Scars of Mirrodin Draft #2 Results

It looks like most of you took to heart what I said about prioritizing the next two events over the draft we had today, as we only had 8 players show up. This worked out perfectly, as we just drafted the one box and went on to do other Open Game Day stuff, and it seems like we still have plenty of people coming to the next two events. Here were the draft results:

10/23/10 Top Finishers: Scars of Mirrodin Draft #2

1. 3-0 BR Metalcraft by Dominic Casali

2. 2-1 GB Infect by Will Sturges

3. 2-1 BW Midrange by Emile Paul

4. 2-1 GW Aggro by Kevin Hoover

This time, I was fortunate enough to be on Hoard-Smelter Dragon's good side with my first pick. To Emile's chagrin, I immediately started going red, forcing him to play something else, as he was seated directly to my left. After opening Skithiryx, the Hard-to-Spell Dragon in pack two, I added a couple black cards along the way and ended up with the Liz-style flyers/removal/double dragon deck:

Creatures (13)

1x Embersmith

1x Iron Myr

1x Leaden Myr

1x Moriok Replica

1x Necrogen Scudder

2x Snapsail Glider

1x Blade-Tribe Berserkers

1x Oxidda Scrapmetaler

1x Clone Shell

1x Saberclaw Golem

1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon

Other Spells (11)

2x Galvanic Blast

1x Horizon Spellbomb

2x Infiltration Lens

1x Contagion Clasp

1x Grasp of Darkness

1x Shatter

1x Tumble Magnet

1x Rusted Relic

1x Turn to Slag

Lands (17)

10x Mountain

7x Swamp

Relevant Sideboard (8)

1x Accorder's Shield

1x Fume Spitter

1x Goblin Gaveleer

2x Ferrovore

1x Furnace Celebration

2x Vulshok Replica

Relevant Hate Draft (2)

1x Acid-Web Spider

1x Riddlesmith

There's no real specific aggro or control strategy here; some games I was the beatdown and sometimes I was trying to contain my opponent's beatdown. I'm basically just playing lots of potential 2-for-1's and a bunch of artifacts so that I can keep metalcraft up for Rusted Relic, Snapsail Glider, etc, and turn my Galvanic Blasts into one-mana Flame Javelins, with the hope of eventually winning the war of attrition. Blade-Tribe Berserkers and Embersmith did a great job as well. I'm usually not a fan of black and red, but I have to say that this was a pretty fun deck to play and it usually got the job done.

I don't have nearly as many fun stories as I normally would, as this event was a bit short and I was a little distracted by all the other Open Game Day stuff going on. Round 1 I had a really close match with Michael Carney that I finally won off the back of double Infiltration Lens. Round 2 against John featured the metalcrafted Blade-Tribe Berserkers vs. Dissipation Field matchup, which is apparently favorable for me. In the finals I got fairly lucky when Will got mana-screwed in game 1 and then just didn't draw into big guys in game 2. Afterwards found out he had a Geth, Lord of the Vault and lots of other pretty dangerous stuff. I was also lucky not to need a mulligan all day. Sorry there's not much other than my stuff, but my matches all went long and I didn't get to see many other games.

An 8-person event isn't exactly brimming with League Points, but we had a couple decent movers, as shown by the updated standings below:

Standings through 13 events (number of events attended in parentheses):

1. 40 - Michael Smith (10)

2. 34 - Skye Kutner (8)

3. 29 - Emile Paul (11)

4. 27 - Joe Hammond (8)

5. 25 - John Kreinbring (12)

6. 25 - Haren Lalchand (10)

7. 22 - Hunter Garrett (7)

8. 21 - Bryant Benson (8)

9. 21 - Dan Hooghkirk (6)

10. 16 - Brent Kollinger (7)

11. 16 - Scott Record (4)

12. 14 - Nick Catalfano (6)

12. 14 - Michelle Karl (6)

14. 14 - Helen Croce (3)

15. 12 - Will Sturges (5)

16. 11 - Liz DiGangi (6)

17. 11 - Alycia Johnson (4)

18. 9 - Kevin Crowley (4)

19. 9 - Jordan Arnold (1)

19. 9 - Tyler DeForge (1)

21. 8 - Stephen Kwok Choon (7)

22. 8 - Ben Monge (4)

23. 7 - Glen Parker (6)

24. 7 - Greg Lovell (3)

25. 6 - Dan Hoekstra (2)

26. 5 - Michael Carney (4)

26. 5 - Matt Wills (4)

28. 5 - Andrew Capik (3)

29. 5 - Mike Mooty (2)

30. 4 - Ethan Pepmiller (3)

31. 4 - Anna Hallahan (2)

31. 4 - Kevin Hoover (2)

31. 4 - Dane Newton (2)

34. 3 - Shawn Brabant (3)

34. 3 - Kareem Elashmawy (3)

34. 3 - Krystal Lutz (3)

34. 3 - Nikita Nikolayev (3)

38. 2 - David Chesnutt (2)

38. 2 - Jennifer Mori (2)

38. 2 - Steven Nelson (2)

38. 2 - Noah Senzel (2)

42. 2 - John Chandler (1)

42. 2 - Aaron Macy (1)

44. 1 - Michael Cambata (1)

44. 1 - Thomas Fitch (1)

44. 1 - Max Kruger (1)

44. 1 - Bryan Lam (1)

44. 1 - Mike Sedivy (1)

44. 1 - Hannah Sharp (1)

44. 1 - Trish Vincent (1)

Thanks for reading and I hope to see all of you at the EDH event next weekend. See two posts below this one for details on how that event will work. Keep submitting those planeswalkers, too. You should get feedback on those within a few days of submitting them. Have a great week!

- Dom