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UW (more like Wu)
GW humans equipments
UG emerge
Mono-B (who passed Noosegraf Mob for his very first pick, ugh)
BG Delirium
RB stuff

I saw Galvanic Bombardment wheel so I tried it, picked up the zombie enchant too but it didn't make the cut. Pair of Brazen Wolves, pair of Gavony Unhallowed, decided to pick Devil's Playground on top of my Dance with Devils.
Pack 2 I'd opened Collective Effort and I saw Sigardian Priests and stuff so I was a bit annoyed in case I played the W guy.

In the end my deck was about playing a couple early game creatures, curve into wolves and Vildin Pack Outcast, maybe get Delirium for Feaster, and try to trample/fly over people or maybe win off Magmatic Chasm.
I drafted badly and I could also have had two Kindly Stranger but BR's not that great for delirium, although I had a couple auras.

First was BG Delirium, a Legacy guy who got burnt a couple times by interactions (I did take the time to tell him what'd happen, especially with the devil tokens, tho).
I could go through him once somewhat easily with a couple removal, devil tokens for Gnarlwood Dryad, and Brazen Wolves bigger than his stuff, but he had Grapple with the Past, Macabre Waltz, etc.
Basically with recursion and the dryad and once he had delirium an Autumnal Gloom I couldn't really attack anymore, but I produced 6 devil tokens and managed to pump a Gavony Unhallowed using them. Then, as he started building back a board with 10 life left, I topdeck'd Magmatic Chasm to kill him. Flooded kinda hard in the midgame so getting gas a couple turn in the late game was nice.
Game 2 I drew my removal early on so I removed his stuff and bashed in while he had nothing (he used an Indulgent aristocrat and, while around 10 life, sac'd two Swift Spinners to survive Boon of Emrakul and get a 7/1 lifelink that I traded for a devil token, getting a 3 for 1.5. Because he'd also sac'd a card to Olivia's Dragoon he was kinda out of gas (and creatures on the board) and I won.

Match 2 was against the usual winner, on GW. I didn't draw my early stuff and his curving out was better than mine, especially on the play so I'd Boon something and he'd replace it. Didn't stand a chance against Courier -> Fiend Binder (killed) -> Nearheath Chaplain -> Clear Shot before attacks so even as I block it he 2-for-2s me -> Quilled Wolf.
Game 2 I kept a risky hand, didn't come through, RIP.

Match 3 was vs the Emerge guy. Basically he opened Decimator of the Provinces and forced UG, wheeling Lashweed Lurker, Grizzled Angler, and taking It and the Gryff. He netted a couple creatures for his deck like the 0/2 who pops an Horror token, a pair of Briarblood, and some tempo cards.
Game 1 he mulls and stumbles a bit on mana, giving me a lead. Because he's on the back foot and his hand is basically his emerge creatures + not enough lands, from what he told me, I manage to go wide and win.
Game 2 I'm a bit short mana-wise, manage to get his Gryff with Murderous Compulsion, next turn he plays It (meanwhile a Bloodbriar is now a 4/5) and there's no way my creatures handle that. Flipping Outcast lets me trade for the big Briarblood, but I know I'm done since I have nothing for the 4/4 and am now flooding pretty hard (split is something like 5-9 in favour of lands), he plays Decimator the following turn, scoop.
Game 3 I flood again and it becomes quickly obvious that unless I curve out super hard and super early I just can't match the emerged bodies (Deranged Whelp does decent work esp. on the play and if your opponent doesn't have a 2-drop, but it falls super quick).
He flips Grizzled Angler, has 6 mana open, I play Feaster over Gavony Unhallowed with 4 creatures in play and regret my decision, but on his own turn he plays Drag Under so it'd be useless anyway. When I play Gavony + Senseless Rage to match his big bodies, he loots away just the wind to bounce again (the only 2 non-land, non-creature cards in his deck, welp) and lethal.

There's a Silverfur Partisan and I have only 3, so for my casual werewolves deck I'd like it, 'cept #5 takes it after I pick Niblis of Frost. Welp. So I bring a Docent of Perfection back home too.

Brazen Wolves are cool. Well, I'd still rather have 3/2s than 2/3s in defense, but as long as you can have the initiative and threaten to turn creatures sideways, they're cool and put a bunch of pressure when they attack turn 4.
Borrowed Hostility gets shit done too, only cast it once for 4 but it let my devil token take out a Markov Crusader without granting lifegain to my opponent. And that's exactly what I'd pair with Wolves for blowout potential. I should prob have sided the second one in over Bombardment against the Emerge guy.

Speaking of Emerge, I wonder how realistic it is for him to get 5 Emerge creatures, and the Angler, and win off fat bodies. Obviously there's the Decimator that won him a couple games, but in general even a 4/4 is bigger than most stuff (a 3/3 is still more decent than I'd have thought), and the Anglerfish wins games once you've got a bigger board.
It also depends on removal. Clear Shot and Green butts certainly fights better than Alchemist's Greeting without enablers, or Boon of Emrakul, so it may have been skewed by my deck.

Grizzled Angler I had misread as needing 2 colourless creatures in the yard. Turns out it's 1. Goes from very meh to fucking strong, then.

I wonder if GW can outpace Emerge. Also it depends on people taking Emerge cards. Rares were very good in the packs that reached him early so Emerge stuff was left available, and we also had 3 people in Black and only another one in U, for a small splash, so he wasn't really cut (the bottom of all 1st and 2nd packs were blue). Plus he played me so he was 1-1.

Gavony Unhallowed + devil tokens is dumb.
But drafting BR feels pretty miserable. You get a bunch of madness enablers but there's no madness, so you're pretty much banking on noone wanting them in pack 3 (who are we kidding), or if they're aggressive enough like the 1/2 trample vampire, you're pretty much all-in on aggro since you're going to discard gas each turn.
At least I never really felt satisfied. But then again, even though we were drafting as 6 people, half the packs had nothing of interest for me then suddenly there are 4 playables in the same pack (lightning axe, pyre hound when I was full of tricks at that point, murderous compulsion, kind stranger; of course none of the 3 I didn't pick wheeled). Maybe it'll feel better otherwise.

Holy shit. Sub rogues remind me of vanilla wow 31/8/12 mixed with the random stuns from oldschool maces I kill almost everyone i run into while they cc'd. Although, it is proilly just the iLvl 736 raid gear w/ a Mythic Arch trink with lower geared players running around Tanaan without a clue what their class does right now that is causing that... Not sure, not running any add ons.

It feels pretty clean to play, actually. I was quite worried they'd ruin the feel of sub's ability to eb and flow and push out damage. The shadowdance rework is awesome. I'm impressed blizz.

I have to think that the Archi trinket from WoD gets nerfed though, I cannot imagine it not being a BiS trinket unless they have some crazy shit in mind. its DPS increase right now compared to pre-patch is huge, and will only keep scaling with stats.

She buys you a freaking Boota plushie from TTGL



Fucking adorable