Crabs for Christmas
bdm | December 30, 2009 | 1:13 amThis 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.
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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



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