I was happy to come out with a 2-1 after a slightly messy draft amongst a tough pod (which also meant I ended in the money!). The rest of the group was:

Asha 1-2 UGr
@banjocaveman.bsky.social 1-2 WR
Ginky 0-3 UGwb
@edgarmtg.bsky.social 3-0 URb

Best of luck to all the Canadians at Worlds!

SB -Deadly Precision
+Cat-Owl

Game 3 again started with Mai, then a Water Tribe Captain. My start was Fortune Tellers into Messenger Hawk, and turn 5 when I blocked his Mai and he pumped I had the Azula Always Lies. From there things stayed safe and I wrapped up the 2-1.

SB -Geyser Leaper
+Ruinous Waterbending

Game 2 Liam also led on Mai, and then started popping off with Tolls of War and Joo Dee. He verbally called out the possibility of me having the -2-2 sweeper to flip the board, but I didn't see it in time and we were off to game 3.

R3 vs Liam Kane (WB)

Liam started with Mai into Warship into Joo Dee, but was stuck on 3 lands and thankfully the pressure slowed down. I definitely would have lost if my 3 drop wasn't Spirit Keeper, and an Octopus form to save from Razor Rings gave me enough life to close g1

Game 3 I drew the -2-2, but Anthony's turn 2 play was a Deserters...sigh. Got stuck on 3 land for a few turns and Anthony's procession of 4 mana rares showed up again to take the match.

SB -Otter-penguin
+Ruinous Waterbending

Game 2 discarded my 2nd island turn 2 to Abandon Attachments, which became awkward later as I ended up with 6 B 1 U. Was treading water until I decided to bend Watery Grasp Hakoda draw step to stop the redraw...and Appa ended the game 🤦‍♂️

R2 vs Anthony Lee (RW)

Game 1 Anthony was stuck on 3 land for multiple turns, and although he started dropping bombs on 4 in the form of Appa and Hakoda, he was too far behind and I took game 1.

SB -Wolfbat
+Pirate Peddlers

I put Dom on the play as we both seemed slow, and game 3 was a repeat of game 1. Once I got my "combo" going it was just a matter of time and I picked up round 1.

SB -Azula Always Lies, Earth Village Ruffians
+Meteor Sword, Wolfbat

Game 2 Dom mulled on the play, but I kept a hand with no Island and drew my U source a turn too late. Almost stabilized, but The Boulder had done early damage, and Bumi closed with Dai Li Agents

R1 vs Dom Harvey UGb

Game 1 was unexciting. The ground got gummed up with an assortment of bodies and I took to the skies. Eventually the fliers picked up the win.

The end result was uninspiring, but I heard lots of murmurs of others at the table with similar concerns. Turns out high level pod drafts you just don't get great decks a lot of the time!

My deck was rareless aside from the land, not a place you want to be with your B decks...

The rest of pack 1 was all over the place with a lack of clear signals. A bit of green, a bit of black, a healthy chunk of U and no white cards aside from Suki and Rings. Pack 2 I took an early Submersible and kind of stumbled in to UB mostly because the only free commons were B

My p1p1 was Suki, a bomb, but right after pack 2 had no white cards. The choices were River Spirit, Lost Days, Fated Firepower or some green stuff. Ended up taking the Lost Days, and the next pack again had no white and a Spirit Keeper. Took Razor Rings pick 4 thinking maybe UWb

It was pretty good, but I would have traded both for copies of Lost Days. Didn't use it with firebending mana (even if someone wants to razor rings your thing for example, they usually do it in response to the mana being generated) but I got lucky that things lined up well for Haiku multiple times

The table from me to my left ended up as follows:

@edgarmtg.bsky.social UGB 1-2
Anthony RG 2-1
Chun UGW 1-2
Kevin Br 0-3
Liam GW 1-2 (pic missing glider kids)
Dom URw 2-1
Ginky WB 2-1

We'll see if anyone can beat me next week 🙂