Magic the Gathering

1. Hey J,

   Don’t be so hard on your­self. There is noth­ing you could have done against a Nissa Revane and two Nissa’s cho­sen in draft. I think that last per­son was your per­son to your left in draft as you passed a Nissa’s Cho­sen and a River boa or two putting them into Green, and I’m cer­tain they cracked the Nissa Revane sec­ond pack first pick — pass­ing you the Vam­pire Nighthawk.

   Just curi­ous why there wasn’t any side­board­ing & sid­board­ing com­men­tary? (or was there any sideboarding).

   Also what’s your take on watch­ing the replays of your oppo­nents pre­vi­ous games to see what they’re play­ing and get a sense of their removal/bombs? I watch LSV’s draft videos and hear him say he’s replayed his opponent’s last round and know what to expect before mulliganing.

   Cheers,

   ~Kevin

   Kevin | January 16, 2010, 4:56 pm | #

2. There was no side­board­ing talk because there was no side­board­ing. I was pretty short on playables and really only had 3 cards to bring in and none of them ever made it in.

   I do watch replays when I have the time. I find that com­men­tat­ing on my drafts makes me play a lot slower and I am usu­ally the last match done, so when I am done I usu­ally do not have the time to scope out my opponents.

   JBoots | January 17, 2010, 3:31 am | #

3. Some bad luck there. Liked the Insti­ga­tor pick, brave and log­i­cal. Also, Mark of Mutiny was the right call. But there were also some ques­tion­able picks and some ques­tion­able plays.

   Eldrazi Mon­u­ment can be fine in draft, but it’s not really suited to RB. You never have many guys — not many good ones, any­way. Eldrazi is a fin­isher for GW, GU or UW. BR has (or should have) too many other spells — removal spells — to bother with crea­ture enhance­ments, which is also why Slaugh­ter Cry and Gob­lin War Paint are sub­par in that arche­type. Your Blade­tusk, Blood­witch and beef, your Mark of Mutiny, and your removal, are your fin­ish­ers. Sur­rakar Marauder is by far the bet­ter pick over EM (not least because of your lack of 2-drops). You also seem to like Lac­er­a­tors too much. I see them like Expe­di­tions — great early, ter­ri­ble late, don’t help when you’re losing.

   Per­son­ally would have double-Disfigured the 4/4 in R2G2, and saved the Mos­quito. (If you’re being 2-for-1ed, save the 2-for-1 card, no?) And in round 3 game 2 — why did you not play your war paint sooner? OK, it has sur­prise value, but it would have given you a much bet­ter guy — and against GW, which can’t do much against it. You would have had a 6/4 ver­sus his 2/2, no need to trade Tat­ters for Hook­mas­ter… at worst it would have got rid of his Vines, but cru­cially, on YOUR guy, not his.

   I realise no one can leg­is­late for 3 Vines, but be hon­est… did you really think about the first one?

   Any­ways, fun games, well done, and please do more!

   Moogymatch | January 19, 2010, 9:06 pm | #

4. First, I want to say how much I enjoy and look for­ward to your drafts every week. I appre­ci­ate the com­men­tary you pro­vide on select­ing draft picks, which admit­tedly I need the most help.

   Although the masses prob­a­bly grow tired of the same draft, I find it most use­ful as if I was going to draft it would be with the new cards. Hope­fully you will be able to offer some Zendikar/Worldwake drafts when they are released in a month and a half on MTGO. Per­haps the new cards will make the draft more inter­est­ing then could be per­ceived now. 5 months is a long time with the same set, but again, I enjoy the Zendikar draft exam­ples, because I find them more use­ful then any other draft you could do, unless you did a M10 draft, which you prob­a­bly did when it came out and I was not a fol­lower then.

   Lastly, I wanted to ask how you set your set­tings so that the card enlarged when you pointed over it. I tried to enact the same set­tings and was unable to fig­ure it out. I would appre­ci­ate your or any­one else’s help on this matter.

   Again, thanks for pro­vid­ing us with great con­tent, and keep up the fight. May you be passed a sec­ond turn Nighthawk.

   Biagio | January 21, 2010, 9:47 am | #

5. @Biagio: Thanks for the feed­back, I am glad you are enjoy­ing the videos. :)

   To set the card as big dur­ing game­play, go to Menu > Set­tings > Game Play
   The left bot­tom box is titled “Graph­ics Pref­er­ences” and the set­ting you want is “Game Table Design”.
   “Big Card” is what you want to select.

   Hope that helps.

   JBoots | January 22, 2010, 9:33 am | #

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