Weekly TS Draft #1

Now that I've finally gotten the hang of this format, here is my draft from last night. I started off by first-picking Momentary Blink, but for the rest of pack 1 I couldn't decide whether I was going to be W/B or W/U or all three. Fortunately pack 2 and pack 3 pushed me into blue, where I really wanted to be. White was clear from the start when I got a 3rd pick Griffin Guide, and reaffirmed when I got passed a Pentarch Paladin pack 3. Somehow this didn't stop the person to my right from playing White. I don't know what he was thinking.

White
Amrou Scout
Amrou Seekers
Castle Raptors
Celestial Crusader
Cloudchaser Kestrel
Griffin Guide
Ivory Giant
Momentary Blink
Pentarch Paladin
Quilled Sliver
Watcher Sliver
Zealot il-Vec

Blue
Coral Trickster
Crookclaw Transmuter
Drifter il-Dal
Eternity Snare
2x Fathom Seer
Fledgling Mawcor
Looter il-Kor
2x Mystical Teachings
Sage of Epityr
Slipstream Serpent
2x Snapback
Spiketail Drakeling
Stormcloud Djinn
Temporal Eddy
Tolarian Sentinel

Black
Pit Keeper
Plague Sliver
Trespasser il-Vec
Urborg Syphon-Mage

Red
Sedge Sliver

Green
Might Sliver (this tabled somehow)
Molder
Scarwood Treefolk

Gold
Mystic Enforcer
Shadowmage Infiltrator

Artifact/Land
Assembly Worker
Desert
Foriysian Totem
Thunder Totem

So yeah, pack 2 started with me cracking Finkel, then getting passed both Sedge Sliver and Mystic Enforcer. This threw me off my game for a few picks because I was passing up good draft cards for those. Fortunately things came together well anyway. I built the following:

White
Amrou Scout
Amrou Seekers
Castle Raptors
Celestial Crusader
Cloudchaser Kestrel
Griffin Guide
Ivory Giant
Momentary Blink
Pentarch Paladin
Quilled Sliver
Watcher Sliver
Zealot il-Vec

Blue
Coral Trickster
Crookclaw Transmuter
2x Fathom Seer
Fledgling Mawcor
Looter il-Kor
Sage of Epityr
Spiketail Drakeling
Stormcloud Djinn

Artifact/Land
Desert
Thunder Totem
8 Plains
8 Islands

I went 2-1 with this, getting third on tiebreakers. The matches I won I won 2-0 off good starts. This deck seems to curve well as it has a number of 2 drops followed by some 3 drops followed by higher drops. The match I lost was also 2-0. Game one he managed to get 8 goblin tokens into play off his 2 Goblin Warrens and a Mogg War Marshal, but I had the game won unless he had Strength in Numbers. He had 2. Game 2 ended with me having 1 Island in play and 5 blue cards in hand. I probably would have lost anyway, because his drops went from Mogg War Marshal right to Gaia's Leige, Phantom Wurm, Spectral Force, and Havenwood Worm. All in all I was pleased with how things went. I didn't make any horrific play mistakes the way I have been for the past couple of weeks, and I even cleverly used my Desert to kill my own Quilled Sliver the turn after an opponent dropped 2 slivers of his own.