It’s Thursday, so you know what that means! This one was a little rough because of all the different directions you could have gone in (all colors are playable; though black is definitely a tertiary color, if that). The link can be found here: http://www.wizards.com/magic/sealeddeckbuilder/index.html?draftid=20120301

Here’s what I did:

1 Darkthicket Wolf
1 Dawntreader Elk
1 Hollowhenge Beast
1 Kessig Wolf
1 Nearheath Stalker
1 Night Revelers
1 Ravenous Demon
1 Riot Devils
1 Russet Wolves
1 Scorned Villager
1 Skirsdag Flayer
1 Somberwald Spider
1 Village Ironsmith
1 Villagers of Estwald
1 Alpha Brawl
1 Death’s Caress
1 Fires of Undeath
1 Grim Flowering
1 Rolling Temblor
1 Traveler’s Amulet
2 Wrack with Madness
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Evolving Wilds
2 Swamp
7 Forest
7 Mountain

I felt the red removal and the green creatures were the strongest options this card pool had–though combining these colors without using the aggressive tools available to it leaves it quite susceptible to flyers. You’ll be able to stall the ground, but one Stormbound Geist, Chapel Geist, or a Stitched Drake causes a ton of problems–none of your red removal can beat it, and you’re not fast enough to race it (and their presumed countermagic, bounce spells, or Claustrophobias). That’s why I added the black in to the pool–I was splashing for the flashback on the Fires anyway, so another Swamp gives us two removal spells that can profitably tangle with any flyer or bomb (save something with Undying). Stormbound Geist is a problem, but this deck can handle most anything else. I might be getting a little greedy, but with two colorless fixing spells and light mana requirements for our base two colors, we can afford to be a little greedy.

What did y’all do? As always, I’m curious–let me know!

~Anthony