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Crabs for Christmas

bdm | December 30, 2009 | 1:13 am

This is essentially a test post to play around with the Rare Draft player that Daniel Too (of TCGBuddy fame) has been beta testing. This is an 8-4 draft I did on Christmas morning. I ended up with a midnight mass of Hedron Crabs and a couple of — fittingly given the name of the draft player — rares to pull it all together.

If this works I will be able to even more draft recaps without having to send you over to my Google site to see them. (I know it is a little cut off on the right but hopefully that will get worked out down the stretch of “getting out of beta”)

Here is the deck I ended up playing and going 3-0 with. The Archive Trap has become my most drafted rare on MTGO and it won me most of my games following a turn two Crab. I also got to kick Rite of Replication on an Umara Raptor for the win in one game which was … you know… awesome.

    Crabs for Christmas

1 Shepherd of the Lost
1 Pitfall Trap
1 Rite of Replication
2 Umara Raptor
4 Hedron Crab
1 Sky Ruin Drake
1 Archive Trap
2 Makindi Shieldmate
1 Gomazoa
2 Æther Figment
2 Kor Skyfisher
1 Whiplash Trap
1 Living Tsunami
1 Paralyzing Grasp
1 Into the Roil
1 Kabira Crossroads
1 Sejiri Refuge
9 Island
7 Plains


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Draftcap, Strategery
Tags
Booster Draft, Hedron Crab, Rare Draft, TCGBuddy, Zendikar
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4 responses

Jay | December 30, 2009 | 2:50 am

4 Crabs and the Archive Trap… living the dream, lmao.
Plus a Whiplash and Pitfall as a trap package if you theoretically wanted to run the Trap tutor… How good is the tutor?
Pretty cool.

Roy Tang :: Nix Tix Alara Draft (Swiss): 3-0 | December 30, 2009 | 7:17 am

[...] today, and in fact already had quite a bit of javascript done for the draft widget when I read a new post by Brian David-Marshall over on top8magic and found out that there was already a new draft recorder website: RareDraft. I got myself an [...]

Dan | December 30, 2009 | 9:12 am

The only picks I disagree with are:
Pack 2 Pick 5: Narrow Escape over Ior Ruin Expedition because you are unlikely to play second Ior Ruin and Narrow is a good SB card and
Pack 3 Pick 7: I would take Sky Ruin Drake over Aether Figment, this is the type of deck where you want to be as defensive as possible and Drake accomplishes that much more, and I think it’s a better card than Aether Figment anyway.
Awesome draft. Sick deck sir. 4 Hedron Crab and Trap so sick

Philson | December 31, 2009 | 3:58 am

Hey. Can anyone send me an invitation for Rare Draft?

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