Let's start by dismissing both blue and red, as there's no reason to play or splash those colours. White looks intriguing with triple pacifism and powerful WW cards, but the usual lack of depth. Black has removal and a flying bomb, so it looks like your main colour. Green has a bunch of dorks.
I think that you want one of the following: BW, BG, BGw.
Here's the black core that will go into every list:
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1 csss
2 ccccc
3 cccccs
4 cs
5 cccsss
That's a MUCH better number of two drops, and Deadly Recluse is such a good card in the format. I like the curve of this list much better than the BW list, and frankly, don't see the need to destabilise the mana by splashing pacifisms.
frankly, don't see the need to destabilise the mana by splashing pacifisms.
there are a pretty large number of marginal playables in that list, that might be a reason. Bears aren't very good in the format, esp when they cost 3 mana (minotaur is marginally better, but he doesn't win very many games), while wring flesh and especially duress are cards you're pretty sad running maindeck. You might be right in the end, but I feel like a verdant haven + 2 plains + 3 pacifism or 2 pacifism and charging griffin could make their way in without too many issues:
The reason bears aren't good is because cards like Undead Minotaur exist. In fact, I think that all of those 3 drop creatures are solid, rather than marginal (which I would reserve for chaff like Brindle Boar or Auramancer).
Wring Flesh is quite good for the exact same reason. It snuffs out a 2/1 like nobodys business, and is similar to Giant Growth on its effect in combat. Duress could easily be cut for a more impactful spell, I'm fine with that.
Cards I cut that would have been options to include were: 2 Mark of the Vampire, Demonic Tutor. I cut the marks because I only want to have 3 things that depend on creatures to not be terrible in my deck, and Hunt the Weak, Fireshrieker and Giant Growth are all better. And Demonic Tutor got cut because Sengir Vampire is good, but not quite bomby enough to justify costing 9 mana.
The white cards you list for splashing are all quite good and worthy of a splash, but I feel you are glossing over one salient point: the forests and swamps that you have to cut to run the plains. My list is already at a bare minimum of 7 swamps and 10 forests to support the following colour intensive cards
Sanguine Bond + Bubbling Cauldron would have been cute to pull off, but doesn't actually seem practical.
I like having warm bodies in Sealed, so I ran the Siege Mastodon in addition to all the other 5-drops. It seems like 3/5 is plenty big in M14 Sealed. I almost ran the Stonehorn Chanter, too. I ended up sideboarding in Celestial Flare several times, usually cutting a Mark of the Vampire for it.
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- 1 Auramancer
- 1 Banisher Priest
- 1 Capashen Knight
- 1 Celestial Flare
- 1 Charging Griffin
- 1 Dawnstrike Paladin
- 1 Fortify
- 3 Pacifism
- 1 Pay No Heed
- 1 Pillarfield Ox
- 1 Serra Angel
- 2 Show of Valor
- 1 Siege Mastodon
- 1 Stonehorn Chanter
Blue- 1 Coral Merfolk
- 1 Essence Scatter
- 1 Illusionary Armor
- 2 Merfolk Spy
- 2 Messenger Drake
- 1 Tome Scour
- 1 Zephyr Charge
Black- 2 Altar's Reap
- 1 Artificer's Hex
- 1 Dark Favor
- 1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
- 1 Diabolic Tutor
- 1 Duress
- 2 Liturgy of Blood
- 2 Mark of the Vampire
- 1 Nightwing Shade
- 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
- 1 Sanguine Bond
- 1 Sengir Vampire
- 1 Syphon Sliver
- 2 Undead Minotaur
- 2 Vile Rebirth
- 1 Wring Flesh
- 1 Xathrid Necromancer
Red- 2 Academy Raider
- 2 Act of Treason
- 1 Awaken the Ancient
- 1 Battle Sliver
- 1 Blur Sliver
- 1 Fleshpulper Giant
- 1 Goblin Shortcutter
- 1 Lava Axe
- 1 Molten Birth
- 1 Pitchburn Devils
- 1 Regathan Firecat
- 1 Seismic Stomp
- 1 Shiv's Embrace
- 1 Wild Guess
Green- 1 Advocate of the Beast
- 1 Bramblecrush
- 1 Brindle Boar
- 3 Deadly Recluse
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Enlarge
- 1 Giant Growth
- 1 Groundshaker Sliver
- 1 Hunt the Weak
- 1 Kalonian Tusker
- 1 Predatory Sliver
- 1 Sporemound
- 1 Verdant Haven
ColorlessIn the reverse of the usual pattern, the blue is unplayable and the white actually looks pretty good...
I think that you want one of the following: BW, BG, BGw.
Here's the black core that will go into every list:
2 Undead Minotaur
1 Xathrid Necromancer
1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Nightwing Shade
1 Wring Flesh
1 Fireshrieker
1 Diabolic Tutor
2 Mark of the Vampire
2 Liturgy of Blood
Here's the BW list:
1 Auramancer
1 Banisher Priest
1 Syphon Sliver
2 Undead Minotaur
1 Xathrid Necromancer
1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
1 Charging Griffin
1 Pillarfield Ox
1 Serra Angel
1 Dawnstrike Paladin
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Nightwing Shade
1 Wring Flesh
1 Show of Valor
3 Pacifism
1 Celestial Flare
1 Fireshrieker
1 Mark of the Vampire
2 Liturgy of Blood
8 Swamp
Curve
1 ss
2 csssss
3 ccccccs
4 cccs
5 ccccs
That's a tad heavy on the 5-drops, and really light on the 2 drops.
Here's BG
1 Kalonian Tusker
1 Predatory Sliver
3 Deadly Recluse
1 Syphon Sliver
2 Undead Minotaur
1 Advocate of the Beast
1 Xathrid Necromancer
1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Nightwing Shade
1 Sporemound
1 Duress
1 Wring Flesh
1 Fireshrieker
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Enlarge
2 Liturgy of Blood
7 Swamp
Curve
1 csss
2 ccccc
3 cccccs
4 cs
5 cccsss
That's a MUCH better number of two drops, and Deadly Recluse is such a good card in the format. I like the curve of this list much better than the BW list, and frankly, don't see the need to destabilise the mana by splashing pacifisms.
there are a pretty large number of marginal playables in that list, that might be a reason. Bears aren't very good in the format, esp when they cost 3 mana (minotaur is marginally better, but he doesn't win very many games), while wring flesh and especially duress are cards you're pretty sad running maindeck. You might be right in the end, but I feel like a verdant haven + 2 plains + 3 pacifism or 2 pacifism and charging griffin could make their way in without too many issues:
2 Undead Minotaur
1 Xathrid Necromancer
1 Wring Flesh
Wring Flesh is quite good for the exact same reason. It snuffs out a 2/1 like nobodys business, and is similar to Giant Growth on its effect in combat. Duress could easily be cut for a more impactful spell, I'm fine with that.
Cards I cut that would have been options to include were: 2 Mark of the Vampire, Demonic Tutor. I cut the marks because I only want to have 3 things that depend on creatures to not be terrible in my deck, and Hunt the Weak, Fireshrieker and Giant Growth are all better. And Demonic Tutor got cut because Sengir Vampire is good, but not quite bomby enough to justify costing 9 mana.
The white cards you list for splashing are all quite good and worthy of a splash, but I feel you are glossing over one salient point: the forests and swamps that you have to cut to run the plains. My list is already at a bare minimum of 7 swamps and 10 forests to support the following colour intensive cards
1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Nightwing Shade
2 Liturgy of Blood
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Kalonian Tusker
Looking at that again I should probably sub out a forest for another swamp.
Sanguine Bond + Bubbling Cauldron would have been cute to pull off, but doesn't actually seem practical.
I like having warm bodies in Sealed, so I ran the Siege Mastodon in addition to all the other 5-drops. It seems like 3/5 is plenty big in M14 Sealed. I almost ran the Stonehorn Chanter, too. I ended up sideboarding in Celestial Flare several times, usually cutting a Mark of the Vampire for it.