Looking for Advice on this Kaldheim Sealed 4C Monstrosity!
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Posted on Jan. 31, 2021, 8:48 p.m. by ShadeyJ
Any thoughts on this insane 4-color Snow deck from my first ever Kaldheim Limited event?
weird, the link works fine when I preview the post, but disappears when I submit it. Until I figure out how to fix it, I'll just post the URL for copy/pasting
All But Yellow Sno
https://aetherhub.com/Deck/Edit/429399
My concerns are: 1) All the dang colors of course, but even more so, the Mana Sources. Even tho my breakdown is 12 Green, 10 Blue, 4 Red, and 2 White... my sources are 5 Green, 5 Blue, 3 Red, and 4 White (not including the 2 Shimmerdrift VAle). Obviously a result of needing so many Snow Lands, but still, can this work out with any consistency?
2) Is it possible I'm over-doing the Snow Mana sources? I know with Ascendant Spirit, Faceless Haven, and 4 other cards that care about Snow, that may seem like a crazy thing to ask... but I should point out I have EIGHT lands that are Snow, a Human and a (ghost) Bear that can draw me a Snow Land, a Troll that can create Snow Mana Rocks, and two otherwise terrible Enchant Lands that can produce 2 Snow Mana where there were none before. Am I supposed to cram all this into a single 40-card deck? I'd love to drop one of the 2 Glittering Frost but I'm worried since so many of my cards require LOTS of Snow Mana.
3) My deck is 42 cards (17 Lands). I know, I know... but I honestly couldn't cut anything else, at least not until I see the deck in action first.
I listed my best unused cards in the Sideboard of the deck I posted. Can you believe I was originally Splashing Black as well for Raise the Draugr and Karfell Kennel-Master? I recently took out Draugr Thought-Thief for Forging the Tyrite Sword which just seemed to go perfect with my 4 colors and 3 Equipment.
Sorry for all the reading, any advice AT ALL would be so appreciated. I'm so nervous to play this deck, I can't tell if its Genius or Insanity. Can you?
Chandra585 says... #3
My advice? cut your red cards. Replace them with Undersea Invader, Wings of the Cosmos, Beskir Shieldmate and Axgard Braggart. The red cards really don't give you anything interesting or good. Wings is super underrated in this limited format, but you can use it to make a tapped creatures into a surprise flying blocker, and there are a lot of good flyers running around. Invader is good because it is one of the biggest creatures in terms of stats in the format. There are very few cards at common or uncommon that favorably block it. Shieldmate and Braggart are both really really good aggressive white cards. Remember that you can activate Braggart's boast ability before damage is dealt.
February 1, 2021 3:47 p.m.
Never even considered cutting the Red... wow. I guess I was just too enamored by the good looks of the Giant and the Troll, haha.
To be honest, I already played the Event. As always, despite generally having good finishes in Draft, I always do terrible in Sealed. Doesn't help that I only do Sealed once, and at the very start of a Limited format.
I went 1-3, but I should point out that I never got Mana or Color-screwed, and the Snow mechanics generally worked fine
It also didn't help that these were my 6 Rares/Mythics that I pulled:
2 Pathways, In Search of Greatness, Faceless Haven and Ascendant Spirit, and Esika's Chariot (So I hit on 1 out of 6). And I never once drew the Chariot. In fact, now that I think about it, I never drew the Hengegate Pathway or the Ascendant Spirit either, and I only drew the Faceless Haven when I was on my back foot and never had the chance to use it as anything but a Mana-Source. So I got absolutely no help from any of my Rares.
ShadeyJ says... #2
Here's the Deck if its easier:
All But Yellow Sno
1 Ascendant Spirit 1 Blizzard Brawl 1 Elven Bow 1 Giant's Amulet 1 Pilfering Hawk 1 Aegar, the Freezing Flame 1 Bound in Gold 2 Glittering Frost 1 Horizon Seeker 1 Icehide Troll 2 Mistwalker 1 Dwarven Hammer 1 Svella, Ice Shaper 1 Forging the Tyrite Sword 1 Behold the Multiverse 1 Esika's Chariot 2 Littjara Kinseekers 1 Spirit of the Aldergard 1 Struggle for Skemfar 1 Inga Rune-Eyes 1 Elderleaf Mentor 1 Ravenous Lindwurm
2 Island 1 Snow-Covered Plains 4 Forest 1 Snow-Covered Forest 1 Mountain 1 Glacial Floodplain 1 Hengegate Pathway Flip 1 Ice Tunnel 1 Alpine Meadow 1 Gnottvold Slumbermound 2 Shimmerdrift VAle 1 Faceless Haven
Sideboard
1 Tormentor's Helm 1 Wings of the Cosmos 1 Snakeskin Veil 1 Draugr's Helm 1 Divine Gambit 1 In Search of Greatness 2 Raise the Draugr 1 Goldvein Pick 1 Rune of Mortality 1 Beskir Shieldmate 1 Draugr Thought-Thief 1 Doomskar Oracle 1 Harald, King of Skemfar 1 Scorn Effigy 1 Infernal Pet 1 Starnheim Courser 1 Tuskeri Firewalker 1 Dwarven Reinforcements 1 Axgard Braggart 1 Karfell Kennel-Master 1 Hagi Mob 1 Tergrid's Shadow 1 Warhorn Blast 1 Undersea Invader 1 Cinderheart Giant
1 Snow-Covered Swamp 1 Darkbore Pathway Flip
January 31, 2021 9:23 p.m.