What's your craziest competitive draft deck you ever made?
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Posted on Aug. 7, 2016, 11:42 p.m. by philktoken8998
Hey everyone,Just thinking about this since through luck and picking the right colors (B/U), I made a pretty insane deck. Had 9 rares in it (11 drafted), and a combo element with only 7 total creatures. Goal was pretty much kill everything and combo out or go wide with tokens. Curious to hear other people's crazy decks they've been able to draft before.
Main part was centered around Tree of Perdition, Triskadekaphobia, and Soul Separator. Also had a From Under the Floorboards, Collective Brutality, Dark Salvation, Confirm Suspicions, imprisoned by the moon, and a ton of other solid removal (Murder, Sleep Paralysis, Certain Death).
Half the time I was beating down with tokens and/or ingenious skab, while the other half of the time I was playing the long game with the combo. Ended up going 2-0-1, but probably could've went 3-0 if I had made a better play at one point. Best part was using Pore Over the Pages to discard Tree of Perdition. Next turn I used Soul Separator to make a 0/13 zombie and a 1/1 spirit that had the tree's abilities, effectively having their life total go to one.
Not draft, but BFZ sealed at GP Madison. It was a janky ramp deck that had Beastcaller Savant, Kiora, Master of the Depths, and Breaker of Armies as my finisher. I piloted that piece of crap to a 7-2 day 1, finishing with a Kiora ultimate against a BG Aristocrats deck.
August 8, 2016 2:23 a.m.
Not mine, but I know someone which drafted an awesome Worldgorger combo from EMA. He had entomb, gamble, everything, all in a sweet grixis flashback/retrace deck. Sadly, he lost round 2 due to insanely bad luck.
Also, there are countless vintage, legendary, etc. cube drafts that I could rattle off.
August 8, 2016 4:26 a.m.
BearPunchMagic says... #5
We drafted a box of Journey into Nyx once, and I went 5-0 completely undefeated with a UW pillowfort deck utilizing 6 Sigiled Starfish, 6 Oppressive Rays, 5 Pin to the Earth, a few counterspells, then a few small flyers and a couple big kraken-y type dudes to close the game. People couldn't do anything with their creatures and with so many Starfish on board I had crazy deck manipulation.
August 8, 2016 8:37 a.m.
Shadows Over Innistrad R/B creatures only madness vampires.
I opened a Falkenrath Gorger, got passed more (I ended with 5(!)), and picked every vamp I could.
It was disgusting. I came first. No one could stop me. If I still have it assembled I'll post a decklist (or something).
August 8, 2016 9:10 a.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #7
In theros set, I once drafted a RU scry deck with 2x Artisan of Forms, 3x Flamespeaker Adept, 3x Spellheart Chimera and a bunch of burn/bounce/pump with scry. Never before had I seen people make every land drop & still scoop on T4 every game.
August 8, 2016 11:07 a.m.
philktoken8998 says... #8
These are all pretty sweet! When did everyone know they had a crazy thing going for them? Also, how were your deckbuilding/draft pick choices different because of the crazy deck you were making?
For me, I started with Assembled Alphas and Prey Upon for my first two picks, but I saw the players to the left AND right of me had both drafted two flip werewolves. Third pick took Imprisoned in the Moon and then got a 5th or 6th pick Collective Brutality, so I knew black was open. 2nd pack I opened up the Soul Separator, which I knew was garbage, so I took Murder instead. 4th or 5th pick Tree of Perdition and the Soul Separator wheeled in a ten man pod. Had to check a couple times to make sure it was doing what I thought it was doing. 3rd pack got passed Triskadekaphobia, and then I was all in, taking Press for Answers and other stall cards.
I'll see if I can post a decklist, but it had some janky cards for sure. People seemed impressed after first knocking that it had so few creatures and were pretty weary of the combo.
August 8, 2016 11:48 a.m.
philktoken8998 says... #9
Deck is right here with sideboard cards that I would actually use. Only thing I felt weird about not playing was Olivia's Dragoon. I didn't have a ton of madness, and I ended up playing the 1/3 skaab b/c it was a zombie and I really need blockers more than anything.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bu-bad-luck-13-combo-draft-deck/
August 8, 2016 12:26 p.m.
Something I just thought of:
Last night I played a deck that the builder described as "Five colour bad stuff". It was a 45 card creatureless deck with only removal, and the finisher was a Campaign of Vengeance + Rise from the Tides .
It was so weird, but it worked well enough to come first, so I can't bash it too much.
August 8, 2016 2:50 p.m.
Dredge4life says... #11
All I will say is that Lone Rider Flip and Spectral Reserves are two ver good cards when combined with Borrowed Grace.
August 22, 2016 5:13 p.m.
In the original Conspiracy set I drafted an outrageous deck. I drafted 3 Sakura-Tribe Elders and a Secret Summoning, naming the elders. I then had a Deathrender and a Terastodon. As well as a bunch of other fun green cards. A few times I pulled off saccing 3 elders at once, then ending with a Terastodon attached to a Deathrender and up three lands, all on one turn.
August 24, 2016 2:17 a.m.
AloneTogether says... #13
The best draft deck I've made was during the first Zendikar. I ended up with 2 Steppe Lynx, 2 Plated Geopede, a Goblin Bushwhacker, Burst Lightning, and a fetch land.
It was like playing a standard deck.
PepsiAddicted says... #2
a bunch of Gnarlid Packs, a Secret Summoning, a Muzzio's Preparations and a Brago's Favor
August 8, 2016 2:21 a.m. Edited.