Limited Magic: M11 Sealed

Did an M11 sealed with some friends recently. Here was the pool I opened and the ensuing deck I built.

Blue

Merfolk Spy
Tome Scour x2
Ice Cage x2
Augury Owl
Mana Leak
Maritime Guard
Negate
Merfolk Sovereign
Wall of Frost
Scroll Thief
Sleep
Armored Cancrix
Time Reversal (M)
Jace's Ingenuity
Harbor Serpent


Some decent "removal" here with Ice Cage. Mana Leak and Negate are solid. Sleep is a bomb. Jace's Ingenuity is very good. No real meat here though. Not many good creatures. Time Reversal is not good in limited.

White

Holy Strength
Goldenglow Moth
Infantry Veteran
Ajani's Mantra x2
Stormfront Pegasus
War Priest of Thune
Celestial Purge
Blinding Mage
White Knight
Knight Exemplar (R)
Solemn Offering
Tireless Missionaries

White offered some decent utility cards. War Priest of Thune and Solemn Offering are useful. I like Blinding Mage. I like Celestial Purge. The Knight's are a neat little combo. No bombs in this color though. Possible splash potential.

Black

Stabbing Pain x2
Doom Blade
Sign in Blood
Bloodthrone Vampire
Black Knight
Assassinate
Mind Rot x2
Quag Sickness
Liliana's Specter
Gravedigger

Good removal. Mediocre creatures. No bombs at all. More splash potential. Or maybe I use black as my removal core.

Red

Lightning Bolt
Incite
Fling
Reverberate (R)
Goblin Tunneler
Manic Vandal
Act of Treason
Fiery Hellhound
Arc Runner
Prodigal Pyromancer
Chandra's Outrage
Fire Servant
Berserkers of Blood Ridge x3
Lava Axe x2
Destructive Force (R)
Fireball

Lot's of playable stuff here. Lightning Bolt. Fireball. Chandra's Outrage. Fire Servant. Destructive Force. Wow.

Green

Fog
Wall of Vines
Dryad's Favor
Llanowar Elves
Giant Growth
Nature's Spiral x2
Garruk's Companion
Plummet
Sacred Wolf
Cultivate x2
Prized Unicorn
Cudgel Troll
Overwhelming Stampede (R)
Greater Basilisk x2
Yavimaya Wurm

Nice creatures and an Overwhelming Stampede. Double Cultivate.

Artifact
Voltaic Key
Demon's Horn
Dragon's Claw
Juggernaut

Land

Rootbound Crag (R)

Juggernaut is notable. Rootbound Crag useful if I go those colors.


This is the deck I made

Creatures

Llanowar Elves
Garruk's Companion
Sacred Wolf
Prodigal Pyromancer
Prized Unicorn
Cudgel Troll
Juggernaut
Gravedigger
Greater Basilisk x2
Fire Servant
Yavimaya Wurm


Spells

Lightning Bolt
Giant Growth
Fling
Doom Blade
Act of Treason
Cultivate x2
Chandra's Outrage
Overwhelming Stampede
Destructive Force
Fireball

Land

9 Forest
6 Mountain
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Swamp

Notable Sideboard

Manic Vandal
Celestial Purge
Plummet
War Priest of Thune
Solemn Offering


This deck has an absurd amount of removal. That might be a cause for a concern but I didn't see any of it in the games I played. I considered adding more creatures but just couldn't find anything worth using that didn't blow up the mana curve. The Berserkers of Blood Ridge were considered but I just decided that 12 creatures was enough base. In a number of games Fire Servant ended up comboing with burn spells which was funny. Chandra's Outrage for 8. Bolt for 6. A destructive force turned a sure loser into a win for me. Overwhelming Stampede was pretty underwhelming. Probably because I had so few creatures. My opponents had to play around it though so it had an impact even if it never translated into damage. If I could do it again maybe I dump fling for a berserker. My low creature count didn't seem to matter. I went 6-0 in my games.

Cultivate really allowed me to maximize splash from other colors. Doom Blade and Gravedigger became options that I used. I considered Assassinate but decided I had enough removal so I left it out. I even was able to play transformer with the sideboard. In some games I boarded in a plains with the enchantment removal for my opponent's double pacifisms.

All in all a good sealed pool with good results in my games. I hope to do another M11 sealed soon.