For today’s article I will be going through a deck construction for a 8-person sealed event on Magic Online. This will be one of the last pools that I do before heading off to GP Washington DC this weekend.
The first step I do when I open a sealed pool is check out what my rares/mythics are and this pool was pretty unexciting in that respect. I am a big fan of Barrage Tyrant in decks that play a couple of big colorless creatures, Conduit of Ruin is solid, Sigter of Sands is also a fine rare. I also opened up a couple of creature lands which are not a huge incentive to go into those color pairs but they do make splashing much more appealing. 
Then I move to color sorting and I go through each pile to figure out what cards I consider playable in each color and then look at where my pool is at from there. After sorting this is what I ended up with as playables.
What first jumped out to me in this pool was the three Blinding Drones that are in my blue. I love this card in sealed but unfortunately ended up moving out of blue due to a lack of great way to really finish the game. I then moved towards a R/g deck which seemed really solid. When I laid it out it seemed to be a little short on removal so I then tried to splash white off of my Needle Spires for Sheer Drop and Immolating Glare and it seemed great. This is what my final deck looked like and I ended up going 3-0 in the event.
How would you have built this pool? I would love to hear your opinions in the comments.
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