Don't Tell the Wife!

I 0-3ed last night's draft, but I did okay anyway. Thank God for poor college kids with large card collections and an appetite for beer.
3x Venser
4x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Pact of Negation
2x Teferi's Moat
2x Bogardan Hellkite
2 x Desert
Knucklebone Witch
Oona's Prowler
Cryptic Command
Jace
2 x Scion of Oona
2 x Birds of Paradise
Total Cost= $72

I also rare drafted an Auntie's Hovel, another Oona's Prowler, a foily Primal Command, and a Wydwen. I now have playsets of most of these cards. Looking forward to actually having options when building for Standard! But trying to explain why spending this much money was such a good deal to a wife who actively dislikes playing Magic would be a difficult task. So let's just keep this between you, me, and the other dozens of people who read this site, mmkay?
T

Well, now you all know my MODO handle

From today's Building on a Budget

Game 2: bat_matt (Black-Green Living End)

He begins the game with Leyline of the Void in play. I get down Shadowmage Infiltrator and start building mana, while he plays Mirri (the black one) on defense, and suspends Living End. As the first Living End gets down to one counter, he suspends a second one. I put Loxodon Warhammer and Llanowar Reborn on the board. The Living End goes off, killing his Mirri and my Infiltrator, and he follows it with Deepcavern Imp. I play Vorosh and make him a 7/7 with my land. He holds back, and lets his Living End get down to one counter. I put the Loxodon Warhammer on Vorosh, and attack. When he doesn't block, I use Psychotic Fury to make Vorosh lethal.

Record: 1-1

In case that game summary does not make it clear, I was never in this. At all. Even if I am able to Living End the Dragon, he was at more than comfortable life at the time, with a card or two in hand. I had no early beats and things were rapidly degenerating. Mirri out of the graveyard was not about to save me. On the other hand, I should have chumped with Deepcavern Imp because it would have given me an extra guy off Living End. But as we all know by now, CBG is a bad player. Also, I was distracted because my keyboard was malfunctioning. How annoying. So much for ingratiating myself with a mothership columnist.

Oh, the deck sucks. I will not be playing it anymore. There's no way it is going to be good.