Thursday Night Draft

Every Thursday, at Pheonix Games, in the run upto the UK's WoW TCG National Championship we are playing draft tournaments in order to get in practice. This week we had 8 players, including vistors Lost Ghost & Tyma - from Stockport and Swansea respectively.

Format was 2 HoA & 2 DP.

The deck I built was as follows

Hero: Elendril
32 Cards

1 Drops:
Bloodclaw x2
Apprentice Merry x1
Wing Clip x1
Eye of Rend x1
Battle of Darrowshire x1

2 Drops:
Avanthera x1
Tracker Gallen x1
Jeleane Nightbreeze x1
Overseer Oilfist x1
Arcane Shot x1
Eagle Eye x1
Ravenous Bite x2
A Donation of Silk x1

3 Drops:
Parvink x1
Trophey Kill x2
Black Crow x1 (2 Drop + 1 Swing)
Masons Fraternity Ring x1
Devilsaur Leggings x1
Crown of Earth x1
The Perfect Stout x1
Divono-matic Rod x1
Manhunt x1

4 Drops:
Margaret Fowl x1
Tristan Rapid Strike x1
Scimitar of the Nexus Stalkers x1 (2 Drop + 2 Swing)

6 Drops:
Acolyte Demia x1
Raul "Fingers" Maldren x1

1+X Drops:
Aimed Shot x1

9 Drops:
King Magni Bronzebeard x1

Ok I made some mistakes with cards used but onto that later!

Round One: Tyma
Ok the mean Welshman started of by showing me the hootie he had drafted and then writing "Not For You" on the card!!! Then put down his
As this game played out I managed to get both my weapons and the leggings out withing a resonable amount of time. Judicious use of Ravenous bite allowed me to keep control of the board. On the arcane shotted death of his elusive longrange allie - Tyma conceded defeat.
A win :D yipee

Round Two: The annoying little one (Jake)
Jake was playing Phaladus the tentacle face shamen, and I knew (because he had to tell every one!) that there was a Leeroy Jenkins lurking in his deck. Most of the match was a bit to and throw with regards to who was winning. I delibratly kept back a wing clip for Leeroy, but was forced to use it before he turned up. Unfortunatly for me Jake had pulled a Chain Lightning and with it cleared the field and squashed me over the next two turns.
A loss - to Jake!!!!!!!!! - Head to be banged against a wall 20 times to make up for it (Jakes head not mine!)
We played a friendly after while waiting for the next round and I walked ALL over him! Such is life of 1 game drafts!

Round Three: Jamie
Another blimming shamen! this time in the form of Grennan. Unfortunatly for me in this game the cards just did not flow! Frost shocked all over the place, Greefer stoping me completing any quests for 2 rounds until I got rid of him, Big beefy mobs beating into me and Flame Shock. The game tood a while but in the end I was overwhelmed!
Another loss - To jamie in draft is acceptable - Just 3 head bangings against a wall (Again Jakes and not mine!)

The Loot:
The way we avoid rare drafting - This is practice for the nationals after all!!! - is to put all the rares/epics out after the tourney and in order of first to last pick a card. My abysmal performance ment I didn't get the leeroy or the magni, which are both needed for my collection, but I did end up with the following

1> Aimed Shot (Needed for the MM hunter deck once FoO is released)
2> Herod's Shoulder (Valueable Card)
3> Arcane Power (For and Arcane mage deck)
4> Bloodrage (Awsome warrior draw power!)

Musings:
Magni in the deck was a bad idea! I should have left him out because I was never realisticaly going to get upto 9 resources as I was lacking the stall power for that.
As I was lacking any form of GY recursion in any of the cards I drafted it might have been a better idea to have run with Grumpherys and not take the aimed shot - at least that way I could have given one of the blood claw's a turn of almost total protection.
The eye of rend was pointless and I only had two weapons and so I think I would have been better leaving it out.

Well Saturday & Sunday are FoO pre-release events so I get to play with new cards in draft am looking forward to it :)
Tourney reports will be posted up here and on Zapped Giants.

Wisp