I see lots of people talking about how effective their U or B picks were, not a lot about white. I'm interested in going for white at an event tomorrow, but I don't want to gimp myself. Is white any good at this prerelease? Anyone with W success stories?
Chose white.
Pulled from Theros: Chained to the Rocks, Anger of the Gods and Anthousa Hero. From Born of the Gods I pulled Hero of Leina Tower and Courser of Kruphix.
Pretty bad pulls.
Wound up going G/W with lot of white exile ability.
Went 1-2.
In my prize pack I pulled Hero of Iroas.
Then made some trades to get Nykthos and 2 Spirit of the Labyrinth.
Was my first prerelease and I enjoyed it but I had crappy pulls compared to many.
Oh yeah, Fated Retribution was my seeded rare. So expensive but did help a lot in 2 games where I could cast it.
Took the green pack. Opened an Elspeth. I had no decent white cards to run it. Played U/G with fatties such as the promo, messianic asp, snakes of the grove, Scourge of skola vale, and then blue for bounce/control.
The promo did work for me, loved it. Had a few ways to give it evasion. It always put my opponent in a tough spot. Scourge of Skola was a great fail safe. Put it down while your other fatties do work and use it to eat your fatty if they try to kill it. Kill my 12/12 hydra? Ok Skola gets 12 counters instead. Sudden storm was very strong especially if cast on their turn.
Saw no other promo cast against me except the blue one when it didn't matter.
I was 4-0 facing the only other 4-0. It was odd as it was 6 rounds and we were unable to draw and split. Neither of us were happy about this. We looked over the standings and decided to intentional draw knowing that way we'd both make top 4 even with loses in the last round while also giving both of us the opportunity to still top two it. So we drew, and both won last round, thus allowing us to split the win. Justice prevailed.
First ever pre release and first ever sealed event. Tied for first at 5-0-1 and split a box. I'm happy.
I see lots of people talking about how effective their U or B picks were, not a lot about white. I'm interested in going for white at an event tomorrow, but I don't want to gimp myself. Is white any good at this prerelease? Anyone with W success stories?
White seems good, but frankly it was so underpicked at the prereleases I went to that the poor showing it gave could be due to just the low population of them. At the midnight pre-release, there were 93 people and only 5 went white. I think it has to do with the white promo just being bad. After playing the format, I found many times that tapping out to play the Dragon or the Sphinx just wasn't the right call, and the only seven drop I ever cast was Tromakratis. You just can't afford to give an opening that late in the game by doing so, and the White one doesn't really do enough on its own. It seems fine on paper, but the format is hectic to say the least from what I saw.
That said, white has seemingly good stuff at common and uncommon. So I don't really know why it hasn't been performing. I think it has to do with Green's heroic creatures just being better overall, and just quickly out-pacing the white ones in White. Couple it with solid creatures on curve in *that* color to fill in the gaps, and white just doesn't have as much game against them. Red also got some decent low-end burn to take out the early heroic dudes, blue got some amazing cards to making the voltron creatures a miserable experience, and black has the removal.
So basically, while white looks good on paper, there is enough in the format to just screw with the gameplan hard.
When we were told to open them, our whole table laughed, because all four of the people at our table had pulled a Xenagos!
After opening everything, my rares were:
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Mindreaver (seeded pack)
Xenagos, God of Revels
2x Eater of Hope (one was foil)
Shipbreaker Kraken
Reverent Hunter
Temple of Mystery
My intial thought was to go UB, but I had few playables in those colours, so I explored Esper as a possibility.
When I didn't like that, I tried going UBG, using two Favour of Karametra (I think?) to not only ramp and colour-fix me, but to trigger Heroic and Inspired.
Other notable cards for limited were 2x Griptide and a Nessian Asp.
In the end, I went 3-1, losing only to a really agressive deck by being mana screwed.
Ended up playing RG, splashing B for just Mogis. Went 5-1, placing 7th. I had awful tiebreakers due to my loss being early, could never make up for it. That one loss was to Elspeth, not due to my deck being unable to handle her (I beat the opponent after she had been out for several turns game 1), but due to mana screwed.
Takeaways from the sealed event and the following draft:
-Green is far and away the strongest color.
-Snake of the Golden Grove is an absurd creature.
-Removal is unnecessary. A tight curve with lots of bestow is just as effective.
I went blue, opened a mediocre pool including three of the 3/2 flyer for 3U, four scry lands & no removal that cost less than six mana. 0-1 drop after one game because I got called into work.
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I pulled a Phenax in my sealed pool going blue (which I later traded for store credit) and went on to build a UB control deck with mill as an alt-win condition. I started 0-2 but finished 3-2, won two matches in two different rounds by milling out with Phenax. Lived the dream, it was so awesome.
The cool thing about this prerelease was that Brian Kibler stopped by and he was there for the noon prerelease and stayed behind to play against anyone for like 3 hours. He would play people either with their Sealed deck from the event or his Standard Golgari deck he's been working on for the last month plus. You got to play him once and if you beat him, he would give you one free BNG pack. I think only like 3 people beat him all day out of like 20+ matches of sealed or Standard. Lots of cool synergies in his deck with the likes of Reaper of the Wilds backed by Polukranos and whatnot. In a few matches that I had been watching (there was a line to play him) he had some insane plays where he'd use Polukranos monstrosity to take out some small creature then scry off Reaper to what he needed, various plays to turn off devotion for the opposition with timely removal, Abrupt Decays on D-Spheres, and I even saw Vraska tokens win a match.
I tried out my own take on UW control splashing a little black ala Alexander Hayne and played against him. I came close to beating him (got him down to 6), but I had already mulliganed down to 6 to start and couldn't hit a 2nd Revelation before he took me down with a pair of Mutavaults. He was really cool, signed a copy of Vraska the Unseen for me and two Reaper of the Wilds for me. Both cards put in sooooo much work for him in the Standard matches I saw.
Went 3-1 playing Blue-Green, choosing blue as the starting pack. I got an AMAZING pool with Tromokratis as the seeded rare along with two amazing green heroic cards: Anthousa, Setessan Hero and Hero of Leina Tower with a lot of great Auras and such for them. Nemesis of Mortals was also a bomb, but I think Archetype of Imagination was one of the biggest all-stars in the deck. The card is completely nuts. The only games I really lost were to mana screw.
It was easily the best pool in the entire prerelease, and there were two Temple of Malice just to add to the $$$ value.
AND SOMEHOW I MANAGED TO COME TO SECOND-LAST
First match I was ready to drop Elspeth and win and he drops a Perplexing Chimera (WTF);
Second match just randomly lost to Purphoros, God of the Forge triggers;
Third match I drew no removal and the wall-of-creatures stand-offs we kept having routinely ended when his Staggershock Giant went monstrous
Fourth match (against the guy who ended up dead last) I almost lost as well
Most awkward Prerelease of life. Frustratingly back luck, but made back almost double value with all the money I cracked. Won two boosters at the end and cracked more money
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i went 3-1 with five color death.
the rares i got were
chromanticore
anger of the gods
forgestoker dragon
herald of torment
eater of hope
thassa
polukranos
was playing thassa with like no devo to turn her on i killed almost everyone with chromanicore.
green pack, G/U with a splash of white, came in 7th out of 30something, opened a mogis
One game was a standoff voltronfest with my 15/15 Hero of Leina Tower with reach facing a 12/12 celestial archon with lifelink, but then I top deck'd aqueous form and won game 3
My one good play yesterday was after my opponent communed to put nemesis of mortals in his hand that he could cast for gg next turn but his field was empty I cast nessian demolock leaving him of a choice of losing one of the forests he needed to cast or letting me field a 6/6 to the 5/5 he would cast. He chose to lose the land and never got one before I killed him.
I did badly in general I had U/G with archetype of imagination but my first opponent had arbor colossus and nessian asp out so it was useless. Didn't have enough removal so I tried g/b and got stuck on 3 lands both games
Well, I had an amazing Prerelease last night. I picked the blue pack, thinking I could play black blue since it was doing well for me previously. I opened my packs, and pulled:
... And a ton of green and red beaters to support them. I had two Nessian Asp, a Stoneshock Giant, Vulpine Goliath, two Fall of the Hammer, two Karametra's Acolyte, two Voyaging Satyr, and the list goes on. It was the most absurd Prerelease that I have ever opened.
I ended up going 5-0 and winning a dozen packs! All in all I can say Fall of the Hammer, Satyr Nyx-Smith, Akroan Conscriptor, and Snake of the Golden Grove were all stars. Obviously the mythics were too; but the commons as uncommons are the true heroes of the decks.
Chose Blue for today's prerelease. Pulled some good black removal and direct player damage with Fate Unraveler and Claim of Erebos. Ended up taking fourth after making top four and having to leave to watch the Superbowl.
Oh, also unpacked a foil Xenagod. Jerk at the store wouldn't trade me for a normal Brimaz, though.
My other winning pool was much looser. I had some obnoxious synergy though with felhide spiritbinderRageblood shaman and some random minotaurs. The deck was really just green monsters with a red splash though. I would note that fall of the hammer is probably the best limited removal spell given that it triggers heroic and is phenominally efficient.
The best archetype overall looked like U/W. A couple acquaintances won prereleases on that color combo as well. I was playing that when I made my play error :(.
A side note, vortex elemental is insane. I bestowed mine up and then forced opponents to block a number of times. I also won a game by playing and shuffling it in on a stalled board to mill an opponent out with no cards left in my library. Glorious!
Went 4-1, got 5th (a little annoying as first place was also 4-1 so I just had the worst breakers of the 4-1s), but all was well after opening a Temple of Malice and a foil Brimaz, King of Oreskos in the prize packs.
Xantcha, Phyrexian Reject
Jodah, Archmage Eternal
Tovolar, Howlpack Alpha
Pivlic, Orzhov Informant
Crixizix, Master Engineer
Feather, Boros Peacekeeper
Marisi Coilbreaker
O-Kagachi
Gix, Phyrexian Praetor
Karn, Father of Machines
Yawgmoth, Father of Machines
Serra, Mother of All Angels
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
Leshrac the Nightwalker
Jeska, the Thrice-Touched
Elspeth Returned
Crucius the Mad
Taysir the Infinite
Urza's Head (Unglued!)
I went to a midnight pre-release on the 1st and just got back from one that happened tonight. Chose blue both times. The first night I had an absolutely atrocious card pool. I was disgusted with the sealed format all night. Rares:
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Fated Infatuation (seeded)
Fated Retribution
Oracle of Bones
Temple of Triumph
Temple of Mystery
Ember Swallower
And I swear, in order to have a deck full of playables, I would have needed to run 3 colors. Problem was, most of the playables in any given color had two mana symbols in their cost. On top of that, there was no way to get any sort of synergy out of my cards without going 4 colors (and with only a Burnished Hart to fix mana). Heroic cards, but no playable triggers. Inspired cards, but no evasion/protection. Gary, but nowhere near enough playable black permanents. I only had 3 removal spells too (1 Asphyxiate, 1 Excoriate, and 1 Lash - both of which were in my least playable two colors), and not a single tempo card (well, I guess I did get one Vortex Elemental). There was no way for me to deal with any of the promos that I was seeing a lot of. Long story short, I tanked, going 1-4-1 and switching colors between each game.
Tonight was a completely different story. Rares:
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Perplexing Chimera (seeded)
Fated Conflagration
Whims of the Fates
Ashen Rider
Temple of Deceit
Reaper of the Wilds
Fleecemane Lion (foil)
Kind of all over the place with my rares, but the rest of my pool was indescribably better. Went U/R and finished 4th/5th (can't remember which, lol) with a 4-1 record. Perplexing Chimera, Fated Conflagration, Sphinx's Disciple, Siren of the Fanged Coast, Thassa's Emissary, and Divination were my all-stars - Perplexing Chimera and Fated Conflagration in particular.
Pull of the weekend went to the guy who cracked a foil Kiora.
I got a sweet U/G pool on Sunday and built a killer midrange deck with lots of removal. Managed to cast Hunter's Prowess on a Horizon Chimera vs. a tapped out board with no blockers in the air at least 4 times. Felt good to Sphinx's Revelation for 6 with six to the dome built into the bargain.
Won every game until my last match, where I won the first and then lost two stupidly. First loss I kept a bad hand and just couldn't develop a board until T4, at which point it was all over, in Game 3 I managed to stabilize at 8 life but forgot to play around Portent of Betrayal (knew he had it in his deck, not in his hand) casting a Nemesis of Mortals instead of Prognostic Sphinx and got eaten alive.
I ended up running W/B enchantments/heroic. I went 3-2, losing to W/U control with Elspeth and Tromokratis; and a W/B mirror also running Elspeth (lol), though he simply played better I think.
Also: Griffin Dreamfinder. I was kinda wary at first running a 1/4 for 5, even with flying, but damn am I glad I kept him in. Getting back my best Bestow guy or a Weight of the Underworld felt so good.
Ornitharch. Despite tribute sucking, I was never sad to draw this guy.
Meh: Elite Skirmisher. He wasn't as good as I thought he'd be; his heroic ability was virtually never useful.
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Pulled from Theros: Chained to the Rocks, Anger of the Gods and Anthousa Hero. From Born of the Gods I pulled Hero of Leina Tower and Courser of Kruphix.
Pretty bad pulls.
Wound up going G/W with lot of white exile ability.
Went 1-2.
In my prize pack I pulled Hero of Iroas.
Then made some trades to get Nykthos and 2 Spirit of the Labyrinth.
Was my first prerelease and I enjoyed it but I had crappy pulls compared to many.
Oh yeah, Fated Retribution was my seeded rare. So expensive but did help a lot in 2 games where I could cast it.
The last match I was like **** it, I'm going to build a 5 color control deck. It sort of worked actually. That was the highlight of my night
The promo did work for me, loved it. Had a few ways to give it evasion. It always put my opponent in a tough spot. Scourge of Skola was a great fail safe. Put it down while your other fatties do work and use it to eat your fatty if they try to kill it. Kill my 12/12 hydra? Ok Skola gets 12 counters instead. Sudden storm was very strong especially if cast on their turn.
Saw no other promo cast against me except the blue one when it didn't matter.
I was 4-0 facing the only other 4-0. It was odd as it was 6 rounds and we were unable to draw and split. Neither of us were happy about this. We looked over the standings and decided to intentional draw knowing that way we'd both make top 4 even with loses in the last round while also giving both of us the opportunity to still top two it. So we drew, and both won last round, thus allowing us to split the win. Justice prevailed.
First ever pre release and first ever sealed event. Tied for first at 5-0-1 and split a box. I'm happy.
White seems good, but frankly it was so underpicked at the prereleases I went to that the poor showing it gave could be due to just the low population of them. At the midnight pre-release, there were 93 people and only 5 went white. I think it has to do with the white promo just being bad. After playing the format, I found many times that tapping out to play the Dragon or the Sphinx just wasn't the right call, and the only seven drop I ever cast was Tromakratis. You just can't afford to give an opening that late in the game by doing so, and the White one doesn't really do enough on its own. It seems fine on paper, but the format is hectic to say the least from what I saw.
That said, white has seemingly good stuff at common and uncommon. So I don't really know why it hasn't been performing. I think it has to do with Green's heroic creatures just being better overall, and just quickly out-pacing the white ones in White. Couple it with solid creatures on curve in *that* color to fill in the gaps, and white just doesn't have as much game against them. Red also got some decent low-end burn to take out the early heroic dudes, blue got some amazing cards to making the voltron creatures a miserable experience, and black has the removal.
So basically, while white looks good on paper, there is enough in the format to just screw with the gameplan hard.
When we were told to open them, our whole table laughed, because all four of the people at our table had pulled a Xenagos!
After opening everything, my rares were:
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Mindreaver (seeded pack)
Xenagos, God of Revels
2x Eater of Hope (one was foil)
Shipbreaker Kraken
Reverent Hunter
Temple of Mystery
My intial thought was to go UB, but I had few playables in those colours, so I explored Esper as a possibility.
When I didn't like that, I tried going UBG, using two Favour of Karametra (I think?) to not only ramp and colour-fix me, but to trigger Heroic and Inspired.
Other notable cards for limited were 2x Griptide and a Nessian Asp.
In the end, I went 3-1, losing only to a really agressive deck by being mana screwed.
Really fun event!
Ended up playing RG, splashing B for just Mogis. Went 5-1, placing 7th. I had awful tiebreakers due to my loss being early, could never make up for it. That one loss was to Elspeth, not due to my deck being unable to handle her (I beat the opponent after she had been out for several turns game 1), but due to mana screwed.
Takeaways from the sealed event and the following draft:
-Green is far and away the strongest color.
-Snake of the Golden Grove is an absurd creature.
-Removal is unnecessary. A tight curve with lots of bestow is just as effective.
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The cool thing about this prerelease was that Brian Kibler stopped by and he was there for the noon prerelease and stayed behind to play against anyone for like 3 hours. He would play people either with their Sealed deck from the event or his Standard Golgari deck he's been working on for the last month plus. You got to play him once and if you beat him, he would give you one free BNG pack. I think only like 3 people beat him all day out of like 20+ matches of sealed or Standard. Lots of cool synergies in his deck with the likes of Reaper of the Wilds backed by Polukranos and whatnot. In a few matches that I had been watching (there was a line to play him) he had some insane plays where he'd use Polukranos monstrosity to take out some small creature then scry off Reaper to what he needed, various plays to turn off devotion for the opposition with timely removal, Abrupt Decays on D-Spheres, and I even saw Vraska tokens win a match.
I tried out my own take on UW control splashing a little black ala Alexander Hayne and played against him. I came close to beating him (got him down to 6), but I had already mulliganed down to 6 to start and couldn't hit a 2nd Revelation before he took me down with a pair of Mutavaults. He was really cool, signed a copy of Vraska the Unseen for me and two Reaper of the Wilds for me. Both cards put in sooooo much work for him in the Standard matches I saw.
In my prize packs for going 3-2, I pulled a Brimaz, King of Oreskos which was pretty sweet.
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BMono-Black Infect
EDH:
RGWMayael, the Anima
GWURoon of the Hidden Realm
BDrana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Xenagos, God of Revels
Forgestoker Dragon
Ornitharch
Fellhide Spiritbinder
2x Fearsome Temper (beast of a common, especially on Two-Headed Cerberus
as well as some really solid red/white removal.
I even cracked Gray Merchant of Asphodel, some Lash of the Whips and an Ashen Rider if I randomly wanted to splash in some black.
It was easily the best pool in the entire prerelease, and there were two Temple of Malice just to add to the $$$ value.
AND SOMEHOW I MANAGED TO COME TO SECOND-LAST
First match I was ready to drop Elspeth and win and he drops a Perplexing Chimera (WTF);
Second match just randomly lost to Purphoros, God of the Forge triggers;
Third match I drew no removal and the wall-of-creatures stand-offs we kept having routinely ended when his Staggershock Giant went monstrous
Fourth match (against the guy who ended up dead last) I almost lost as well
Most awkward Prerelease of life. Frustratingly back luck, but made back almost double value with all the money I cracked. Won two boosters at the end and cracked more money
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the rares i got were
chromanticore
anger of the gods
forgestoker dragon
herald of torment
eater of hope
thassa
polukranos
was playing thassa with like no devo to turn her on i killed almost everyone with chromanicore.
One game was a standoff voltronfest with my 15/15 Hero of Leina Tower with reach facing a 12/12 celestial archon with lifelink, but then I top deck'd aqueous form and won game 3
I did badly in general I had U/G with archetype of imagination but my first opponent had arbor colossus and nessian asp out so it was useless. Didn't have enough removal so I tried g/b and got stuck on 3 lands both games
... And a ton of green and red beaters to support them. I had two Nessian Asp, a Stoneshock Giant, Vulpine Goliath, two Fall of the Hammer, two Karametra's Acolyte, two Voyaging Satyr, and the list goes on. It was the most absurd Prerelease that I have ever opened.
I ended up going 5-0 and winning a dozen packs! All in all I can say Fall of the Hammer, Satyr Nyx-Smith, Akroan Conscriptor, and Snake of the Golden Grove were all stars. Obviously the mythics were too; but the commons as uncommons are the true heroes of the decks.
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Oh, also unpacked a foil Xenagod. Jerk at the store wouldn't trade me for a normal Brimaz, though.
The instant speed reanimate/indestructible spell is completely unfair. Best/first pool I went B/W. These BNG cards all preformed admirably.
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My other winning pool was much looser. I had some obnoxious synergy though with felhide spiritbinder Rageblood shaman and some random minotaurs. The deck was really just green monsters with a red splash though. I would note that fall of the hammer is probably the best limited removal spell given that it triggers heroic and is phenominally efficient.
The best archetype overall looked like U/W. A couple acquaintances won prereleases on that color combo as well. I was playing that when I made my play error :(.
A side note, vortex elemental is insane. I bestowed mine up and then forced opponents to block a number of times. I also won a game by playing and shuffling it in on a stalled board to mill an opponent out with no cards left in my library. Glorious!
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Heroes' Podium
Mindreaver
Shipbreaker Kraken
Polis Crusher
Meletis Charlatan
Tromokratis (seeded)
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Felt bad opening sub-$5 of rares, but I had three blue bombs among them in addition to an Archetype of Imagination so I ran UG, with green to fill the curve with cards like Leafcrown Dryad, Pheres-Band Tromper, and Nessian Asp.
Went 4-1, got 5th (a little annoying as first place was also 4-1 so I just had the worst breakers of the 4-1s), but all was well after opening a Temple of Malice and a foil Brimaz, King of Oreskos in the prize packs.
The game I lost was to first place, he had 2x Fated Conflagration, 2x Forgestoker Dragon, and multiple Magma Jet. None of the matches were particularly memorable, besides dropping Archetype of Imagination for an exactly-lethal swing of 16 in one game.
Xantcha, Phyrexian Reject
Jodah, Archmage Eternal
Tovolar, Howlpack Alpha
Pivlic, Orzhov Informant
Crixizix, Master Engineer
Feather, Boros Peacekeeper
Marisi Coilbreaker
O-Kagachi
Gix, Phyrexian Praetor
Karn, Father of Machines
Yawgmoth, Father of Machines
Serra, Mother of All Angels
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
Leshrac the Nightwalker
Jeska, the Thrice-Touched
Elspeth Returned
Crucius the Mad
Taysir the Infinite
Urza's Head (Unglued!)
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Fated Infatuation (seeded)
Fated Retribution
Oracle of Bones
Temple of Triumph
Temple of Mystery
Ember Swallower
And I swear, in order to have a deck full of playables, I would have needed to run 3 colors. Problem was, most of the playables in any given color had two mana symbols in their cost. On top of that, there was no way to get any sort of synergy out of my cards without going 4 colors (and with only a Burnished Hart to fix mana). Heroic cards, but no playable triggers. Inspired cards, but no evasion/protection. Gary, but nowhere near enough playable black permanents. I only had 3 removal spells too (1 Asphyxiate, 1 Excoriate, and 1 Lash - both of which were in my least playable two colors), and not a single tempo card (well, I guess I did get one Vortex Elemental). There was no way for me to deal with any of the promos that I was seeing a lot of. Long story short, I tanked, going 1-4-1 and switching colors between each game.
Tonight was a completely different story. Rares:
Arbiter of the Ideal (promo)
Perplexing Chimera (seeded)
Fated Conflagration
Whims of the Fates
Ashen Rider
Temple of Deceit
Reaper of the Wilds
Fleecemane Lion (foil)
Kind of all over the place with my rares, but the rest of my pool was indescribably better. Went U/R and finished 4th/5th (can't remember which, lol) with a 4-1 record. Perplexing Chimera, Fated Conflagration, Sphinx's Disciple, Siren of the Fanged Coast, Thassa's Emissary, and Divination were my all-stars - Perplexing Chimera and Fated Conflagration in particular.
Pull of the weekend went to the guy who cracked a foil Kiora.
Won every game until my last match, where I won the first and then lost two stupidly. First loss I kept a bad hand and just couldn't develop a board until T4, at which point it was all over, in Game 3 I managed to stabilize at 8 life but forgot to play around Portent of Betrayal (knew he had it in his deck, not in his hand) casting a Nemesis of Mortals instead of Prognostic Sphinx and got eaten alive.
I ended up running W/B enchantments/heroic. I went 3-2, losing to W/U control with Elspeth and Tromokratis; and a W/B mirror also running Elspeth (lol), though he simply played better I think.
MVP was of course Brimaz, King of Oreskos.
Also:
Griffin Dreamfinder. I was kinda wary at first running a 1/4 for 5, even with flying, but damn am I glad I kept him in. Getting back my best Bestow guy or a Weight of the Underworld felt so good.
Ornitharch. Despite tribute sucking, I was never sad to draw this guy.
Meh:
Elite Skirmisher. He wasn't as good as I thought he'd be; his heroic ability was virtually never useful.