Yeah, the problem was after Geth I didn't see any black. I ended up splashing black just for Geth (which seems bad) with blue/red. I wasn't super happy with W up to that point, and just went with the few decent blue fliers I had. Meh, 2-1 in the 3 matches.

MediaPA,

p1p3 Agree with your thoughts. I don't like forcing infect off the back of a single Blightwidow just to get a Plague Myr.

p1p9 Note the Rot Wolf indeed!

p2p3 I would have ended up with the Trigon. I thought it was quite close with the other two cards, and I also would have taken Bladed Pinions over Carrion Call. Both Trigon and Pinions extend the reach of your deck, allowing you to either punch through for the last few points or be in a position not to have to because they took three extra earlier.

p2p4 I take Corpse Cur every time here just for sheer value.

p2p5 You'll get another Untamed Might later, don't worry.

p2p8 I'd say it's unusual to get this online before turn 12 or 13, so I normally pass it here. Neither card should end up in your deck, but the Revel might be sideboarded in to turn BSZ into Decree of Pain.

p2p13 I think Seize the Initiative is better against you.

p3p1 Lifestaff is better than Untamed Might. Neither is that insane so I don't hate taking the Dragon just to make sure nobody else gets to play it. You saw a late Rot Wolf and a late Cystbearer, so I wouldn't worry too much. I think your deck is pretty solid thus far and you should keep on the infect plan. I think it's too late to switch paths, even for a bomb of this magnitude.

p3p9 Wall of Tanglecord

p3p11 Fallen

I was really liking your draft until pack 3 when it seems like the Dragon sent you on tilt. Sometimes, especially in pack 3, you have to pass some big bombs. But don't worry, this also means that sometimes you will get them too.

Maybe,

p1p4 Myr Sire I think. Maybe Quicksilver Geyser, but you are already in two colors with better cards, so I can understand taking a lesser card that is more likely to see play.

p1p5 Resister. Will be hard to get into infect based on what you've seen so far, and even though the Juggernaut can just get there on his own.

p1p6 Resister again.

p1p8 Quilled Slagworm or maybe Koth's Courier. I know you want to support the Herald, but Tine Shrike is only a flying wall with one toughness.

p3p2 I wouldn't hop into blue either.

p3p5 If you are serious about blue 5/5 unblockable serpent is the move. I haven't been keeping exact count of your metal craft number, but Chrome Steed is looking like a worse Hill Giant.

Man you were all over. Switching to Blue seemed crazy at first, but it really worked out for you in pack 3. I think it made your deck stronger than if you'd just picked black cards for Geth. Now you almost have to play 3 colors though, with a double in your lightest one. Tough.

*** agree with your thoughts. I just always love flying, first strike infect (just seems unfair). I really didn't like the switch, and just kind of caved to my 'friend' - I think pack 2 started to put me on tilt sort of trying to figure out how I didn't see any of the solid 2 drop infect guys other than the cyst/corpse pick after pack 1 or add to my pool.

At the end of pack 2 my infect guys were blightwidow, rot wolf, cyst bearer, phy juggernaught flensermite, plague myr. So I felt threat light, which probably aided in me willing to be cave (all G is viable on defense)

Fortunately I managed the finals where I got destroyed by a RU deck with Reins, Scrapmelter, and Shatter to level any early defense. BSZ was the all-star since it essentially won me 3 of my 4 games. Getting Tower online is amusing. I also saw the corpse cur as a lone infect 4 drop versus my semi-opponent (also had clasp).

BSZ an all-star. shocking!

Just had an opponent Psi Blast himself in response to my Pulse of the Fields.

JC, I'd take replica or myr both over the drake p2p5 I think

pack 3 you have a bunch of decisions I'd do different
pick 2 myr
pick 5 I take wall over steed
pick 9 fulgent is actually playable and can be useful
pick 10 wayfarer helps against poison

p1p1 corruptet consicouness or thopter assembly?

I'd take Thopter Assembly, but you can't go wrong with either pick.

Thopter Assembly. Corrupted Conscience is 2 for 1 and Thopter Assembly is 6 for 1.

lol, no offense taken. Happy to see other people post a tough draft.

I can help you if you still need the help. Just mail me and we'll work on it. Sometimes their support isn't all that great. As far as that error you got, make sure the CC you are using is up to date (meaning the address you gave Wizards and the address on the card match - perfectly, or it won't let you use it.)

jcmoussa,

p1p3 agree with your note.

p1p12 Glissa's Courier. You already have a green card, it might happen for you, and even if it doesn't it will do the same thing Training Drone does: sit in the sideboard.

p2p2 I think Darkslick Drake. 4 toughness + flight + self replacement makes him one of the better blue creatures. Maybe I undervalue the magnet?

p2p5 Again I agree with you, I would go towards replica, although blue tends to have a lot of 4 drops so I think the myr is reasonable too.

p2p9 Loxodon Wayfarer is a real card. I'd at least side it in against infect, although I guess Shape Anew is crazy tech if you just play 1 non bomb artifact.

p3p2 Here I'd definitely go with myr. You are not too likely to turn on the Warden, and 2/4 for 4 is underwhelming.

p3p4 Abuna Acolyte is a very underrated card imo. It really puts a hurting on infect.

p3p5 I haven't been keeping exact artifact count. I would take pinions unless you have 12+ playable artifacts already. If that's the case the Warden pick isn't as bad either.

p3p6 Same thing I said p3p5

p3p8 Unless you need this for constructed I'd take the Sunchaser if your metalcraft plan is legit.

p3p10 Loxodon Wayfarer is a real card.


After these comments I went back and counted your artifacts. You were at 8 before the warden, so I wouldn't be going for metalcrafty cards.

lol @ the GP results

Just ban Jace. Seriously.

My friend posted this article on my Facebook feed:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...2Fdaily%2Faf17

Replace the banned card there with "Jace, the Mind Sculptor."

Is there a meaningful difference?

I think so. jace wasn't absurd when there was other absurd stuff (jund) to make it a non-entity. I have no idea wtf the current format would be without jace though. thoughts on that?

I think Jace remains unbanned for a few reasons. He gets used in many different deck types, which are competitive with each other and interactive. So even if he's powerful it doesn't mean everyone is playing the same deck or ignoring their opponents. Those are the two things Wizards seems to really dislike.

There are also plenty of fringe decks just outside tier 1 that don't use Jace and have a hope of winning. Black Summer and Combo Winter were a lot worse in that respect too, and though I was on hiatus during Affinity I'm going say it's closer to those than to the current situation.

Finally I think Wizards wants to keep their Standard no banning streak going as long as they can, and given that Jace is going to rotate soon they would way rather just ride it out.

I think banning Jace would make the format more interesting, but unless people are leaving in droves like past situations where cards were banned Wizards is unlikely to do anything.

then you rotate the only cards good vs it, and print a new one that invalidates the other strategy of just going over the top vs Jace

it seems very likely that either Jace or Stoneforge will be banned soon, the concern is if you ban Jace does Primeval titan just take over and become as obnoxious

also on that note it's pretty dumb to reprint the titans, well unless you like having every 5/6 drop in other sets be totally worthless, think of how powerful massacre wurm would have been in any other era, and its likely to never see play lol

You don't ban Stoneforge. That card isn't unfair.

Jace is unfair.

Doubt they ban Jace. They would never want to hurt the golden goose.

And by that I mean they will come up with some other explanation as to why it's OK to have it around, but Skullclamp was not. And so forth.

It was a titanic mistake to print that card as-is. I have some unconfirmed reports as to what some of the new cards are going to be, BTW, and one of them will considerably warp the game of Magic as it is played - primarily in Legacy/Vintage - if it is a reliable report.

details? imagine its some sort of phyrexian mana card that only truly does broken stuff in old formats(like ad nauseam)

well there's a instant-speed extirpate for a phrexian black, purportedly

and on the note of 6 drops, I fondly recall when the sphinx of jwar isle was the badass finisher of choice

also opened my first jace in infi zzw and ww drafts (seriously might be >250)

AND ITS FOIL WOOOOOOOOOOOOO