I opened 6 M10 boosters. Here's what I got:
White (16)
2 Angel's Mercy
1 Celestial Purge
1 Divine Verdict
1 Glorious Charge
2 Griffin Sentinel
1 Holy Strength
1 Lightwielder Paladin
1 Pacifism
1 Serra Angel
1 Siege Mastodon
1 Solemn Offering
1 Soul Warden
1 Stormfront Pegasus
1 Veteran Armorsmith
Blue (12)
1 Divination
1 Fabricate
1 Horned Turtle
1 Ice Cage
3 Illusionary Servant
2 Jump
3 Tome Scour
Black (16)
1 Assassinate
1 Black Knight
1 Bog Wraith
1 Deathmark
1 Disentomb
1 Doom Blade
3 Kelinore Bat
1 Looming Shade
1 Mind Rot
1 Rise from the Grave
2 Sign in Blood
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Unholy Strength
Red (18)
1 Act of Treason
2 Fiery Hellhound
1 Goblin Piker
2 Jackal Familiar
1 Lava Axe
1 Lightning Elemental
1 Manabarbs
1 Panic Attack
1 Seismic Strike
1 Stone Giant
2 Trumpet Blast
1 Viashino Spearhunter
3 Yawning Fissure
Green (17)
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bramble Creeper
1 Cudgel Troll
2 Fog
2 Llanowar Elves
1 Master of the Wild Hunt
2 Mist Leopard
1 Nature's Spiral
1 Prized Unicorn
1 Protean Hydra
2 Rampant Growth
1 Regenerate
1 Stampeding Rhino
Artifacts (5)
1 Gorgon Flail
1 Mirror of Fate
2 Rod of Ruin
1 Whispersilk Cloak
Lands (0)
Without even sorting into playables, the first color to cut is Blue. It's not even splashworthy. The Servants are okay, but UU defeats a splash idea. Red is the next one to go, being slightly weaker than the other colors.
Now we sort our remaining colors into playables:
White (11)
1 Celestial Purge (SB)
1 Divine Verdict
2 Griffin Sentinel
1 Lightwielder Paladin
1 Pacifism
1 Serra Angel
1 Siege Mastodon
1 Soul Warden
1 Stormfront Pegasus
1 Veteran Armorsmith
Black (11)
1 Assassinate
1 Black Knight
1 Bog Wraith
1 Deathmark (SB)
1 Disentomb
3 Kelinore Bat
1 Rise from the Grave
2 Sign in Blood
Green (13)
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Cudgel Troll
2 Llanowar Elves
1 Master of the Wild Hunt
2 Mist Leopard
1 Prized Unicorn
1 Protean Hydra
2 Rampant Growth
1 Stampeding Rhino
Artifacts (2)
1 Gorgon Flail
1 Whispersilk Cloak
It's fairly obvious we want Green as a main color, with most of the bombs and the mana fixing. We don't really want to play the Kelinore Bats if we can avoid it (and we can with Green's creatures) so Black is out, and we don't want to splash for more than 1-2 cards that aren't worth it, so that leaves us with a G/W deck with 25 cards.
M10 is an 18-land format, so we have to cut 3 cards.
After cutting a Birds of Paradise, and 2 Mist Leopard (unfortunately, but we have too many good cards) we have the following decklist:
Salivanth's M10 Sealed:
Lands (18)
9 Forest
9 Plains
Creatures (16)
1 Cudgel Troll
2 Griffin Sentinel
1 Lightwielder Paladin
2 Llanowar Elves
1 Master of the Wild Hunt
1 Prized Unicorn
1 Protean Hydra
1 Serra Angel
1 Siege Mastodon
1 Soul Warden
1 Stampeding Rhino
1 Stormfront Pegasus
1 Veteran Armorsmith
Spells (6)
1 Divine Verdict
1 Gorgon Flail
1 Pacifism
2 Rampant Growth
1 Whispersilk Cloak
And there we have it. One sealed deck, ready to play. The basic steps to take are: eliminate two colors, then strip down to playables before eliminating a third color as a main. If it can be a splash, determine the splash, then cut down the other two colors so you have an appropriately sized deck of 22 non-land playables. Then play!
Until next time, may you branch out and experiment with other styles.
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