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2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« on: August 11, 2012, 07:36:21 PM »
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Player: Alex Olijar
2012 Booster Draft Championship Deck: 12.33/15 Points
Total Cards: 50

Lost Souls: 7
No SA x5
FBTN
Far Country

Sites: 6
New Jerusalem
Desolate City
Roman Prison
Lion’s Den
Media
Dangerous Road

Artifacts: 2
Unholy Writ
The Bronze Laver

Heros: 15
Peter x2
Malachi
Christian Soldier
Shamgar
Tola
Samson
Hur
Paladin
Eli the Priest (Teal)
Jehoiada the High Priest
Jeremiah
Enoch
Ira
King Saul

Good Enhancements: 8
David’s Sling
Battle Cry
The Acts of Solomon
Gideon’s Call
Provisions
Zeal for the Lord
Loyalty of Ruth
Mountain of God

Evil Dominants: 1
Falling Away

Evil Characters: 5
Emperor Claudius
Gomer
Shimei
Korah
Admiral

Evil Enhancements: 5
Ignorance
Shimei’s Malicious Curse
Paul’s Girdle
Wickedness of the Tenants
Korah’s Rebellion

Curses: 1
Unsuccessful

I will post some stuff about the the playing style and thought process later on. I am tired now.
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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2012, 12:02:02 AM »
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So, let's get to this description:

The day started nonchalantly enough. Some last minute scrambling led to AW and Pats packs being added, upping the total to 9 packs (Blue, Green, Women, Pats, Kings, AW, Priests, TeP, Discs). My initial randomization put my at seat 43, but mistakes were made and a new randomization was needed. I got seat 43. One might say the seat was divinely appointed for me (and I may have yelled that across the room to John Earley as he tried to judge).

To the pack opening:
My original packs mostly were terrible. I grabbed a couple useful characters (Shamgar, Christian Soldier, Samson, Shimei), but nothing special. I decided to try to work into a mostly Red offense after prophets, where I got Malachi to give me 4 characters in Red. Unfortunately, this would be bad, as I would later find out the player diagonal from me also went pure red, and had much better success with it, leading me to believe that the packs just had bad Red pulls. Either way, Womens packs probably won me the tournament. I got three sites (Lion's Den, Media, New Jerusalem) and Falling Away. Not a bad pull. Pats packs were good for me on defense, as I was able to pull a Korah and Korah's Rebellion for some juicy name on name (haha jokes) and Gideon's Call for my awesome judge just in case I ever found another gold character. I believe I also got Battle Cry from Pats. Kings got me right to another gold character with Tola, as well as solo heroes King Saul and Ira and power enhancements Provisions and Shimei's Malicious Curse.

By this point, I was quickly realizing my offense was atrocious. I devoted the rest of my pulls to offense first. Unfortunately, Angel Wars had exactly 0 angels in my pack, so I just grabbed sites first, and then defense. It worked out super well in Priests though, as I opened right into a Zeal for the Lord. I grabbed the only two teal characters I saw to help me out. TeP was then awesome. My opening pack had a choice of Gomer, Philistine Garrison, or Leviathan. I settled on Gomer due to my brown theme in previous packs, albeit with much consideration of Garrison. To my chagrin, the next pack passed to me had Philistine Chariot and Horses. In a pull I maybe should not have made, I pulled PHC out of the pack to prevent it from meeting with Garrison. I pulled 2x Peter out of TeP to complete my cool finds. Disciples was much less interesting, but I did get passed an Unholy Writ, which was pretty exciting.

During deckbuilding, I decided to use more defense than usual, seeing as my offense was terrible. After my offense, my first adds were my nifty sites (along with access), Falling Away, and Unholy Writ. I had about 15 spots for my defense, which left me with 7 after the adds. That seemed a little low, so I trimmed the offense up a bit to fit more defense in (specifically Emperor Claudius, Paul's Girdle, and Ignorance).

Deck Strategy:

My strategy with this deck was simple: The offense stinks, so I need to control who is getting souls as best I can. I did this through sites (which are 5 different colors, allowing me to control who can get which soul fairly easily), as well as Unholy Writ and Falling Away. Writ allowed me to keep certain players souls on the table (i.e. the players I identify to have no blocking capabilities) while Falling Away allows me to check early leaders. I would have to rely on others "knowing how to play multiplayer" (i.e. give first soul free, don't block a player who's behind if you only have one block, etc) as well as game manipulation.

The strategy worked. Peter (which copy? who knows?) was the MVP of the deck. I estimate he won over 12 unopposed souls (due to smart attacking or just smart play by my opponents not to block), as well as a soul almost every game with Battle Cry.

Thanks for a great tournament guys! I would post commentary on games, but I'm kind of lazy still. I had a great second game, which resulted in two rounds of 4-4-4-4, but I wouldn't be able to do the sweat I had justice in trying to sum up the games!

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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 08:50:07 PM »
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Congrats on your victory!

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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2012, 09:07:18 PM »
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I'd say any offense that gets a FbtN Hero in booster is stellar. Falling Away and the FbtN soul pay for the draft as far as trade-able/sellable cards go too. CONGLATURATION!!
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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2012, 09:47:30 PM »
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I'd say any offense that gets a FbtN Hero in booster is stellar. Falling Away and the FbtN soul pay for the draft as far as trade-able/sellable cards go too. CONGLATURATION!!

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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2012, 10:51:50 PM »
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Poor, poor Ira.
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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 01:11:59 AM »
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Only because for the most part the format itself is FBTN. If you have no support for your FBTN hero, then his utility will be minimal.
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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 01:17:53 AM »
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Only because for the most part the format itself is FBTN. If you have no support for your FBTN hero, then his utility will be minimal.

Yeah, defenses in booster (especially ones with as many packs as we had), will have plenty of big guys to stop your FBTN hero if he's alone.  I know I had Claudius x2, Herod the Great, Four Squads of Four x2 and Beast from the Earth in that booster.
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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2012, 01:20:29 AM »
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Only because for the most part the format itself is FBTN. If you have no support for your FBTN hero, then his utility will be minimal.

Yeah, defenses in booster (especially ones with as many packs as we had), will have plenty of big guys to stop your FBTN hero if he's alone.  I know I had Claudius x2, Herod the Great, Four Squads of Four x2 and Beast from the Earth in that booster.

Yeah, exactly. I just tossed him in there for turn 1 RAs and some new site access. He probably wasn't a great add due to potential IAs or Asahel's around.

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Re: 2012 Booster Draft 1st Place
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2012, 02:10:03 AM »
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I'd just throw him in there for the intimidation factor. Have him sit in your territory and be a target. Works well usually.
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