SHM Sealed GWr (saved) 4-1

GWr Sealed (Result: 4-1)

1 Spectral Procession
2 Mountain
1 Scuzzback Marauders
1 Curse of Chains
8 Plains
7 Forest
1 Mass Calcify
1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
1 Last Breath
1 Wildslayer Elves
1 Mossbridge Troll
1 Gnarled Effigy
1 Mistmeadow Skulk
2 Turn to Mist
1 Knollspine Dragon
1 Woeleecher
1 Raking Canopy
1 Gloomwidow
1 Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers
1 Umbral Mantle
1 Firespout
1 Morselhoarder
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Tattermunge Duo
1 Rune-Cervin Rider

Sideboard
1 Memory Sluice
1 Mine Excavation
1 Medicine Runner
1 Kinscaer Harpoonist
1 Bloodshed Fever
1 Puncture Bolt
1 Spell Syphon
1 Traitor's Roar
1 Elvish Hexhunter
1 Mudbrawler Cohort
2 Blazethorn Scarecrow
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Gloomlance
1 Giantbaiting
1 Wicker Warcrawler
1 Scrapbasket
1 Briarberry Cohort
1 Rustrazor Butcher
1 Juvenile Gloomwidow
1 Lurebound Scarecrow
1 Scarscale Ritual
1 Last Breath
1 Kulrath Knight
1 Aphotic Wisps
1 Blight Sickle
1 Sickle Ripper
1 Chainbreaker
1 Elsewhere Flask
1 Crabapple Cohort
2 Somnomancer
1 Faerie Swarm
1 Cultbrand Cinder
1 Kithkin Rabble
1 Pili-Pala
1 Torpor Dust
1 Flow of Ideas
1 Cinderbones
1 Smolder Initiate
1 Manamorphose
1 Safewright Quest
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Ghastly Discovery
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Emberstrike Duo
1 Wanderbrine Rootcutters
1 Drowner Initiate
1 Din of the Fireherd
2 Horde of Boggarts

Any ideas for alternate builds?

So yesterday I was in a draft, and I chumped out match 1. But something odd happened game 3. When it went to sideboard, no cards showed up. So I couldn't board. I shrugged and took a screenshot. I was actually going to make a small switch. Turned out to be a really good screenshot, because after I lost I sent in a bug report, and Wizards came through with the 15 dollar coupon. So I decided to buy a tournament pack and have another go at sealed. The result is below. (lesson to learn: screen shot the second something odd happens, just in case)

Match 1: Played a BU base with quite a lot of solid fliers. Also featured the lovely swans. MVP was definitely Firespout, which often went 3 to 1...sometimes 3 to 1 with a built in Ancestral recall. Other helpful cards in this matchup were the mistmeadow skulk, who kept getting in there for damage when no one else could. The Raking Canopy was beautiful, albeit kinda frightening with swans out. Any milling action he was undergoing was not making up for the offense I was laying in though, and it also helped me find curse of chains or Gnarled Effigy to help eleviate the problem somewhat. I sided out mantle and tattermurge duo for juvenile gloomshadow and a second last breath to deal better with his flying rush threat. I won both games.

Match 2: I'm consistently siding in the 2nd last breath over the umbral mantle. Probably will continue to that for the rest of the matches. I lost this in 2. One game I had a double mulligan, but both games he was strong from the start, and just had a faster deck than I did.

Match 3: I don't really remember. I was kind of afk for a while after it...though I know it went fairly quickly. Not too much to report other than I continued to side out umbral mantle. I won it in 2. I think I won one of the games with the dragon. I remember Firespout continued to spell victory, working it out so I got as much from it as possible each time I used it. No calcification projects as of yet.

Match 4: Opponent playing a GW based with quite a bit of sprinkling of colours, featuring a lot of scarecrows and the reaper king. 1st game I curved out a bit, but he recovered nicely after being knocked down a ways. I had my troll out, and began rarring into the red zone with it, taking out creature after creature. I had the Marauder/Woeleecher thing going on by the end of it...the woeleecher allowing me to weather a grim poppet with no real trouble before the marauder came out. On the kill turn he was nice enough to let me swing with tricked out troll and I took him down to -31 with a really big Marauder and troll supported by the liege. Game 2 I started strong and he never really got going. Liege/Marauder beats supported by spot removal and I must say I do love the 2 blinks. They are great against broken auras and it feels so nice to have one to protect your vital pieces with. In a pinch they remove what ails you from the situation for a round. Very versatile and useful spell. Nice to be able to have one consistently each game.

Match 5: UB featuring Oona Queen of the Faely Broken and Incremental Blight. He gives me quite a hurting, but luckily I get Calcification online a turn after the Queen. Game 2 he plays incremental blight, and saves himself from a gloomwidow and 3 1/1 flyers getting their liege on next turn. Instead I have to content myself with one flyer. But I keep throwing out threats and he doesn't seem to have the same answers. I win in 2.

So there you go, I managed another 4-1, good for 11 packs. The deck was certainly very helpful in this regard. 2 mass removals sure do go a long way. More credit goes to the spout than anything, but calcification is certainly is swingy when it happens. But it's useful to note that spout wouldn't have been nearly as helpful without the red splash. I laboured over the build for quite a while. The only thing I think I would change is swapping out the equipment for the second last breath. It's funny sometimes when building you get too caught up in what you'd like to have that you don't make the card for card value judgment that you end up sometimes making at the sideboarding stage. The duo was in and out of sideboard, but the evasion was important enough to maindeck, and he just usually got replaced by the juvenile when forests weren't in season across the redzone. Particularly if fliers were abundant on the other side of the board.

I've saved this sealed deck if you'd ever like to do some playtesting to work on sealed playskills and such, I'm always up for it if I'm not directly involved in something else. If I am, I'll be happy to as soon as I'm finished. Msg me when you see me on. I find it very useful in improving my play, plus it saves me from spending money.

I'm pretty tired, so no fancy pictures today. Sleep beckons.