Video: Modern Masters 2015 Draft!
One of the most anticipated Draft formats in history is arriving in time for the big three Grand Prix weekend! See Sam Black try his hand in this MM2015 GP weekend preview!
Today I’m going to get ready for Grand Prix Las Vegas and try to demonstrate some of what I’ve written about in my article this week.
Draft
I think that draft went great, and I have basically the exact deck I’m generally looking to have, and I think this illustrated a lot of what my article discussed.
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Build
I think that build was pretty straightforward. I could see playing Dragonsoul Knight or Everflowing Chalice over Plagued Rusalka, but I think Rusalka is a reasonable safeguard against a lot of the aggressive strategies I might be afraid of, and I like the lategame synergies with Selesnya Guildmage and Ant Queen.
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Round 1
I don’t often care what people say on MTGO, but at the end of the second game my opponent claimed to have mana flooded both games. That’s just not a realistic description of what happened. My opponent was stuck on four lands, the perfect number, for multiple turns while playing Rusted Relics. At the end of the game I had spells left while my opponent didn’t despite chump blocking a few times because I’d drawn so many cards. What my opponent described as flood (drawing a couple lands rather than spells after I’d taken control of the game) is just what losing to card advantage feels like.
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Round 2
I think this is basically a nightmare matchup for my opponent, with Spectral Procession being the only thing that can really threaten me unless I stumble badly.
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Round 3
The dynamics of that matchup are pretty straightforward. I have better lategame, but my opponent has a lot of pressure to punish a stumble. I have enough removal to stop most of the pressure, but the Bestial Menaces and Vengeful Rebirth can punish that if I don’t also find a good blocker. Moonlit Strider, Conclave Phalanx, and Etched Oracle help a lot with that. I think the matchup is pretty good for me overall. The Sunlance play in game 3 was incredibly bad, but lucky, my deck bailed me out.
That played out the way I imagined and reinforced my position that this is a good example of what I want to be doing in this format.
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