The Fugitive Wizard: 2011

This was a BSS draft in the 8-4 queue that I thought featured some interesting choices.
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Seems fine.

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Vivisection or Raker would be fine, but I figured I can splash either the Marauder or Offering.

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I want to be Black and I like Ghoul better than Plunder, plus we may see another Plunder at common.

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I don't know about this one, but I think the idea was I'd be able to splash something, instead of going Black White.

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So Blue is open, not that I can do much about it now.

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I probably should have bit the bullet and taken Oculus.

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FINE. I'll grab some Blue.

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Seems late for a Vivisection. I probably won't play 2, but what else would I play here?

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Pack 2 pick 1:

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Uh huh.

Pack 2 pick 2:

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We're playing Black again.

Pack 2 pick 3:

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Disappointing. But a splash for Marauder is fine. Molder Beast may table.

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There's some amount of synergy with Wurmcoil or Skinrender under here, plus Black Sun's Zenith is easier to cast if you know you'll get some bomb from underneath the Clone Shell.

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We want to be Black.

Pack 2 pick 7:

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An argument could be made for Drake here. I think the reasoning was the easier casting cost on the artifact, and the fact that it would help me get to the late game just a little better, which was looking pretty decent.

Pack 2 pick 8:

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Maybe Rebuttal is better than an off color Myr. I figure casting my big guys will be better overall.

Pack 2 pick 9:

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??? I guess Invisomancer isn't great in my controlling deck? But making your 5/5s and 6/6s unblockable seem good.I don't know...

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There's our Molder Beast!

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Pack 3 pick 1:

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Sure. Skinrender, Clone Shell, Neurok Replica, Wurmcoil, even Bleakcoven seems fine with this.

Pack 3 pick 2:

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Better than Riddlesmith.

Pack 3 pick 3:

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I don't know about this. Prototype Portal seems to invite blowouts, especially exiling a bomb like Wurmcoil. We already have a Mimic Vat, and Night's Whispering every turn isn't bad anyway.

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Should I have taken the Drake? Myrsmith seems like one of the few ways we lose.

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Sending fatties to the air beats out having a counterspell. Also it cantrips us faster to our bombs.

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So now we have 2 mana myr. I think a case could be made for the Perilous myr, but again, casting bombs faster is good.

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Don't want to run my guys into that.

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We will play this.

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So this was the deck I ended up with

Qty,Card Name,
1,Black Sun's Zenith
1,Bleak Coven Vampires
1,Clone Shell
1,Copper Myr
1,Disperse
1,Fangren Marauder
1,Flight Spellbomb
5,Forest
2,Gust-Skimmer
1,Hexplate Golem
1,Iron Myr
2,Island
1,Mimic Vat
1,Molder Beast
1,Moriok Replica
1,Necrogen Scudder
1,Nested Ghoul
1,Neurok Replica
1,Nihil Spellbomb
1,Silver Myr
1,Skinrender
1,Snapsail Glider
10,Swamp
1,Viridian Emissary
1,Wurmcoil Engine

Sorry for the terrible formatting I am lazy. I played against a controlling infect deck round 1, where I eventually timed out in 3 matches. As I'm sure you guessed, I made multiple misplays, the biggest of which was during game one, F6ing (because I'm a slow player!) through an opponent's turn after I tapped out, but when I had Nihil Spellbomb up. After he passed through combat he realized I had F6ed and Morbid Plundered back two infect guys. I lost that game, and would have gotten game three if I had two more turns, of swinging unopposed, but alas, I am SO SLOW at Magic. The deck, I think turned out fairly well. Thoughts?

The Fugitive Wizard

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