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Everyone I know that played a Perilous Myr at the Pre-re loved it. Not sure that it's really a sleeper card - it tears apart infect decks and holds off anything with 3-toughness or less. Add in any kind of sacrifice effect/metalcraft/anything that takes advantage of having a random artifact around and Perilous Myr becomes kinda rediculous. Bomb yes. Sleeper, no.

That said, I honestly am not sure that any of the cards listed will be surprisingly good - the only question is whether or not deck archetypes in draft shake out to support them. In a solid green deck (paired likely with black, red or white for removal) with few artifacts, Tel Jilad Defiance becomes amazing (since you know your opponents are likely drafting tons of artifacts). In a heavy artifact deck, of course Golem Foundry is good. And Infiltration Lens is good on pretty much any card - even, say, Loxodon Wayfarer, not that you'd ever want to equip the Lens on such. Hey, block my 2/2 and let me draw two cards, or take 2 while I wait for something bigger to equip to! What a fantastic trade, especially in the light of how many games are won by "simple" 2/2s, evasion or otherwise.

Edit: Basically, what I'm saying is: Steve is supposed to be better at Magic than me, but I gained exactly zero insight from this article. That should not happen. Either Scars limited is really easy to analyze, or Steve was lazy on this article.

I am stunned that a limited player as good as Steve did not play the infiltration lens in either deck (especially the poison deck).

I also find it surprising that he lists four "obviously good" cards as sleepers.

I'm surprised that Steve dismissed white so readily.  It seems to me to be one of the stronger colours in the pool.  Maybe it was due to the absence of infect, if that's what he went in wanting to play?

White cards that I would have considered were...

• Auriok Sunchaser : A potential 3/3 flyer for 2 mana (likely to be switched on with an artifact heavy deck)
• Glimmerpoint Stag : At worst, just a 3/3 vigilance for 4 mana.  At best, a spoiler for an opposing planeswalker, or removal of infect counters from one of my creatures
• Razor Hippogriff : 3/3 flyer for 5, with a one-shot artifact recursion and life gain
• Revoke Existence : Solid removal spell in an artifact block
• Salvage Scout : Cheap artifact recursion
• Sunspear Shikari : At worst a 2/2 for 2 mana.  Much better with all the equipment in the card pool.
• True Conviction : A true BOMB!

I would have gone for an artifact-heavy white and black deck, with some of these white cards, and a few black non-infect creatures like  Blistergrub , Necrogen Scudder , Moriok Reaver  and Skinrender .  Grasp of Darkness in there too for some added removal.

Sep 28, 2010 -- 1:05AM, bateleur_ wrote:

Overrated cards: Golem Foundry

For every game where it makes two Golems there will be two where it makes zero Golems due to being drawn too late. And even if you make only one Golem, a 3/3 for 3 isn't exciting if it takes 4-5 turns to show up. Proliferate is all very well, but with only one Proliferate card at Common a deck that can really use Foundry well will be the exception.

I have to agree with everything said here, even down to the having two Golem Foundries in the prerelease.  That said, a friend won a game on the back of 5 golems produced by his 2 foundries, but did relativly poor other than that.  There is so much more I want to do on turn 3 than cast an artifact that does nothing till turn 4-6.

White is the most powerful colour in the set for sealed. Hands down. Went to two pre-re's, the first one I got top 8 with a blue/white weenie deck (pulled to Perelious Myr but couldn't fit them in over my 2 Glint Hawk and 2 Glint Hawk Idol). Glint Hawk Idol is AMAZING turn one when you have Chimeric Mass.

Second one, I played black/green infect game one, lost, swapped black for white, and won the other 3 games. Sadly not good enough for top 8 because of tiebreakers. But white is THE colour.