Sunday, June 15, 2008

SHM Sealed 1-3, with rebuild. comments?




7 Mountain
1 Blistering Dieflyn
1 Furystoke Giant
1 Puncture Bolt
1 Jaws of Stone
2 Swamp
1 Mercy Killing
8 Forest
1 Wicker Warcrawler
1 Flourishing Defenses
1 Wildslayer Elves
1 Wildslayer Elves
1 Blowfly Infestation
2 Gloomlance
1 Inescapable Brute
1 Juvenile Gloomwidow
2 Raking Canopy
2 Morselhoarder
1 Tattermunge Duo
1 Power of Fire
1 Rosheen Meanderer
1 Loamdragger Giant
1 Foxfire Oak

Sideboard
1 Toil to Renown
1 Helm of the Ghastlord
1 River Kelpie
1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
1 Ember Gale
1 Put Away
1 Curse of Chains
1 Turn to Mist
1 Scrapbasket
1 Dream Salvage
1 Thornwatch Scarecrow
1 Elvish Hexhunter
1 Whimwader
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Crowd of Cinders
1 River's Grasp
1 Gravelgill Axeshark
1 Resplendent Mentor
1 Armored Ascension
1 Prismwake Merrow
1 Shield of the Oversoul
1 Viridescent Wisps
1 Blight Sickle
1 Sickle Ripper
1 Chainbreaker
1 Loch Korrigan
1 Runes of the Deus
1 Juvenile Gloomwidow
1 Augury Adept
1 Prison Term
1 Somnomancer
1 Woeleecher
1 Puresight Merrow
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Niveous Wisps
1 Torpor Dust
1 Splitting Headache
1 Smolder Initiate
1 Safewright Quest
1 Raven's Run Dragoon
1 Boggart Arsonists
1 Ghastly Discovery
1 Merrow Wavebreakers
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Tatterkite
1 Dire Undercurrents
1 Silkbind Faerie
1 Leechridden Swamp
1 Thistledown Duo
1 Steel of the Godhead
1 Drowner Initiate
1 Loamdragger Giant


Just putting this out intially. I made a bad call on mana. On sideboard after first round I decided to up the swamp count and cut a mountain dependent burn spell to increase my creature count. So I'm thinking on nixing 2 mtns for 2 swamps, then siding out


Match 1: My opponent 1770+ gets a bum break game 1, didn't submit in time. He lost. Game 2, he's paired his deck down quite sweetly and gets the jump on me all I have out is a wildslayer elf, runs me down to 2 and throws down a withered wretch. I respond by mercy killing his blue/black 2/2 hopped up on helm of the ghostlord, then laying flourishing defenses on my turn....wow. That worked...reallly well. I had so many elves it was sick...he was trying to kill the banshee after a turn and I wouldn't let him. I've been beat up by that banshee before quite a few times, it was great to serve some payback. I'm looking forward to hooking up with blowfly infestation in future matches. Talk about scary.



Match 2: No real craziness to be had. My opponent played well, walked me into a few chump moves...I have to get better at thinking long game. Although, I had a pretty brutal overall showing. I'm thinking the deck may have a shot if I keep to it and play a bit better. Example of a chump move I walked into: I have a bunch a big guys out, he has his Gnarled Effigy out and his one problem is my morsel hoarder who can unload onto the foxfire oak if necessary. Instead of double blocking his 2/2 with 2 of my wounded giants, killing one of them, i block with hoarder...and walk into a firespout i knew he had. He takes out my entire team. Which was terrible because i drew the artifact removal i had sided in next turn. The extra blocker would have at least helped quite a bit. Although, he was well prepared and in his endgame mode...he threw down the redgreen aura on a 3/3 mudbrawler raiders which got dicey quick. So he'd been planning this for a while (see...long game thinking...) while I was trying desperately to topdeck a
defenses, blowfly, or even a furystroke...which would have been less than great i guess becasuse of the firespout, but still.

Match 3: I come to grips with this deck just not having the fundamentals. I should have watched my creature base better...The 2 enchantment hate for flyers would have been better in the side. The glooms i think should have been taken out to solve the mana issues. I think that card has merit, but this deck needed creatures more than it needed that. Its a shame, it had wack potential, but i think my build and a few plays, but this time mostly my build cost me from doing better. I dropped after losing this match, but let me see what I'd have done differently....

7 Mountain
1 Blistering Dieflyn
1 Furystoke Giant
1 Puncture Bolt
1 Jaws of Stone
2 Swamp
1 Mercy Killing
8 Forest
1 Wicker Warcrawler
1 Flourishing Defenses
1 Wildslayer Elves
1 Wildslayer Elves
1 Blowfly Infestation
1 Inescapable Brute
2 Juvenile Gloomwidow (+1)
2 Morselhoarder
1 Tattermunge Duo
1 Power of Fire
1 Rosheen Meanderer
1 Loamdragger Giant
1 Foxfire Oak
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Thornwatch Scarecrow
1 Raven's Run Dragoon

Sideboard
2 Raking Canopy
2 Gloomlance
1 Toil to Renown
1 Helm of the Ghastlord
1 River Kelpie
1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
1 Ember Gale
1 Put Away
1 Curse of Chains
1 Turn to Mist
1 Scrapbasket
1 Dream Salvage
1 Elvish Hexhunter
1 Whimwader
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Crowd of Cinders
1 River's Grasp
1 Gravelgill Axeshark
1 Resplendent Mentor
1 Armored Ascension
1 Prismwake Merrow
1 Shield of the Oversoul
1 Viridescent Wisps
1 Blight Sickle
1 Sickle Ripper
1 Chainbreaker
1 Loch Korrigan
1 Runes of the Deus
1 Augury Adept
1 Prison Term
1 Somnomancer
1 Woeleecher
1 Puresight Merrow
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Niveous Wisps
1 Torpor Dust
1 Splitting Headache
1 Smolder Initiate
1 Safewright Quest
1 Raven's Run Dragoon
1 Boggart Arsonists
1 Ghastly Discovery
1 Merrow Wavebreakers
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Tatterkite
1 Dire Undercurrents
1 Silkbind Faerie
1 Leechridden Swamp
1 Thistledown Duo
1 Steel of the Godhead
1 Drowner Initiate
1 Loamdragger Giant


Interested in comments.

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