Magic the Gathering

1. Since nobody else has com­mented yet, I really enjoyed the draft plus videos. This infor­ma­tion is very valu­able to play­ers, and I do appre­ci­ate the time and money invested into these. Keep up the good work. Love to see more.

   DanO | October 31, 2009, 1:01 pm | #

2. dia­bolist was the cor­rect pick for you instead of that enchant­ment. i also think you chose some very ques­tion­able hands instead of tak­ing a mulligan.

   gherrin | October 31, 2009, 7:34 pm | #

3. Thats attack in game 1 of round 3 was soooo bad, with your Ranger, if you didn’t you would have shut off geopede’s attack (bar­ing he didn’t have a land) then could have killed Scute Mob, and made your attack for next turn with a 5/5 bet­ter and still had more wolves, I dun know how much it would have mat­tered with him hav­ing a 3/3 forest­walker that turn, but it just seems like the bet­ter play.

   Hovertical | October 31, 2009, 8:51 pm | #

4. @DanO: Glad you are enjoy­ing them and thanks for the kind words.

   @gherrin: I think the Soul Stair Expe­di­tion shores up the late game bet­ter than the Dia­bolist. It allows me to block prof­itably, which is hard to do in this for­mat and the one more ally that doesn’t really do much other than be a 3/2 body and in a lucky sit­u­a­tion get me a wolf doesn’t seem as good.

   I mean feel free to counter argue as I would love to hear why you think he was the bet­ter pick. I’d also appre­ci­ate an exam­ple for the mul­li­gan issues you men­tioned. I do find mul­li­gan­ing to be a weak spot in my game.

   @Hovertical: The attack was made because the Hell­fire Mon­grel was putting me on a pretty fast clock of at the most 5 turns which it would have been hard to draw into enough to kill him with out being as aggres­sive as pos­si­ble. I couldn’t afford to hold cards against his horde of crea­tures either in order to turn the mon­grel off. Not sure if I could have won either way though.

   Thanks for the feed­back every­one and keep it coming.

   JBoots | October 31, 2009, 10:43 pm | #

5. Round 2 game 2 seems to be missing.

   Round 3 Game 1 you leave up 2 green and say “… and if he kills the nighthawk we can throw up the cobra trap…”.

   This ofcourse is a mis­take on your part. Cobra trap only ‘acti­vates’ when a NON­crea­ture per­ma­nent was destroyed. Vam­pire Nighthawk obvi­ously is a CREATURE.

   Round 3 game 2 ends after 3.24min? What is that about?

   Thanks for the draft recap and keep prac­tic­ing and read­ing cards :D

   Oh, btw: Cobra Trap is awful. Don’t play it EVER again ;)

   Ult1mate | November 1, 2009, 4:43 pm | #

6. Thx for post­ing these. I love see­ing drafts. My ques­tion, tho: why are you play­ing the cobra trap? 6 man for 4 1/s does not seem good. Seeker or even Jor­aga would’ve been bet­ter I think. Any­way, thx again :)

   Matt | November 2, 2009, 6:18 am | #

7. @Ult1mate: Rnd 2 Game 2 never hap­pened. Due to server issues my oppo­nent timed out and I just moved on to the finals. There should be a screen at the end of the video stat­ing that.

   You are cor­rect about the trap. I prob­a­bly just wanted it to be playable so I ignored that part of the card. Heh.

   I hadn’t noticed the video was cut off. I will be cor­rect­ing it as soon as I can.

   @Matt: As you can read above I abhor­rently thought is was way bet­ter than it was by ignor­ing one of the stip­u­la­tions. In hind­sight I prob­a­bly should not have played it; how­ever, I don’t think it is unplayable. A UG deck with few removal and few tricks could prob­a­bly ben­e­fit from a card like Cobra Trap.

   Thanks again for the feed­back eveyone.

   JBoots | November 2, 2009, 11:49 am | #

8. The attack with ranger really was ter­ri­ble. If you were afraid of mon­grel you could have started stock­pil­ing cards against its burn within a few turns; attack­ing with ranger forced you to make some really ter­ri­ble blocks that cost you far more in the long run.

   There was very lit­tle chance that he would dou­ble block as you hoped because there was no real incen­tive for him to do so — plus, you clearly had something.

   cseraph | November 17, 2009, 1:53 pm | #

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