Top draft Graham, thanks as always. Nice to see no hateful comments from those who don’t get it for once, too!

Hope to play against some of you guys at FNM when I’m down in Victoria next month! I have a terrible commander deck that I kinda want to give to you guys as it’s such an Ikea bookshelf of an idea that doesn’t really work…

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&cmc=+=2&power=+=2&tough=+=2&set=|[%22Magic%202014%20Core%20Set%22]

2 rares (one money rare in Scavenging ooze), 1 uncommon and one common

Again it was the optimal angels deck – you passed 2 brindle boars (1 first pack, 1 second pack) and a Elixir of Immortality (1st pack) and Bubbling Cauldron (2nd pack) – although you didn’t know you were angels until pack 2.

I have played against angels once in sealed – beat it – he went for a stall plan with this angels/lifegain – never attacked with his angels – games went really long, but I eeked out a win both game.

I played angels once in sealed – had the B/W version with Bubbling Cauldron, Bogbrew Witch (no newts though), and Trading Post. Cauldron and Trading Post are the long-game mana sink combo cards with Angels – make a goat, sack a goat, get an angel – slow as dirt though! Went 2-2 in my sealed with it.

Silly ideas for M14:

1. Angel deck – obviously!
2. Bear-force one – not enough bear 2-drops in this format to make it viable – in fact good 2-3 drops are few and far between – so you could try mono-other CCM cost – just makes you really susceptible to rachet bomb!
3. The 1-drop 1/1s seems silly enough but where does it go – not enough impact to survive long enough to do anything fun with them – unless you work really hard to make a sac deck with them – Blood Bairns, Impact (red enchantment to fling them at your opponent or his creatures for damage), and Gravedigger – make sure you take other cards that make 1/1s – red sorcery to make 2 flip a coin, pyromancer, sporemound – again, even then I don’t think you survive the bigger creatures.
4. Exploring mono-each color would be interesting – I think each color has a few cards that make it worthwhile: green – wolf sorcery, black – corrupts and quaq sickness, white – life gain, white weenie (Capasian Knights!), blue – might be the weakest mono-color, and red – all out-aggro with late game fireballs and lava axes.

Just off the top of my head – I’ll think of more later!

I call it: The Bomb Squad

The rules are simple:
1. Take all bombs or anything that is on the edge of bomb status (ie: Air Servant in M14)
2. If there isn’t a bomb in the pack, you can take whatever you think is best for the deck, but you have to give a reason for why that card is a bomb (ie: Ember Beast in RTR block)

I think it would be a funny draft to watch you pick up bombs, and have to explain why cards that aren’t bombs, definitely are. And you’d end up with a deck of only bombs.