Quiz Time:

One of these decks went 3-0-1 (chopping for first).

One of these decks went 2-2

One of these decks was made from the pool of one of the other deck.

One deck was piloted by a 9 year old, the other by me.

Which deck won? Which deck was made from pure sideboard? Who made who?

deck 1:


Deck 2:


Deck 3

Partial Spoilers:

Gaaaaaaah this thread is not iPhone friendly!!!!

K, back at home.

Deck 1 went 3-0-1
Deck 2 was SB deck
Deck 3 went 2-2
Deck 1 was piloted by 9 yr old

How'd I do?

ANSWERS (not going to bother to spoil)

Actually, MY deck (number 3) went undefeated. Actually it went 4-0 in games with a first round bye (like 5 people didn't show) and the chop. It did pretty well in test games too, although it split with my son's deck (deck 1). Although I went 2-0 in round three when game one I mulled to 5 but opponent mulled to 4 and I played 2 lands, top decked vaporkin into eagle into chorus of the tides. Game 2 I mulled to 6 and he mulled to 5. He had a very fast RW deck that beat up the RG deck after the first two games.

Some dude at the shop was trying to convince me that the RG was better (I made it during the 1st round bye). I think he was wrong, it wasn't awful (I played about 4 games with it), but it wasn't great either.
I was thinking of siding out the entire deck (even bought some sleeves) but I doubt I would have had the guts. Also I couldn't decide if I should transition if I:
a) won game 1 (seems bad)
b) lost game 1 (seems panicky)
c) only for game 3

Obviously if I thought I had a particularly good or bad matchup I would switch.

I thought my son's deck was a little better than mine - so much removal. But I think he had two problems:
1) mana consistency
2) only 11 creatures

Also he's 9 and plays a little loose. (Plays combat tricks too early - as pump spells; plays creatures main phase 1).

Riptide Chimera is a very interesting card. It's totally NUTS with stratus walk... and very bad without any other enchantment. 3 mana 3/4 flying blocker for 1 turn!

I probably should have cut the enchantments (this is deck 3 btw) and the chimera and played Triton Cavalry. Although I won both of my round two games off the Chimera/Stratus combo (once on a Chariot... which is EXTRA nuts).

Well, the sideboard deck was pretty obvious. And it should be sideboard, bomb or not. A lot of heroes, but not enough cheap enablers. Looks like you had a very strong pool, since RG could win some games against slow opponents, as this is sealed.

Deck 1 is very strong. Just swap those Oppressive Rays for anything, and you have a winner. If that anything is three creatures, you would be in excellent shape. Congrats to your son for doing well.

And three is very strong too. The only sore point is the Chimera with too few enchantments. You do some early damage, get to six or seven mana, and then just win off the blue uncommons. No congrats for you, I expect you to do good

I thought deck 3 look really strong too, but sometimes you have a 4-0 deck and you go 2-2

Man, I'm stoked about the release since I missed the prerelease. I heard the tournaments in NYC were small.

My guess: You built deck 3 (U/W Heroic) and went 2-2. The nine-year-old pulled Xenagos, built Deck 2, and went 3-0-1. Deck 1, despite its strength, was built from sideboard. B/W is his sideboard because some people have all the luck.

EDIT: And I'm dead wrong, of course.

I am actually embarrassed to win 7 packs for 4 games.

I suspect the boy didn't have any more black or white creatures in his pool. He lose one match to turn 3 godsend in both games, and other by mana screw (possibly a bad non-mulligan).