Friday 18:48
Saturday 17:52

Easy straightforward Saturday with no assists. Felt like a Friday, and beat its time as well.



Labor Day weekend meant a low turnout for Friday Night Magic, so we only had six to draft. Normally, I'd first-pick Cloudkin Seer and go for Elementals, but with the lower number of players and packs, it's harder to put together, so I took Overcome. Overcome is pretty good in any green deck, although it's not the monster bomb Overrun was, especially in this format, where green's strength is in its already large creatures. The fact that I'd normally take a 2/1 flier over it (and I'm not alone) says a lot.

Still, if you do draft a lot of creatures and stay low to the ground, Overcome will win you games. I stuck mostly to green for the first pack, though random white cards came late because white is so bad, and Ajani was waiting for me in pack 2, then Vengeful Hydra in pack 3! I ended up with a life-gain heavy deck, including Bishop of Wings, 3 Dawning Angel, Angel of Vitality and 2 Daybreak Chaplain plus its best friend Gauntlets of Light. Ironroot Warlord was also strong.

What the deck didn't have was removal. No Pacifism, no Rabid Bite. Not even Vial of Dragonfire. I still won the first two matches without too much difficulty. A couple of Overcome finishes, and one time I got up to 35 life and used Ajani's ultimate to win. Alas, my deck did not cooperate in the third round, to the point where I had literally every 5-drop of the deck in my hand (nothing in the deck costs more) and was stuck on four lands. The turn before dying, I drew Blossoming Sands. If it were literally ANY OTHER LAND, I might have been able to stabilize with the three Dawning Angels in my hand, or for the previous three turns not only miss land drops, but draw the only uncastable spells as well? Such salt.

But, I did get to ultimate Ajani in limited, and that's pretty awesome. I have one in my EDH life gain deck as well, and I hope to execute that someday as well.