+1 Emmisary

We're coming along.

+1 Emissary.

Deck statistics so far:Olive means Multicolor

Nice work VRonin. That's quite neat.

I think the pick is clear enough, sending to Caley.

Any status on the pack?

Will be up in a minute.

Geez, so much green.

For me it's between Flamespeaker Adept, Ray of Dissolution, or Titan's Strength.

Titan's Strength is the one I'm the most iffy about as it's the card I think would most likely get cut when it comes to deck building time.

We don't have a lot of scry, but a 2/3 body for 3 is pretty standard, and would probably make the final deck as a curve filler (unless we get a lot of other awsome 2-3 drops from here in Red or White).

We probably won't maindeck 2x Rays, but if we encounter an enchantment heavy deck we'll be glad that we have 2 in the side.

The Fish Horse isn't bad, but from the way things are looking Blue will only be a late game splash at best.

err, I didn't even see Vaporkin.

That's certainly a card worth considering too. The mana base would be wierd, but it might be possible to do W/U early game, and then add the red mid to late game.

Well, it would turn out like something I said in the first pick of the 2nd pack: White main with blue second and a splash of red.

Only issue is a good portion of our red requires double red in their cost. It's hard to make red just a splash when we need double red by turn 4 or 5.

You have a mana base in mind that could work? Maybe 5U 6W 7R? (if necessary I could crunch some numbers)

Well, if we only splash red, we wouldn't go the double red cards anyway. The minotaur would certainly not go in there with a splash and maybe not even the giant.

Then the manabase could look like this: 8W 6U 3R and 1-2 Unicorns

Not worth it if it involves cutting the Minotaur and the Giant. At least not just so we can run a vaporkin. With just the Triton and the SGR there's no need for blue to be anything other then a late game splash (SGR is 6 and are you planning a T1 Triton?)

Crunching some numbers if we want double red by turn 4 we will probably need at least 8 mountains for a 65% chance.

From there if we have 5 Plains and 5 Islands that would give us a 69% chance to have the color we need by turn 2 (If we are running Vaporkin for example).

On the other hand if we aren't running vapor kin we can cut our islands down to 4 to have a 77% chance of having our island by T6 for SGR.

This would let us run one more mountain up to 9 which would give us a 73% chance to have double red by turn 4.

Vaporkin is good, but I just don't see the mana base working, and after pack 1 we should know better then to put our hopes into blue since pack 3 likely going to be pretty dry.

Let's see what we get first, shall we.

I agree with the above. I'm in favor of taking the adept. It's a resonable filler with a potential to 2-for-1 our opponent if combined with Gods Willing, Battlewise Valor or Titan's Strength. We have none of those now, true, but we will have a chance to pick something along those lines later. And it's not like we need to scry every turn to make that dude count.

That's an interesting point. Even if our deck has 0 scry cards, that doesn't mean that the opponent knows that. Having to worry about scry spells in addition to pump spells only works in its favor.

I mean would you want to block that thing (or afford to let it through) when dropping Titan's Strength on it gives it +5 power?

And first strike!

Yeah, the first strike is actually the scariest part of it, I think.

Boros aggro with a splash of blue for lategame power seems legit as well.

Btw if I don't vote it either means I didn't get the time to or I was undecided.

+1 Flamespeaker Adept

I'm leaning towards the Flamespeaker at the moment, but I haven't discounted Ray of Dissolution yet, either. In this format it's instant-speed creature removal. It can straight-up remove a body from the field, or it can remove a Bestowed enchantment and allow us to profitably block a problem creature.

Only difference for me is that Flamespeaker is an uncommon, which means we should probably take it first.

@NobodyPicksBulbasaur: I agree that Ray of Dissolution is a strong card, but we already have one and I think that's the maximum we wish to mainboard. Second Ray in the sideboard would be nice of course, but the Flamespeaker has almost 100% chance to make the main.

The only problem with the Flamespeaker is that we don't have enough scry for it to be great. Thankfully, that's fairly fixable.

Yes, we still have room to draft some scry spells. And those we have now actually interacti with the Adept on a game-ending level. Portent something get +2 for the final few points of damage we need. Same goes for SGR.

Even if we don't scry all the time, it's still more-or-less on curve. We did pick 2x Fellhide Minotaur, after all.

+1 Flamespeaker Adept

I agree with the above statements. He's on curve, and he's a good card that can be nasty good at 2-for-1'ing, and potentially finish the game for us.

+1 Flameman Absinthspeaker

+1 Adeptflame Speaker

Would have been nice if we could have grabbed the other one but...Dauntless Assault :/