Earlier this week, I found out that a LGS near my house that did rare redrafting drafts. I was super excited because not only do I like saving money playing Magic, but I hate having to rare draft during regular drafts in over simply making the best possible deck. So, I decided to stop in tonight and give it a go.

P1P1 was super depressing, because I opened it up to find out that it contained a Bonds of Faith, Doomed Traveler, Slayer of the Wicked, and Midnight Haunting. Knowing my certain fate of being cut out of white, and seeing no other good cards in the pack, I decided to take the only card other remotely good card: the rare, Undead Alchemist, and tried to build around it.

Ended up with a bunch of zombies: Diregraf Ghoul, Walking Corpse, Abattoir Ghoul, 2 Stitched Drakes, and a Moan of the Unhallowed, combined with a ton of pseudo-removal: 2 Claustrophobia, Silent Departure, Liliana of the Veil (who ended up never actually being helpful), and 2 Grasp of Phantoms.

I ended up going 2-0, 2-1, and 2-0 in my matches. I won every single game by milling them out with Undead Alchemist. Sideboarded rarely, only swapping out the single Typhoid Rats for the single Dream Twist, if they were a non-aggro deck.

What did I learn? Undead Alchemist is a house, when paired with just a couple Stitched Drakes and a few ways to mill. Never make the mistake of attacking with him, and having him die to a Rebuke or a combat trick. Just mill 'em! Ghoulcaller's Bell is was just fantastic, both milling them (zombies for me) and myself at the same time, so I could cast my Stitched Drakes. Plus, Grasp of Phantoms + Bell is seriously good removal. Two Grasps equals removing 4 dudes, and adding to my zombie pile at the same time. No doubt: besides the Alchemist, the Bell was easily the #1 all-star in this deck.

Anyways, it was probably the most fun archetype I've yet drafted in Innistrad. If you find yourself coming across an Undead Alchemist early in the draft, give it a shot! For my troubles, I ended up 3-0 and, as such, went home with a Liliana of the Veil and a Woodland Cemetery. :D