What would you do with this sealed deck?

[Henry A. Stern]

OK, so here's something different than the normal "help me fix my deck" or
"this card is better than that one" that seems to take up most of our time
here on .strategy. Listed below are the 120 cards that I received durring
the sealed portion of the US National Championships and the deck that I
wound up constructing. I'm curios as to what the others would have come up
with. So....take a look at the cards I chose (as indicated by the "Ã") and
tell me if you agree or disagree with the deck I came up with.

Rules: 40 card min, add any 4 basic (not snowcovered) land of your choice,
rest of the cards become your sideboard.

à Artifact Battering Ram
à Artifact Black Vice
à Artifact Brass Man
Artifact Delif's Cone
à Artifact Ivory Tower
à Artifact Tawnos's Wand
Artifact Tawnos's Weaponry
à Artifact Whalebone Glider
à Black Armor Thrull
Black Basal Thrull
à Black Black Knight
Black Burnt Offering
à Black Cursed Land
à Black Dark Banishing
à Black Dark Banishing
à Black Gangrenous Zombies
Black Gloom
Black hymm to Torach
à Black Initiates of the Ebon Hand
à Black Paralyze
à Black Pestilence
Black Pit scorpian
à Black Scathe Zombies
à Black Scavenging Ghoul
Black Seizures
à Black Terror
à Black Vampire Bats
Blue Apprentice Wizard
Blue Clairvoyance
Blue Creature Bond
à Blue Deflection
Blue Essence Flare
Blue Essence Flare
Blue Illusionary Terrain
à Blue Ray of Command
à Blue Spell Blast
Blue Tidal flats
Blue Vodalian mage
à Blue Zephyr Falcon
à Blue Zuran Spellcaster
Green Aurochs
Green Aurochs
Green Elvish Scout
Green Freyalise's Charm
à Green Grizzly Bears
à Green Ironroot Treefolk
à Green Living Artifact
Green Night Soil
Green Stream of Life
Green Thallid
Green Tinder Wall
Green Tranquility
Green Venom
Green Wild Growth
Red Barbarian Guides
Red Dwarven Catapult
Red Dwarven Warriors
Red Firebreathing
Red Goblin Grenade
Red Goblin Kites
Red Goblin Mutant
Red Incinerate
Red Orcish Conscript
Red Orcish Lumberjack
White Armor of Faith
White Black Scarab
White Brainwash
White COP: Blue
White COP: Blue
White COP: White
White Drought
White Enduring Renewal
White Farelite Preist
White healing Salve
White holy Armor
White holy Strength
White Icatian Lieutenant
White Ication Moneychanger
White Mesa Pegasus
White Piety
White Prismatic Ward
White Purelace
White Rally
à Land forest
à Land forest
à Land forest
à Land forest
à Land forest
à Land forest
à Land Island
à Land Island
à Land Island
à Land Island
à Land Island
Land Mountain
Land Mountain
Land Mountain
Land Mountain
Land Mountain
Land Plain
Land Plain
Land Plain
Land Plain
à Land Swamp
à Land Swamp
à Land Swamp
à Land (Any 4 extra Land - I chose swamps)
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[Enter Your Name Here]

I think I would have done something more or less like what you did. You
were really hosed getting only 3 land in your strongest color (black).
Had that not been the case I might have tried 2 colors, but with only 3
swamps . . . no chance. I would have included the Weaponry and Hymm to
Torach, the Thallid and Tranquillity.

In article <hastern-25...@x-147-17-172-58.es.hac.com>,
has...@ccgate.hac.com (Henry A. Stern) wrote:

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