#frostfist strider

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Frostfist Strider by Francisco Miyara

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Bronze to Mythic, Dominaria United premiere draft #2, new dad style!

Pack 1, pick 1 Fires of Victory over Lagomos, Hand of Hatred and Citizen’s Arrest. Mostly personal preference. It’s cheaper than Arrest, the kicker is nice to have but not necessary, and I was eyeing the Tolarian Terror on the wheel. Pick 2 Talas Lookout, perfect. Pick 3 a RW dual over a bunch of medium red playables. Pick 3 is a little early for duals, but this spot where everything else is medium is where I like taking them. Pick 4 Talas Lookout. Pick 5 Phyrexian Rager over Tribute to Urborg and no blue or red cards. Could go either way on this one. Pick 6 Tolarian Geyser over Tolarian Terror. Pick 7 Soaring Drake. Pick 8 UW dual. The Terror from pick 1 wheeled, as did basically all the other blue cards from the next packs. Blue is wide open, but I could go black or red and splashing white is pretty easy.

Pack 2, pick 1 Lightning strike over The Raven Man and Frostfist Strider, and again eyeing a Tolarian Terror on the wheel. The Raven Man I don’t think does much in limited, and Lightning Strike is the cheaper card of what’s left. Pick 2 Timely Interference over Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart and Impulse. I think there’s a world where I could have taken Raff and leaned into UW, but I keep saying this, the cheaper single color card is where I’m at most of the time. From here on out, not much else to say except no one else is drafting blue.

Pack 3, I opened Serra Paragon, which... what could have been, am I right? I was happy enough taking Flowstone Infusion and eye a third Tolarian Terror for the wheel.

So this deck felt pretty close to being busted. Lots of cheap spells and 3 Tolarian Terrors feels great. So what happened?

I won my first 3 matches, although the second match my opponent had a busted GR deck with multiple rares and great uncommons. I think they expected their deck to win through sheer power, I don’t think they played particularly well, and I’m sure they missed the winning line at the end of the game. 

4th match I lost to RB grind-em-out again. The thing that really won it for them was that they had two of the 2/3 menace that returns a guy with haste, the creature in the graveyard was Flowstone Kavu, and I had bounce spells. I think i messed up the last turn, but I’m not sure. I was at 7 with 3 creatures against their two 2/3 menace guys, and I figured attacking with one creature was safe to set up a possible kill next turn backed up with my bounce spells I was unable to use. But they came back with a removal spell to let their menace creatures attack freely and a Lightning Strike. They must have just drawn it.

5th match I lost because I abandoned the game because, well, I am an mtg dad, so when my 3 month old son cries, I have to take care of him.

6th match was the same. I thought I was fine to squeeze a game in, but no, duty calls. Shame too, I was going to win this one very easily. Arena needs emotes for parents! Sorry, my kid needs me, congrats on the free win! It’s unfortunate, but it’s part of the mtg dad life. Someday, gods willing, we will be playing Magic together.