CONTINUING TO MARDU PART DEUX

        I went through all my standard cards and picked out what would be a best fit for the mardu deck. I figure (also help from a friend) control would be a good addition to the mardu deck. Of course I probably picked out like over 100 (seems like) cards I thought would help fit into the deck but I cant be having a 160 card deck around.

I went through my theros block to search for cards fitting in with the mardu colors.  Surprisingly to me I have more white cards than anything else. Which shouldn’t be too surprising because white is pretty good with removal/control. I will give you a list of cards I thought might be fitting for the deck and I will post it on the tappedout.com page where my deck is in the maybe board. In person I will experiment with the newly picked out cards into the deck before messing around with it online (it’s also a pain to be moving and typing new cards in).

Game day is in less than three days. I have not the slightest idea of what to bring (if I am even going) deck wise to the event. The list of cards below are listed as how many I actually have not how many will go into the deck, because some cards can be one to many of and screw up the game because I wouldn’t be able to draw what I needed in order to stay alive.

Leave comments of your thoughts of what you would do to make this deck work?

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FROM THEROS

1x spear of heliod
2x vanquish the foul
4x ray of dissolution
4x gods willing
4x Battlewise valor
4x Scholar of Athreos
2x dauntless onslaught
2x sip of hemlock
4x opaline unicorn
4x spark jolt
4x Akroan hoplite

FROM BORN OF THE GODS

2x fated retribution
3x dawn to dusk
4x excoriate
1x archetype of courage
3x eidolon of countless battles
2x hero of iroas
4x oreskos sun guide
4x revoke existence
4x hold at bay
2x acolyte’s reward
3x nyxborn shieldmate
4x grisly transformation
4x necrobite
4x claim of erebos

FROM JOURNEY INTO NYX

4x oppressive rays
3x eidolon of rhetoric
4x reprisal
3x banishing light
4x magma spray
2x harness by force

MY JOURNEY EXPERIENCE

      Saturday evening, me and my brother in law entered All the King’s Men game shop in pitman, NJ for the journey into nyx prerelease sealed event. Upon entering the shop the shop owner announced that there are only a very few white left, 3 to be exact. Right away I shouted I’ll take one. The owner decided to step in and play due to small turn out, which is including the owner, 8 people. The owner decided that everyone would get a booster pack to the person in whatever place they are in, in other words, a pity pack. And do 3 rounds instead of 4.

      Now it’s time to sort through the cards and see what I got. This is one of those moments where I wish I had written down what cards I ended up using during the game. But first round didn’t do so well for me. My opponent beat me down pretty good with his black and red deck, destroying my creatures every turn. I was also doing ok with my second hand of round 1 got him down to 9 but he came out swinging for 13 with his creatures. 0-1.

      The next round I got paired up against the owner. My w/u against his mono white. First hand he got me good. The second hand took the longest of going back and forth. I manage to get my flyers out (one of them has double strike), enchanting them with +1/+1 counters and life link. He came out with a big creature with the power toughness of 5/6 and I casted nullify to counter his creature. He swings with his creatures he has out with 5. And then it was my turn to do stuff. Cast another flyer out on the battlefield and swung with all of my creatures killing him and I gained life. I gained enough life to get me up to 37 life total. Which he had me down pretty far before the life gaining happens. Then we were a draw as far as wins, but he decided to give me a win and drop out to go home and walk his dogs. He said that was such an amazing game he played with me.

       Then the last round was against my brother in law with his g/u. I’m just gonna cut it short and say he beat me both hands. Almost had him in the second hand but I made the mistake of attacking with all my creatures and have nothing to block. It wouldn’t have really matter either way because most of his creatures are hexproof and pretty much unblockable. He swung with a 6/6 with me having only 3 life left. And for the first time ever I walked out of an event with a win, 1-2.

I’m going to leave you with a few questions
1. What was your color for prerelease?
2. How did you do win/loss wise?
3. What good cards did you get?

Leave me a comment with your thoughts and thanks for reading my blog.