It was a weakish pool, but not the worst. It did have good mill synergy. Looking at a Champion of the Parish and an Into the Maw that you can’t even play is why I don’t like Sealed. In my first sealed event for the new set I had to send a Huntmaster of the Fells straight to the unplayable pile. Lame.

I have no idea why so many people windmill-reject Intangible Virtue, even in decks where it’s good. I promise that there are cards in a typical sealed deck doing much worse than giving all of your spirit and zombie tokens +1/+1. Not saying it was great for your pool, but it’s always worth a look.

Glad you liked the pointless mindgame against that guy. I worked pretty hard on something that probably didn’t matter anyway because the opponent likely had his face caught in a bag of Doritos and couldn’t see the screen.

The idea here is that you you combine mill with self mill (through bell and chill of foreboding and thought scour) that you can consistently find your increasing confusion if you dont draw it. You have reasonable ‘removal’ in a mill type deck with chant, sensory dep, torch, claustrophopia, and ghostly possession. Your one-eyed scarecrows would be helpful against your opponents nonexistant fliers, and perhaps more importantly random stuff like immerwolf. Overall you get reasonable blockers and tricks with your white 4 drops, and reasonable win cons if mill fails with cleaver and goliath. Thoughts?

Also: loved the ‘oops I forgot to play claustrophobia precombat just kidding play Ill blow you out with a combat trick play’. Was the most educational moment for me of the series.

Lo, a 2-2 finish. Could have been a 3-1, but at least you learned something about the format.

As far as Increasing Confusion goes:
By no means is it fireball. It is a very different card. I don’t have a problem with it in this deck at all. Mainly because it gives you the old “orthogonal” victory condition at the very low cost of one card slot. Even if someone is milling *you* it gives you a chance to counter-mill them back, no matter how many horned turntles and rats they try and hide behind. Are their some matchups where it should come out? Of course. Are you sometimes going to kick yourself when you draw it? Yes. But it also has the ability to win otherwise unwinnable games.