Comments on: Building Blocks: Boros Is Back

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:48:24 +0000

Round 3, game 2, you were dead if he double blocked Thalia with Blood Artist and The other drainer : P

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:52:23 +0000

@Mad. Good point about the $.

By: Mad_3570

Mad_3570 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:30:30 +0000

People who play Boros aren’t lazy. Some of us can’t afford to drop 400 tix on a deck like Jund and have to pick something else that has any chance of winning at all. If your keeping up with the daily results, Jund is now dominating the format. There isn’t much a Boros player can do against Jund except hope they get mana screwed.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:16:28 +0000

I wanted to ask all of you what do you think about Kessig Malcontents in Boros??

And the second thing i like pilgrims a lot is it good idea to switch them with thalia?

Thx for any and Lee keep going… great videos.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:51:36 +0000

Regarding the tapping: I don’t necessarily mean leaving things open (though its really a best practice to try and represent whatever you can when possible) I mostly meant that at the same time you were complaining about other people taking too much time you were durdling around with mistapping your lands… several times.

I get that recording is tougher than just playing. Hell, I gripe to an empty room about slow opponents and appreciate that filling those gaps is creates an awful temptation blast your opponent for their failings, but grumping about your opponent taking the time to click on 5-7 Hellrider triggers is taking it to a bit of a new level.

Re: the format as a whole. I think the whole “mostly Boros” thing is block players just being lazy. Boros itself is such a mediocre and lazy deck. It doesn’t do anything interesting or particularly reliably. I actually like the deck much less in its current iteration than I have at other points during block. Jund is much better (looking forward to you revisting that next week). Naya Human Reanimator is a lot more fun and has a good matchup with Boros.

This format needed a Last Gasp effect so badly. The fact that Hellrider answers are slow limited continues to really warp it. Alas.

By: Lee McLeod

Lee McLeod — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:35:11 +0000

@Torpesh: You’re right, in that a lot of the time (vs non-boros), Stromkirk Noble is a dead card. But, the free wins you get off it in the Boros Mirror are just insane, and since the format is mostly Boros, I think it’s silly not to play it. It feels real bad when it’s dead, but it feels really, really good when it’s not.

@Robin: What do you mean by tapping efficiency? Tapping lands correctly and leaving open random not-tricks I should be representing (eg, leaving open Cavern when I could leave up a Plains to represent Faith’s Shield)? Yeah, I should do this a lot more. I just feel lazy because I know the card isn’t in my deck, so I don’t play like I have it.
Same with the Pillar Pillar hand. I was so focused on not winning that game that I thought it would be silly for him to not block there, because I knew my hand was Pillar Pillar, not Brimstone Volley. I agree that it was super 100% correct not to block, but I couldn’t see that in the moment because I knew that if he didn’t block, he was dead.

As for F-key griping, it’s a guilty pleasure. It makes me feel that I’m better than other people, which I’ll admit is pretty bad and shallow, but hey, honesty, right? I’ll try not to do it in the future, though slowness does really get to me – especially in these recordings where I can’t just alt-tab over to VLC or listen to music.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:58:01 +0000

edit: PS I see the first comment and your reply address that R4 last block as well. You are usually pretty good about discussing these block specific considerations so I was surprised you didn’t mention it.