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This thread is for discussion of this week's Limited Information, which goes live Tuesday morning on magicthegathering.com.

This pool makes me sad.  I'd hope to never open anything like this.

There's not nearly enough in any color to make a controlling deck in any way, shape, or form.  We're all in on aggro.  The equipment is great, but offensive removal and good early drops are sorely lacking.  The best creature lineup to compliment the equipment sits in white and black:

2 Adventuring Gear
1 Trusty Machete

1 Guul Draz Vampire
1 Kor Duelist
2 Steppe Lynx

1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Bloodghast
1 Kor Outfitter
1 Kor Aeronaut

1 Giant Scorpion
1 Kor Sanctifiers

1 Heartstabber Mosquito
1 Nimana Sell-Sword
1 Kor Cartographer
2 Crypt Ripper

1 Felidar Sovereign

1 Marsh Casualties
1 Disfigure
1 Pitfall Trap

1 Marsh Flats
9 Swamp
8 Plains

This is sorted by mana cost for clarity.  Nimana Sell-Sword and Bala Ged Thief are both fine cards, but as you can see from here, the 4 slot is quite overwhelmed.  The evasion of the mosquito, the pumpable shades, and the landfall enhancing cartographer all get the nod over the second Sell-Sword.

Oct 26, 2009 -- 9:45PM, Millimbar wrote:

This pool makes me sad.  I'd hope to never open anything like this.

There's not nearly enough in any color to make a controlling deck in any way, shape, or form.  We're all in on aggro.  The equipment is great, but offensive removal and good early drops are sorely lacking.  The best creature lineup to compliment the equipment sits in white and black:

I find it interesting that you and I build almost identical decks (1 difference - you included the scorpion, while I included soul stair expedition) - and I think it's a very nice aggressive deck, while you're unhappy with how it looks.
My experience from the prerelease was that Zen sealed tends to be quite slow and a deck with as many aggressive drops as this stands to do quite well.
Of course the difficulty will be pushing through for those last few points of damage once the board started getting cluttered... hence soul stair expedition (which will help maintain board position as you "attack with all" for the win). Crypt ripper certainly packs enough punch to force through a few extra points of damage, and guul draz vampire is a terrific finisher against non-black opponents.

Ooops, I didn't see the Felidar Sovereign in white.  That makes white very strong as well.  Could easily go WR or WB in this.

I have to agree that this deck seams quite bad.  It is probably going to be quite fast, but it doesnt have enough combat tricks/removal to stay aggressive once larger creatures start dropping on the other side.  All I noticed is 1 Disfigure (Marsh Casualties is sorcery & pitfall only hits attackers).  There is very little evasion also which makes it even weaker.

Give this deck a little more removal spells and flying creatures and it has something going for it.  This deck will do well against alot of decks, but probably not the kind that have already went 3-0.