Joined: Sep 23, 2013 Posts: 6317 Location: New York
Much better pool this time around. I feel like there are legitimate builds for all but maybe the Jeskai clan, and even that's possible. Love to see what you guys think.
Total aside: I tried to pair the colors to their color mostly by memory. Organizing piles like this helps me memorize cards, but there's no guarantee they're entirely correct, and I don't have heaps of minutes to double- and triple-check each color/card. If you spot something I'll edit this post, but be sure to look at each color while building.
//Sideboard SB: 1 Abzan Banner SB: 1 Awaken the Bear SB: 1 Bitter Revelation SB: 1 Incremental Growth SB: 1 Kheru Dreadmaw SB: 1 Rakshasa's Secret SB: 1 Sage-Eye Harrier SB: 2 Savage Punch SB: 1 Scout the Borders SB: 1 Temur Banner SB: 1 Defiant Strike SB: 1 Jeskai Student SB: 2 Seeker of the Way SB: 1 Sidisi's Pet SB: 1 Dragon Throne of Tarkir SB: 1 Ponyback Brigade
The bottom 3 cards were the last cuts. I guess that's an 9/8/8/2 split if you count the Banner.
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Abzan charm is nuts. I think your BG is pretty solid, but the only blue card (other than RU cards) worth playing is Force Away. Your white is fine but not deep (2 good dudes + 3 removal spells including charm).
I guess combining the 2 you could run 2 blue duals (in place of mountain and swamp) and put in Surrak > Loxodon. But Loxodon actually blocks Surrak, and cutting removal for banners seems bad.
If there was something like carytid or haven that taps for any color I would be more comfortable with the double splash.
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Without looking at above posts, this is what I did with it. Zurgo Helmsmasher looks tempting to go into a 4th color, but I decided against it. Heavy removal, and those Rakshasa Deathdealer's look like they would be great cards in this deck.
Trying a no-peek myself. blue's really weak but Surrak is very tempting. Zurgo, however, is insanely good, so I'm going Mardu. I don't feel great about the mana, though. Land (18) 1 x Bloodfell Caves 1 x Scoured Barrens 1 x Windswept Heath 7 x Swamp 4 x Plains 4 x Mountains
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It was literally the last card I cut. But 9 mana. NINE. Even over 2 turns that's a lot for an effect that wants as many dudes as possible.
The deck that really needs it is warriors or RW tokens. If you were definitely the beat down you could board it in for Kill Shot (In my BGWr). Or maybe Bellowing Saddlebrute if you were facing aggro.
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Joined: Sep 23, 2013 Posts: 6317 Location: New York
I feel like the deck that wants throne is the one that has an evasive creature and 6 mana and some other dudes. 2 to equip, tap, get bonus, 2 to equip to another dude, tap, get accumulative bonus, two to equip to third dude, tap, make dude humongous.
Basically if you have 4 bears and six mana, this would happen:
first bear--> makes 3 2/2 bears second bear--> makes 2 4/4 bears third bear--> makes 1 8/8 trampling bear on turn 6
Now that's only for bears. Having higher-powered creatures makes this bananas.
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"Everything looks good when your opponent passes 4 turns in a row" -- rstnme "Something that does not look good when your opponent does nothing is not a thing" -- me
Once again, I'm late to the party. So, first I'll read the first post, make my build, and then comment on the other posts.
The man posted another pool. Where does he get the time? And the energy? A powerfull, ambiguous one this time. Let's see. White looks OK, and green, and black; not much Abzan synergy, just nice playables. Red is so-so, blue pretty short. Good cards, but not many of them. Multicolor? Nice, OK, OK, hey! A Mythic in the best pool colors? What's the problem then? Ah, the other Mythic.
It's clear I want to play a Mythic, and almost clear that I can't play both. I also want to try for a two-color build, with splash(es). And just like that, problem solved, we're BW.
It's pretty easy to get to 18 playables, with five solid pieces of removal, and the two Mardu cards. Hm. Looks like I need the red morphs, maybe Bitter Revelation to help with the delve and draw some gas. How's my mana? I have the BW and RB dual, a BW charm. Looks like I can get a free green splash! Do I want it? I'm missing a card, so let's try the crocowall, and yes, the Charm!
I left out some red aggro options, the two Bloodfire Experts and the Valley Dasher. I don't think this deck can be all-out aggro, they mess with the mana base, and are just not very good IMO. Also, sideboarding will be really important with this pool. Many good option, you can turn it more aggro, or put in the 2/8 black wall and the 1/4 lifegain morph.
Reality check: what did the forum experts come up with? Wow, I actually did something original.
The GB five-color is nuts. My probles is with the Deathdealer. That's just so mana-intensive, you need like nine green and black mana sources to get value out of him. And you have only six green, with two of them CipT. I'd want at least two more. Just drop Zurgo. Or drop the Deathdealers.
Same goes for Zenbitz. Not enough green to support Deathdealer. Anyway, what's with all the green? Honorable mention goes to Tevish, who went with the right colors, but he plays the cheap red do-mostly-nothing critters. An aggro super-bomb does not mean your deck needs to be aggro.
Well, enough of my superiority complex for today, and thanks again rstnme.
PS: Throne is three to equip, plus two to activate. And it fits nicely on the Crocowall.
You don't need to drop deathdealer on T2 for it to be good. I just found the red very mediocre. You have a million warriors (note: bird warriors!) but you don't actually have any cards that care about warriors.
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