MTG Salvation

I am just looking to see if I could have done anything better with what I pulled?

I also have another deck that I would like to get a look at too and will be posting that later when I have more time.

Very difficult pool! All your colours seem to drop off after card #7, and your bombs are in awkward colours. I feel like your deck has too few creatures, and a lot of bad cards.

I would avoid these


To have enough good cards in the deck, I think you are forced to go three colour. My instinct is to try make a Blue-Green-Black deck. Blue gives you some good cards (Ongoing Investigation, Altered Ego, Epiphany at the Drownyard), decent removal, but few creatures. Black gives you decent creatures. Green gives you some fixing, which is important given the lack of it otherwise, and some delirium synergy. The deck has a lot of graveyard synergy in general.

Something like this (BGu):



You are losing both Nahiri, the Harbinger and Avacyn's Judgement, but Avacyn's Judgement is only really good with madness, and Nahiri is hard to cast.

This pool is very unfair in the amount of creatures you get. Blue has 3 creatures, white has 8, red has 8, (but not exactly high quality), black has 9, green has 8.

How do we build with this? Well, as usual, when you have a weak pool, you have to take more risks in order to get a few powerful plays.

Some comments on Gleng's suggestion first.

The Blue contributes very little to a deck's power with this pool. Out of every single blue card, The only one you'd ever actually want to play is sleep paralysis. It has stitched mangler, but the card is not always good. It depends which deck it's in. Since you will usually be on the defensive, removing a blocker while putting a tapped creature in play would be sub optimal. You will rarely want to topdeck this. Especially if it's your first play in the game, which IS likely, since the entire pool has only 5 two drops. Blue doesn't have any. That means if your opponent has two 2/1 in play for example, you play stitched mangler and tap one, but can't block the other. So you're giving your opponent an extra attack where a vanilla 2/3 would have stopped the attack completely.

For epiphany at the drownyard. It's not very good when casted for less than 5, so it won't help your early game. And since the pool is weak, it's unlikely that you'll have more than one card you actually want when you split the cards. And whichever pile that card is in, is the one your opponent will throw in your graveyard.

On pyre hound. I haven't built the deck yet, but considering that you're low on creatures, it will likely be usable for no other reason than the fact that you have more non-creature spells than usual.

Nahiri is repeatable removal, so we'll want to play her if we can. Adding a 3rd color for her is acceptable. We'll also try to play true-faith censer, since it lets us squeeze more value out of each creature and we cna cast it no matter what we play. Blue is a write off. I won't even bother unless we desperately splash ghastly wings. Black has some playables, but not enough to get us to 23 cards with white. So if we go black we'll be three colors. Not sold on hound of the farbog since you don't want a 5 mana creature with 3 toughness when you're on the defensive, and the menace could be hard to pull off. We have to consider it a vanilla 5/3. Green is in about the same spot as black, except it's more defensive until we get to 6 mana. Black has good early drops (more than green anyway) and kind of a bomb in necropod. After looking at every card three times. Black will be more consistent than green. So let's pick our 3rd color. Red. There's really no other choice.

We're low on removal, so red helps in that area. I will totally have to disagree with Gleng on Avacyn's judgment though. In limited, two damage for two mana is good. Two damage that you can split for two mana is even better. Since we don't have access to blue, it's almost strictly better than geistblast here. And there are ways to discard it in black/white, even though they are not many. But even if you had absolutely no way to play the madness, it would still be a must play card. Spiteful motives is a great card as well. It makes a 2 power creature take out a 5 toughness one and survive. So most of the time, it will act as removal. And then it sticks around to make your opponent's life a nightmare. Or you can use it to slip that extra 3 point of damage through. And of course we want Nahiri.

This is the deck it would make.

I'd actually go straight Black/Green delirium. In the absence of bombs that go with your pool, the key to sealed is ignoring the bombs and building a solid deck with good creatures and a good curve. B/G has that, including double Autumnal Gloom. I know you want to play Nahiri, but the color support just isn't there. In fact, your white cards are literal garbage except for Purge and Moonsilver. Your red is deceptively top-heavy. You have 4 or 5 very good cards and the rest are either filler or straight-up terrible. Your blue has three creatures, so forget it.



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