My First SSC Draft

I wasn't really sure what to expect from this draft since I didn't know how the Conflux pack would change the draft.

I did the normal stay in a few colors for as long as possible and read signals.

I was basically in mono black until pack three which put me in Buw since I already had a Arcane Sanctum.

3 Dregscape Zombie
2 Tidehollow Strix
1 Zombie Outlander
1 Rotting Rats
2 Brackwater Elemental
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Nyxathid
1 Cunning Lethemancer
2 Viscera Dragger
1 Ethersworn Adjusticator
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Tar Fiend
1 Grixis Slavedriver
1 Undead Leotau
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Bone Splinters
1 Scepter of Fugue
1 Absorb Vis
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Plains
6 Island
9 Swamp

As you can see it is basically a UB deck with Unearth and discard themes that worked really well together. I even have 5(!!) rares in the deck.

Round 1: Matt something
Matt had a pretty good start with 2 Akrasan Squires and a Quisali Ambusher for my first Dregscape Zombie attack. I got down a Strix and a Zombie Outlander to hold back his guys and eventually finished him off with a few big Unearth turns and a Adjusticator. Game two I found out he wasn't playing a WG Exalted deck but some 5c abortion that just got lucky and drew that part of the deck last game. I held back his guys and emptied his hand with Scepter then finished him with another 2 big swings.

Round 2: Yosie
He seemed like he new how to play but had been out of the game for a while and was a little rusty on the rules. He had a decent Naya deck but it was pretty slow and just one removal spell on a big guy was enough for me to race the rest of them. Game two I got Adjusticator online and mowed down some guys, traded with some Unearth guys, then brought them back a few at a time to take him out.

Round 3: Rader
I had watched a few of Raders matches before this one and he had all the good rares for the Esper deck (Master of Etherium, Master Transmuter, Sphinx Summoner, and Sharuum) but not a lot of the early stuff so I was pretty sure I could handle it if I kept an aggresive hand. Game one he mulliganed to 5 on the play and wasn't able to keep up. Game two my discard and his not being able to hit his 6th land for 3-4 turns made it possible for me to just build up an army and swarm him out in two attacks.

Round 4: Boss
Once again my opponent had to mulligan to 5 on the play and I kept a 2 lander with lots of cheap gas. He hit Sphere to go get the lands he needed and I ended up drawing 10 lands and 4 spells that game. He was able to stabilize at one life and finish me off with an artificial Craw Wurm after having the random land cycling Counterspell for my random land cycling Drain Life. Game two was a much better game. I just got in for as much damage as I could when I could. Brackwater got in for lots of damage and he couldn't handle the second wave of creatures out of the graveyard. Game three he mulliganed to 5 on the play again. I killed his first guy which was a Sludge Strider but then he played a Tower Gargoyle and my Nyxathid was only a 3/3. I drew the Lethemancer and devised I plan of just sitting back until he did something because he was just drawing and passing with 4 mana up then discarding a land every turn. I wasn't about to walk into a Resounding Silence, I had him on this because at first I thought it was Agony Warp but he would have used that on the Lethemancer. Eventually he tapped lands for a Skill Borrower (SHITS WEEAAAAKKK!) and I emptied his hand with a Rotting Rats and got in there with Nyxathid and my Unearth guys. He drew a land for turn and it was all over.

The deck was amazing. Would draft again. I really like the format and am looking forward to drafting SSC again and again.