Sealed Deck advice
So tonight I played my first-ever Friday Night Magic at Neutral Ground. I'm positive I misbuilt my deck, and wanted advice as to how other people would've built it...
Artifacts
1 Boros Signet
1 Dimir Signet
1 Grifter's Blade
1 Leashling
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Selesnya Signet
Black
1 Clinging Darkness
1 Drekavac
1 Enemy of the Guildpact
1 Mortipede
1 Necromancer's Magemark
1 Shred Memory
1 Slaughterhouse Bouncer
1 Stinkweed Imp
Blue
1 Dizzy Spell
1 Grayscaled Gharial
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Snapping Drake
1 Surveiling Sprite
1 Terraformer
1 Torch Drake
1 Train of Thought
1 Vision Skeins
Green
1 Beastmaster's Magemark
1 Bramble Elemental
1 Cytospawn Shambler
1 Dowsing Shaman
1 Dryad's Caress
1 Goliath Spider
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Gruul Scrapper
1 Patagia Viper
1 Rolling Spoil
1 Siege Wurm
1 Simic Initiate
1 Starved Rusalka
1 Stone-Seeder Hierophant
1 Transluminant
Red
1 Barbarian Riftcutter
1 Cleansing Beam
1 Dogpile
1 Fiery Conclusion
1 Ordruun Commando
1 Rain of Embers
1 Sandstorm Eidolon
1 Seismic Spike
White
1 Chant of Vitu-Ghazi
1 Divebomber Griffin
1 Dromad Purebred
1 Lionheart Maverick
1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
1 Nightguard Patrol
1 Shadow Lance
1 Shrieking Grotesque
1 Soulsworn Jury
1 Steeling Stance
1 Wojek Siren
Gold
1 Chorus of the Conclave
1 Consult the Necrosages
1 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Leap of Flame
1 Pollenbright Wings
1 Riot Spikes
1 Savage Twister
1 Selesnya Guildmage
1 Simic Guildmage
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
1 Wild Cantor
1 Wrecking Ball
1 Yore-Tiller Nephilim
Lands
1 Boros Garrison
1 Gruul Turf
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
Some nice cards in there, huh? Yeah, I agree, :-).
1 Simic Initiate
1 Wild Cantor
1 Selesnya Guildmage
1 Simic Guildmage
1 Transluminant
1 Shrieking Grotesque
1 Nightguard Patrol
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Gruul Scrapper
1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
1 Bramble Elemental
1 Dowsing Shaman
1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Cytospawn Shambler
1 Siege Wurm
1 Savage Twister
1 Fiery Conclusion
1 Boros Signet
1 Dimir Signet
1 Beastmaster's Magemark
1 Steeling Stance
1 Cleansing Beam
1 Pollenbright Wings
1 Boros Garrison
1 Gruul Turf
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
2 Island
2 Mountain
4 Plains
5 Forest
I know I misbuilt it, and part of it was because they only gave us 20 minutes for deckbuilding, I was über-excited about my bombs, and people who weren't playing the FNM were trying to tell me how they'd build it, so in the end I had to hurry and couldn't really concentrate. In retrospect I should've gone with more Blue, to be able to run great cards like Snapping Drake, Terraformer (would've helped my mana for sure), Soulsworn Jury, Patagia Viper, etc. The deck should've ended up as G/W/U with a Red splash for Twister, Cleansing Beam and Fiery Conclusion (I had 3 free Red sources with the Karoos and the Signet, and I could've even run the 4th Karoo for an additional free Red source).
I lost Round 1 to a guy who had 2 Galvanic Arc, neither of which was foil. I mentioned it to the "judge" who didn't really think much of it, and said that it can sometimes happen. It turns out that one of the 2 Arcs belonged to a guy who was building at the same table as my opponent, and it somehow made its way into my opponent's deck. It sucks because in both games he drew both his Arcs, killing all sorts of good dudes on my side (Selesnya Guildmage, notably). In Game 2 I played my Sky Swallower, but had to block (I was on 4 life, and he swung with the 3/4 wall that loses defender), and as such lost my guy to Seeds of Strength (which would've killed me on the spot if I hadn't blocked). Anyway, the whole Arc thing pissed me off, but since it was an FNM I didn't feel like making a big deal out of it.
I won Round 2, beating a guy who had not only a Simic Sky Swallower of his own, but also had a Niv-Mizzet! When SSS came down in game 1 I expertly ripped a land to be able to Savage Twister for 6, and I finished game 3 with my own SSS. Such a good card...
I won Round 3 as well, beating a guy with a pretty nutty deck that included Moldervine Cloak, Sunforger and other all-stars.
I dropped from the tournament at 2-1, since it was already 10:45pm and there were two rounds to go, and with no real prospect of finishing in the top-2 to win some foils. I think I could've ended up 4-1, but it still bugs me that I misbuilt this deck.
How would everyone else have built it? The easiest thing would probably be to just post what cards from my final build you'd cut and what you'd add instead...
Luis
Artifacts
1 Boros Signet
1 Dimir Signet
1 Grifter's Blade
1 Leashling
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Selesnya Signet
Black
1 Clinging Darkness
1 Drekavac
1 Enemy of the Guildpact
1 Mortipede
1 Necromancer's Magemark
1 Shred Memory
1 Slaughterhouse Bouncer
1 Stinkweed Imp
Blue
1 Dizzy Spell
1 Grayscaled Gharial
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Snapping Drake
1 Surveiling Sprite
1 Terraformer
1 Torch Drake
1 Train of Thought
1 Vision Skeins
Green
1 Beastmaster's Magemark
1 Bramble Elemental
1 Cytospawn Shambler
1 Dowsing Shaman
1 Dryad's Caress
1 Goliath Spider
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Gruul Scrapper
1 Patagia Viper
1 Rolling Spoil
1 Siege Wurm
1 Simic Initiate
1 Starved Rusalka
1 Stone-Seeder Hierophant
1 Transluminant
Red
1 Barbarian Riftcutter
1 Cleansing Beam
1 Dogpile
1 Fiery Conclusion
1 Ordruun Commando
1 Rain of Embers
1 Sandstorm Eidolon
1 Seismic Spike
White
1 Chant of Vitu-Ghazi
1 Divebomber Griffin
1 Dromad Purebred
1 Lionheart Maverick
1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
1 Nightguard Patrol
1 Shadow Lance
1 Shrieking Grotesque
1 Soulsworn Jury
1 Steeling Stance
1 Wojek Siren
Gold
1 Chorus of the Conclave
1 Consult the Necrosages
1 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Leap of Flame
1 Pollenbright Wings
1 Riot Spikes
1 Savage Twister
1 Selesnya Guildmage
1 Simic Guildmage
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
1 Wild Cantor
1 Wrecking Ball
1 Yore-Tiller Nephilim
Lands
1 Boros Garrison
1 Gruul Turf
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
Some nice cards in there, huh? Yeah, I agree, :-).
1 Simic Initiate
1 Wild Cantor
1 Selesnya Guildmage
1 Simic Guildmage
1 Transluminant
1 Shrieking Grotesque
1 Nightguard Patrol
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Gruul Scrapper
1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
1 Bramble Elemental
1 Dowsing Shaman
1 Tolsimir Wolfblood
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Cytospawn Shambler
1 Siege Wurm
1 Savage Twister
1 Fiery Conclusion
1 Boros Signet
1 Dimir Signet
1 Beastmaster's Magemark
1 Steeling Stance
1 Cleansing Beam
1 Pollenbright Wings
1 Boros Garrison
1 Gruul Turf
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
2 Island
2 Mountain
4 Plains
5 Forest
I know I misbuilt it, and part of it was because they only gave us 20 minutes for deckbuilding, I was über-excited about my bombs, and people who weren't playing the FNM were trying to tell me how they'd build it, so in the end I had to hurry and couldn't really concentrate. In retrospect I should've gone with more Blue, to be able to run great cards like Snapping Drake, Terraformer (would've helped my mana for sure), Soulsworn Jury, Patagia Viper, etc. The deck should've ended up as G/W/U with a Red splash for Twister, Cleansing Beam and Fiery Conclusion (I had 3 free Red sources with the Karoos and the Signet, and I could've even run the 4th Karoo for an additional free Red source).
I lost Round 1 to a guy who had 2 Galvanic Arc, neither of which was foil. I mentioned it to the "judge" who didn't really think much of it, and said that it can sometimes happen. It turns out that one of the 2 Arcs belonged to a guy who was building at the same table as my opponent, and it somehow made its way into my opponent's deck. It sucks because in both games he drew both his Arcs, killing all sorts of good dudes on my side (Selesnya Guildmage, notably). In Game 2 I played my Sky Swallower, but had to block (I was on 4 life, and he swung with the 3/4 wall that loses defender), and as such lost my guy to Seeds of Strength (which would've killed me on the spot if I hadn't blocked). Anyway, the whole Arc thing pissed me off, but since it was an FNM I didn't feel like making a big deal out of it.
I won Round 2, beating a guy who had not only a Simic Sky Swallower of his own, but also had a Niv-Mizzet! When SSS came down in game 1 I expertly ripped a land to be able to Savage Twister for 6, and I finished game 3 with my own SSS. Such a good card...
I won Round 3 as well, beating a guy with a pretty nutty deck that included Moldervine Cloak, Sunforger and other all-stars.
I dropped from the tournament at 2-1, since it was already 10:45pm and there were two rounds to go, and with no real prospect of finishing in the top-2 to win some foils. I think I could've ended up 4-1, but it still bugs me that I misbuilt this deck.
How would everyone else have built it? The easiest thing would probably be to just post what cards from my final build you'd cut and what you'd add instead...
Luis