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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 4:10PM #1
Garmichael
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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  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 9:29PM #2
Maxwell_Arcaina
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Date Joined: Feb 23, 2012
Posts: 2

This Deck was built in 0:07:50


Total Deck Size: 40
16 Lands
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5 Mountain
4 Plains
4 Swamp
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shimmering Grotto



17 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Ashmouth Hound
2 Forge Devil
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Hellrider
1 Markov Warlord
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Morkrut Banshee
1 Niblis of the Mist
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Sightless Ghoul
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Silverclaw Griffin
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Village Bell-Ringer



7 Other Spells
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2 Bump in the Night
2 Corpse Lunge
1 Gravepurge
1 Purify the Grave
1 Tragic Slip

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 9:37PM #3
blackfair
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Date Joined: Sep 26, 2010
Posts: 55
This is a pretty awkward pool. There is a strong pull towards blue white with drogskol captain, a few spirits, a few spirit token produces including the bomb monk and even avacyn's collar. The problem is the number of playables is very low requiring the build to include two splashes and play cards like sefless cathar and shriekgeist which while having some synergy with the deck, are very low impact on their own. That said the deck has a reasonable curve, some card advantage and removal as well as a strong late game. The mana is not great, but it will get there, and the splashes are quite powerful cards.

This Deck was built in 0:07:53

Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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6 Island
1 Mountain
6 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shimmering Grotto


15 Creatures
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1 Civilized Scholar
1 Drogskol Captain
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Niblis of the Mist
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Relentless Skaabs
1 Selfless Cathar
1 Shriekgeist
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Silverclaw Griffin
1 Stitcher's Apprentice
1 Thraben Heretic
1 Village Bell-Ringer


8 Other Spells
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1 Avacyn's Collar
1 Chant of the Skifsang
1 Claustrophobia
1 Forbidden Alchemy
2 Griptide
1 Spare from Evil
1 Tragic Slip


The other deck i built was very straight forward, just all the red and green playables, a full 20 creatures, which can maintain early and constant pressure all the way up to essence of the wild. It is weak on interaction and its game plan is just to overwhelm the opponent.

This Deck was built in 0:04:30

Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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8 Forest
9 Mountain


20 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Ashmouth Hound
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Essence of the Wild
2 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Russet Wolves
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Torch Fiend
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald


3 Other Spells
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1 Hunger of the Howlpack
2 Ranger's Guile

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 9:43PM #4
atozero
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Date Joined: Oct 13, 2009
Posts: 2

Pretty much just RG beatdown, with a tiny bit of ramp

Splashed B for a couple removal spells and the utility land.

This Deck was built in 0:15:32


Total Deck Size: 40
16 Lands
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6 Forest
6 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Grim Backwoods
1 Shimmering Grotto



19 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Erdwal Ripper
1 Essence of the Wild
2 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Torch Fiend
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald



5 Other Spells
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1 Corpse Lunge
1 Helvault
1 Hunger of the Howlpack
1 Mulch
1 Tragic Slip

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 10:00PM #5
bookguy
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Date Joined: May 16, 2011
Posts: 37

I'm using the spirit and skaab tribal tendancies.  I built it bigger than normal because my strategy invilves self-milling and I don't want to accidentally kill myself that way.

This Deck was built in 0:23:25


Total Deck Size: 48
19 Lands
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7 Island
5 Plains
5 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shimmering Grotto



17 Creatures
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1 Civilized Scholar
1 Drogskol Captain
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Ghoulraiser
2 Headless Skaab
1 Highborn Ghoul
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Morkrut Banshee
1 Niblis of the Mist
1 Relentless Skaabs
1 Screeching Skaab
1 Selfless Cathar
1 Shriekgeist
1 Sightless Ghoul
1 Thraben Heretic
1 Village Bell-Ringer



12 Other Spells
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1 Avacyn's Collar
1 Cellar Door
1 Claustrophobia
2 Corpse Lunge
1 Dream Twist
1 Forbidden Alchemy
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
2 Griptide
1 Spare from Evil
1 Tragic Slip

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 10:49PM #6
TripleChocoFudge
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Date Joined: Feb 18, 2012
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1 Evolving Wilds
1 Grim Backwoods
1 Shimmering Grotto
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Civilized Scholar
1 Drogskol Captain
1 Essence of the Wild
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Geist-Honored Monk
2 Headless Skaab
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Niblis of the Mist
1 Relentless Skaabs
1 Scorned Villager
1 Screeching Skaab
1 Selfless Cathar
1 Shriekgeist
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Silverclaw Griffin
1 Stitcher's Apprentice
1 Thraben Heretic
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Village Bell-Ringer
1 Villagers of Estwald
1 Avacyn's Collar
1 Chant of the Skifsang
1 Claustrophobia
1 Clinging Mists
1 Dream Twist
1 Favor of the Woods
2 Griptide
1 Helvault
1 Mulch
1 Purify the Grave
2 Ranger's Guile
1 Spare from Evil
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 11:09PM #7
nikosison
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Date Joined: Jan 6, 2007
Posts: 134

This Deck was built in 0:04:04


Total Deck Size: 41
18 Lands
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8 Forest
9 Mountain
1 Evolving Wilds



20 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Erdwal Ripper
1 Essence of the Wild
2 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Russet Wolves
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Torch Fiend
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald



3 Other Spells
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1 Crushing Vines
1 Hunger of the Howlpack
1 Ranger's Guile

So little removal 
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 11, 2012 - 11:17PM #8
Zindaras
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Grim Backwoods was too good not to splash, especially with a Tragic Slip also available. I really wanted to get white in here with Clifftop Retreat and Avacyn's Pilgrim, but it didn't really work out.

This Deck was built in 0:10:16

Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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6 Forest
7 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Grim Backwoods
1 Shimmering Grotto


19 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Ashmouth Hound
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Erdwal Ripper
1 Essence of the Wild
2 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald


4 Other Spells
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1 Cellar Door
1 Helvault
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Tragic Slip

Dec 1, 2010 -- 10:06AM, ProphetKing wrote:

Zindaras' meta is like a fossil, ancient and its secrets yet to be uncovered. Only men of yore, long dead, knew of it.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 12, 2012 - 1:07AM #9
Sigbjorn
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Date Joined: Oct 2, 2011
Posts: 143

This Deck was built in 0:05:13


Total Deck Size: 40
18 Lands
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8 Forest
9 Mountain
1 Evolving Wilds



17 Creatures
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1 Ashmouth Hound
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Erdwal Ripper
1 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Torch Fiend
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald



5 Other Spells
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1 Avacyn's Collar
1 Cellar Door
1 Crushing Vines
1 Helvault
1 Hunger of the Howlpack

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 12, 2012 - 4:05AM #10
Tuor
Tuor
Date Joined: Apr 12, 2007
Posts: 33

This was a weird pool, the Drogskol Captain makes you want to play WU spirits but there aren't really enough playables.  You could splash but I'd rather splash for bombs or removal instead of splashing to get enough playables for my deck, which feels kinda weird.


Looking at the other colours I notice Red and Green had some pretty good finishers especially in a deck with lots of creatures: Essence of the Wild , Hellrider , Markov Warlord , Rage Thrower .

I think I got a bit greedy with the black splash for Tragic Slip and Grim Backwoods .

Even though the black cards are very good you are probably better of going for the more consistent deck playing 18 land, cutting Grim Backwoods and Shimmering Grotto . Especially because you are playing three 6 drop finishers, you can add 1 pump spell or 1 more creature.

I am also not sure if Avacyn's Collar is right in this deck with only 7 humans, but I simply love this card. Giving vigilance to one attacker might be quiet relevant in a deck that has lots of creatures and not so much removal.

Upping your landcount to 18 also increases the possibility of getting Helvault online for removal.


This Deck was built in 0:20:28


Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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6 Forest
7 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Grim Backwoods
1 Shimmering Grotto



19 Creatures
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1 Afflicted Deserter
1 Ashmouth Hound
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Essence of the Wild
2 Forge Devil
1 Gatstaf Shepherd
1 Hellrider
1 Kessig Recluse
1 Markov Warlord
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Rage Thrower
1 Scorned Villager
1 Scourge of Geier Reach
1 Skirsdag Cultist
1 Torch Fiend
1 Ulvenwald Bear
1 Villagers of Estwald



4 Other Spells
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1 Avacyn's Collar
1 Crushing Vines
1 Helvault
1 Tragic Slip

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