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Hi all,

Here's the thread for the first Sealed Deck Building exercise from Grand Prix Nashville 2012. I've included the card pool or feel free to use the deck builder (as well as see complete coverage) here

-John

(Sealed Deck Card Pool)

1 Ghost Quarter

1 Blazing Torch

1 One-Eyed Scarecrow

1 Traveler’s Amulet

1 Wooden Stake

1 Avacynian Priest

1 Chapel Geist

1 Elder Cathar

1 Fiend Hunter

1 Ghostly Possession

1 Mausoleum Guard

1 Moment of Heroism

1 Nevermore

1 Rally the Peasants

1 Smite the Monstrous

1 Back from the Brink

2 Battleground Geist

1 Deranged Assistant

1 Forbidden Alchemy

1 Hysterical Blindness

1 Selhoff Occultist

1 Sensory Deprivation

1 Altar’s Reap

1 Bitterheart Witch

1 Ghoulcaller’s Chant

1 Ghoulraiser

1 Markov Patrician

2 Morkrut Banshee

1 Walking Corpse

1 Crossway Vampire

1 Geistflame

1 Kruin Outlaw

1 Tormented Pariah

1 Darkthicket Wolf

1 Essence of the Wild

1 Grizzled Outcast

1 Moonmist

1 Somberwald Spider

1 Spidery Grasp

1 Travel Preparations

1 Evolving Wilds

1 Avacny’s Collar

1 Chalice of Life

1 Helvault

1 Warden of the Wall

1 Bar the Door

1 Burden of Guilt

1 Gavony Ironwright

1 Lingering Souls

1 Niblis of the Mist

1 Ray of Revelation

1 Sanctuary Cat

1 Silverclaw Griffin

1 Bone to Ash

1 Curse of Echoes

1 Headless Skaab

1 Nephalia Seakite

1 Saving Grasp

1 Screeching Skaab

1 Shriekgeist

1 Strombound Geist

1 Curse of Misfortunes

1 Curse of Thirst

1 Death’s Caress

1 Falkenrath Torturer

1 Highborn Ghoul

1 Sightless Ghoul

1 Skirsdag Flayer

1 Tragic Slip

1 Faithless Looting

1 Fires of Undeath

1 Hinterland Hermit

1 Pyreheart Ghoul

1 Shattered Perception

1 Talons of Falkenrath

1 Wrack with Madness

1 Clinging Mists

1 Dawntreader Elk

1 Favor of the Woods

1 Hunger of the Howlpack

1 Scorned Villager

1 Tracker’s Instincts

This Deck was built in 0:02:48

Total Deck Size: 40
16 Lands
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1 Mountain
7 Plains
7 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds


13 Creatures
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1 Avacynian Priest
1 Chapel Geist
1 Elder Cathar
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Gavony Ironwright
1 Mausoleum Guard
2 Morkrut Banshee
1 Niblis of the Mist
1 One-Eyed Scarecrow
1 Silverclaw Griffin
1 Skirsdag Flayer
1 Walking Corpse


11 Other Spells
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1 Blazing Torch
1 Burden of Guilt
1 Death's Caress
1 Faithless Looting
1 Fires of Undeath
1 Helvault
1 Lingering Souls
1 Smite the Monstrous
1 Tragic Slip
1 Warden of the Wall

1 Wrack with Madness

I actually took longer but had to do it again when accidently closing the window. The pool is ok i think the removal is there but no "real" bomb helvault is the reason for warden, and scarecrow is a must as the deck is weak to fliers. 

My Main Deck

I think the Green may be a trap here. There are some decient cards in the pool, but at first glance I thought the WU looked alot more consistent. I decided to throw that evolving wilds in there so we could splash for Lingering Souls flashback and the tragic slip. No sense posting my playables but the curve for White-Blue seems fairly aggressive for Sealed (maybe too aggressive.)

Definately interested to read what some of the pros will think of this exercise pool.

Also looked at a Warewolves deck but it seemed to be light on playables which may invite splashing into black, which may or may not be recommended for versatility.

Edit: I noticed Shuuhei has already stepped in. I thought I'd post the differences between our selection:

elder cathar over skirsdag flayer
silverclaw griffin over saving grasp
stormbound geist over traveler's amulet
bone to ash over forbidden alchemy

In hindsight I hadn't looked at the mana base. I definately under-value forbidden alchemy in limited, but HATE it when I'm not actively searching for something like an Increasing Confusion, cause of the times where I'll end up pitching a card i'd rather draw. Frankly the mana base I may have considered wouldn't have had to account for the forbidden alchemy flashback (which is often needed more then the first time it's used) or a skirsdag flayer.
My hesitation with the flayer is I NEVER know how many humans is acceptable for it's use. In his deck he has 7 (including the flayer) if I was certain that that was enough maybe i'd have gone for it too.

kcostell: your absolutely right, I hadn't thought of the fiend hunter combo, but I guess depending how you stack those triggers you've got yourself a pretty decent 4 mana removal spell (or exile spell, which is arguably even better). I may have come to the same conclusion as Shuuhei in that the weakest card in my pool would also have been the Griffin, it's great when it lives but dies to plenty of removal spells.

So far this exercise has been fantastic, and I hope other chime in to.

How many Humans are acceptable for a flayer to be active, in your guy's opinions?