Reavers, Aetherflame Wall, Detainment Spell, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Bewilder, Griffin Guide
Pick: Lightning Axe
Pack 4:
Nantuko Shaman, Benalish Cavalry, Feebleness, Plunder, Eternity Snare, Molder, Venser's Sliver, Fallen Ideal, Firewake Sliver, Calciform Pools, Gauntlet of Power, *
Pick: Gauntlet of Power
Pack 5:
Trespasser il-Vec, Fortify, Flamecore Elemental, Watcher Sliver, Blazing Blade Askari, Glass Asp, Traitor's Clutch, Durkwood Tracker, Plated Pegasus, Undying Rage, Whispers of the Muse
Pick: Undying Rage
Pack 6:
Temporal Eddy, Momentary Blink, Ancient Grudge, Greenseeker, Foriysian Interceptor, Telekinetic Sliver, Thick-Skinned Goblin, Spell Burst, Coalition Victory
Pick: Temporal Eddy
Pack 7:
Flowstone Channeler, Thrill of the Hunt, Plunder, Skulking Knight, Brass Gnat, Harmonic Sliver, Skittering Monstrosity, Chronosavant
Pick: Flowstone Channeler
Pack 8:
Strength in Numbers, Zealot il-Vec, Screeching Sliver, Psychotic Episode, Jedit's Dragoons, Foriysian Interceptor, Cavalry Master, Fool's Demise
Pick: Fool's Demise
Pack 9:
Gaze of Justice, Two-Headed Sliver, Shadow Sliver, Ophidian Eye, Ignite Memories, Saltcrusted Steppe, Lord of Atlantis
Pick: Gaze of Justice
Pack 10:
Pentarch Ward, Call to the Netherworld, Cyclopean Giant, Brass Gnat, Screeching Sliver, Outrider en-Kor
Pick: Outrider en-Kor
Pack 11:
Drudge Reavers, Aetherflame Wall, Detainment Spell, Bewilder, Volcanic Awakening
Pick: Aetherflame Wall
Pack 12:
Plunder, Eternity Snare, Fallen Ideal, Firewake Sliver
Pick: Eternity Snare
Pack 13:
Blazing Blade Askari, Traitor's Clutch, Plated Pegasus
Pick: Plated Pegasus
Pack 14:
Ancient Grudge, Foriysian Interceptor
Pick: Foriysian Interceptor
Pack 15:
Plunder
Pick: Plunder
Pack 16:
Poultice Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Veiling Oddity, Synchronous Sliver, Giant Dustwasp, Pallid Mycoderm, Keldon Marauders, Revered Dead, Rathi Trapper, Fa'adiyah Seer, Mantle of Leadership, *, *, Magus of the Coffers, Melancholy
Pick: Veiling Oddity
Pack 17:
Whitemane Lion, Mire Boa, Utopia Vow, Dash Hopes, Shade of Trokair, Vitaspore Thallid, Brain Gorgers, Fury Charm, Seal of Primordium, Healing Leaves, Simian Spirit Guide, Circle of Affliction
Pick: Shade of Trokair
Pack 18:
Cradle to Grave, Dead / Gone, Ghost Tactician, Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Citanul Woodreaders, Vampiric Link, Skirk Shaman, Pouncing Wurm, *, Pyrohemia, Braids, Conjurer Adept
Pick: Dead / Gone
Pack 19:
Spitting Sliver, Aven Riftwatcher, Stingscourger, Dash Hopes, Aquamorph Entity, Uktabi Drake, Ghost Tactician, Healing Leaves, Sunlance, Prodigal Pyromancer, Muck Drubb, Aether Membrane
Pick: Sunlance
Pack 20:
Veiling Oddity, Midnight Charm, Battering Sliver, Firefright Mage, Wistful Thinking, Keldon Marauders, Melancholy, Piracy Charm, Ana Battlemage, Frenetic Sliver, Ovinize
Pick: Keldon Marauders
Pack 21:
Dawn Charm, Stingscourger, Uktabi Drake, Aquamorph Entity, Evolution Charm, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Mana Tithe, Hammerheim Deadeye, Pouncing Wurm, Benalish Commander
Pick: Hammerheim Deadeye
Pack 22:
Erratic Mutation, Needlepeak Spider, Brain Gorgers, Dust Corona, Vitaspore Thallid, Simian Spirit Guide, Merfolk Thaumaturgist, Cautery Sliver, Serra's Boon
Pick: Needlepeak Spider
Pack 23:
Synchronous Sliver, Needlepeak Spider, Dreamscape Artist, Keldon Marauders, Primal Plasma, Waning Wurm, Timecrafting, Shrouded Lore
Pick: Primal Plasma
Pack 24:
Spitting Sliver, Revered Dead, Fa'adiyah Seer, Mantle of Leadership, Phantasmagorian, Riptide Pilferer, Melancholy
Pick: Riptide Pilferer
Pack 25:
Dash Hopes, Vitaspore Thallid, Fury Charm, Seal of Primordium, Healing Leaves, Circle of Affliction
Pick: Fury Charm
Pack 26:
Ghost Tactician, Wistful Thinking, Dash Hopes, Reality Acid, Vampiric Link
Pick: Reality Acid
Pack 27:
Spitting Sliver, Dash Hopes, Ghost Tactician, Muck Drubb
Pick: Ghost Tactician
Pack 28:
Midnight Charm, Firefright Mage, Wistful Thinking
Pick: Firefright Mage
Pack 29:
Mana Tithe, Benalish Commander
Pick: Mana Tithe
Pack 30:
Dust Corona
Pick: Dust Corona
Pack 31:
Cutthroat il-Dal, Gathan Raiders, Llanowar Augur, Augur of Skulls, Sprout Swarm, Thornweald Archer, Flowstone Embrace, Frenzy Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Patrician's Scorn, Utopia Mycon, Haze of Rage, Dakmor Salvage, Pyromancer's Swath, Magus of the Moat
Pick: Magus of the Moat
Pack 32:
Llanowar Empath, Marshaling Cry, Unblinking Bleb, Lost Hours, Riddle of Lightning, Wrap in Vigor, Lucent Liminid, Vedalken Aethermage, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver, Ghostfire, Soultether Golem, Lost Auramancers, Magus of the Moat
Pick: Magus of the Moat
Pack 33:
Bogardan Lancer, Venser's Diffusion, Oblivion Crown, Saltskitter, Infiltrator il-Kor, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Sporoloth Ancient, Grinning Ignus, Whip-Spine Drake, Cloudseeder, Skirk Ridge Exhumer, Llanowar Reborn, Zoetic Cavern
Pick: Cloudseeder
Pack 34:
Cutthroat il-Dal, Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Rift Elemental, Grave Scrabbler, Lumithread Field, Mesmeric Sliver, Deepcavern Imp, Flowstone Embrace, Sword of the Meek, Even the Odds, Mystic Speculation
Pick: Even the Odds
Pack 35:
Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Putrid Cyclops, Rift Elemental, Lumithread Field, Grinning Ignus, Edge of Autumn, Logic Knot, Keldon Megaliths, Ravaging Riftwurm, Shivan Sand-Mage
Pick: Logic Knot
Pack 36:
Samite Censer-Bearer, Bogardan Lancer, Knight of Sursi, Grave Peril, Sarcomite Myr, Henchfiend of Ukor, Dust of Moments, Reality Strobe, Festering March, Force of Savagery
Pick: Knight of Sursi
Pack 37:
Augur il-Vec, Grave Peril, Marshaling Cry, Blade of the Sixth Pride, Homing Sliver, Stronghold Rats, New Benalia, Shivan Sand-Mage, Scout's Warning
Pick: New Benalia
Pack 38:
Putrid Cyclops, Augur il-Vec, Lymph Sliver, Blind Phantasm, Virulent Sliver, Mass of Ghouls, Vedalken Aethermage, Cyclical Evolution
Pick: Vedalken Aethermage
Pack 39:
Llanowar Augur, Frenzy Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Patrician's Scorn, Utopia Mycon, Haze of Rage, Dakmor Salvage
Pick: Mesmeric Sliver
Pack 40:
Marshaling Cry, Unblinking Bleb, Wrap in Vigor, Vedalken Aethermage, Virulent Sliver, Frenzy Sliver
Pick: Unblinking Bleb
Pack 41:
Bogardan Lancer, Oblivion Crown, Saltskitter, Grinning Ignus, Llanowar Reborn
Pick: Bogardan Lancer
Pack 42:
Gift of Granite, Quiet Disrepair, Rift Elemental, Mesmeric Sliver
Pick: Rift Elemental
Pack 43:
Wrap in Vigor, Samite Censer-Bearer, Rift Elemental
Pick: Rift Elemental
Pack 44:
Samite Censer-Bearer, Grave Peril
Pick: Grave Peril
Pack 45:
*
Pick: *
Final Decklist:
Maindeck:
1 Magus of the Moat [FOIL]
1 Clockwork Hydra
1 Dead // Gone
1 Even the Odds
1 Plated Pegasus
1 Sunlance
1 New Benalia
1 Undying Rage
1 Lightning Axe
1 Shade of Trokair
1 Veiling Oddity
1 Outrider en-Kor
1 Magus of the Moat
1 Knight of Sursi
1 Riptide Pilferer
1 Cloudseeder
1 Logic Knot
1 Temporal Eddy
1 Bogardan Lancer
1 Reality Acid
1 Aetherflame Wall
1 Mana Tithe
1 Primal Plasma
1 Gaze of Justice
6 Plains
6 Island
3 Mountain
1 Hammerheim Deadeye
Sideboard:
1 Dust Corona
1 Eternity Snare
1 Firefright Mage
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Fool's Demise
1 Foriysian Interceptor
1 Fury Charm
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Ghost Tactician
1 Homing Sliver
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Mesmeric Sliver
1 Needlepeak Spider
1 Plains
1 Plunder
2 Rift Elemental
1 Samite Censer-Bearer
1 Unblinking Bleb
1 Vedalken Aethermage
1 Walk the Aeons
on almost every pick after that pack you're passed heavy white! i might not have taken griffin guide over lava axe, but it is a serious signal. plus there's things like a 7th pick chronosavant that support this.
some people are pretty big fans of eddy, but i would have taken either the goblin or , following signals, the blink.
i feel that you missed the boat by forcing yourself into blue early for a pretty weak card (walk to aeons).
again to agree w/ neon, benalish commander is a pretty good card in limited, especially if you've got a fortify, plan on getting or marshalling cry and even better w/ rescue beasts.
I of course would have cried a little if I had gone u/w and then had to pass a thrid pick PYROHEMIA. That card is unbelievably awesome in so many ways. Since you were still thinking about red, I would have probably taken it over Dead/Gone, and hit red harder. It would have been worth it, in my opinion.
2. Outrider
3. Griffin Guide (Axe is good, but we gotta cut off white)
4. Benalish Cavalry
5. Fortify (Trespasser is good, but...)
6. Momentary Blink
7. Chronosavant
8. Cavalry Master
...and so on.