I finally opened the kit that I couldn't get to the store in time to play with the cards. From what I can see it looks like either red and black or red and blue or even blue and black are the best options I can come up with. What would be the best deck or decks that is possible from this pool?
It's tough. Plague Mare is often a compelling reason to play black but other than that what else do you have in that color? Murder is good removal, Blood Divination is good card draw but no dies triggers to make it a real took. In blue you have a couple of bombs in Tezzeret, Artifice Master and Horizon Scholar, and in red you have a decent concentration of removal and a couple of the more efficient midsized creatures and a drawbacky undercosted bomb in Inferno Hellion. Maybe U/R midrange and try to make Sarkhan's Unsealing work?
Sarkhan's Unsealing is a bomb as long as you have enough fatties. RU flyers gives you 6. RG ramp gives you 5 + 2 disciples to make dragon tokens. Either deck would be good enough to play. RU has more bombs and removal but RG has better ramp to curve out consistently.
Curve:
1 - cs
2 - cc
3 - cccccc
4 - cccss
5 - ccssp
6 - cc
X - s
The biggest problem is the deck has a high curve and lack of 2 drops. There's not much you can add to help. Maybe you could cut Sarkhan's Unsealing and Inferno Hellion for Tormenting Voice and Explosive Apparatus (which still takes a lot of mana to do something)? There's just a major lack of 2 drops in color, so you risk getting swarmed out.
RG has better 2 drops and ramp, so it would curve out better. You could still splash Horizon Scholar and Switcheroo, but you lose Tezzeret.
Curve:
1 - s
2 - ccccc
3 - cccccc
4 - ccss
5 - ccss
6 - cc
X - s
Ths curve looks much better. Personally I'd just play RG to have the more consistent deck. It still has great finishers. Planeswalkers are good, but maybe you won't even draw Tezz?
1x Cavalry Drillmaster
1x Cleansing Nova
2x Gallant Cavalry
2x Knight of the Tusk
1x Loxodon Line Breaker
1x Luminous Bonds
2x Mighty Leap
1x Rustwing Falcon
1x Star-Crowned Stag
Blue
2x Aven Wind Mage
1x Cancel
1x Frilled Sea Serpent
1x Gearsmith Prodigy
1x Horizon Scholar
1x Omenspeaker
1x Salvager of Secrets
1x Scholar of Stars
1x Sift
1x Snapping Drake
1x Switcheroo
1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
1x Tolarian Scholar
1x Totally Lost
1x Wall of Mist
Black
1x Blood Divination
1x Epicure of Blood
3x Hired Blade
1x Lich's Caress
2x Macabre Waltz
1x Murder
1x Plague Mare
1x Ravenous Harpy
1x Reassembling Skeleton
1x Skeleton Archer
2x Sovereign's Bite
1x Vampire Neonate
1x Walking Corpse
1x Banefire
1x Boggart Brute
1x Catalyst Elemental
1x Electrify
1x Goblin Instigator
1x Havoc Devils
1x Inferno Hellion
1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
1x Lava Axe
1x Onakke Ogre
1x Sarkhan's Unsealing
1x Shock
2x Sparktongue Dragon
1x Tormenting Voice
Green
1x Centaur Courser
1x Druid of the Cowl
1x Dryad Greenseeker
1x Giant Spider
1x Greenwood Sentinel
1x Highland Game
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Recollect
1x Root Snare
2x Talons of Wildwood
1x Thornhide Wolves
1x Titanic Growth
1x Wall of Vines
1x Brawl-Bash Ogre
2x Draconic Disciple
1x Satyr Enchanter
Artifacts
1x Amulet of Safekeeping
1x Explosive Apparatus
1x Gargoyle Sentinel
1x Gearsmith Guardian
1x Skyscanner
Lands
1x Detection Tower
1x Forsaken Sanctuary
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Woodland Stream
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Sarkhan's Unsealing is a bomb as long as you have enough fatties. RU flyers gives you 6. RG ramp gives you 5 + 2 disciples to make dragon tokens. Either deck would be good enough to play. RU has more bombs and removal but RG has better ramp to curve out consistently.
1 Gearsmith Prodidy
1 Goblin Instigator
1 Omenspeaker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Boggart Brute
1 Skyscanner
1 Aven Wind Mage
1 Tolarian Scholar
1 Onakke Ogre
1 Havoc Devils
1 Inferno Hellion
1 Scholar of Stars
1 Gearsmith Guardian
1 Sparktongue Dragon
1 Horizon Scholar
1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
1 Shock
1 Electrify
1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
1 Totally Lost
1 Switcheroo
1 Banefire
//Planeswalkers: 1
1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
//Lands: 17
9 Mountain
8 Island
Curve:
1 - cs
2 - cc
3 - cccccc
4 - cccss
5 - ccssp
6 - cc
X - s
The biggest problem is the deck has a high curve and lack of 2 drops. There's not much you can add to help. Maybe you could cut Sarkhan's Unsealing and Inferno Hellion for Tormenting Voice and Explosive Apparatus (which still takes a lot of mana to do something)? There's just a major lack of 2 drops in color, so you risk getting swarmed out.
RG has better 2 drops and ramp, so it would curve out better. You could still splash Horizon Scholar and Switcheroo, but you lose Tezzeret.
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Dryad Greenseeker
1 Greenwood Sentinel
1 Highland Game
1 Goblin Instigator
2 Draconic Disciple
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Boggart Brute
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Onakke Ogre
1 Havoc Devils
1 Inferno Hellion
1 Thornhide Wolves
1 Sparktongue Dragon
1 Horizon Scholar
1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
1 Shock
1 Electrify
1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
1 Totally Lost
1 Switcheroo
1 Banefire
//Lands: 17
1 Woodland Stream
2 Island
7 Mountain
7 Forest
1 Centaur Courser
1 Giant Spider
1 Recollect
1 Skyscanner
1 Sparktongue Dragon
1 Talons of Wildwood
Curve:
1 - s
2 - ccccc
3 - cccccc
4 - ccss
5 - ccss
6 - cc
X - s
Ths curve looks much better. Personally I'd just play RG to have the more consistent deck. It still has great finishers. Planeswalkers are good, but maybe you won't even draw Tezz?