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Originally posted by daner:
They all looked pretty balanced to me. I'd say whatever color you open a bomb in try and work with that first, and if you open multiple bombs in mutiple colors go with the best curve. This looks like a tempo-based limited format. Your gonna want to play things on curve, that's the best advice I can give you.

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This.

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I personally wanted blue but they were all out so I picked white. And man did I open well, 3 mythics: Elspeth, black gorgon and blue angel that grants another turn if it deals damage. Rest of my deck was defensive creatures and removal. Went 4-1 losing B/W mirror to a guy playing better than me and having more removal.

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Originally posted by coolio:
blue's the best color, green's the worst

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I kinda disagree on Green though, it has some scary monsters that you can lay down quite quickly. It depends on your 2nd color to make it work though.

Sea God's Revenge is my card of the day.

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The 2/3 minotaur w/ haste I had 2 and together they were great.

Seemed I just never had enough removal for all the 4/5 guys G had. That 5cc red spell 4dmg + Scry was great except vs. G.

Scrubbed 1-3-drop

Really wish I had more to go UR with that merfolk R2: Shock as I had 3 of them but my UR creature list beyond that was sad.

No good cards in another color. 2 or my rare slots were scry dual lands.

Went 2-3. My free pack had a Thassa, so between that and Elspeth, I was happy

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Originally posted by daner:
They all looked pretty balanced to me. I'd say whatever color you open a bomb in try and work with that first, and if you open multiple bombs in multiple colors go with the best curve. This looks like a tempo-based limited format. Your gonna want to play things on curve, that's the best advice I can give you.

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After 3 sealed tournaments, I agree. The colors are pretty balanced, though I'd lean towards Red, given a choice. This format is pretty fast.

1. Milled one person out with Ashiok which was my favorite game.

2. The prerelease kraken was my main finisher. Once it was Monstrous very little could be done, no matter the life totals.

3. Life gain didn't seem to do much in this environment. (see aforementioned kraken)

4. Burnished Hart was probably my MVP. It ramped me up to start dropping my bombs faster and was perfect as a shadow blocker.

5. Bounce mechanics were/are insane! (Bouncing while monstrous was on the stack or an aura loaded creature was great.)

6. While I like the god cards, sealed does not seem to favor them. I played against several gods and each time they were a dead drop. Not one person I played got a devotion of 5 and the other abilities didn't seem to have as much of an influence as needed.

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Originally posted by mcelraca:
I believe the colors are balanced pretty well. I did UB control and got a decent pool of cards, low on removal though.

1. Milled one person out with Ashiok which was my favorite game.

2. The prerelease kraken was my main finisher. Once it was Monstrous very little could be done, no matter the life totals.

3. Life gain didn't seem to do much in this environment. (see aforementioned kraken)

4. Burnished Hart was probably my MVP. It ramped me up to start dropping my bombs faster and was perfect as a shadow blocker.

5. Bounce mechanics were/are insane! (Bouncing while monstrous was on the stack or an aura loaded creature was great.)

6. While I like the god cards, sealed does not seem to favor them. I played against several gods and each time they were a dead drop. Not one person I played got a devotion of 5 and the other abilities didn't seem to have as much of an influence as needed.

7. I STRONGLY disagree with this being a fast format or block. Don't get me wrong, on occasion my opponent would lay their hand all out immediately, but more often than not I would stabilize and go in for the win. This is nothing compared to the RTR block. I'm so pumped it's slow, my Kraken got to break so many ships!

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If the Gods were dead drops, that seems to clash with your next point. They would be pretty good in a slow format, with abilities that cost quite a bit, but let you grind, plus a nice indestructible body if the game goes forever. If the format is fast, then they won't have much impact.

I think the large amounts of fat dudes + quite a few creatures that seem to end, or effectively end the game when they go monstrous, when you bestow, or when you cast them (the black prerelease dude for example) actually makes for a pretty fast format, and one which is hard to have stalls that result in 10-15+ turn games, since one player can probably win the game with one activation of a particular card on the board or in their hand at that point.

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Originally posted by walkerdog:
If the Gods were dead drops, that seems to clash with your next point. They would be pretty good in a slow format, with abilities that cost quite a bit, but let you grind, plus a nice indestructible body if the game goes forever. If the format is fast, then they won't have much impact.

I think the large amounts of fat dudes + quite a few creatures that seem to end, or effectively end the game when they go monstrous, when you bestow, or when you cast them (the black prerelease dude for example) actually makes for a pretty fast format, and one which is hard to have stalls that result in 10-15+ turn games, since one player can probably win the game with one activation of a particular card on the board or in their hand at that point.

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I'll agree the points are contradictory, and may be a result of the type of deck i was running. Most of the time mine and my opponents board states were mostly bare (I was playing control) This prevented the Gods from doing much. This may also be a result of people just being excited to use the gods and splashing them. I think they will shine in Constructed formats.

However, i'll stick by my statements at this being slower than RTR by a great deal. Yes, you have games ending with a Kraken or that Demon, but they are also easy to deal with if you're anticipating them (and you should be). There just seems to me more breathing room compared to the RTR block.

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Originally posted by coolio:
blue's the best color, green's the worst

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Ended up G/W heroic type deck, but not sure it was the right build. I think I needed to be white, but considered blue and black splashes, before choosing green. Ended up 3-1, had decent mana most the night and played okay.

I sided out the heroic stuff most games and brought in stuff like Nylea's Presence, Horizon Chimera and Agent of Horizons.

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Anyone have built it differently?