Drafting Alara Reborn Part 5: Grixis May 30, 2009
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The best cards for Grixis in Alara Reborn when you draft SCA (Shards/Conflux/Reborn).
Bombs
- Defiler of Souls (ultra rare)
- Thraximunder (ultra rare)
First Picks
- Bituminous Blast
- Slave of Bolas
- Terminate
Second Picks
- Esper Stormblade
- Sangrite Backlash
Decent Cards
- Soul Manipulation
- Grixis Grimblade
- Jund Hackblade
- Giant Ambush Beetle
Soul manipulation is a potential two for one. I am not a big fan of counterspells when drafting, but this is one of my favorites.
It’s in all the right colors and deathtouch is decent. All the blades are worth first picking.
Not quite as easy to play and not quite as powerful as Grixis Grimblade, but it’s still a great card.
Mentionable Cards
- Veinfire Borderpost
- Mistvein Borderpost
- Kathari Remnants
- Sewn-Eye Drake
Borderposts are comes-into-play-tapped-duals.
Borderposts are comes-into-play-tapped-duals.
Card advantage is very good.
Overview
The bad news is that Grixis has almost nothing to offer that you can’t get in Jund. The good news is that Grixis doesn’t get many of the best card that Jund gets, like Bloodbraid Elf. In other words, Grixis has been trashed in Alara Reborn.
There isn’t much with unearth worth drafting, and there isn’t a single card exclusively in Grixis that makes it worth playing. Soul Manipulation is the best card that Grixis can use that Jund can’t, but it can also be played in Esper.
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