10th Edition Sealed
July 28, 2007
This month’s sealed featured the newly released 10th Edition. I haven’t been thrilled with the cards so far. A lot of my favorites were taken out of core from 9th and replaced with retarded and janky filler. Limited though, is always different and today I got maybe the best cards for limited I’ve ever had.
I ended up with a green/red aggro zoo deck backed up with a lot of removal. I splashed black because… well, you’ll see.
Aggro Burn Zoo
9x Forest
5x Mountain
4x Swamp
—– 18 Land —–1x Siege-Gang Commander [2/2]
1x Anaba Bodyguard [2/3]
1x Earth Elemental [4/5]
1x Rhox [5/5]
1x Stalking Tiger [3/3]
1x Llanowar Sentinel [2/3]
1x Giant Spider [2/4]
1x Enormous Baloth [7/7]
1x Karplusan Strider [3/4]
1x Elvish Piper [1/1]
1x Pincher Beetles [3/1]
1x Troll Ascetic [3/2]
—– 12 Creatures —–2x Terror
2x Assassinate
1x Chromatic Star
1x Naturalize
1x Hurricane
1x Lure
1x Shock
1x Blaze
1x Incinerate
—– 11 Spells —–
Seriously! Look at those cards! I have 8 removal spells! TWO freaking Terrors! How could I NOT splash black?! A Blaze, Shock, and Incinerate!!! I might as well had thrown in a Char. Then, I had a Troll Ascetic, my bomb today and definite favorite card from 10th backed up with Earth Elemental, Enormous Baloth, and a Rhox all called by Elvish Piper. The mana curve was quite steep but I was generally able to get going from about turn 4 or 5. I lost once in the 1v1s from mana screw but aside from that, I did rather well.
The lone Naturalize was thrown in when Thierry “accidentally” announced that Guillaume got a very bombalicious Loxodon Warhammer. While it never got to kill the Warhammer, it did come in handy in the DHG when a Pariah was thrown onto our little monsters.
