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So Wal-Mart sells “draft packs.” It is three “random” boosters of Magic hidden behind a Foil land, so you can’t see what you’re getting. They are 11 dollars. Buying three packs alone would probably be at least 13. So, you know, a little discount, mixed with not having to run all over town to find enough packs (which is often an issue around here without going to the card store. It’s an awesome card store, but, you know, you are paying more that way) and with a little of the fact that I know two Wal-Mart employees to buy the cards with their discount, and you have the perfect excuse to buy these packs and draft with them.

So that’s what we did last night.

The first thing we noticed is that the packs in there aren’t as random as they might seem. Wizards of the Coast must have printed no less than 4 Billion Fifth Dawn packs, because man, I see them discounted constantly, all over the place, and every one of these packs that we bought had a Fifth Dawn booster in them. They also all contained an Eventide booster. This is better than Fifth Dawn. We have opened so, so many Fifth Dawn packs. Three of the Draft Packs also contained a Tenth Edition booster. For no reason, mine contained a Guildpact Booster instead.

So that was our combination. How did it go?

Jonathan drafted a rainbow deck that did well. We all tried to act shocked. Though the fact that he didn’t win WAS kind of shocking.
Spaeth pulled a Joiner Adept first thing, and then proceeded NOT to draft a rainbow deck for no reason whatsoever.
Essner ran a Redish deck with Nobilis of War to a very complete victory.

And me? Well, I drafted a Mono-Black deck based on Blind Creeper and Seize the Soul.
Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking either.
I got a ton of recursion, in a whopping three Desecrator Hags and an Exhumer Thrull, but when you’re having to put Dross Crocodile in your deck because you have nothing above a 2/2? Well, you’re not going to do well. So I annoyed a lot with all my recursion, but did little. I managed to beat my match with Spaeth, though, simply based on him being extremely mana-flooded. So I got a pity win, I guess.

Still, Magic Drafting is always fun times, and I have a shiny new pair of Evershrikes that we opened to put into a revamped White Enchantment deck, along with these Celestial Ancients I have sitting around.

I’ve really got to sit down and do some serious deckbuilding soon.