M13 Draft

Pre-release

thedr9wningman

Creature (12)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 3x Archaeomancer
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Courtly Provocateur
• 1x Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Primal Clay
• 1x Spiked Baloth
• 1x Timberpack Wolf
• 2x Wind Drake

Land (16)

• 6x Forest
• 9x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Encrust
• 1x Tricks of the Trade

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Staff of Nin

Instant (6)

• 1x Downpour
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Hydrosurge
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Unsummon

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Divination
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fungal Sprouting

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Sideboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Arms Dealer
• 1x Crimson Muckwader
• 1x Furnace Whelp
• 1x Goblin Battle Jester
• 1x Hamletback Goliath
• 1x Mogg Flunkies
• 1x Prized Elephant
• 1x Reckless Brute
• 2x Roaring Primadox
• 1x Torch Fiend
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

Land (3)

• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Swamp

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Fervor

Artifact (2)

• 1x Door to Nothingness
• 1x Ring of Kalonia

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Mark of Mutiny

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This blue/green draft deck won in my 8-person tiny tournament. It has decent card draw and decent mana ramp. The unblockability brought by Tricks of the Trade was key to most of my wins, and the Ring of Evos Isle proved its worth, not only in the counters that it brought, but for the hexproof option. Archeomancer originally felt like it wasn't that great of a card, but I used it several times to be able to essentially recast Unsummon, Rewind, Farseek, or Naturalize. That allowed me to remove counters from opponents' cards, counter spells, or remove tokens. Primal Clay was very useful at times because of the different forms it took on. The adaptability is welcome, especially since it costs what a normal 3/3/ artefact would cost.

My edit to this deck (in the heat of building a deck) was to remove 1 island and the Ring of Kalonia and put in another Archaeomancer and add the Staff of Nin. The staff is costly, but in conjunction with the Reliquary Tower, in the late-game it proved to be useful. I'm going to log this as that version, as it was more successful. I only became land-flushed once in the tournament.

My only regret during the draft is that I didn't pick up more Timberpack Wolf cards.

Date added	13 years
Last updated	13 years
Legality	This deck is Pre-release legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 4 Rares 8 - 7 Uncommons 16 - 5 Commons
Cards	41
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Saproling 1/1 G