So, last week I showed you the sealed pool I had. Well, this is the deck I ultimately ended up with
I honestly felt like going into red was a trap. I felt like White might be a good color to go with black. I had two scourgemarks and a erebo's emissary and white had good heroic cards, blue also looked strong with the god sea's revenge and curse of the swine. But I just went with this because it seemed more aggressive and stormbreath dragon looks like it can just close games on its own. However, I want you guys to note that even though I have more red cards, I really feel like black is the strongest color in this pool.
Traveler's amulet seems really loose and bad, but oh well. It's what I went with. One thing I quickly discovered was that I like constructing paper decks over doing them on MTGO. There is a lot less space to spread out your cards, etc.
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So round 1, I played against someone playing simic splash black
Here was the results of game 1:
As you can see, my RB aggro start was good.
Game 2 wasn't so good, I just couldnt' deal with prognostic sphinx
So game 3, I decided to take a risk and go transformative
Curse of the swine did so much work!!! It was a super board sweep with X=4
There you can see my opponent decides not to block my triton hunter, I discard two creatures and have just enough to drain with gray merchant.
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So round 2, I had the perfect curve my opponent couldn't deal with in game 1:
Game 2 was close, I was holding most of the cards the entire game but my opponent decided to get mad and say I was lucky:
I mean most of those cards were cards I had in my hand the entire game, like the gray merchant etc. I ember swallow'd early because I was getting mana flooded and was stuck on 4 lands post ember swallower for a long time. I mean it's not like he had his own bombs of gray merchant as well or nighthowler... Oh well
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So I played out round 3. However, I forgot to take screenshots as my second round was short and I left for a while, when I came back a few minutes had gone by and I was nervous! The guy had a white red deck that was heroic centric and had lots of combat tricks!
However, here is the results:
Congrats on the win! Thank goodness you didn't time out on round 3. Would have been embarrassing. Curse of the Swine is something I've always been too afraid to try but with how big some of the creatures are, maybe I should force it in my next draft/sealed. You've inspired me!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious as to how those Scourgemarks were. They combo nicely with the Grey Merchant and the discard guy and help you be a bit more aggressive.
Scourgemark is probably a horrible card. I used it for devotion and the fact it cycles itself. It did allow me to do exact damage like in Round 1 game 1, but it is just begging myself to get 2 for 1'd. I would say it's 10x worse in draft. I did it to push black devotion like you said. It was part of the reason I was thinking of going Black/white. In white I had a few more cards that enabled heroic, and a bunch of cards that had the heroic keyword. In that type of deck, Scourgemark would be amazing.
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