Drive Back Home Episode 4- Setting The Standard

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First Standard Magic episode!

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Deck: Life Wasted- BUG

//Lands
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Golgari Guildgate
4 Breeding Pool
15 Swamp

//Spells
1 Vraska the Unseen
4 Doom Blade
1 Grisly Spectacle
1 Hero's Downfall
2 Pharika's Cure
3 Sanguine Bond
2 Thoughtseize
1 Whip of Erebos
2 Putrefy

//Creatures
3 Experiment One
2 Gyre Sage
4 Desecration Demon
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
4 Nightveil Specter
4 Returned Phalanx

//Sideboard
3 Duress
3 Burst of Strength
3 Dark Betrayal
1 Ultimate Price
3 Crypt Incursion
2 Mark of the Vampire

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Deck Type: Black Devotion, splashing Green, with Blue mana sources
Record: 1-3... Eh... The deck at least fared well.

Match 1 vs. RDW (0-2): Still figuring out my Mana Curve, I wasn't able to get a lot of bodies on the field. But, I still had a lot of low cost removal, so I was able to stall him for at least a little while.

Match 2 vs. MonoBlack Devotion (1-2): He was packing Pack Rats, and while I was able to get one with my Nightveil Specter, his Erebos, God Of The Dead held me back quite a bit, so I should also sideboard in some Fade Into Antiquity, but thankfully I had some Dark Betrayal as well.

Match 3 vs. Mono Green Devotion (1-2): I lost due to a major misplay: I forgot that Scavenging Ooze gains a life for every creature it exiles, so I had him at way less life than I thought.

So my combo worked as intended: Sanguine Bond -> Crypt Incursion, gained 6 life, he lost 6 and I thought I had him, but I should have Crypt Incursioned his graveyard instead.

Match 4 vs. ???: I thought this guy just got super mana screwed with this Sliver Deck he played with, but turns out his guy he was new to Standard and had no idea what he was doing, so I tried to help him out as much as possible, and let him take some of my Boros Guildgates, but for the second game, I let him play with the BR M14 Intro Deck, and gave him the stack of commons and uncommons that someone had left for the taking.

My B/G plan seemed to work as intended, I just need to overhaul the mana A LOT.

Deck MVP: Honestly? Putrefy. Keep it on the side for those pesky God Weapons that HEY GUESS WHAT AIN'T INDESTURCTIBLE HAHAHAHA

Good Pulls: N/A, it was Standard.

Drive Back Home Episode 3- The Roads Less Traveled

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Not so good this week, but got a lot of good cards!

Deck Type: Green and Red, splashing White
Drafted both Bow of Nylea and Hammer of Puphoros, AND Temple of Abandon. PRETTY luck if you ask me...
Record: 1-2-1... Eh...

Match 1- vs. Green/Blue/Red with Prophet of Kruphix (2-0). PoK is one of my star players in my Simic Deck for Game Day tomorrow. While it did give me some trouple enabling my opponent to play some counterspells, Hammer Of Puphoros and his ability to create a golem from 3 mana and sac a land kept me on the offensive.

Match 2- vs. Green/Blue (1-1) I could have won this game on Game 2, but he had 2 Vulpine Goliaths out, and I only had one blocker when he went full tilt to strike. 18 Lands seems to be the new rule of thumb for Theros Limited.

Match 3- vs. Radkos (0-2) This is the same guy who I face with R and B in Episode 1.

Match 4- vs. Blue/White (0-2) Another U/W Fliers Deck, another Prescient Chimera all up in my business. So when I get to the Hatedrafting stage of the pack, I know what to take, much like Shiv's Embrace in M14.

Deck MVP: No one really, I guess Hammer of Puphoros? I was never in a strong position board-wise, so Haste and Deathtouch couldn't really do much for me.

Good Pulls: Drafted both Bow of Nylea and Hammer of Puphoros, AND Temple of Abandon, and one of the guys there was giving out his commons and uncommons from his prize packs. 

Drive Back Home Episode 2- Returned To Sendered

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I'm getting better at remembering stuff off the cuff, so I'm still new to all this. Consider it "practice"

Deck Type: Blue and Black, representing House Dimir.
Drafted a lot of fliers with Nimbus Naiad, Insatiable Harpy, Vaporkin and Shipwrecked Singer.
Record: 3-0-1, UNDEFEATED!!!
Match 1- vs. Black/White, with Pyrex of Pandemonium (2-0)
Pandemoninum worked for me ONLY because I had more creature exiled that he had. It's an AWESOME card for limited, just for how much havoc it could wreak. Might see use in a mill deck.

Match 2- vs. Grull (2-0).

Match 3- vs. Izzet (2-0). Spellheart Chimera is a wicked bad card, and my normal standbys of Thassa's Bounty and Returned Phalanx couldn't come out to play. Might play well with Tome Scour and Archaeomancer. 

Match 4- vs. Green/Blue (DRAW DECLARED). But I lost horribly, as his Agent of Fates and Aqueous Form made it hard for me to recover.  

Deck MVP: Returned Phalanax, ABSOLUETLY. A 3/3 blocker on turn 2, and if you get stuck with only 2 mana, you still have a viable 3/3 creature.

Good Pulls: Bident of Thassa, and Thassa's Emmisary both worked well in my deck.As far as prize packs go, since I won 5(!!!) I'm just going to list all the good stuff:
-Spellheart Chimera
-2 Stoneshock Giants
-One pack where I pulled 2 Commune with the Gods
-Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
-Temple Of Deciet
-3 Sentry Of The  Underworlds
-Lots Of Ordeals
-Spear of Heliod

Drive Back Home Episode 1- Back In Black

The debut episode!

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Deck Type: Black, splashing white.
It worked well together, with plenty of lifegain, between Gray Merchant, Hopeful Eiodin and Insatiable Harpy.

Record: 3-1! Best I've done in a while!
Match 1- vs. Gruul (2-0)
Match 2- vs. UW Fliers (2-0).
Match 3- vs. Radkos (0-2).
Match 4- vs. Gruul (2-0).  

Deck MVP: While Keepsake Gorgon led the way with removal, Grey Merchant for sure. Even in some of the harder matches, his lifegain was able to keep me afloat.

Good Pulls: I got a Thoughtseize in one of my prize packs, and pulled Prophet of Kruphix, which will fit nicely in my Simic Deck.