Subject: sealed strategy, scrub's point of view... Date: Wed, 04 Mar 98 16:27:45 -0500 From: bcowley@gdys.com To: here is what we get (props to Toby Elliott) lands: 4 forest, 5 island, 1 mogg hollows, 4 mountain, 5 plains, 4 swamp artifacts: excavator, lotus petal, patchwork gnomes, squee's toy, watchdog gold: spontaneous combustion x2, vhati il-Dal black: clot sliver, dauthi ghoul, dauthi horror, dauthi slayer, endless scream, enfeeblement, gravedigger, mindwhip sliver, servant of volrath x2, souldrinker blue: chill,counterspell,giant crab,manta riders,power sink,rootwater hunter, thalakos mistfolk, thalakos seer x2, wind drake x2 green: canopy spider, choke, elven warhounds, pincher beetles, reality anchor, respite, root maze, rootwalla, skyshroud elf, spike drone, trained armodon red: boil, canyon wildcat, crown of flames, enraging licid, flowstone wyvern x2, havoc, lowland giant, mogg raider, rolling thunder, sandstone warrior, shatter, stone rain, stun white: anoint, armored pegasus, cop: blue, cop: shadow, cloudchaser eagle, disenchant, pacifism, soltari foot soldier, soltari monk, soltari trooper x2, talon sliver First: throw all my land in a separate pile. I can get 5 more lands right so who cares? Next: Let's look through my colors... for RARES. vhati il-Dal OH goody a legend! elven warhounds, cool!. root maze, crap. TWO flowstone wyvern? dear god why me? look, that kid got a Greven maybe we can trade afterwards. Hmm, yes rolling thunder! ok everyone knows that the x-spell wins the game, my deck is gonna be good. well since I am using red let see_ canyon wildcat, yup that is good. oh my, CROWN OF FLAMES. this is almost like a reusable fireball. AND I can bounce it all over the place. ok forget the rest of red let's find some other colors to play with. black, boring, what good are all these shadow things for anyways? hmm, a SLIVER. set that puppy aside. blue: ohhh counterspell. MUST...USE...COUNTERSPELL... and I'll be dammed if manta riders aren't the best 1 casting cost creature in the game. oh you plan on blocking me I THINK NOT I CAN FLY! green: where the hell are my rootbreaker wurms? screw this. white: you know I keep hearing flying is the key, maybe I should try that angle. I mean I already have the manta riders, so why not add some true beef. throw in the armored pegasus. ooh look more speed soltari foot soldier, wait it doesn't block, wait on the other hand I like things I can cast first turn. well I am ready to go, first the lands, I always like 14. I know it is more than 1/3 but hell I don't want to get mana-scrwed. let see I am using blue,red,white,touch of black. 14/4 no wait that doesn't work, almost though, let see 12/4 is 3 and let's add 1 more to red and blue (I am no dummy, that counterspell is 2 blue). almost forgot my artifacts what do we have here? LOTUS PETAL is this broken in sealed or what. now I can cut out a land and put this in. squee's toy a must of course, patchwork gnomes? who the hell would want to pitch a card just to regenerate? what about multi color - spontaneous combustion, yeah sure this just has "scrub detetector" written all over it, my god why would I want to kill one of my creatures to kill one of their creatures? OK I think I am ready. I must live by my cardinal rules: 1) play all slivers 2) x spells rule 3) big fat ass creatures always (damn none in this deck oh well must make do) 4) 14 land, a must (or 13 and the BOMB, the lotus petal) well here we go: land: (14) 1 lotus petal 3 island 4 mountain 3 swamp 3 plains black (6): mindwhip sliver clot sliver endless scream (picture this: manta rider. crown of flames. endless scream. winners bracket please.) gravedigger (to get back my slivers) enfeeblement (to kill other manta riders) vhati il-dal (HELLO, LEGEND? nuff said) blue(3): counterspell manta riders (best 1cc creature in the game- it FLYS) chill (heh heh I expect to see a lot of red) red(9): canyon wildcat crown of flames (game over pal like having another x spell) enraging licid flowstown wyvern x2 (hate this guy but whatever probably side him out for boil) lowland giant mogg raider (I can play tricks with this guy heh heh try to kindle my wildcat I think not!) stun (my god like a time walk) stone rain (see stun) white (10) anoint (must_save_manta_rider) armored pegasus (umm, pegasus + crown = game over sucker) cloudchaser eagle (must_kill_other_crown_of_flames) disenchant (see cloudchaser eagle) pacifism (I saw someone good using this once. good to stop the early beatdown from a fireslinger) soltari foot soldier (put you on the 20 turn clock buddy) soltari monk (yeah like people will actually play black shadow, whatever) soltari foot soldier x2 talon sliver (my god what were they THINKING when they made a first strike sliver?) artifacts: Squee's Toy (you'll ping what manta rider? hehh) well I'm proud, I kept it to 4 colors, only 43 cards and 14 land! heh I am a pro tour player first round nightmare barreling through on the express train I'll be dropping bombs like godzilla all day long baby. now where was that guy with the Greven may we can trade???