Saturday, January 29, 2011

A tough build

Well, I attended the Mirrodin Besieged midnight Prerelease last night but it didn't go as smoothly as Scars. I opened a Sword of Feast and Famine and a True Conviction but a couple bombs wasn't enough to get me over the hump. The deck had a decent amount of usable metalcraft dudes, a lot of conditional removal and not quite enough good artifacts to make metalcraft run. I chose Mirran so only the White and Red was usable (though the Green was marginally playable). Here's the pool, shorn of it's useless colors

WhiteRedArtifacts
Abuna Acolyte
2 X Ardent Recruit
Auriok Sunchaser
2 X Divine Offering
Ghalma's Warden
Glimmerpoint Stag
2 X Leonin Relic-Warder
Loxodon Partisan
Master's Call
Revoke Existence
Seize the Initiative
Sunspear Shikari
True Conviction
2 X Blisterstick Shaman
Burn the Impure
Concussive Bolt
2 X Crush
Galvanoth
2 X Gnathosaur
Goblin Wardriver
Koth's Courier
Kuldotha Rebirth
Rally the Forces
Turn to Slag


Argentum Armor
Bladed Sentinel
2 X Copper Myr
Echo Circlet
Grafted Exoskeleton
Leaden Myr
Nihil Spellbomb
Shriekhorn
Soliton
Spin Engine
Strider Harness
Sylvok Lifestaff
Vector Asp
Vulshok Replica
Auriok Replica
Copper Carapace
Darksteel Plate
Golem's Heart
2 X Gust-Skimmer
Myr Reservoir
Razorfield Rhino
2 X Silverskin Armor
Sphere of the Suns
Snapsail Glider
Sword of Feast and Famine
Throne of Geth
Viridian Claw



I wanted to run metalcraft but the pool is long on playable equipment and short on good dudes to carry it. Here's what I came up with, with less than a minute to spare...

CreaturesSpells and Land
Abuna Acolyte
2 X Blisterstick Shaman
Galvanoth
Glimmerpoint Stag
Goblin Wardriver
Leonin Relic-Warder
Loxodon Partisan
Razorfield Rhino
Sunspear Shikari
Vulshok Replica
Burn the Impure
Concussive Bolt
2 X Divine Offering
Master's Call
Revoke Existence
Sword of Feast and Famine
Sylvok Lifestaff
True Conviction
Turn to Slag
Viridian Claw
9 Plains
9 Mountain


How would you build this pool?

1 comment:

Tabasco said...

Weren't you the wise mage that told me that in sealed you run myr even if they are off color?

I think the three off color myr make it because

1: ramp mana
2: carry equipment (no shortage of that)
3: enable metal craft
4: have a p/t (battle cry)

Sphere of the suns is also very good. I think your pools is much better than you thought it was and that you may have been to tired to realize it's full potential. I also think relic-warden is better out of the board given the nature of the faction split in the prerelease.

You have 2 metal craft "nacatl's" who hold equipment pretty well and help your curve immensely. I would leave True Conviction on the sidelines and board it against slower decks. Your pool wanted to be on the very aggressive plan finishing with a concussive bolt for lethal.

My list:

2 X Ardent Recruit
2 X Copper Myr
Leaden Myr
Auriok Sunchaser
Sunspear Shikari
2 X Blisterstick Shaman
Snapsail Glider
Vulshok Replica
Glimmerpoint Stag
Bladed Sentinel
Loxodon Partisan

Copper Carapace
Burn the Impure
Master's Call
Sphere of the Suns
2 X Silverskin Armor
Viridian Claw
Sword of Feast and Famine
Concussive Bolt
Turn to Slag
9 plains
7 Mountain

Yes it looks a bit mediocre, but it will be very consistant, and a consistant beating at that.