[AVR] Sealed Pool (#5)

[Dlucks]

UG with a splash of White.

[hoyerhan]

Ub splash white

[salomar]

Very hard pool. You can't really ignore blue, because it has the best creatures with evasion. I would probably end up going blue/green and then splash red for the ping enchantments. Blue for some flyers, green for some ground dudes and some soulbound here and there. Blue lacks decent bounce though.

[Soulflame]

I'd go blue/green (seems like blue/green is very strong in AVR... mostly because good removal is hard to find and blue got the tricks & flyers and green has the beef).
Maybe a splash for combat tricks. Could be white (Divine Reflection and Cloudshift), black (Necrobite) or Red (ping)... that's a tough one. I'd say they are all fine.

[limecat]

UB has the best bombs and ridiculous inevitability. There is a lot of support in black for some sort of fun voltron shenanigans as well.

[JollyTheOctopuss]

Daaaaamn, you guys REALLY like blue!!!!!!!

Still, even though B/R has all them cool creatures, Lightning Prowess, and what not. You guys still went with blue?

I mean, it has like 3 cool fliers and Peel from Reality, but why is that better than Red here?

[LifeKills]

Originally Posted by JollyTheOctopuss

Daaaaamn, you guys REALLY like blue!!!!!!!

Still, even though B/R has all them cool creatures, Lightning Prowess, and what not. You guys still went with blue?

I mean, it has like 3 cool fliers and Peel from Reality, but why is that better than Red here?

Because it is obviously the most powerful color in the pool. Red has very little in the way of removal, and the creatures other than Lightning Mauler are pretty bad. Lightning Prowess is repeatable removal, which is good, but it's also a 3cmc aura, which is very bad. If I'm desperate for playables I might splash for them, but I doubt it

Blue has 4 very good creatures, the best removal package in the pool (not saying much), and Spirit Away which is a great bomb against everything except Sigarda. Only having 8-9 playables in Blue is definitely an issue, but the average power level of the cards that are playable is so much higher than it is in the other colors in the pool that it seems silly not to run it

Red seems extremely underwhelming to me in this pool other than Lightning Mauler which is really good, but not good enough to force me into Red

[S.NEO]

I would go for UB loners as well, by far the strongest choice IMO.

It gets shafted pretty badly by pacifism effects, so that's why you keep the bounce effects in you hand instead of using it against enemy creatures just in case. Can also use Grave Exchange on yourself in a pinch.