Here’s the cards Dave played, and his thoughts about why... Back to Homepage

I noticed red had four direct damage cards and the powerful Wave of Indifference. Dragon Breath is good, but I had next to no 6cc creatures. There were seven creatures in my red cards but only two or three that were playable. I thought maybe I’d have red as a splash for the Wave, Shock and maybe a few other cards.

Obviously, I wanted to play Visara and I had fifteen playable black creatures, so black was definitely in.

The difficult choice was between blue and white. Blue gave me Future Sight, Choking Tethers, Raven Guild Master (which I really wanted to play) and a few counterspell type abilities. White gave me some good fliers, Noble Templar, and some good Clerics (and would let me play Edgewalker).

Eventually I decided that while the Guild Master was good he was unlikely to win games. Future Sight is obviously very good but I preferred the cheap to medium-costed fliers in white. Also, white gave me a total of seven Clerics, plainscycling and a total of 27 playable creatures.

Playing white meant that I was unable to splash red, due to running a triple black creature and a quadruple white creature, both of which I really want to be able to play. This led me to be playing a creature heavy deck. Normally I aim for around 16 creatures, 7 spells and 17 lands. This time I’d be playing 19 creatures and 4 spells.

I was happy with the deck, but thought maybe I should have played Astral Steel over Sunfire Balm. Death’s-Head Buzzard, Dragonstalker and Gluttonous Zombie could have all been played.

Sideboarding consisted mainly of putting Vengeful Dead in against black, Gluttonous Zombie in against non-black, and swapping Astral Steel for Sunfire Balm. Looking back now, I have no idea why I didn’t play the Dragonstalker.

Top cards were Putrid Raptor, Zombie Cutthroat and Daunting Defender. Obviously Visara and Dawn Elemental are very good, but I only played them twice and three times respectively.

Please feel free to discuss this via email: mrgale2002@hotmail.com

Also, I now have about four boxes worth of Scourge on my website (http://www.dgale.has.it/) due to much trading - take a look!

Thanks, and I hope I haven’t bored you too much.

Dave

Some stats on the played cards

White cards 11

Black cards 11

Gold cards 1

Clerics 7

Fliers 7

Morph 5

Cycling 3

Converted Mana costs:-

One: 3

Two: 3

Three: 5

Four: 3

Five: 5

Six: 4

Mana costs with Morphs counted as 3, cycling cards at cycling cost:-

One: 3

Two: 6

Three: 8

Four: 2

Five: 3

Six: 1