Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:56:29 +0200 From: Nestor Rodriguez Subject: Re: [Booster Draft]: Weatherlight example(Maybe I'm a bit late) On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Peter F. Varcoe wrote: Well, maybe I'm a bit late replying this, but here I want to point out my own experience drafting with weatherlight... > I normally draft heavier on artifacts, but there just didn't seem to be > much worth drafting. Black and Blue were the last colors left... Black is not bad in sealed, but blue is obviously better because of the million common fliers it has... > I had been told (these were my first Weatherlight cards) that the > common Heavy Balista were a fairly good common. This card is so powerfull in sealed that i cannot believe it's a common, it can on it's own shut down your opponents attack complitely, this one, and a few other good white commons, and you have a winner-deck... Also, Len had pointed > out that the Cloud Elemental could be useful as a Ball Lighning-like > card, if nothing less. That's true, this 4/4 scary creature can kill almost everything in sealed, and not everyone wants to trade his valuable breezkeeper for a one shot creature. It can stop all sensible sealed deck fliers, and if you get to draft teferi's veil, it's "La ola!" > > Following is the set of cards that I drafted: > (Green cards were gone w/in 3-4 passes and most Red cards by 4-6 passes) > > BLACK > 1x Buried Alive > 1x Haunting Misery > 1x Odylic Wraith (This has great splash potential against other Black decks!) Good card for sealed, and with fire whip, you got the poor man's scepter.. > BLUE > 2x Sage Owl (incredible power for sealed, library manipulation+flying critter...) > 4x Tolarian Drake (I was happily surprised to see these come around) What? they let 4 of these go past???? where were u drafting??? > 3x Fog Elemental (Not too bad, but great w/Teferi's Veil) > 1x Manta Ray (Didn't look as if anyone else was using Blue) > 2x Ophidian Not very good, because it's weak for it's cc... > 2x Teferi's Veil Really cool with the fog elementals.. > 2x Flux (last cards received) Interesting in sealed > 1x Phantom Wings (Would have been better with more non-flyers?) Good card, but with so many fliers... > 2x Apathy (Very limited creature control) It only stops creatures at the beginning, but not that good later in the game.. > > GREEN (All were pretty much negative drafts, but COULD be used) > 1x Arctic Wolves > 1x Fungus Elemental Power! > 1x Redwood Treefolk (Only splash candidate of this color) Power! > RED (Most of these COULD be splashed) > 1x Goblin Grenadiers (possible creature control) > 1x Orcish Settlers > 1x Thundermare This last 2 are good enogh for the splash slot... > 1x Boiling Blood > 1x Fire Whip Superb creature control in sealed... > > WHITE > 1x Ardent Militia good critter > 2x Duskrider Falcon Very good > 2x Heavy Balista (Best of my creature control?) As said before a must!!!!! > 1x Master of Arms Ultra power in sealed, you just cannot get fid of it in combat... > 3x Soul Shepherd > 1x Alms > 2x Angelic Renewal (2 extra Balista/Fog Elemental) Really good card especially for the cc... > 1x Aura of Silence > 1x Empyrical Armor (Could be nice on a flyer) This card is even more broken in sealed than a hammer of bogardan, it's so incredibly powerful, early in the game, that it should be banned...One o 2 of these can asure you at least 50% of the games won in 5 turns.. > 1xInner Sanctum > > Obviously, I felt that, despite little creature control available, > I felt that the W/U or U/W was the best mix for me. I saw plenty > of creatures in those colors, especially flyers. the best choice is white/blue with a bit of red... > What deck would you build and how would you sideboard against: > > W/R Balista, Falcon, Benalish, Infantry & Knight w/Red for creature removal > G/B/r LOTS of mid-range creatures and "unblockables" and Bone Dancer > (ie Would you include Odylic Wraith) > G/R Decent number of creatures with some Red for removal/modification > > If you see Phasing Flyers and Fog Elementals go by, I suggest that you > consider negative drafting Teferi's Veil, BTW. If your opponent doesn't > NEED to block, then Flyers that attack under the Veil will almost > certainly spell your doom. yes, but they will do damage really fast, killing your opponent quickly, and with a balista ion the ground to ontrol the other critters, it's your game,.... > > Pete > --------------------------------------------------------- > -- MTG-Strategy-L FAQ & Strategy Guide are at > -- http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~edney/faq.html > --------------------------------------------------------- > Hope could help Nestor Rodriguez