Table Manners: Rise

Posted on April 20, 2011 by ZonkotheSane

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  1. Ahh ROE drafts, many happy memories of Green/X or Green/x/x decks. One of the weirdest draft formats in the history of the game, because you basically needed to draft green or blue, and people sometimes took fixing over removal.

    This format had it all, aggressive wall decks, Keening stone decks (mill), blue control and aggro decks, The only thing I can think you left out is how insane Bramblesnap was, one of the more broken creatures especially in the spawn decks. Green had a ton of broken cards actually, I think about half the decks played green on average.

    This set also had so many degenerate combos, most of which involved splinter twin. If people think chained Corpse Curs are annoying, Chained Artisan of Kozileks and Cadaver Imps were the stuff of nightmares.

  2. Triple Rise was always fun, green was definately the colour to be in, though there never seemed to be a shortage of it and having 4-5 people in your queue main green wasn’t unusual and it even worked.

  3. Rise of the Eldrazi was also one of my favorite draft formats. It was a lot of fun to swing with huge creatures and a much needed break from Zendikar which was much to fast for my taste. Nice article and draft!

  4. I’d probably take Manticore. Mostly because Conquering Manticore is one of the rares that I greatly enjoy playing with in ROE, partially because it is p1p1, so you might as well take the bomb rare.