Esper Pile (cube) (Cube)

a real pile. i tried to draft green, but it was cut intensely in p1, as was blue. i fell into white, and it seemed open enough - i got adanto vanguard, a late gideon, and adeline all in pack 1. wasn't sure what color 2 would be; i had a few green cards and a yawmgoth. p2p2 gave me JTMS, which i just slammed. i then waffled forever between blue and black, and white dried up a little bit so i didn't even get a deep deck. my waffling meant that i didn't even draft lands very well, so the mana for this deck is a little sketchy and i couldn't play yawgmoth, who needs BB.

so rough draft into a bad-ish deck, but somehow still got lucky and played tight to get the 3-0. the deck is assertive and has an ok curve, with no really expensive cards and 7 plays at 1-2 cmc (thought they aren't all good).

rd 1 vs eric on sultai graveyard value. game one was a long and grindy one in which we traded some resources; i ended up winning by combo-ing doomskar with selfless spirit to wipe his board and finish the game from there. g2 he was off mana a bit, and i just applied pressure all game and was able to get there.

rd 2 vs indy on jund ramp. g1 i kept a land heavy hand and he ramped intensely. he just wasn't under enough pressure and a gray merchant blocked enough to get him to double ob nix. g2 he kept a 1 lander and didn't get there; i played creatures on the first 3 turns, including a turn 3 clique that saw all his signets. g3 was the opposite - he flooded, and i just jammed bodies with sorin to keep the pressure on.

aside - sorin IS a nice 4-mana planeswalker. it is multicolor and plays best in a creaturesy deck, but if you satisfy those requirements it is quite powerful.

finals vs pete on UW great cards. he had a good curve and powerful stuff. g1 i had a great curve, playing early threats into sorin. he landed luminarch and jitte, and i hit the prismatic vista to play JTMS. 3 unsummons later, i had the win. g2 was an epic one - i kept a hand with both my 1-drop creatures, but he had ledger shredder into luminarch to immediately blunt my offensive. her played VERY defensively all game, gathering counters and not really attacking. i vomited out my hand, a motley crew of creatures (including hangarback walker), but i felt like doomskar would be my only out against his better board. when he played glen elendra, it was a death knell. i attacked to flip my gideon and force archmage to attack, but he sniped my spell queller so i couldn't block and gideon went down. pete decline a lethal attack in the air, being cautious of some kind of blowout, and then tapped out to play more blockers...so i cast doomskar, got a pile of thopters, and won from there. it was a wild game, and one i thought that i could never win - i considered conceding the game earlier. but you never know...

easily my ugliest 3-0 in cube in a very very long time.