Given then amount of removal I already have, would you have run Fungal Infection?
Is three Mesa Unicorns too many? Pardic Wanderer and Yargle, Glutton of Urborg were thrown in to add some beef at the top end, but neither of these cards are very good. Would you have done differently?
Would you have splashed for anything?
Wow, I've never seen a pool with so much bomby knight support. Color choice is obvious.
Yes, play Fungal Infection. It's a great combat trick. 3 removal spells is not too many to play a 4th.
I didn't think 3 Mesa Unicorns could ever be too many. It's one of the best common limited 2 drops ever printed. But you have 4 knights at the 2 slot and you do need to play every single knight copy... What a weird pool. If only you had a 2nd Jousting Lance or some Short Swords to support the aggro-bears plan. Ok, cut 1 Unicorn.
If you didn't already have so many dorks, I'd say consider Tragic Poet. Underrated card that recycles History and Rite.
Dark Bargain and Urza's Tome seem really good in a low curve deck. Draw all the cards. Loot through redundant lands.
As lategame filler I would play Excavation Elephant before Yargle. It recurs Helm of the Host and Pardic Wanderer. But you might have enough mana sinks and kicker options without needing to force in filler 5s.
Here's my most recent Dominaria sealed Pool. There is a very heavy Knights theme here.
1 Benalish Honor Guard
3 Excavation Elephant
1 History of Benalia
1 Knight of Grace
2 Knight of New Benalia
3 Mesa Unicorn
1 Sergeant-at-Arms
3 Tragic Poet
Blue (14):
1 Artificer's Assistant
1 Befuddle
1 Cold-Water Snapper
1 Curator's Ward
1 Deep Freeze
1 Divination
2 Homarid Explorer
1 Opt
1 Rescue
1 Sage of Lat-Nam
1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
1 Syncopate
1 Wizard's Retort
Black (14):
1 Blessing of Belzenlok
1 Caligo Skin-Witch
1 Cast Down
1 Chainer's Torment
1 Dark Bargain
2 Divest
1 Eviscerate
1 Fungal Infection
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1 Rite of Belzenlok
1 Stronghold Confessor
1 Vicious Offering
1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
1 Bloodstone Goblin
1 The Flame of Keld
1 Frenzied Rage
1 Ghitu Chronicler
2 Ghitu Journeymage
1 Ghitu Lavarunner
2 Keldon Raider
1 Keldon Warcaller
1 Rampaging Cyclops
1 Run Amok
1 Verix Bladewing
1 Warlord's Fury
1 Wizard's Lightning
Green (11):
1 Adventurous Impulse
1 Baloth Gorger
1 Broken Bond
1 Gaea's Protector
1 Gift of Growth
1 Grow from the Ashes
2 Krosan Druid
1 Saproling Migration
1 Song of Freyalise
1 Yavimaya Sapherd
1 Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
1 Arvad the Cursed
1 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
Artifacts (8):
1 Aesthir Glider
1 Guardians of Koilos
1 Helm of the Host
1 Jousting Lance
2 Pardic Wanderer
1 Shield of the Realm
1 Urza's Tome
Land (4):
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Memorial to Folly
2 Zhalfirin Void
1 Arvad the Cursed
1 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
1 Benalish Honor Guard
1 Caligo Skin-Witch
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1 Knight of Grace
2 Knight of New Benalia
3 Mesa Unicorn
1 Pardic Wanderer
1 Sergeant-at-Arms
1 Stronghold Confessor
1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
1 Cast Down
1 Eviscerate
1 Fungal Infection
1 Helm of the Host
1 History of Benalia
1 Jousting Lance
1 Rite of Belzenlok
1 Vicious Offering
1 Memorial to Folly
8 Plains
8 Swamp
My mana curve was a bit unusual:
1 S
2 CCCCCCCCSSS
3 CS
4 CCCSSS
5 CC
6 C
A few questions:
Given then amount of removal I already have, would you have run Fungal Infection?
Is three Mesa Unicorns too many?
Pardic Wanderer and Yargle, Glutton of Urborg were thrown in to add some beef at the top end, but neither of these cards are very good. Would you have done differently?
Would you have splashed for anything?
Yes, play Fungal Infection. It's a great combat trick. 3 removal spells is not too many to play a 4th.
I didn't think 3 Mesa Unicorns could ever be too many. It's one of the best common limited 2 drops ever printed. But you have 4 knights at the 2 slot and you do need to play every single knight copy... What a weird pool. If only you had a 2nd Jousting Lance or some Short Swords to support the aggro-bears plan. Ok, cut 1 Unicorn.
If you didn't already have so many dorks, I'd say consider Tragic Poet. Underrated card that recycles History and Rite.
Dark Bargain and Urza's Tome seem really good in a low curve deck. Draw all the cards. Loot through redundant lands.
As lategame filler I would play Excavation Elephant before Yargle. It recurs Helm of the Host and Pardic Wanderer. But you might have enough mana sinks and kicker options without needing to force in filler 5s.
How did your deck perform?