Here is a draft I did, that I thought turned out pretty well. I may just be putting this up here because I don't know if I am just running bad or really suck. Maybe you guys could look it over and let me know if there is anything too awful with the way I drafted. I lost round 1 to a b/u/w deck with royal assassin and the redirect archon guy. He had 4 squadron hawk which turned out to be really annoying. I think maybe this is me just running bad, as I already busted out of the online PTQ today with the worst M11 sealed pool. I wish MODO saved it so I could post it.

Charlie and I set out to Portland on Friday morning with plans of grinding out three byes to give us an edge to make day 2. We leave at about 8:00 am and expect to arrive in Portland at about 1:15 pm. This would give us plenty of time to grind. Luckily for Charlie and I, I had recently received my new Motorola Droid X, which is absolutely awesome. I was able to watch www.channelfireball.com videos almost the entire way there, connecting the phone to Charlie's stereo so he could listen in while I helped fill him in what was going on. Not to mention I got to show him the bedroom intruder videos which are hysterical!

This is a M11 Sealed Event I did on Magic Online last Thursday. I created a video of my deck building process with some narration. I also created videos for all my matches as I had some pretty interesting games. There are certain insights on a couple different cards that I comment on throughout the videos. One of these cards being inspired charge. Many people I talk to don't really like the card, and generally give me the "it's okay" line. This card seems to always be very good for me and won me some games this event. I also thought about boarding out Sleep against decks with lots of removal spells, like the B/R deck I lost to in the finals. All the videos are posted below with me narrating them. Note: After pressing play, you may want to change from 360p to 480p, 720p, or 1080p to see the cards better.

Here is a sealed pool I opened for one of the M11 pre-release events on Magic Online. The black and red were really horrible, but the white, green, and blue all seemed playable. I will post the list after everybody has had a chance to look this over and come up with their own builds. Pete has posted his build also below. Here is an image of the entire card pool

I was able to top 8 with this pool, and thought I had a great shot at winning the whole thing. I felt I got hosed in the semi's, and was disappointed to not have three byes. Congrats to Steve Canty for winning those. I was really disappointed with this pool at first because the rares were just so bad! 2x Leyline, 2x Land, Elvish Archdruid and Camptivating Vampire. Not to mention 3x Incite, 2x Pyretic Ritual, and 2x Goldenglow Moth. After briefly looking through it, I thought I was doomed! But upon sorting it out, it was not as terrible as I initially thought and figured I could top 8 given the small field of 17-18.

My rares were pretty bad as I opened no bombs. There is nothing worse than getting Silence or leylines and it seems like I always get Elvish Archdruid. Oh well. I'll start off with green because it had a lot of mana fix and some solid creatures including Garruk's Packleader with lots of three power creatures, so I was pretty sure I would play green. Red had three good burn spells including Fireball. This pool seemed like it just didn't have enough solid creatures.

Since I am down here in Florida for a month I decided to look for game stores online so I could find a place to play. Down here are are a bunch of stores and they even had midnight prerelease tournaments. Unfortunately for me the game store is not close to my grandpa's house. (Nothing is close to my grandpas house)

I went into this tournament hoping for U/W fliers. From a quick glance over the spoiler, I was really impressed with blue and white and really not impressed with black and red. I have done a lot of base set events online and have always liked U/W, U/B, and some G/R builds can be decent. I'll go right into the pool.