Finally, a 3-0 deck

[Tom H]

I decided to raise all of the red aggro cards and all 2-drops way up in my estimation for this draft and see what happened. I even almost took the 2-drop over the hydra p1p1. The result was a fairly easy 3-0 even through a mulligan to 5, which I won. I hate this format. It looks like it could be so sweet with the cycling and some of the build around cards, but in the end this deck is basically just what you should be drafting every time until 4 or more others at the table start doing the same thing. To clarify though, "this deck" could be RW as well. It's basically just the aggro exert deck with lots of late game "I win cards" or other cards that can force through damage.

I might be done drafting the set online at this point. :(

[Jason Salvano]

Haha, a bunch of aggro cards and then......

Edifice.

On Fri, May 12, 2017, 9:27 PM Tom H <trhu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I decided to raise all of the red aggro cards and all 2-drops way up in my estimation for this draft and see what happened. I even almost took the 2-drop over the hydra p1p1. The result was a fairly easy 3-0 even through a mulligan to 5, which I won. I hate this format. It looks like it could be so sweet with the cycling and some of the build around cards, but in the end this deck is basically just what you should be drafting every time until 4 or more others at the table start doing the same thing. To clarify though, "this deck" could be RW as well. It's basically just the aggro exert deck with lots of late game "I win cards" or other cards that can force through damage.

I might be done drafting the set online at this point. :(

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[Trevor McCarthy]

Funny, I had the opposite experience tonight. I opened a Sweltering Sun, got passed a Pull from Tomorrow, declared "fuck it", and went all-in on the durdliest UR Control deck I could muster.

Then I spent five games being a UR tempo deck against manascrewed or flooded opponents. Only one game did I get to do anything ridiculous like Pull for 6; the rest of the time I was just beating down with garbage like Glorybringer.

[Tom H]

I meant to include in my email.... I should have played Fling over Edifice. Although it did save me one game (racing big green creatures, I got to attack in and he blocked so that he might have lethal then played Edifice and kept his guy from attacking), it was pretty bad in this deck. I thought that it might be ok as a long-term threat when my game plan didn't pan out, but it was really just not the card for this deck. Even the Honored Hydra wasn't very good. I left it in as an out in case I got flooded and with the two Bloodlust Inciters a 6 power trampler could be a nice surprise to finish off an opponent, but the deck just really didn't want a 6-drop of any kind. The one time I got to play him my opponent had a 6/7 hexproof crocodile so he just sat on the board looking silly.

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[Tom H]

I don't know that playing Glorybringer and facing opponents who get mana screwed or flooded tells a lot about the format. ;)

I listened to a Wizards guy yesterday talking about how the games in testing early on were all long board-stall games so they added a bunch of cards to help force through damage. I think they overdid it by quite a margin. It's just way too hard to block in this format. I never feel comfortable if I'm passing the turn and hoping not to take damage almost no matter what my defenses look like.

[Jason Salvano]

It's a shame that the environment is so polarized that Edifice can't even be effectively played in an aggressive deck. Looking at the Pro Tour coverage, it seems that you want to be in the Mardu shard (particularly red and white), and you only want to draft green or blue if you have a very good reason.

But it sounds as though draft and sealed formats are complete opposites, and you actually want to go for long games in sealed unless you have a terrifically​ aggressive pool.