While we do have [[card_link: Winding Constrictor]] and [[card_link: Fatal Push]], the rest of our Black pool isn't overly strong, and as good as GB is in draft, the added variance forces us away from Black, especially since our green pool was relatively limited. If we had had a [[card_link: Scrounging Bandar]] or [[card_link: Defiant Salvager]] it would have made a bigger case for GB.
What is a good practice is to pull all playable cards into your deck, fanning it out, and then seeing what colors are your deepest. We ended up with Red and Green as our deepest pools, with White offering a lot of removal. You can also see that our full artifact pool is very limited as well, and overall not a viable option to try to utilize, hence why the other 2 [[card_link: Sweatworks Brawler]]s are in the sideboard.
There are 3 points that I always try to remember when building a sealed pool:
-Sealed is about power. If you don't have enough power, you will often find yourself in board stalls until the opponent just overpowers you.
-Draft cards are not always good in sealed. Since your opponent has access to more forms of removal, and can easily splash for it, some good cards like [[card_link: Audacious Infiltrator]] are not as viable in sealed.
-Removal should always be in your deck in some form, and often 4 is the correct number. If you have 3 unconditional removal spells, then you can just play those, but for things like [[card_link: Revoke Privileges]] or [[card_link: Caught in the Brights]] you want to have a little more, due to the access to bounce in this format.
Our overall record with this deck was 3-2. The 2 losses were tough to take, as one was lost due to mana issues, and the second match was against UW flyers, which we didn't draw enough removal, and couldn't deal with [[card_link: Aethertide Whale]] well enough.
I hope you enjoyed this edition, and make sure to check out our next edition, when we take on another draft!
[[published_at: 27 Feb 2017, 10:00 am]]
[[category: Limited Archetypes]]
[[preview_content: Read or Watch as Jamie and Adam build Sealed]]
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