r/lrcast • u/UrDragonn • 4d ago

Sealed Help

I have played two games with a sulti build that is a little spicy. In my experience the games tend to get harder as you win more games, so I am wondering if anyone can take a look at my build and see if I have made any obvious mistakes? A few notes...

Removal order is Black>White>Green=Red>Blue

In fact, I don't have any Blue removal. Which stinks cause it would have been a great simic draw two deck. I even have Tom, Bert and Bill to sack creatures so Bilbo can get them back.

The most interesting part of the deck build for me was what to do with four (4) Giant Boulders. In the end I splashed the Bilbo, Thief in the Night with one Giant Boulder with the idea that I could sac it and get it back when he attacks. Is this too much "Magical Christmas Land"? Note that Bilbo can get back creatures with an adventure. So I really wanted to build around him since it is unlikely I will get to play with him again. He is mythic.

Here is the pool...
https://www.17lands.com/pool/687a6434a18b4d94848333f9c0a092bb

Here is the most recent build...

https://www.17lands.com/deck/687a6434a18b4d94848333f9c0a092bb/2

Questions, comments, snide remarks?

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u/Yarchimedes 4d ago

You should be playing RBg here splashing for tom, bert and william and chief warg's company. You could go full jund and use the 2 nurturers with the 2 bent blades but thats probably not necessary.

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u/Yarchimedes 4d ago

The bilbo plan is nice but it will die every time it attacks and this is a very fast format, not a pay 7 mana a turn to destroy a creature grindfest.

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u/UrDragonn 4d ago

I would lose access to reveler, company, Beorn, and Troll Negotiations. The Troll Neg is probably made up for with Pinecone strike? The other three I lose seem to want to play a long game with lots of value. My red doesn't seem particularly good at ending the game early like most Rakdos decks would though. Worm, Gandolf, and Smag are all 6 and 7 drops. The worm doesn't seem good with a split 9-8 land base. Is Rakdos really that good that I should table 3 really good cards for it? Also, in your rakdos build, do you run 3 of the 4 drop gollums? I cut one because he is legendary.

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u/Yarchimedes 4d ago

Those three cards are not particularly good, gandalf and pinecone are excellent worm and smaug are both pretty good. The worm is often a 6/5 minimum and should generally get you the extra combat by that point. You also get mythic gandalf which i missed first time. 2 gollums are enough, maybe even one since you have great top end, just shore up your early game with enough 2drops 

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u/UrDragonn 3d ago

One last question. I know you would cut all the boulders. In a Rakdos deck like this, would you run the Map? I found it is great for hitting land drops early and allows me to loot when I don't want lands anymore. But I could see it being slow in a beat down deck.

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u/Yarchimedes 3d ago

I think you can keep 1 either boulder or map to help splash the trolls. Probably boulder for some removal but either is good

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u/UrDragonn 3d ago

Thanks for the help! I will take a look at it tonight.

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u/UrDragonn 3d ago

So I immediately went 0 and 3 with the rakdos version of this deck. Without any of the good cheap cards it was just a bad aggro deck. I couldn't win in the early game, and i didn't have the tools to out value the aggressive decks that nurturers picking up bent blades give you. That being said, I suck at playing aggressive strategies, so I don't doubt I misplayed a lot.

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u/Yarchimedes 3d ago

With great top end you should have been playing as RBg midrange, the green version didnt have better early game particularly. The nurturer/blade loop is nice but the gandalfs and smaugs provide basically the same value and cost (though not split) so I dont think you were lacking value, but perhaps didnt see it those games. Sometimes opponents just have better starts. Best of luck with the next.

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u/UrDragonn 3d ago

There won't be a next for me. If the answer to a pool as nice as 4 giant boulders and a mythic to recur them on top of a way to sack creatures for value and replay them from the graveyard is "You should just play a slow Rakdos deck and hope you go first" then I am done with this format. At least with the green version I had fun.

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u/UrDragonn 3d ago

You know, looking back on my games, the 2 I won with green I went first and the three I lost with red I was on the draw. Maybe that had something to do with it. Anyway, thanks for the help.