A Draft Walkthrough with Steve Sadin
bdm | January 6, 2010 | 8:10 pmI am not so sure how “cool” this is — as was promised by Matt Wang in a previous post — but I did manage to wrangle Limited Information author and Top8Magician Steve Sadin to do a draft walkthrough with me just before Christmas. Steve and I did a couple of these way back when and they were always fun. I remember a podcasting session where we forced blue-red Storm in Time Spiral block. Using the fancy-pants technology of RareDraft.com we were able to visually record all the draft picks and you can hear our discussion about the picks in the first installment. We also talk about how the draft played out in the second installment.
I have been drafting a lot of MonoWhite or nearly MonoWhite in triple Zendikar and this draft played out pretty much according to that plan. Here is the draft:
Here is where we discuss the draft in two parts:
Sadin Draft Walkthrough Part 1
Sadin Draft Walkthrough Part 2
Finally, here is the deck that we built:
1 Kabira Crossroads
1 Kor Aeronaut
1 Journey to Nowhere
1 Bold Defense
2 Kor Skyfisher
2 Steppe Lynx
2 Kor Cartographer
2 Kor Hookmaster
13 Plains
1 Kazandu Blademaster
1 Brave the Elements
1 Stonework Puma
1 Explorer’s Scope
1 Celestial Mantle
1 Devout Lightcaster
1 Kor Outfitter
1 Burst Lightning
4 Mountain
1 Kor Duelist
2 Nimbus Wings



Could you please spare an invite for ‘raredraft.com’ ?
btw…awesome podcasts
Many thanks
More of these please!
Why the pick of Rite of Replication instead of the 2WWW gain infinite life?, Seems like multiple fog turns to me and it’s so good in aggro, and there’s nothing blue in the picks and multiple WW costs. Don’t know what he tried to accomplish. It’s a mistake period.
I think the Rite is better at that point in the draft since it’s only pick 6 overall. You never know what he might pick up later in the draft. If he starts seeing a bunch of Umara Raptors then maybe he’ll play blue and throw that in the splash.