Subject: Re: Sample Sealed Deck for Mainz Format #1 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:09:35 -0700 From: Walt Armour (For clarity I'll put my analysis up top here) Analysis: Not the best of cards. As I looked at the cards green and white immediately stood out. The white creatures (both flying and protection) are decent weenies. The variety of COPs make for good sideboard. The green creatures are decent and the support cards (Feral instinct, GG) are great. My only decision was which color to make third. I knew I could not go 2 color. Blue: Pros: Decent support cards. I love Mystic Veil in sealed. Flood can be incredible if you have enough commitment to blue. Vision charm can be useful. Flight can be strong (especially on the Panther Warriors :). Breezekeeper is a strong flyer. Cons: Key concept: River Boa + No Removal = Death. I can think of nothing blue fears more than River Boa when it has no removal. The Flood would have been a possibility but with such a small commitment to blue it would have been almost useless. Black: Pros: Several good creatures (most notably the rats and vultures). Torture is okay removal. Breeding Pit is good. Cons: Most of the good cards require more commitment to black than I could generate. Rats and the pit would take more black than I am willing to dedicate to a tertiary color. Ditto on drain life. Wake of vultures and Kjeldoran dead would eat into my creature possibly more than I would care. Possibly most important: swampwalkers + no removal = death. There are enough swampwalkers in this format to make me leave black alone without suitable creatures and removal. Red: Pros: Several good creatures. Can easily be splashed due to single colored mana requirements. Can side in hearth charms for artifact critter removal. Cons: Two creatures are weak (x/1). Possible mountainwalk but not as common as swampwalk or dangerous as islandwalk. So in the end I chose red for the ease of splashing and (perceived) lower vulnerability. My deck [and some reasons I chose a card]: Red: Ambush Party [First strike and no summoning sickness] Hill Giant [Solid 3/3] Sabretooth Tiger [First Strike] Flare [DD and a cantrip] White: Death Speakers [Cheap and prot: black] Freewind Falcon (2) [Cheap, flying and prot: red] Jamuraan Lion [Blocker removal is annoying] Mesa Falcon [Cheap flyer and pumpable] Repentant Blacksmith [Cheap and prot: red] Arenson's Aura [My fear of Empyrial Armor] Sun Clasp [Good boost and life-saver] Green: Aurochs [More creatures] Grizzly Bears [More creatures] Panther Warriors [More creatures] Stampeding Wildebeests [Big and trample] Thicket Basilisk [Good critter] Wall of Brambles [Decent size, regen] Warthog [Swampwalk] Crumble [Only artifact removal] Feral Instinct (2) [Surprise bonus and cantrip] Lure [Pairs with basilisk or anything] Artifact: Matopi Golem [Decent, short-term regenerator] Land: 6 Forest 4 Mountain 6 Plains 1 Undiscovered Paradise walt -----Original Message----- From: Da Archangel To: Multiple recipients of list MTG-STRATEGY-L Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 4:58 PM Subject: Sample Sealed Deck for Mainz Format #1 >note: the follow card list was created using the sealed deck generator >found at http://www.massmed.org/elliott/magic/ > >first, the cards: > >Land Red Blue >---- --- ---- >Dormant Volcano Ambush Party Breezekeeper >Dwarven Ruins Flare Flight >5 x Forest Goblin Digging Team Flood >4 x Island Goblin Recruiter Knight of the Mists >Karoo 2 x Hearth Charm Mystic Veil >4 x Mountain Hill Giant Vision Charm >4 x Plains Hurloon Minotaur Voldalian Soldiers >Sand Silos Sabretooth Tiger >5 x Swamp Solfatara >Undiscovered Paradise > >Black White Green >----- ----- ----- >Breeding Pit Arenson's Aura Aurochs >Cloak of Confusion Caribou Range Crumble >Crypt Rats COP: Blue 2 x Feral Instinct >Death Watch COP: Green Fog >Drain Life COP: Red Giant Growth >Kjeldoran Dead Death Speakers Grizzly Bears >Python 2 x Freewind Falcon Lure >Scathe Zombies Hope Charm Panther Warriors >Torture Jamuraan Lion Rabid Wombat >Unholy Strength Mesa Falcon Shrink >Wake of Vultures Repentant Blacksmith Stampeding Wildebeests > Retribution of the Meek Thicket Basalisk >Artifacts Sun Clasp Untamed Wilds >--------- 2 x Warrior's Honor Wall of Brambles >Gauntlets of Chaos Warthog >Lead-Belly Chimera >Matopi Golem >