From: tjpitts@txdirect.net Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy Subject: Mainz Qual Sample Draft.... #1 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:21:11 -0500 I posted last week about draft strategy in 5th-Visions sealed... Here is a sample pulled from the website I listed before: http://www.massmed.org/elliott/magic/interface.html The cards are sorted by color... I'll follow with what I drafted. If you're interested, take the requisite time and draft your deck. Please post with your differences/suggestions etc... I don't pretend to be a fabulous sealed deck player; perhaps some of us non-pros can learn from each other... :) If I get ANY decent feedback, I'll do this a few more times. The people posting Mirage-Visions decks the last time around helped me so I'm happy to do the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Land Artifacts Black Blue ---- --- ---- ---- Bottomless Barl's Cage Black Knight Feedback Vault Iron Star Coercion Impulse Forest Jandor's Crypt Rats Krovikan Sorcerer Forest Saddlebags Dark Privilege Portent Forest Sisay's Ring Dark Ritual Sea Serpent Forest Tawnos's Death Watch Shimmering Efreet Havenwood Weaponry Erg Raiders Time And Tide Battleground Tin-Wing Fallen Askari Unstable Mutation Island Chimera Krovikan Fetish Unsummon Island Murk Dwellers Wall of Air Island Nekrataal Island Pit Scorpion Island Tar Pit Warrior Mountain Wicked Reward Mountain Mountain Green Red White Mountain --- ---- ---- Plains Cat Warriors Dwarven Archangel Plains Desert Twister Vigilantes Aysen Bureaucrats Plains Fog Errantry Benalish Hero Plains Giant Eternal Warrior Death Ward Swamp Caterpillar Fireball Divine Swamp Mortal Wound Firebreathing Transformation Swamp Nature's Lore Flare Gossamer Chains Swamp Panther Hulking Cyclops Hipparion Swamp Warriors Orcish Infantry Veteran Pradesh Gypsies Conscripts Remedy Rock Slide Retribution For The Quirion Ranger Sabretooth Tiger Meek Wind Shear Sun Clasp Shatter Warrior's Honor Shatterstorm Solfatara Song Of Blood ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web Sealed Deck Generator was written by Toby Elliott ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . . . .. My draft below... . . . . . . My first cut at the deck is that I have a good shot at making top 8. Though the deck lacks a token generator, I have all kinds of removal available. Blue looks to be the weakest color and with Boas out there I'm not splashing for a couple decent blue cards. Red has great removal cards; fireball and rock slide are both huge. The Vigilantes are the bomb, but only if you have ways to get them through. The rest of the creatures are pretty weak, so red looks to be a splash color for 3, maybe 4 spells. Green has the bomb Gypsies and some good tech cards (fog and twister), but without fat to play, green is a wasted color. So it looks like B/W/r I took 3 plains and 2 swamps (1 extra) and built this: Bot Vault Bl Knight Archangel Fireball 6 Swamp Crypt Rats Bureaucrats Rock Slide 7 Plains Dark Privilege Benalish Hero Sabertooth Tiger 3 Mtn Erg Raiders Divine Beatdown Shatter Fallen Askari Gossamer Chains Barl's Cage Murk Dwellers Hipparion Tin-Wing Nekrataal Remedy TarPit Warrior Sun Clasp Retribution of the Meek Normally I wouldn't play the Tiger on principle, but I was short creatures and it's a first-striker. Cage, Chains, and Bureaucrats put the opponent on the tricycle. Retribution is huge in a deck with only one creature that dies to it. Dark Privilege-Crypt Rats is practically broken, and the Privilege is still useful on its own. I decided to run the Shatter in the main because the environment is so artifact heavy. I really, really wanted to play Death Watch and Death Ward but couldn't find room.... Feel free to flame my choices, as long as you show me why I'm wrong :) Hope someone gets some use out of this besides me... -- TJ Pitts - Madmart on IRC "Saving Dominia's Forests, One Orcish Lumberjack at a Time" Forests saved so far... 1906 and counting Original Member - Team Fruity-Ass Taller than anyone you know... Ratings Info pending review...