So last Thursday, I won a ten person draft with the following deck.
Looming Shade x1
Fiery Hellhound x1
Dragon Whelp x 1
Shivan Dragon x1
Howling Banshee x1
Bog Wraith x1
Doom Blade x1
Whispersilk Cloak x1
Warpath Ghoul x1
Child Of Night x1
Goblin Artillery x1
Rise From The Grave x2
Sign In Blood x2
Lightning Bolt x2
Seismic Strike x3
Tendrils of Corruption x3
Swamp x9
Mountain x8
This deck probably shouldn't have worked because it had a low creature count and a high mana curve. But somehow did it. Apparently lots of removal + Rise From The Grave works really, really well. Whispersilk Cloak + pump guys is pretty good, too. My final opponent probably should have beat me. He had Howl of the Night Pack, which wrecks my spot removal, as well as Earthquake and Windstorm, both of which could take out a cloaked guy. But he had a higher mana curve than me and limited spot removal, so I was able to beat him 2-1.
I had to make a couple of hard picks. First pack, I opened Nightmare as my rare. It was tempting, but I ultimately picked Lightning Bolt instead. Lightning Bolt is good in any deck, whereas Nightmare requires a heavy commitment to black and it's easy to get forced out of black since it's so shallow. I began to have buyer's remorse after I passed Nightmare, but then I got a second pick Shivan and a third pick Dragon Whelp and and I felt significantly better. Second pack, the rare sucked (Mesa Enchantress) but uncommons were Levitation, Pyroclasm, and Whispersilk Cloak, all of which are ridiculous. I almost took Pyroclasm, and strongly considered hate drafting Levitation, but I had to go with Whispersilk Cloak. It's just too good. There's limited artifact removal in M10 and a Cloak on the right guy will end the game pretty damn quickly. Maybe not as quickly as Levitation, but I decided to go with the one that I could actually play in the deck I had been drafting.
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