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not the most powerful card in your sealed pool, but the one that won you the most games
Kessig Dire Swine
my pool sucked...
Pic related saved my skin quite a few times, or let me squeeze in that last bit of damage I needed. Getting a clue out of it isn't a bad deal either.
>>46444186
Forgot pic...
Wrecked face, both with and without Olivia. First strike royally fucks their combat math.
The card quality provided game-long really helped my otherwise fuck-awful pool, and it also helped me get tricky card types in my yard for delirium.
Didn't do great overall, but when I did win this was a major contributor.
>>46444380
seconding this, also Insolent Neonate. Opened three in my 2HG flight today and I don't think they ever got blocked
I was gonna say Kindly Stranger but Crawling Sensation stacked every delirium card in the deck.
Concoction did work getting Mr delirium and creature destroy.
Very easily this dude.
Pretty much the most absurd uncommon in the set
>>46440709
Already forgot the name, but that black 7/7 with menace that requires you to sac things to attack.
Delirium enabler + fatty = GG
>>46446782
Morkut Necropod, and I know anon won me a good number of matches today. As for OP my great prerelease pull was howlpack resurgence. Didn't even matter that my promo was Thing in Ice
>>46440709
Sin Prodder in a high-cmc deck. I was either getting massive card advantage or bleeding him dry
>>46440709
This motherfucker right here.
Won me a total of 4 games in 2 days. (went 7-3).
Milling is not viable they said.Go back to high tide they said.
Pulling two startled awakes in one sealed did help a bit though.
>>46447067
forgot pick
Village Messenger was a brilliant turn-1 drop that got a lot of damage through.
Tireless Tracker got me so much card draw and got big quick
Aim High was a brilliant combat trick
My three MVPs
>>46446923
Same, I splashed red solely so that I could get a sin prodder in a green white deck with big creatures, plus he helps with delirium which is good for a lot of the big green guys, odric was also in there to give everyone keywords once guys got them from delirium.
>>46447261
Sin prodder helped me win as well
>>46447067
two or three times.
I won 7 matches (2 full rounds, even) because I used Triskadekaphobia for shits and giggles and to take up space.
What the goddamn fuck.
>>46440709
I'd have to say either Westvale Abbey or Topplegeist.
Although the Tamiyo's Journal / Briarbridge Patrol was a sweet combo. Thinking of throwing Ulamog in there for a GW deck.
My pool was so bad I could only get enough creatures in BW my only win conditions were this and the duel deck demon, this won me 2 of my 4 wins. It was 2 wins in a row against the same person.
>opened three of these niggas in my sealed pool
It was disgusting. I played a black/white deck with enough support to make delirium work.
>>46440709
>>46446376
I ran both of these yesterday. Especially Ulvenwald Mysteries is absolutely disgusting. I only went 4-1 because I got land flooded twice in the second round.
>>46440709
Loved my mysteries. 2hg where my UB friend would engulf the shores so I could follow up with cracking a bunch of clues for humans (or hydra)
MVP
This guy, erdwall illuminator, ongoing investigation
How would you like to have 5 cards in hand while being at 25+ life in sealed?
Finishing power is a problem for this deck, but my second event I got a Geralf's Masterpiece and shit was gravy.
Went 5-1 and 4-0 on Bant clues and then Sultai clues
Always take Wind Drake's. Especially upside ones. I had Olivia in my pool, but my Black was weak. Decided to go R/u with some menace / skulk/ fliers. I only went 2/2 but i'm normally pretty damn bad at Limited, so i'm pretty happy.
oh and sin prodder is awesome.
>>46440709
These two cards got me to 4-0.
Pulled it in every single match, no one saw it coming.
>>46450619
true story
>playin dem clues
>2hg
>opponents on hyper agro
>accurately read their body language and whispers to know they are referring to the double strike card
>both times counter it with -4/-0 investigate spell
Those plays won us the event.
Also in one turn sac'd a clue to flip daring sleuth, cast the -4/-0 investigate spell, and the (g) investigate spell that pumps, triggering prowess twice and blowing the blocks right the fuck up. It felt goodman
Won me 5 games on their own, and proofed pretty powerful even if it didn't win me all of the time.
>>46450893
Ok please explain this for me
How in the fuck do you effectively enable delerium without making a neutered sub par deck? I tried and even when I had it online the bonuses weren't great but I didn't cast that guy
>>46450923
uhh generally just playing magic? Block with a creature, it dies, ok now i have creature, cast an instant and a sorcery, thats two types. Generally you do need a mill effect to get an enchantment, artifact, or land in this format though, but there's lots of them.
he saved my ass well more than one. Plus he looks like george clooney.
Tireless tracker was the mvp. One card combo essentially as long as you keep playing lands.
>>46440709
Pic related and Sanitarium Skeleton for repeatable vamps made for hilarious faces on opponents during my prerelease
>>46450923
you run the good delirium cards, and not the bad ones, as well as running good delirium enablers. Topplegiest and Manic Scribe both have delirium, but Topplegiest is a limited all star with delirium enabled and manic scribe is mediocre even with delirium. Paranoid parish blade is a 4/2 first strike for 3, and all you need to do is enable delirium.
enabling delirium can also be super simple. Vessel of Nascency can get it set up very early, artifact creatures are bananas good triggering it and you will play instants and sorceries and lose creatures at some point.
Don't run bad delirium enablers either, a lot of power in this format is the ability to hold back mana and do stuff when your opponent can't respond properly. Warped Landscape is basically the same thing as Fork in the Road but ones a land and instant speed, the other's a sorcery.
Speaking of Warped Landscape, that card put in work. Going 2 colors and running a warped landscape with the uncommon cycle with an off color activated ability turns them into god tier abilities (pic related, went white green but ran a warped landscape and an island and pretty reliably had bouncing protection enabled. Definitely going to be a plan in draft to try and set similar effects up.)
>>46450990
I thought he looked like Sean Connery
>>46451172
To be fair though, Fork in the road gets you half way to delirium.
>>46451197
it does, and I was running 1 of it myself. I ran across 2 separate decks that were running 3 fork in the roads because they looked at it as a delirium enabler and were sure more if it was better. Running one of fork in the road is fine, you sometimes just need sorceries and lands and it fits the bill. Please for the love of god don't run multiples.
>>46451216
>3
Oh god, I ran 2 because my deck was delirium based.
>>46451256
were you three color as well, or splashing for activated abilities or did you just have trouble getting delirium on otherwise?
>>46451270
I was splashing a third color for removal, and was low on ways to get land in the yard
>>46451287
see that's a fair time to run 2. I ran against a guy with a bunch of moldgraf scavengers and a few red delirium cards that could have gone beatdown but bogged himself down with forks and the red vessel of all goddamn things.
Unexpected from reading the spoilers was how damn aggressive this format is. All the good aggro cards can either get a second life with delirium (moorland drifter going from a bear to a drake nearly cost me a game) or have really heavy reach. You really need to lock down what your gameplan is and focus on that, from what I can tell.
>get three red Vessels
>get the new rare Blaze
>mfw I absolutely destroy some guy by popping all three Vessels and blasting him for 14
>>46440709
Merciless Resolve won me two games the second one being my last match placing me in first for the whole event.
The card draw was secondary mostly. Instead I used it for the instant speed sac a creature to get around the +3/+1 lifelink booster fucking EVERYONE was throwing around. He threw two on one creature and blocked my biggest threat expecting the lifelink to get him through.
>>46450923
I was running GB, between Vessel of Nascency, Fork in the Road, Explosive Apparatus, and Dead Weight/Murderous Compulsion I had Delerium turn 4 and 5 pretty consistently.
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Dance with Devils ended up in my deck as filler and wound up as one of the best cards in my deck. It was a 2 for 1 nearly every time.
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Pulled two of these, and they basically let me murder my way to fucking victory.
I love these cunts. Shame I want to play w/g.
>>46451641
Also pick related for 2nd most valuable MVP just for allowing shit to get through.
>>46450382
I went R/W/U and every time Uninvited Geist hit the table he was a huge threat for me.
Ended up going 3/1 which is pretty damn good for my first ever prerelease.
Only got one in pool but always on the battlefield turn 2, managed 12 damage on one occasion and forced bad trades in general
Always pick pumpable if you're in color, that's like limited's nth golden rule
I really liked this guy
Although to be fair I had both of the red first strike enchantments, which were nuts
As soon as I hit 6 mana, nobody could stop me. Got to 8/8 and 40 life in one game.
>>46453353
As I was in B/W, my other option was 2 of these. heck, even on their own, shutting down delerium or getting back a key sorcery was always helpful
Managed to pull of two really tricky wins with this. It's amazing what you can do with a Falkenreath Noble on board for distracting your opponent.
I went 2-3, but had a pretty good time overall.
Killed myself with Triskaidekaphobia once though.
>>46450619
I pulled four or fives of Uncaged Fury but not a single Rush of Adrenaline. Was pretty disappointed.
Looting is amazing in this format and he'll still trade with a 2 toughness creature in a pinch.
Topplegeist was the best in 2HG
>>46451150
>>46451150
I was watching a game where a guy kept a hand with this and 7 lands. His next 2 draws were lands, and funnily enough he won
I ended up going jund werewolves, as i had a lot of fixing like vassel of nascency, fork in the road, and the one bad evolving wilds. I had Olivia, and my entire deck was pretty much powerful uncommons. 2 Cult of waxing moon, 2 Tooth Collector, the witch that flips into enchantment, stensia masquerade, and a lot of werewolves along with the enchantment that buffed wolves w/ flash. Best card was kindly stranger though.
Anyone have any good pre-Release stories?
>>46455550
>Friends keep talking about how I suck at Sealed
>Need to know what value is in order to win
>Go to sealed
>Build a deck
>Go 4-0 while they all go 2-2
>>46455550
>Haven't played a sealed or built a deck in about 3 years
>friend convinced me to go to the pre-release
>A bunch of new people at the shop plus a bunch of old timers who I knew
>Go 2-1 going into the final round
>Opponent is 3-0 but was paired down for two of his victories
>Offers me 3 packs if I forfeit saying his deck is really good
>Old timer next to me tells me to kick his ass
>Turn down his offer
>Sweep him
>mfw
>>46455662
good shit. good shit.
>>46455550
>never placed before
>but god damn it i wanted those packs.
>went RG after i pulled that 2/2 wolf with first strike and werewolf milf.
>also had a ton of removal between the burn and rapid bites
>grind it out, contantly pushing to make the best plays.
>it was 5 rounds and at the end of the night i wasn't sure how well i did.
>i ended up taking 5th and winning 5 packs.
still so fuckin happy about it.
>>46455550
>go to first ever pre release
>draw 4 mythics of 2 are PlaneWalkers
>go 1-3
>mfw
not even mad.
Neglected Heirloom was super sweet. I had 2 in my pool with a few werewolves, the defender gargoyle and Pious Evangel, so it transformed everytime I played it. Turns out making a 2 drop into 7/5 first strike trample is good enough.
>>46455550
>Win final round by equipping a Slayers Plate to a 1/1 Devil token
This was even better than my promo Sigarda. It made combat so easy for me.
Anyone excited to draft this? I cant wait to go to fnm this friday so i can see how this set plays. Judging from the prerelease and the power level of peoples decks, i think its gonna be awesome. But how do flip card work with draft?
>>46457327
release day when we draft this set? i thought it was the friday after?
This+OP's pick allowed me to mill my opponent to death.
It was beautiful.
>>46457490
My lgs does drafts the release day, or at least someone does.
>>46450977
The format also has desicated sac artifacts(one being a good creature) and a cycle of solid sac enchants
>>46455550
>stalled board, with both huge but non-flyers and flyers on both sides.
>Reanimator spell in hand (the black one, for 4BB)
>two self-mill crows on my side.
>I attack with them into two spirit tokens, and opponent naturally choose to trade
>ProceedSelfMill.avi
>land, land, 3/3 flash flyer in blue, 4/4 rare white flyer which create spirit tokens
>Reanimation.rar
>Win the game 3 turns later
It felt just like cheating.
so what's the most broken card in SoI so far?
This motherfucker. Played a 40 minute game 1 with a massive stalled board state, slammed this guy down and just took over by looting away lands or madness cards every turn.
Don't underestimate this mad bastard.
>>46459467
And yes I know technically it's not looting
>>46459389
Jace
Waifu killed Avacyn, Arlinn Kord and 2 Mindwrack Demons during the prerelease. Card draw and beater at the same time, I fucking love her.
>>46459635
I had two of her out at the same time in one game.
Victory came swiftly.
havent played SoI yet. Is the investigate mechanic as stupid as it sounds or is it fun?
>>46459714
I'll buy 3 more and make a funny deck and make her big and investigate and deck myself. It will be fun, I tell ya. Any idea of synergies for her? Any format.
>>46459635
>Pulled her
>couldn't play her because I had almost no green to support
>>46440709
This card is stupid good to play in any Werewolves deck. I used a Bant one with UG for Delirium and clues and it was sick.
>Tfw pass, transform your wolves and then cast Pack Guardian, activating Delirium and putting an additional bear on the field.
This card is key to playing with werewolves. It will definitely see Standard play and it also curves off another great flash uncommon, Howlpack Resurgence.
>>46459748
It's pretty fun in limited, helps a lot with all the discard engines. Building around it? Eh, not so sure. I'll try tho.
This plus Descend upon the Sinful, Always Watching, and 3 Chaplains Blessings, kinda defined what me deck was going to be and made sure I was a royal pain in the ass for everyone I played. Which is just how I like it, if I'm not going to win, I'm going to give you a hard time.
I went 2-0 on the second prerelease with a human white/green that had avacyn and just left cause i was seriously sleep deprived. Could have gone 4-1/5-0 with it for sure. Avacyn and westvale abbey were definately my most usefull picks
>>46455550
3-1 in Sealed despite a terrible pull (promo Ever After; yuck). Went undefeated until the last round running B/R aggro, but the final opponent was on tokens and was running both Sorin and Nahiri. He beat me 2 out of 3.
Bossest thing that happened to me was attacking for 20 trample damage with Neck Breaker and some other dudes.
Indulgent Aristocrat and Call the Bloodline was a pretty busted combo, but I won anyway before I could get more than two tokens.
Slayer's Plate on anything was a house. I put it on Accursed Witch and went to town.
Sin Prodder saved me a few times from getting land-screwed.
Funniest stories I heard from other players were:
—a copied Startled Awake milled someone to death for 26
—Two Triskaidekaphobia kills
—Someone transformed Abbey into Ormendahl only to have it get bounced
>>46451639
This is really good. I had it and the rare one but I'd probably say this is superior because it's an instant
>>46440709
OP, I ran double copies of that and magnifying glass. It was a lot of fun.
>>46455550
>fighting an opponent in the last round
>in a position where if we drew, we would both be in prizes, but if we played normally, only one of us would
>offer him a draw at the beginning of the game and explain this to him
>he declines
>game one, get absolutely destroyed, opponent gets super fucking smug about it
>game two, terribly opening hand, opponent gets me to 3 with me having never touched him
>stabilize, do some life gain and shit, remove his entire board and win the game
>game three, several awful hands in a row, mulligan to 4, he gets super obnoxious and overconfident
>keeps trying to cut me off being like "My turn? And immediately starts playing stuff when I am obviously in the middle of my turn, ignores negative text on his cards all the time, not recording his own life damage, (not that I let this shit pass, obviously.) Basically plays like the most obnoxious douche in the would.
>in a similar position to game two, down to low health, him still mostly untouched
>get out avacyn, which he has not seen in my deck before
>flip it to wipe his board
>slowly aggro him out from there and win
The amount of salty he was could have preserved a cow for a year. Especially after I reminded him that we could have drew to both be in prizes.
Lost horribly.
Little removal, little draw, few creatures, bad rares (for limited anyways).
>>46448442
Did get this, was excited to put directly into my tower.
During the event I used it to close out a couple of games. Decided conceding wasn't good enough.
>>46459748
I had fun with it, it does nice work optimizing your mana. The stuff that triggers off of clue-saccing can get you a lot of value, too.
The secret tech is using it in white in case you're low on permanents to sac to Angelic Purge or Pious Evangel.
I played a green-blue investigate deck. I had the 1/3 flyer that makes you an extra Clue token when you investigate, and the enchantment that mills for 3 whenever you sacrifice a clue token. For the first time in limited magic, I managed to win by milling my opponent out. The best part? He was playing Recurring Nightmare, and was dead sure he would mill me out first. When he got milled, he had to leave the table and scream mentally for a minute before he sat down again.
>>46455550
>mfw pulled an Avacyn, 3 Always Watching's and a declaration in stone
This right here. In attrition battles it nerfs a lot of your opponent's removal, and basically everyone I played made some sort of misplay against it. Except for the guy running all the dead weights and sleep paralysis, that sucked.
>>46461687
It's suprisingly robust, at least in limited. as mentioned it gives you permanents you can afford to lose, outlets to spend leftover mana, and draws you cards. I think investigate works similarly to morph if you compare investigate to a cantrip and morph to normal casting of a creature. sometimes it costs more, sometimes it costs the same, sometimes it lets you get away with something you otherwise couldn't, but it also allows a level of flexibility that the alternative doesn't. a creature with a 4 mana morph cost can be out on turn four, so it doesn't exactly cost 7 mana in the same way a 7 cmc creature would. investigate gives the standard cantrip cost if 2 mana to draw a card, but you can wait until you have the two mana to spare, so it doesn't just add to the cost.
Both if my decks in the two prereleases I played had very little investigate, but with effects like ulvenwald mysteries or tamiyo's journal that interact with themselves, a little goes a long way. building around it in draft will probably be surprisingly effective with even one repeatable investigate effect, and it might be a playable janky standard deck.
>>46455662
The next time a player tries to strike a deal with you for conceding the game, report him to a magic judge or your tournament organizer. It is considered cheating, and your judge/organizer would immediately disqualify him from the tournament, withdrawing any prizes he may have qualified for. At competitive rules encorcement (Grand Prix Trials and Pro Tour qualificators), if your opponent tries to strike a bargain and you don't immediately report him, you risk being disqualified along with him.
>>46455550
>Get Startled Awake as pre-release Promo
>Mill opponents Avacyn AND Nahiri
I also pulled an Avacyn of my own and ran it to merciless blow out two middle aged probable autists. Felt bad doing that. Really enjoyed playing the format against mentally sound players.
>>46461921
true, but this sounds like a small shop where as long as both sides agreed no one should care
>>46456022
Same, except promo Avacyn. That card with cheap fliers was just ridiculous, went 3-1, the loss was 1-2 in the last round against the guy who came first to my second.
>>46451714
>this with skeleton key
Guaranteed hit or bad trade for them
Got 4 of these bad boys and 3 of Moldgraf Scavenger.
Took it 4 - 0 with some other big bombs in R/G aggro
braid of fire likes investigate desu
>>46461959
>>46461959
I judge at a small store. Prereleases, Game Days and Friday Night Magic are judged at regular rules enforcement. This means that any mistakes made in the realm of game rules and mechanics, are allowed fixes. Forgot to draw a card at the beginning of your last turn? Draw one now, no worries.
Cheating is part of an entirely different realm of behavior; a realm it shares with violence and theft. As long as you're playing at an event using your DCI number, I would disqualify any cheating player from the event, even if this would leave us with critically few players left. This penalty would be permanently tracked on his DCI number. If I must choose between running events filled with cheaters, and not running sanctioned events due to few honest players, I'd rather not run sanctioned events.
>>46462302
only kinda. nothing makes clues at the rate braid grows mana. it's cute but not exactly world shattering.
well of knowledge was better before m10.
Sanitariun skeleton gave me so much mileage. I fucking love him.
>>46461772
So mono-white it hurts.
>>46461921
>>46462331
> Condemning players who prize split at the lowest competitive levels when it happens at every level above it, too.
"But the pros don't say the naughty words out loud! So it's okay when they do it!"
>>46463690
Offering packs in exchange of a concession is NOT prize splitting, it's collusion. Prize splitting is completely legal.
Avacyn. Lost two games where I cast her, in one I had no other creatures left and she got killed immediately, in the other she got countered. Other than that I think she won me about 4-5 games. Never got a flip.
Honorable mentions go to Avacynian Missionaries, which won 2 games by itself when paired with an equipment, and to Burn from Within which finished 3 or 4 games.
Sad about the Westvale Abbey that I never managed to flip. When there were 5 dudes out, I was winning anyway or there was too much risk of bounce or exile.
>>46455550
guy across from me opened 3 arlinn kords
>>46450382
Second for Sin Prodder being awesome. Literally won me half my games in my pretty shitty G/R aggro deck.
>>46455550
>Go to prerelease
>Sit down next to a middle aged guy straight out of work
>We all get our boxes
>He gets a promo Jace
>We start cracking packs
>He gets another Jace
>And an Odric
>And a foil Relentless Dead
>AND Tamiyo's Journal
>AND TWO WESTVALE ABBEYS
>I got a promo Odric, a Jace, a Sin Prodder, and ehh-tier cards
>He goes 7-1
>I go 0-4
>>46464497
My bud played the Jace we opened and we also played against one. For 15 mana 3 creatures were bounced and 4 cards were drawn.
In contrast One of my opponent's decked himself due Nahiri
>>46464781
Yeah, my main problem was the fact that every time I got Jace out, my opponent had a form of evasion so I couldn't block.
>>46464009
So when player A asks Player B to concede, then just "coincidentally" slips Player B a few hundred dollars after the tournament because they are both "such good friends"; that's okay with you?
I've been playing since Return to Ravnica and I only just got my first planeswalker draw from the prerelease box.
It was also my first prerelease, so going 3/1 was pretty good too. Invocation on my uninvited geist was unfair to all opponents.
I went to my local small store. Pretty casual. We pretty much distributed the prere packs between ourselves; passing them down the table etc. I ended up with two in my hand and had to pick one to pass to the guy next to me.
I hand him one, and he opens an Avacyn and a Jace.
>mfw
All I got was a Hypnotoad and some UW garbage, and a Falkenrath Gorger.
Even my promo was a fucking land!
>>46451150
Seconding this, turning those land draws into lifelinkers, with Olivia it was bretty gud.
Chump blocks for days
>>46463480
oddly enough it was a White/Red deck
>>46467041
That's sinful
