Draft Coverage - Illuminati vs. Your Move Games    • Print
Author Image  With over 40 years of competitive M:TG experience
and nearly a dozen Top 8 appearances between them, Illuminati
[Justin Gary (A), Zvi Mowshowitz (B) and Alex Shvartsman (C)]
faced off against Your Move Games [Darwin Kastle (A), Dave
Humpherys (B) and Rob Dougherty(C)] in the ninth round of GP New
Jersey.  YMG won the flip and elected to open first, and
Humpherys cracked a mid-level pack containing Painbringer,
Werebear, Whispering Shade and Shelter. Hump declared a black
preference immediately, selecting the powerful, but fragile,
Painbringer. Dougherty picked up Werebear and Gary elected to
move initially into green with a Chatter of the Squirrel,
leaving the Whispering Shade to Zvi, who would seemingly be
facing off against Humpherys' black deck. The pack was basically
killed with Shvartsman's selection of Shelter, leaving Kastle to
snap up a Leaf Dancer in response to Gary's Chatter. On the
swing, Kastle snagged a Peek and Gary picked