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Originally posted by Bagbokk:
Oops, missed this thread because I'm dumb.

Boros or Gruul, but most likely Boros so I still have access to Orzhov.

I think the other guilds would die to these two way too quickly for them to do a whole lot.

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Originally posted by Zeckk:
Orzhov doesn't exactly scream "fast" to me. Boros looks legit though. Critical mass of battalion effects + decent removal can be quite good. That Gruul 4/4 trampler uncommon for 4cmc with bloodrush looks too good though. Lot of curve-costed fatties in gruul.

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It's not--the point was, if I go Boros, I can splash Gruul or Orzhov depending on how my cards go, but if I go Gruul, my secondary splash (besides Boros) would be Simic. I think Orzhov is a bit better than Simic personally, though more than likely I'd just try and play Naya unless my pool just sucks total ass.

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Might try simic. Might try Dimir. Depends on if orzhov does well for me.

My friend and i are lookin at two-headed giant with boros and simic.

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Originally posted by DConNexus:
Never done a prerelease before. Do the Guild packs like normal? Think I'm going Boros or Gruul. Hyper excited. Know people think the set lacks but I think their is a lot to it.

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The Guild Booster Pack is tailored specifically for your guild. So you pick a guild and get a box. Inside that box are 5 normal Gatecrash booster packs, and one guild specific booster. In that booster will be your guild specific promo, 1 rare, 3 uncommons, and 11 commons. All should be in your guild or at least in your guild colors. And if they do it like RTR, then if your guild pack rare is a mythic then it will be your guild leader. You aren't going to open Duskmantle Seer in your Dimir guild pack (not to say it couldn't be in one of the other 5 regular packs), the same with Master Biomancer for Simic, Deathpact Angel (Orzhov), Domri Rade (Gruul), Gideon or Aurelia's Fury(Boros), etc.

The rest of the guild abilities depend on too many things. For instance, extort certainly could be useful, but you have to have an extort creature on the board for it to trigger and then have the mana to activate it after casting your spell. So it ends up looking like a late game ability since you probably aren't using in your first 4-6 turns unless your hand isn't that strong. By then, things could be very ugly for you versus aggro.

Cipher requires you to resolve the spell, encode a creature on the board and then get through with that creature. Unblockables and flyers certainly help make that a possibility but again, that's a lot of variables.

Battalion could definitely be a strong thing, but you need 3 creatures on board and sometimes that puts you in a situation where you might not like the outcome of the battle to get the battalion ability online - sometimes you will.

Evolve also requires specifics. Some creatures won't trigger the ability for you and then it's a dead ability.

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Originally posted by DConNexus:
Thanks Cubsfan. Appreciate it. My buddy here was telling me the break you into groups. Do you branch out and play people like other guilds or do you stay with your group? I have to go with Gruul or Simic. Green is my color.

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They break you into groups only for deckbuilding so it's easier for the TO's to pass out your stuff. Then you are matched up against all the players in the tourney.

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Almost every W/R rare is a bomb, R/W common/uncommon's seem stronger as a whole then the other colors, the next best colors are easily splashed being Black if White heavy or Green if Red heavy.

Just seems like Boros is the clear winner for Guild Packs...

Tried to many of the others, but was almost always left with awkward pools, like Simic with strong R/W pool and really no options to splash the good simic stuff or Gruul pools with strong B/W cards...

Least with Boros only color you can't easily splash is Blue, and blue just seems bad.

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Originally posted by broiler1977:
I would enjoy playing orzov or dimir the most, but I think gruul and boros will produce the winner. While there are a lot of mill helpers in the set, I think gruul and boros can deal too much damage to pull it of. I'm going dimir and splashing extort night one. Night 2, I'm going with gruul, hoping I pull the planes walker

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