Thu, 7 August 2008
Note: If you'd rather read this in a more familiar fashion, you can find it in a *.doc file located here:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/themanapool/Sealed_Pools_and_Decks.doc For Episode 41, I opened a Sealed pool of cards, a Shadowmoor Tournament Pack and two Eventide Booster Packs. Each host dork took this Sealed pool and made a Sealed deck. Here is the original card pool.
Land: Madblind Mountain (U) Sunken Ruins (R)
White: Kithkin Shielddare Kithkin Zealot Last Breath Recumbent Bliss Suture Spirit (U) Windbrisk Raptor (R)
Blue: Banishing Knack Briarberry Cohort Dream Thief Ghastly Discovery Oona's Grace Prismwake Merrow Put Away
Black: Ashling, the Extinguisher (R) Crowd of Cinders (U) Disturbing Plot Gloomlance Merrow Bonegnawer Rite of Consumption Smoldering Butcher Splitting Headache
Red: Blookmark Mentor (U) Bloodshed Fever Hotheaded Giant Inescapable Brute Puncture Bolt Smash to Smithereens
Green: Bloom Tender (R) Devoted Druid Gleeful Sabotage Nurturer Initiate Phosphorescent Feast (U) Tower Above (U) Wickerbough Elder Wildslayer Elves
Artifact: Antler Skulkin Chainbreaker Hoof Skulkin Lurebound Scarecrow (U) Shell Skulkin
Black/White Hybrid: Beckon Apparition Bloodied Ghost (U) Edge of the Divinity Nightsky Mimic Unmake
Red/White Hybrid: Duergar Assailant Duergar Hedge-Mage (U) Fire at Will
Blue/White Hybrid: Aethertow Enchanted Evening (R) Thoughtweft Gambit (U) Turn to Mist
Green/White Hybrid: Barkshell Blessing Elvish Hexhunter Safehold Elite Safewright Quest
Black/Green Hybrid: Quillspike (U) Stalker Hag (U)
Blue/Black Hybrid: Merrow Grimeblotter (U)
Blue/Green Hybrid: Favor of the Overbeing Grazing Kelpie Shorecrasher Mimic Slippery Bogle
Red/Green Hybrid: Boggart Ram-Gang (U) Loamdragger Giant Morselhoarder Mudbrawler Raiders Tattermunge Duo Tattermunge Witch (U)
Red/Black Hybrid: Emberstrike Duo Sootwalkers Torrent of Souls (U) Tyrannize (R)
And here are the four decks that came from this endeavor. Note the differences and, even though they're different colors, note the similarities.
Brian's Sealed Deck, by converted mana cost 1 – Merrow Bonegnawer, Nurturer Initiate, Elvish Hexhunter 2 – Bloom Tender, Devoted Druid, Safehold Elite, Disturbing Plot, Gleeful Sabotage, Rite of Consumption 3 – Quillspike, Stalker Hag, Hoof Skulkin, Tower Above, Unmake 4 – Ashling the Extinguisher, Crowd of Cinders, Soldering Butcher, Wickerbough Elder, Wildslayer Elves 5 – Gloomlance, Torrent of Souls 6 – Morselhoarder 7 – Loamdragger Giant Land: 10x Forest 7x Swamp
Dirk’s Sealed Deck, by color Lands 9 Plains 7 Forests
Green Bloom Tender Tower Above Wickerbough Elder Wildslayer Elves
White Kithkin Shielddare Last Breath Recumbent Bliss Suture Spirit Windbrisk Raptor
White/Black Bloodied Ghost Edge of the Divinity Unmake
White/Red Duergar Hedge-Mage Fire at Will
White/Blue Æthertow Turn to Mist
White/Green Safehold Elite Safewright Quest
Green/Black Stalker Hag
Green/Red Boggart Ram-Gang Loamdragger Giant Morselhoarder
Green/Blue Favor of the Overbeing Slippery Bogle
Mike's Sealed Deck, by color Red: Bloodmark Mentor Puncture Bolt
Green: Bloom Tender Devoted Druid Gleeful Sabotage Nurturer Initiate Tower Above Wickerbough Elder Wildslayer Elves
Artifact: Chainbreaker Hoof Skulkin Lurebound Scarecrow
Red/White Hybrid: Duergar Assailant
Green/White Hybrid: Barkshell Blessing Elvish Hexhunter Safehold Elite
Black/Green Hybrid: Quillspike
Blue/Green Hybrid: Grazing Kelpie
Red/Green Hybrid: Boggart Ram-Gang Loamdragger Giant Morselhoarder Mudbrawler Raiders Tattermunge Duo Tattermunge Witch
Red/Black Hybrid: Sootwalkers
Land: 11 Forest 6 Mountain
Chewie's Sealed Deck, by card type Creatures Elvish Hexhunter Kithkin Zealot Suture Spirit Safehold Elite Nightsky Mimic Devoted Druid Quillspike Bloodied Ghost Duergar Hedge-Mage Stalker Hag Crowd of Cinders Sootwalkers Ashling, the Extinguisher Smoldering Butcher Windbrisk Raptor
Spells Safewright Quest Barkshell Blessing Beckon Apparition Last Breath Fire at Will Unmake Recumbent Bliss Aethertow Gloomlance Thoughtweft Gambit
Land 8 Plains 6 Swamp 3 Forest
As a second exercise for this episode, I opened another Sealed pool, again a Shadowmoor Tournament Pack and two Eventide Booster Packs, and we constructed a deck live on the air. Here is that pool.
White Recumbent Bliss Cenn's Enlistment Light from Within Flickerwisp Woeleecher Safehold Sentry
Blue Consign to Dream Banishing Knack Wilderness Hypnotist Deepchannel Mentor Faerie Swarm Put Away Parapet Watchers Briarberry Cohort
Black Corrupt Blowfly Infestation Polluted Bonds Soul Reap Merrow Bonegnawer Creakwood Ghoul Raven's Crime Smolder Initiate Aphotic Wisps Sickle Ripper Disturbing Plot
Red Flame Jab Duergar Cave-Guard Hotheaded Giant Smash to Smithereens Rustrazor Butcher Blistering Dieflyn Boggart Arsonists
Green Savage Conception Wickerbough Elder Witherscale Wurm Drove of Elves Gloomwidow Nurturer Initiate Presence of Gond
White/Blue Godhead of Awe Aethertow Turn to Mist
Blue/Black River's Grasp Memory Sluice
Black/Red Spiteflame Witch Cultbrand Cinder
Red/Green Firespout Loamdragger Giant Giantbaiting Mudbrawler Raiders Morselhoarder
Green/White Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers Elvish Hexhunter Safewright Quest Safehold Elite Barkshell Blessing
White/Black Nip Gwyllion Unmake Edge of Divinity
Blue/Red Noggle Bridgebreaker Noggle Bandit Stream Hopper Mindwrack Liege Noggle Hedge-Mage
Black/Green Rendclaw Trow
Green/Blue Slippery Bogle Grazing Kelpie Shorecrasher Mimic Selkie Hedge-Mage
Artifact Hook Skulkin Fang Skulkin Scrapbasket Pili-Pala Wingrattle Scarecrow
Land Moonring Island
And finally, here is the complete decklist, after much discussion, discord, and decision. Sorted by card type then mana cost.
Land 9 Island 6 Forest 3 Mountain
Creatures Stream Hopper Elvish Hexhunter Pili-Pala Briarberry Cohort Safehold Elite Selkie Hedge-Mage Noggle Hedge-Mage Rendclaw Trow Noggle Bandit Faerie Swarm Wickerbough Elder Noggle Bridgebreaker Godhead of Awe Deepchannel Mentor Mindwrack Liege
Noncreatures Banishing Knack Barkshell Blessing Flame Jab Consign to Dream Giantbaiting Presence of Gond Firespout Aethertow Savage Conception
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