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.
August 21st, 2007 at 07:52
Yikes, that’s a monster deck. 7 removal spells and several great enders. What about the low end of your curve though? Not too many 1 and 2 cc creatures there (if any??)
August 24th, 2007 at 20:56
I almost never put 1cc creatures in - too easy to kill. This deck is admittedly slow but it it catches up really quickly. The only loss I had was to mana screw.
August 24th, 2007 at 20:58
Speaking of mana screw. Here’s a story from earlier this week. Guillaume and I decided to do a re-sealed from packs we got last week. He decides to play all five colors! I chose black-green. The first two games: he wins! He played all five colors and I was the one who got mana fucked!!! He had the best opening hand and draws ever. By turn five, he had each basic land out. Damn Civic Wayfinder! Damn Terramorphic Expanse!
Luckily I caught up with three straight afterwards. Tee hee!