So I decided to check out the local store for some M11 battles. I'll list the pool here so you can try and build it yourself, then give my report in a day or two. Enjoy!
White:
Ajani's Pridemate
Angelic Arbiter
Assault Griffin
Blinding Mage x2
Cloud Crusader x2
Excommunicate
Palace Guard
Serra Angel
Silvercoat Lion
Tireless Missionaries
Wild Griffin
Blue:
Armored Cancrix
Azure Drake
Call to Mind
Diminish
Flashfreeze
Ice Cage
Jace's Erasure
Mana Leak x2
Maritime Guard
Scroll Thief
Tome Scour
Black:
Assassinate
Blood Tithe
Bloodthrone Vampire
Bog Raiders x2
Dark Tutelage
Doom Blade
Diabolic Tutor
Disentomb
Nightwing Shade
Phylactery Shade
Rotting Legion
Sign in Blood x2
Stabbing Pain
Red:
Act of Treason
Berserkers of Blood Ridge
Canyon Minotaur
Combust
Demolish
Fire Servant
Hoarding Dragon
Lightning Bolt x2
Pyretic Ritual x2
Reverberate
Shiv's Embrace
Thunder Strike
Volcanic Strength
Green:
Awakener Druid
Back to Nature
Brindle Boar
Cudgel Troll
Cultivate
Giant Spider
Greater Basilisk x3
Fog x2
Giant Growth
Hunters' Feast
Llanowar Elves x3
Naturalize
Plummet
Sylvan Ranger x2
Wall of Vines
Artifacts:
Dragon's Claw x2
Jinxed Idol
Ornithopter
Sorcerer's Sexbox...I mean Strongbox
Stone Golem
Warlord's Axe
Whispersilk Cloak
4 comments:
Pretty clear that GW are the best colors, with plenty of ways to splash cards but not very many cards to actually splash.
I think that a black splash for Doom Blade and Assassinate is a little better than 2x Bolt. Hoarding Dragon is appealing, but you can hardly consider it a bomb.
16 land:
7 Plains
7 Forest
2 Swamp
We have 3x Elves, 2x Ranger, 1x Cultivate so we'll be a little greedy and play only 16 land.
1cc:
Llanowar Elves x3
2cc:
Blinding Mage x2
Sylvan Ranger x2
Doom Blade
3cc:
Wild Griffin
Awakener Druid
Excommunicate
Cultivate
Assassinate
Whispersilk Cloak
4cc:
Assault Griffin
Cloud Crusader x2
Cudgel Troll
Sorcerer's Xbox
5cc:
Serra Angel
Greater Basilisk x3
7cc:
Angelic Arbiter
Notable SB:
2x Bog Raiders, 2x Bolt, Combust, Back to Nature, Naturalize, Plummet
Basically we're just getting there through random fliers or a guy with Cloak. Pretty boring format, not really sure why this going to be used in a GP.
I would prob play 17 land and only 2 Elves to make the mana more resilient and also better, as Elf both adds Green sources and wants more Green, pulling you in 2 directions.
Giant Growth also belongs in the above deck. Your guys are not all 5/x or bigger. They will have to fight.
Sorcerer's Strongbox is very questionable to me too, but might be variance based as Matt just whiffed every time I played him.
17 land 2 elf should be fine.
Not sure about Giant Growth, think I'd rather just run more dudes.
Expected value for Sorcerer's Strongbox is 2 flips to break it, so 8 mana total, which seems ok in limited. Naturally, all my opponents break it on the first flip...
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