Limited Resources: Return to Ravnica Sealed DE

@Godot lololol, always good to hear from ya.

@Marsh “No math alpha attack here; Got to love it.” lololol

Round 3 Game 1: when you draw your second frostburn weird you can double block his dead reveler when he attacks with it. you wait for him to order blockers and then whichever he orders secondly, you pump it to a 3/2 and you kill his dead reveler without openning yourself up to a lot. also you could play your knightly valor on your frostburn weird and have a 3/6 that can become an 8/1 or just get through his 5 power of blockers and pick off his guys. also the vigilance is extremely relevant when hes attacking with a 3/4 into your 3/6 that turns into a 4/5 very easily.

Round 4 Game 1: I think this would be a good one if you wanted to go back and look at the game again to see if you could have played better/played with the rig better. I personally didn’t see anything that you could’ve done better but maybe with our powers combined! we could find something. The game was very close and could have some potential for learning for all parties involved. Coin flips are coin flips though :/

Also I always really love you mulligan decisions but the ones in the last rounds were a little weird, but I’m also always trying to hold onto my seven as much as possible. Could go either way I think.

I feel like you may have an inherent bias towards U/W. White was pretty good, but blue seemed really average overall. Unlike with the other colors, especially black, where you picked out only 1 card you “really cared about” you seemed to think most of the blue was sweet. The only exciting blue cards were:

Voidwielder
Faerie Imposter
Stealer of Secrets? (I suppose you can steal games in sealed w/him if you have ways to get him through)

All the other stuff was pretty meh, runewings are a very average card. Inspiration, cancel, hover barrier: all very marginal. Now lets compare to black’s exciting cards:

Desecration Demon
Stab Wound
Thrill Kill Assassin
Dead Reveler
Ogre Jailbreaker
Launch Party (its value goes way up in sealed IMO)

Then in the marginal category we have roustabout, perilous shadow, mind rot (don’t know why you classified this as unplayable), and deviant glee. To me, I don’t see black as being particularly worse than blue: in fact I think it’s significantly better. What happened, I think, was you saw that pile of sweet white cards and knew you wanted to be azorious (an archetype you seem to favor). Particularly, that martial law may have skewed your decision-making, it’s a flashy card that can make an archetype seem more desirable than it should be.

Now overall, I don’t think Azorious was necessarily a bad choice. I just think that since this video is for learning purposes, you should have given black more credit than you did. You could have made a very solid junk deck out of your pool, utilizing both the G/W and the G/B guildmages, the other solid gold cards in those colors, the best of your white/black and have axebane guardian, vine, lantern, and a guildgate for fixing. I don’t think there’s any question it would have been a much more powerful deck, I think the only argument for Azorious over it are curve considerations and mana issues.

I think this Jund list makes up for in power and kick-assness what it lacks in consistency. It has reasonable fixing/ramp, decent removal, Viashino Racketeer for some filtering, and a great way to get your monsters into play with the otherwise awful Guild Feud. You could get tempo’d out, but hey you can always get tempo’d out. Play bombs imo.

Desecration Demon
Ogre Jailbreaker
Launch Party
Stab Wound
Dead Reveler
Thrill-Kill Assassin

Guild Feud
Explosive Impact
Utvara Hellkite
Viashino Racketeer x2

Gatecreeper Vine
Aerial Predation
Axebane Guardian
Towering Indrik

Rakdos Shred-Freak
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
Auger Spree
Korozda Guildmage
Grisly Salvage

Rakdos Keyrune
Chromatic Lantern

Golgari Guildgate
5 Mountain
6 Forest
6 Swamp

Next time, if someone plays Assassin’s Strike on your Frostburn Weird while you have a card in hand and tons of mana open, you might want to consider pumping the Weird 4 times in response to make the spell fizzle and keep the card in your hand.

Hey
M1G2 you main phase tristoni;s judgment on the spirit. Why not just attack if he blocks you regen and its the same as casting the spell? And then if not you have judgment up in case he has any shenanigans. Just curious about that line and if I am missing anything.

I learn a lot when I watch you play which is why I push through , but please stop eating when you record, you clearing your throat and hard swallowing is very hard to listen to.

I always find playing the clock game a bit shady. There is some truth in the argument that it’s the opponent’s own fault if he doesn’t see that it’d be better for him to concede the game to save the match. But I could bring that same argument if someone accuses me of stalling in a paper tournament while I’m set to win at 0-0. And while I’m not saying it’s as bad as stalling, it certainly reeks a bit of it.

Besides, your opponent might have legitimate outs in his deck, like Mizzium Mortars, an Island for the Cyclonic Rift he’s holding or two lands for Street Spasm, all of which give him the immediate win. So he might not even be at fault for continuing to play, making the whole thing just come down to luck.