-Bryan Dowse

I tried playing Masters Edition 3 online since I’ve been told it’s a pretty fun set to draft. Before I started playing I looked over all the cards and had a decent idea of what was good and what tricks to watch out for.

4-5 butt creatures are big in this format, and horsemanship is strong as well. Flying is actually the true evasion since there are only 3 common and uncommon flyers in the set.

I started off fairly well picking up some strong green and picked up what I thought were good green red legends as I saw them including The Lady of the Mountain and Jerrard of the Closed Fist. I followed those up with good mana acceleration like Spoils of Victory and Three Visits

Sadly I didn’t get a lot of removal. I should have taken Desert Twister in pack 3. But overall I had a decent start.

Overall pack 1 was pretty straight forward. Big dudes, mana acceleration. Tuknir Deathlock was really the card that put me into green red.

In this pack I first pick a Livonya Silone and follow that up with a Tracker.

I really liked the tracker when I played with him and would highly recommend him as an early pick. The Silone not so much. I mean sure it’s a good card, but any sort of removal is better like the Trip Wire I passed. Horsemanship is actually much more common in this format then legends.

Third pick I pick a jungle lion which is nothing fancy, but it’s an early creature. I also get a 6th pick Astrolabe. It seems like a decent card, and I’m a big fan of cards that I can play without losing card advantage.

I get some late pick minotaurs, namely Hurloon Minotaur and Anaba Spirit Crafter which will act as the base for my midgame creatures.

Here we go, a Fire Ambush. That’s what I’m looking for, especially since it’s followed up with a Tracker. In this pack I finally pick up the Trip Wire and it serves me well in the matches to follow. I flesh out some more minotaurs and acceleration with Raging Minotaur and Three Visits.

Overall not a bad first M3 draft. Check out the video below to see the matches.

Matches Part