Draft in July

Had a 4-player draft over the weekend: 5 x 15-card boosters, 50basic+3non-basic land pack.

Best play I saw (and was against me):

me: Oath of Druids trigger goes on the stack... resolves to an Ulamog. Also play Krosan Cloudscraper face-down (I have Mirari's Wake in play and five lands). Pass the turn feeling pretty confident of a quick win.

opp: Guilded Drake, Time Walk, Eternal Witness

Yeah, Vintage is rough!


My decklist:
Lands
Misty Rainforest
Bayou
Maze of Ith
Breeding Pool
Urza's Factory (never saw it though)
Stirring Wildwood

Removal / utility
Ancestral Recall
Mind Twist
Crop Rotation (... grabbing Maze of Ith mid-combat)
Pernicious Deed
Wrath of God
Day of Judgement
Damnation (yeah, I got the big three removal spells: this doesn't happen with more players!)

Combo pieces
Oath of Druids
Polymorph (Mass Polymorph will go in the cube next update)
Mirari's Wake
Mana Vault
Liliana Vess
Garruk Wildspeaker

Guys
Emrakul
Progenitus
Krosan Cloudscraper

(subbed-in Ulamog after losing Emrakul in my ante one game)

July cube additions

New additions for July:
Plated Geopede
Kor Sanctifiers
Vampire Lacerator
Kor Skyfisher
Vivid Marsh
Vivid Grove
Vivid Crag
Vivid Meadow
Tolaria West
Contested Cliffs
Goblin Burrows
Vengevine
Phylactery Lich
Grave Titan
Sun Titan
Fauna Shaman
Pyretic Ritual
Pyramidhead
Student of Warfare

Kind of cool: we got to draft M11 cards before release. The Lich is cool! Fits well into a vintage cube (lots of artifacts, legitimate black aggro or control finisher).


Also, fixed a few typos and things I missed (such artifact land borders.. now they have colours matching the mana they produce). Rob spotted that I have spelled "Beleren" incorrectly (not too worried there).