Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
The rise of the Shenanigans
Well here we are after a successful prerelease of the newest and latest set of powerful craziness. I was lucky to participate in 2 prerelease sealed events and 1 draft, the bad news is i was green/white in both sealed events and in the draft i was 4 colors... believe it. So most of my research was only done on 2 colors.
The first sealed was on Friday at "laser quest at midnight. my pool was very diverse i had a rare in every color and powerful uncommons everywhere but i lacked in eldrazi fattys. My mvp of the night was "Transcendant master" he got me allot of wins fast and i also had "Awakening zone" which is amazing in sealed. my deck had allot of fast creatures and umbras to enchant tokens and pound on some skulls. My results were 3-3 and i did not get any prize but i learned allot.
On the second sealed, Sunday at noon my pool was horrific, i had awakening zone again but every color but green was totally under par, i had an army of eldrazi people and i had " bear umbra, the deck just would not perform so i went 1/1/1 and decided to drop and draft.
The draft was an 8 man with mostly confident players, i started out by first picking 2 eldrazi gods, the one that brings a creature back and the 9/9 that needs 3 blockers. then i noticed that out of 8 people 9 of them were in green so i drifted around a bit taking good white/blue/green cards. In pack 2 i pulled " realms uncharted" and i took it for a standard deck idea, then i realized that i need 4 lands to even use the card, so i continued trying to be 3 colors because i was strong in each of them, i had 4 mnomic walls and my deck had a huge defensive force. Then mid pack 3 i picked up a consume the meek for my standard deck and ended up going bant splash black for consume which was a VERY good decision in the end.
here are my research results.
ancient stirrings: very good in draft, and sealed
dream cache: very good early or when your ahead
Giddeon: Counter him or die, he is very powerful and hard to kill if piloted correctly.
Transcendant master: very powerful if not answered fast.
guard duty: not much actually the creature can still block.
oust: very effective at the moment answer but only tempo helping
not of this world: most people consider this card unplayable but i like it when people try to turn ur eldrazi against you.
vendaetta is effective but you have to play it correctly and watch your life total.
Level-up guys in general are very nice but they all die to consume the meek and you should with that in mind.
the eldrazi: most of these guys look extremely good, guess what they are. Most gams actually eldrazi races in disguise everyone is tryin to live long enough to win.
I wish i had pulled other colors so i could e more helpful in my research but i got what i got. If anyone would like to contribute i would appreciate it.
The first sealed was on Friday at "laser quest at midnight. my pool was very diverse i had a rare in every color and powerful uncommons everywhere but i lacked in eldrazi fattys. My mvp of the night was "Transcendant master" he got me allot of wins fast and i also had "Awakening zone" which is amazing in sealed. my deck had allot of fast creatures and umbras to enchant tokens and pound on some skulls. My results were 3-3 and i did not get any prize but i learned allot.
On the second sealed, Sunday at noon my pool was horrific, i had awakening zone again but every color but green was totally under par, i had an army of eldrazi people and i had " bear umbra, the deck just would not perform so i went 1/1/1 and decided to drop and draft.
The draft was an 8 man with mostly confident players, i started out by first picking 2 eldrazi gods, the one that brings a creature back and the 9/9 that needs 3 blockers. then i noticed that out of 8 people 9 of them were in green so i drifted around a bit taking good white/blue/green cards. In pack 2 i pulled " realms uncharted" and i took it for a standard deck idea, then i realized that i need 4 lands to even use the card, so i continued trying to be 3 colors because i was strong in each of them, i had 4 mnomic walls and my deck had a huge defensive force. Then mid pack 3 i picked up a consume the meek for my standard deck and ended up going bant splash black for consume which was a VERY good decision in the end.
here are my research results.
ancient stirrings: very good in draft, and sealed
dream cache: very good early or when your ahead
Giddeon: Counter him or die, he is very powerful and hard to kill if piloted correctly.
Transcendant master: very powerful if not answered fast.
guard duty: not much actually the creature can still block.
oust: very effective at the moment answer but only tempo helping
not of this world: most people consider this card unplayable but i like it when people try to turn ur eldrazi against you.
vendaetta is effective but you have to play it correctly and watch your life total.
Level-up guys in general are very nice but they all die to consume the meek and you should with that in mind.
the eldrazi: most of these guys look extremely good, guess what they are. Most gams actually eldrazi races in disguise everyone is tryin to live long enough to win.
I wish i had pulled other colors so i could e more helpful in my research but i got what i got. If anyone would like to contribute i would appreciate it.
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