Chris's and A.J.'s Sealed Pool
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The first round opponent was clearly a smart and highly skilled guy. It certainly took a lot of skill to throw away infinite Villagers of Estwald to combat tricks that he saw in the first game, to tap his creatures during your upkeep instead of beginning of combat to give you free information, and to block that Boneyard Wurm (which you are obviously attacking with for a reason) when the alternative was taking an entire 1 damage.
Wow it’s officially jerk week at MTGOA
Now I feel as bad for you guys as I felt yesterday for Travis.
Well at least you handled him nicely.
LOL awesome win! That was such an awkward card pool for sealed, too.
Flail = greatest card ever apparently
$30 to enter? Psh, 10 packs of Innistrad and you’re in the red
I love watching your vids. You guys crack me up every time.
You should change your front page blurb for this sealed match to not give away whether or not you win it. It is much more interesting to watch a match whose outcome is not already known.
Damn, i thought flail was a horrible horrible card. i guess it works pretty well with trample… Nice work pulling those wins even with that horrible card pool. One thing i would have definitely done would be to splash for unburial rites, that card is insanely powerful and with such a weak deck the splash wouldn’t have much of a negative impact on your power level.
Opponent #1 was classic dude that I always face in pre-releases. Not sure what brings them out for those events, but they seem to always be there spouting their endless stupidity. Love how you guys handled him though.
And yes that pool you had sucked. Like really.
Love the artwork comments you made when building the deck. Classic.
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I love the intro! HI CHRIS, HI AJ!
oh noes it’s a girl RUN!
RE: Tokamak — The reason I had originally posted the results in the blurb for this video was because I was worried that when people saw how lame our pool and first game were, they would assume the worst and not watch any more of our videos. But I took what you said into consideration and changed the excerpt.
Thanks for the comments, everyone.
Also, I’m not sure how good Inquisitors Flail actually is, but if I had to guess, I’d say it’s better in Sealed than in Draft. Your evasion guys go farther in Sealed than in Draft since everyone’s deck (and their especially removal suites) is extra-inconsistent.
Nice job making a decent deck out of that sub-par pool by the way.
of course you have the card I’m not playing around!
go pat yourself on the back, noob.
Awesome video, one of the best I ever seen
Flail so good, wow.
Thank you guys very much !
I loved that video, you guys are hilarious. Im going to go and watch your archived videos.
I agree with you on the colors, but I think I would splash Unburial Rites off of Shimmering Grotto and a Traveler’s Amulet, it’s just a really good card and you need all the good cards you can get in this terrible pool. I might take out Cloistered Youth because you aren’t actually aggro at all, but I’m not sure, I just know that it should be in your deck to give you some much needed card advantage and let you get back what few good cards you do have.
Actually, on 2nd thought… I definitely agree that you should be playing white, because none of your colors are really that great and Dearly Departed is pretty much the only good card you opened. The main question is what to pair it with – black and red just don’t have enough creatures, which leaves blue or green. I think that blue is actually better. In exchange for the two Vipers, you get one better removal spell (Claustrophobia) and one worse one (Sensory Deprivation). Your creatures get better – Moon Heron, Stitched Drake, and Makeshift Mauler are better than Grizzled Outcasts and Festerhide Boar. Most importantly, your deck actually develops a coherent controllish strategy, because you can take out the random aggro cards like Cloistered Youth and Champion of the Perish (which is an aggro card, in that you hope to get it early and beat down early) that don’t fit with the rest of your cards, and instead you get more support for a controllish deck with the two 2/3 Occultists and the Fortress Crab. On the other hand, I think against a deck with a much better late game your green white build is probably the best bet, because at least sometimes it will get sick opening hands and aggro your opponents out.
Imagine four Rage Throwers on the edge of a cliff… Say a direct copy of the Rage Thrower nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Rage Throwers and takes the place of the first Rage Thrower. The formerly first Rage Thrower becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls off the cliff.
Time works the same way.
Please add a delete or edit button or something so I can fix embarrassing typos in my Zybourne Clock references.
RE — Uber: I think you’re right that blue deserved another serious consideration. Even if it left us a little short on playables, the power level of the cards was certainly higher. As for Cloistered Youth, I think playing it is definitely worthwhile in Sealed because many of the decent creatures have small power/toughness. As for Champion of the Perish, I don’t think it should’ve been in there, but 1-drops are interesting in this format because they can easily flip werewolves.
RE — March: Fixed your typos. Please register an account with a Johnny Five-Aces Gravatar.
Thank you, but I already have this here account with a beeble gravatar that I always forget to log into.
It was hilarious to watch you two flailing around trying to figure out how to win this sealed tourney with a terrible pool.
@CountryTime— Is this supposed to be ironic or are you one of the players in these games? If you’re not playing around cards then you’re not considering all possible outcomes. If you’re upset because someone’s playing slowly (or in this case you have AJ and Chris chatting/creating funny videos) then consider that it’s their clock running down, not yours.
Sadly it seems that this culture of bullying is prevalent on MTGO. Perhaps this site should lead the way in contacting wizards about these problems. Orcs should pick games randomly and watch (or if they do, do it consistently). Customer service should be more readily available to suspend players based on this type of activity.
There should at least be a feature to block any communication between players in the chat box. I shouldn’t have to listen to someone who decides to be rude.
We all have to deal with bad breaks. This sealed pool is prime example of considerate plays making the cut versus opening up a “sick” pool.
Thanks for the general defense, James.
As for Countrytime Lemonade, though, I think he was being ironic, i.e., posting from that one guy’s perspective.
Hi everyone, thanks for the kind comments. A.J. and myself are glad that our bumbling about brings entertainment to others.
I have been pondering a while what uber_pochacco said, and I think I agree completely that Unburial Rites should have been part of the green and white deck. I also whipped up a blue white splash black version of the deck that looks better than the green white aside from a severe lack of 2 drops (and a glut of 4 drops). Here it is:
7 Island
7 Plains
2 Swamp
1 Shimmering Grotto
1 Cloistered Youth (Unholy Fiend)
1 Stitchers Apprentice
1 Stitched Drake
2 Selhoff Occultist
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Fortress Crab
1 Makeshift Mauler
1 Thraben Sentry (Thraben Militia)
1 Slayer of the Wicked
1 Moon Heron
1 Abbey Griffin
1 Dearly Departed
1 Geistcatchers Rig
1 Travelers Amulet
1 Silent Departure
1 Bonds of Faith
1 Moment of Heroism
1 Inquisitors Flail
1 Claustrophobia
1 Corpse Lunge
1 Smite the Monstrous
1 Unburial Rites
I also would have considered another Thraben Militia and the One-Eyed Scarecrow instead of the Crab/Makeshift Mauler/Lab Maniac. I think that Corpse Lunge would fit nicely in this version as an additional piece of removal (with Apprentice and Occultists to feed it if necessary).
From drafting and playing a few sealeds, I really think that creature augmentation is necessary to win. Sure, bombs can do it, but the “normal” games involve more than 2/2s attacking.