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Originally Posted by supafrey
Here was the pool. White slightly beats red, right?
Yeah, white's really good and so much more synergistic with Aura Gnarlid. I could see splashing red for Forked Bolt+Flame Slash+Brimstone Mage, dropping Momentous Fall, Jaddi Lifestrider, and Bramblesnap.
Bramblesnap hit me pretty hard at a paper pre-release, but he seems a little underwhelming.
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Originally Posted by GambleAB
Told myself I wasn't going to play the online prerelease because of the horrible payouts.
That lasted about 3 hours.
Set seems absurdly fast. I know little about what I'm doing. Here's my pool/build, if anyone has any pointers I'd love to hear them:
+1 Guard Duty
+2 Hartebeest
+1 Overgrown Battlement
+1 Daggerback Basilisk
+1 Wildheart Invoker
-1 Leaf Arrow
-1 Lone Missionary
-1 Harmless Assault
-2 Hand of Emrakul
-1 Soul's Attendant
Not sure about the build that includes Blue, though 2xHartebeest with the options of Guard Duty/Narcolepsy/Domestication is pretty exciting.
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Just played my own event and managed to go 4-0. First card I saw was Sakrhan, then peeked down to find 3 Flame Slashes and knew I'd already be playing at least some red and black. Didn't have enough meat to force those colours, and although I was pretty enticed by my green, I saw I could go for an almost exclusively flying deck via White and I do love me some Dawnglare Invoker.
Last second I switched out Grotag Siege-Runner for Null Champion, although I'd probably rather have had something else altogether. Last Kiss was incredibly dissapointing and I didn't get to cast Sarkhan once! Was really hoping for some Threaten+Sarkhan fun.
Null Champ + Last Kiss often came out for some combo of Outrider/Soul Warden/Virulent Swipe/Siege-Runner/Repel the Darkness.
Exciting finish in game 3 in the finals. Infinite spawn tokens do nothing vs my fliers. I was just waiting to lose to Broodwarden or Might of the Masses for 20+ but the fliers got there (he had 1 card in hand at the end, not 8).