The pool to me seemed mediocre nothing very special stood out at me. I also haven't been playing for awhile because of school so my picks probably werent the best along with this time slot of the weekend only had 6 of us show up to play so it was very casual. That what else led me to pick the way I did too. So what could I have done different with came with my pool?
To me, a r/g deck with a slash of black for Eviscerate and Vicious Offering, also maybe Soul Salvage, seems most appealing from this pool. You get lots of good early value, can create numerous saproling tokens, even make them bigger, and you have a game stealer in Sylvan Awakening. Losing the Serra Angel is tough, though, but white really hasn't going that much else for it, in my opinion. black is not deep enough, and blue feels lackluster.
Not a finished deck list (still need to take out 2 more cards), but further cuts hurt. I already removed Helm of the Host even though it can be very broken (had it do hilarious things in my prerelease) it takes a lot of time investment and this deck wants to go swinging, and Goblin Chainwhirler due to its prohibitive colored cost (it's simply not coming down consistently on turn 3 or 4 or even turn 5). I don't know if the finished deck would be better than yours, honestly. But that would have most likely been my deck in the prerelease from this pool.
1x Board the Weatherlight
1x Charge
1x D'Avenant Trapper
1x Daring Archaeologist
1x Healing Grace
2x Invoke the Divine
1x Knight of New Benalia
2x Kwende, Pride of Femeref
1x Mesa Unicorn
1x Sergeant-at-Arms
1x Serra Angel
Blue
1x Academy Journeymage
1x Arcane Flight
2x Befuddle
1x Cold-Water Snapper
1x Curator's Ward
1x Opt
1x Relic Runner
2x Rescue
1x The Mirari Conjecture
1x Tolarian Scholar
2x Unwind
1x Vodalian Arcanist
1x Weight of Memory
Black
1x Blessing of Belzenlok
1x Cabal Paladin
1x Deathbloom Thallid
2x Divest
1x Eviscerate
1x Soul Salvage
1x Urgoros, the Empty One
1x Vicious Offering
1x Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
1x Bloodstone Goblin
1x Fervent Strike
1x Frenzied Rage
1x Ghitu Journeymage
1x Goblin Chainwhirler
1x Haphazard Bombardment
1x Keldon Overseer
2x Keldon Raider
1x Rampaging Cyclops
1x Run Amok
1x Shivan Fire
1x Skirk Prospector
1x Warlord's Fury
Green
1x Ancient Animus
1x Baloth Gorger
1x Corrosive Ooze
1x Fungal Plots
1x Grow from the Ashes
1x Llanowar Envoy
3x Llanowar Scout
1x Mammoth Spider
1x Spore Swarm
1x Sporecrown Thallid
1x Sylvan Awakening
1x Untamed Kavu
2x Yavimaya Sapherd
1x Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
1x Garna, the Bloodflame
1x Tiana, Ship's Caretaker
Artifacts
2x Aesthir Glider
1x Amaranthine Wall
1x Guardians of Koilos
1x Helm of the Host
1x Powerstone Shard
1x Short Sword
1x Sorcerer's Wand
1x Sparring Construct
1x Voltaic Servant
Lands
1x Hinterland Harbor
1x Memorial to Genius
1x Memorial to Glory
1x Memorial to Unity
2x Kwende, Pride of Femeref
1x Bloodstone Goblin
1x D'Avenant Trapper
1x Daring Archaeologist
1x Ghitu Journeymage
1x Goblin Chainwhirler
1x Keldon Overseer
1x Knight of New Benalia
1x Mesa Unicorn
1x Sergeant-at-Arms
1x Serra Angel
1x Skirk Prospector
1x Sparring Construct
1x Tiana, Ship's Caretaker
1x Voltaic Servant
2x Invoke the Divine
1x Charge
1x Healing Grace
1x Run Amok
1x Fervent Strike
1x Shivan Fire
1x Warlord's Fury
1x Frenzied Rage
1x Helm of the Host
1x Memorial to Glory
6x Plains
8x Mountain
Something like this perhaps
3 Swamp
7 Mountain
7 Forest
Creatures (17)
1 Bloodstone Goblin
1 Corrosive Ooze
1 Sporecrown Thallid
1 Untamed Kavu
2 Yavimaya Sapherd
2 Aesthir Glider
1 Ghitu Journeymage
1 Llanowar Envoy
1 Keldon Overseer
2 Keldon Raider
1 Spore Swarm
1 Rampaging Cyclops
1 Baloth Gorger
1 Mammoth Spider
1 Short Sword
1 Run Amok
1 Ancient Animus
1 Fungal Plots
1 Vicious Offering
1 Sylvan Awakening
1 Eviscerate
1 Shivan Fire
Not a finished deck list (still need to take out 2 more cards), but further cuts hurt. I already removed Helm of the Host even though it can be very broken (had it do hilarious things in my prerelease) it takes a lot of time investment and this deck wants to go swinging, and Goblin Chainwhirler due to its prohibitive colored cost (it's simply not coming down consistently on turn 3 or 4 or even turn 5). I don't know if the finished deck would be better than yours, honestly. But that would have most likely been my deck in the prerelease from this pool.
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