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M11 Prerelease: All About Games - Boise, ID

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.

Green
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2x Naturalize
1x Hunters' Feast
1x Dryad's Favor
1X Brindle Boar
1x Prized Unicorn
1x Acidic Slime
1x Cudgel Troll
1x Spined Wurm
3x Giant Spider
1x Birds of Paradise
1x Sylvan Ranger
1x Primal Cocoon
1x Hornet Sting

Black
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1x Blood Tithe
1x Rotting Legion
1x Mind Rot
1x Unholy Strength
1x Corrupt
1x Stabbing Pain
1x Deathmark
1x Viscera Seer
1x Assassinate
1x Reassembling Skeleton
2x Gravedigger
1x Liliana's Specter
1x Child of the Night
1x Sign in Blood
1x Quag Sickness
1x Diabolic Tutor

White
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1x Siege Mastodon
1x Solemn Offering
1x War Priest of Thune
1x Assault Griffin
1x Stormfront Pegasus
2x Excommunicate
1x Inspired Charge
1x Mightly Leap
1x Armored Ascension
1x Blinding Mage

Blue
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2x Cloud Elemental
3x Diminish
1x Cancel
1x Aether Adept
1x Augury Owl
1x Frost Titan
1x Negate
1x Unsummon
1x Redirect
1x Flashfreeze
2x Armored Cancrix
1x Call to Mind
1x Harbored Serpent
1x Maritime Guard

Red
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1x Fiery Hound
1x Canyon Minotaur
1x Arc Runner
1x Thunder Strike
1x Magma Phoenix
1x Ember Hauler
3x Vulshok Berserker
1x Fling
1x Reverberate
1x Fire Servant
1x Bloodcrazed Goblin
2x Pyretic Ritual
1x Goblin Piker

Artifact
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2x Crystal Ball
1x Sword of Vengeance
1x Stone Golem
1x Dragon Claw
1x Demon's Horn

The first problem I noticed was a lack of creatures. Below are the playable creatures counts by color:

Green: 10
Black: 6
White: 4
Blue: 5
Red: 8

I ended up in blue/red, but now (after this analysis) I think I should have played blue/green. I thought I needed to play red because it had a good creature base, but now looking at the number, green had more playable creatures. I wanted to play blue because the titan, as well as 3x diminish. Here the list that I played:

2x Cloud Elemental
3x Diminish
1x Cancel
1x Aether Adept
1x Augury Owl
1x Frost Titan
1x Fiery Hound
1x Canyon Minotaur
1x Arc Runner
1x Thunder Strike
1x Magma Phoenix
1x Ember Hauler
3x Vulshok Berserker
2x Crystal Ball
1x Sword of Vengeance
1x Stone Golem
9x Island
9x Mountain

I thought arc runner had trample for some reason....it doesn't. I definitely shouldn't have played it. I also think I should have played negate over thunder strike. I don't have enough creatures to make thunder strike that great. I also wasn't sure about crystal ball, but it seemed pretty good when I drew it mid/late game. I also like augury owl more than I thought I would. (I keep looking at it like sage owl, but the scry is so much better.) Diminish was stupid all day, and I really like the card (and the art...kitties aren't supposed to smell like cigarettes, kitties are supposed to smell like kitties). I ended up 4-1. My loss was to some bad draws combined with mind control on my titan game 1, and a huge corrupt game 2. I think I should have played this list:

1x Prized Unicorn
1x Acidic Slime
1x Cudgel Troll
1x Spined Wurm
3x Giant Spider
1x Birds of Paradise
1x Sylvan Ranger
2x Cloud Elemental
3x Diminish
1x Cancel
1x Aether Adept
1x Augury Owl
1x Frost Titan
1x Negate
1x Crystal Ball
1x Sword of Vengeance
1x Stone Golem
22x Lands

Giant Spider

Remember that email I sent you that rated Giant Spider really high and red really low? o.O You did well though..

Interesting Article

I would have stayed U/R because berserker is reeally good. I dont like the green blue build.

U/G had better creatures

I think 3x giant spider is better than 3x vulshock berserker. Plus you get troll which is a beast. Acidic slime can also take out platinum angel, swords, and other pesky artifacts/enchantments.