Sealed pool 18Oct2012

So here's the sealed pool I recently played with and managed to go 4-0 at an FNM. In an effort to save time, I'm only going to provide links for the cards I played.



White:
Ethereal Armor
Trained Caracal
Concordia Pegasus
Keening Apparition
Selesnya Sentry
Seller of Songbirds
Azorius Justiciar
Eyes in the Skies
2X Knightly Valor

Azorius:
2X Dramatic Rescue
Skymark Roc
Fall of the Gavel
Isperia, Supreme Judge

Blue:
Dispel
Downsize
Mizzium Skin
Chronic Flooding
Doorkeeper
2X Paralyzing Grasp
2X Stealer of Secrets
Tower Drake
Soulsworn Spirit
Voidwielder
Isperia's Skywatch

Izzet:
Blistercoil Weird
Izzet Charm
Thoughtflare
Firemind's Foresight

Red:
Electrickery
Street Spasm
Mizzium Mortars
Pursuit of Flight
Annihilating Fire
Splatter Thug
Viashino Racketeer
Survey the Wreckage
Tenement Crasher

Rakdos:
Rakdos Shred-Freak
Cryptborn Horror

Black:
2X Cremate
Drainpipe Vermin
Grim Roustabout
Ultimate Price
Dead Reveler
Stab Wound
Dark Revenant
Ogre Jailbreaker
Slum Reaper
Catacomb Slug
Zanikev Locust
Terrus Wurm

Golgari:
2X Golgari Longlegs
Grisly Salvage
2X Sluiceway Scorpion

Green:
Gatecreeper Vine
2X Aerial Predation
Axebane Guardian
Chorus of Might
Golgari Decoy
Rubbleback Rhino
Archweaver
Horncaller's Chant

Selesnya:
Sundering Growth
Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
Centaur Healer
Common Bond
Coursers' Accord
Collective Blessing

Artifacts:
Civic Saber
Izzet Keyrune

Land:
Azorius Guildgate
Izzet Guildgate
Rakdos Guildgate
Temple Garden


First thought: Play ALL the colors! I had fixing for everything but Golgari, deep mono color pools with powerful guild cards, and options a plenty. Thankfully I pared the cards down to the playable piles and built all 5 guild combinations within my deck building time. Azorius, Golgari, and Selesnya were the first ones that came to mind, but I had to build all of them. Izzet didn't have enough dudes or way to punch through that damage. Rakdos suffered from the same problem.

Green and the guild cards associated with it had the ability to get me the rest of the way there, and opting for selesnya beefed up the dudes I played, and I got to be extra extra greedy. So I splashed blue for Isperia, Skymark Roc, and the 2 Dramatic Rescue. And I am glad that I did as I won my 4th round because of those cards.



The Deck that got there:

Creatures:
Concordia Pegasus
Gatecreeper Vine
Keening Apparition
Vitu-Ghaz Guildmage
Axebane Guardian
Centaur Healer
Selesnya Sentry
Seller of Songbirds
Azorius Justicar
Golgari Decoy
Skymark Roc
Rubbleback Rhino
Isperia, Supreme Judge
Archweaver

Instants:
2X Dramatic Rescue
Common Bond
Chorus of Might
Eyes in the Skies

Sorcery:
Coursers' Accord

Enchantments:
2X Knightly Valor
Collective Blessing

Lands:
Azorius Guildgate
Garden Temple
1X Island
7X Forest
7X Plains

Pack Analysis for 01Nov2012

Hey all, sorry for the delay in this analysis. Busy busy week and not a whole lot of analysis going on, as you'll soon see:

Commons:
Terrus Wurm
Chorus of Might
Electrickery
Paralyzing Grasp
Dramatic Rescue
Rakdos Shred-Freak
Sunspire Griffin
Azorius Guildgate
Korozda Monitor
Stab Wound

Uncommons:
Dark Revenant
Rites of Reaping
Fencing Ace

Rare:
Utvara Hellkite


Boom! Hellkite is a crystal clear snap pick. It is a bomb and a half. You do need to untap with it and successfully attack, but once that happens, you don't have to attack with the Hellkite again. A quick review of the set shows there are 2 other dragons which are rare (Hypersonic) and Mythic (Niv).

Now the double red commits you pretty hard to red and ramping up to 8 doesn't come easy in Red, Black, or Blue, so Keyrunes going forward are pretty valuable to you.

If the rare was a softer pick, Stab Wound and Dramatic rescue come to mind.

Looking at the overall sealed pool we're building, This deck is leaning even more towards Rakdos and Jund. It's got one of my favorite removal spells and a damn fine bomb.