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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 4:53PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Sealed Deck Builder, which goes live Thursday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 9:23PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 26, 2010
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I like both UB builds and UR builds. The main issue for me is how to get the flayer of the hatebound in and unfortunately the mana requirements of the UB build make playing UBr a bit of a risk. The straight UB arguably doesn't even need the flayer as it is quite capable of winning via grind or it's own bombs. Whilst the UR build gets to make use of a bunch of undying creatures and the extremely strong flayer, it has to use a bit more filler to get there compared to the UB build. Mirror-Mad Phantasm and/or Lantern Spirit plus Flayer is pretty funny though. UB: ( This Deck was built in 0:06:22) Total Deck Size: 4017 Lands --------------- 8 Island  9 Swamp  16 Creatures --------------- 2 Abattoir Ghoul  1 Geralf's Mindcrusher  1 Gravecrawler  2 Highborn Ghoul  1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm  1 Murder of Crows  3 Nephalia Seakite  1 Niblis of the Breath  1 Skirsdag Flayer  1 Stitched Drake  1 Stormbound Geist  1 Vengeful Vampire  7 Other Spells --------------- 1 Blazing Torch  1 Butcher's Cleaver  1 Chant of the Skifsang  2 Dead Weight  1 Divination  1 Ghoulcaller's Chant  UR: ( This Deck was built in 0:13:25) Total Deck Size: 4017 Lands --------------- 9 Island 8 Mountain  16 Creatures --------------- 1 Flayer of the Hatebound  2 Forge Devil  1 Geralf's Mindcrusher 1 Hanweir Watchkeep  1 Lantern Spirit  1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm 1 Mondronen Shaman  1 Murder of Crows 3 Nephalia Seakite 1 Niblis of the Breath 1 Stitched Drake 1 Stormbound Geist 1 Torch Fiend  7 Other Spells --------------- 1 Blazing Torch 1 Blood Feud  1 Butcher's Cleaver 1 Chant of the Skifsang 1 Divination 2 Warden of the Wall 
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 9:24PM
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 9:30PM
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 9:32PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 23, 2009
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 10:20PM
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My first thought was, "is there any fixing" just to splash for more removal in whatever color that had more. However I ended up going black red. This Deck was built in 0:07:21Total Deck Size: 4017 Lands --------------- 7 Mountain 10 Swamp 13 Creatures --------------- 2 Abattoir Ghoul 1 Flayer of the Hatebound 1 Forge Devil 1 Gravecrawler 1 Hanweir Watchkeep 2 Highborn Ghoul 1 Markov Warlord  1 Mondronen Shaman 1 Skirsdag Flayer 1 Vampire Interloper  1 Vengeful Vampire 10 Other Spells --------------- 1 Blazing Torch 1 Blood Feud 1 Butcher's Cleaver 1 Corpse Lunge  2 Dead Weight 1 Faithless Looting  1 Harrowing Journey  2 Warden of the Wall
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 10:37PM
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18 Lands
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7 Forest
2 Mountain
8 Swamp
1 Haunted Fengraf
13 Creatures
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2 Abattoir Ghoul
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Flayer of Hatebound
1 Gravecrawler
2 Highborn Ghoul
1 Mayor of Avabruck
1 Mondronen Shaman
1 Orchard Spirit
1 Villagers of Estwald
1 Wolfbitten Captive
1 Woodland Sleuth
9 Other Spells
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1 Blazing Torch
1 Caravan Vigil
1 Corpse Lunge
2 Dead Weight
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
2 Hunger of the Wolfpack
1 Wild Hunger
First thing I noticed was that black and green had the deepest pools. Black had the most removal, so I felt I had to build with that. It didn't hurt that it also had Gravecrawler and a few zombie friends to compliment him. Green had bomb creatures in Wolfbitten Captive and Mayor of Avabruck, while red had a couple of their own in Flayer of Hatebound and Mondronen Shaman. After a little debate, I decided on all of them! It's a bit dangerous to play three colors with hardly any mana fixing available (only one with Caravan Vigil) but, luckily, just about every spell in this deck (all but the 2 Highborn Ghouls) only require a single mana of their respected color in their cumulative mana cost. I bumped up from 17 to 18 lands to include 2 mountains. Hopefully, I would be able to come across one of those mountains or the Caravan Vigil by turn 4/5 to cast the Shaman, Flayer, or the flashback cost of Wild Hunger. This deck is super aggressive, is loaded with removal/direct damage, a few pump spells, and plenty of recursion.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 11:34PM
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1 year ago ::
Mar 07, 2012 - 11:42PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 16, 2012
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1 year ago ::
Mar 08, 2012 - 1:14AM
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