Kasi and MagicMerl's builds are pretty solid. I wouldn't fault you for going either of them. I personally would go the BW route. I think you want flyers as they are the way to break board stalls. Here is my build:
The first 6 spells listed are technically removal and if you add in Hidden Dragonslayer, Silumgar Assassin and Silumgar Butcher, you really have 9 removal spells. I understand Mind Rot isn't the greatest, but it can get you a 2 for 1 and I like it in sealed. You have a decent amount of fliers and you should be able to live until the late game. Gravepurge isn't the greatest, but your deck can abuse its power with all the value creatures you have. Having it in your opening hand is discouraging but if you draw this late game as a top deck when there is a board stall, this is pretty much a bomb at that point.
Thank all of you for your comments. It's interesting to see different takes for this pool, especially since BU, BR, and BW have all been proposed. This has definitely been instructive.
These changes convert the deck to be less grindy and more bomb-y. While I was able to stall the board a lot with my deathtouch creatures until dragons showed up, I see a lot of good changes here.
@Kasi, I kept Hedonist's Trove out to see if it would do anything in any of my matchups. The only one it would've helped with is vs. the Ugin deck. I would've been able to cast it instead of my opponent :P.
Any thoughts on the other colors? Thunderbreak Regent could be bomb-y, but it doesn't have a lot of dragon support. There are a bunch of flyers in white.
I'm pretty bad at evaluating cards for making a deck, so I thought I'd learn by getting some advice. Even though I went 3-0-1, I think I was pretty lucky, e.g. I was able to Duress an opponent's Ugin two games in a row and was able to megamorph my dragons consistently. I now know I should have played better black, e.g. Rakshasa Gravecaller, and probably should have put in more card draw if I stay blue, e.g. Anticipate.
No offense taken. I'll post what I remember of the card pool in a different group/thread and take suggestions there. I'm still pretty bad at putting these things together, but I was comfortable playing this. I even kept a hand of 6 lands and a Gravepurge for the last game because I knew I could cast anything.
I have independent confirmation through print run analysis. Destroy the Evidence is in both C print runs, and is only there once for each. I've only solved A and C1, with most of C2 so far.
Validation! I've been saying this for years, but there was always some doubt from people who couldn't follow my processes.
As someone who does the print runs (although, I'm stuck using MODO packs this time around), it's actually very easy to figure the short print out. It's always colorless, and not part of a cycle. Most sets only have one option. Also, the ratio is 5:6. not exactly "almost as rare as an uncommon".
Pack 7:
A: Fog - Show of Valor - Vedalken Entrancer
B: Sign in Blood - Sentinel Spider
C1: Vile Rebirth - Canyon Minotaur - Aven Squire - Wind Drake - Primal Huntbeast
U: Healer of the Pride - Duskdale Wurm - Serra Angel
Thank all of you for your comments. It's interesting to see different takes for this pool, especially since BU, BR, and BW have all been proposed. This has definitely been instructive.
These changes convert the deck to be less grindy and more bomb-y. While I was able to stall the board a lot with my deathtouch creatures until dragons showed up, I see a lot of good changes here.
@Kasi, I kept Hedonist's Trove out to see if it would do anything in any of my matchups. The only one it would've helped with is vs. the Ugin deck. I would've been able to cast it instead of my opponent :P.
Any thoughts on the other colors? Thunderbreak Regent could be bomb-y, but it doesn't have a lot of dragon support. There are a bunch of flyers in white.
Suggestions? Thoughts?
1 Ethereal Ambush
White
1 Aven Tactician
1 Dragon Bell Monk
1 Dragon Hunter
1 Dragon's Eye Sentry
1 Dromoka Dunecaster
1 Dromoka Warrior
1 Great Teacher's Decree
1 Hidden Dragonslayer
1 Lightwalker
2 Misthoof Kirin
1 Pacifism
Blue
1 Ancient Carp
1 Anticipate
1 Aven Surveyor
1 Cloudform
1 Dance of the Skywise
1 Enhanced Awareness
1 Glint
1 Gurmag Drowner
1 Monastery Loremaster
1 Negate
1 Ojutai Interceptor
2 Ojutai's Breath
1 Palace Familiar
1 Reality Shift
2 Sidisi's Faithful
1 Void Squall
2 Acid-Spewer Dragon
1 Butcher's Glee
1 Coat with Venom
1 Diplomacy of the Wastes
2 Duress
2 Dutiful Attendant
2 Flatten
1 Foul-Tongue Invocation
2 Foul-Tongue Shriek
1 Gravepurge
1 Hand of Silumgar
1 Hedonist's Trove
1 Mind Rot
1 Minister of Pain
1 Rakshasa Gravecaller
1 Shambling Goblin
1 Silumgar Assassin
1 Silumgar Butcher
1 Tasigur's Cruelty
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Ukud Cobra
1 Wandering Tombshell
Red
1 Atarka Efreet
2 Dragon Fodder
1 Kolaghan Forerunners
1 Magmatic Chasm
1 Mardu Runemark
1 Sarkhan's Rage
1 Smoldering Efreet
1 Thunderbreak Regent
1 Volcanic Rush
1 Ainok Artillerist
1 Dragon-Scarred Bear
1 Epic Confrontation
1 Formless Nurturing
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Inspiring Call
1 Pinion Feast
1 Revealing Wind
1 Salt Road Quartermasters
1 Servant of the Scale
1 Shamanic Revelation
1 Sunbringer's Touch
Artifacts
1 Ancestral Statue
1 Kolaghan Monument
1 Spidersilk Net
1 Silumgar Monument
4 Island
13 Swamp
Spells
1 Butcher's Glee
1 Coat with Venom
2 Duress
2 Flatten
1 Glint
1 Gravepurge
1 Mind Rot
1 Void Squall
2 Acid-Spewer Dragon
1 Dutiful Attendant
1 Gurmag Drowner
1 Hand of Silumgar
1 Minister of Pain
1 Sidisi's Faithful
1 Silumgar Butcher
1 Silumgar Assassin
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Wandering Tombshell
1 Ukud Cobra
1 Silumgar Monument
Here's what I played (3-0-1), heavy on the removal.
4 Island
13 Swamp
Spells
1 Butcher's Glee
1 Coat with Venom
2 Duress
2 Flatten
1 Glint
1 Gravepurge
1 Mind Rot
1 Void Squall
2 Acid-Spewer Dragon
1 Dutiful Attendant
1 Gurmag Drowner
1 Hand of Silumgar
1 Minister of Pain
1 Sidisi's Faithful
1 Silumgar Butcher
1 Silumgar Assassin
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Wandering Tombshell
1 Ukud Cobra
1 Silumgar Monument
Pack 1:
A: Titanic Growth - Archaeomancer - Guardians of Akrasa
B: Warclamp Mastiff
C1: Griffin Protector -Divination - Reckless Brute - Zombie Goliath - Yeva's Forcemage - Crippling Blight
U: Augur of Bolas - Garruk's Packleader - Public Execution
Pack 2:
A: Fog - Show of Valor - Vedalken Entrancer - Wild Guess
B: Glorious Charge - Murder - Watercourser
C2: Bountiful Harvest - Smelt
U: Jayemdae Tome - Mark of Mutiny - Fungal Sprouting
Pack 3:
A: Fog - Silvercoat Lion - Bloodhunter Bat - Disentomb
B: Erase - Turn to Slag - Prey Upon
C2: Battleflight Eagle - Dragon Hatchling - Duty-Bound Dead
U: Harbor Bandit - Rewind - Primal Clay
Pack 4:
A: Trumpet Blast - Fog - Show of Valor - Vedalken Entrancer
B: Searing Spear - Deadly Recluse
C2: Smelt - Dragon Hatchling - Pacifism - Tormented Soul
U: War Priest of Thune - Gem of Becoming - Revive
Pack 5:
A: Ranger's Path - Rummaging Goblin - Captain's Call
B: Hydrosurge
C1: Scroll Thief - Griffin Protector - Timberpack Wolf - Crippling Blight - Goblin Battle Jester
U: Crimson Muckwader - Ring of Kalonia - Cower in Fear
Pack 6:
A: Mind Rot - Safe Passage
B: Divine Favor
C1: Evolving Wilds - Arbor Elf - Griffin Protector - Divination - Reckless Brute - Zombie Goliath
U: Torch Fiend - Veilborn Ghoul - Elixir of Immortality
Pack 7:
A: Fog - Show of Valor - Vedalken Entrancer
B: Sign in Blood - Sentinel Spider
C1: Vile Rebirth - Canyon Minotaur - Aven Squire - Wind Drake - Primal Huntbeast
U: Healer of the Pride - Duskdale Wurm - Serra Angel
Pack 8:
A: Farseek - Servant of Nefarox - Guardian Lions - Volcanic Strength
B: Glorious Charge - Murder
C2: Essence Scatter - Walking Corpse - Goblin Arsonist - Bountiful Harvest
U: Arctic Aven - Mindclaw Shaman - Knight of Glory
Pack 9:
A: Fog - Silvercoat Lion - Bloodhunter Bat
B: Mark of the Vampire - Divine Favor
C1: Arbor Elf - Reckless Brute - Giant Scorpion - Scroll Thief - Attended Knight
U: Augur of Bolas - Garruk's Packleader - Flames of the Firebrand
Pack 10:
A: Safe Passage - Archaeomancer - Rummaging Goblin
B: Divine Favor - Sentinel Spider
C1: Vile Rebirth - Tricks of the Trade - Aven Squire - Vastwood Gorger - Arbor Elf
U: Garruk's Packleader - Switcheroo - Jace's Phantasm