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Dunkelste Stunde: Masters Edition IV Draft Set Review
Posted on January 8, 2011 by dunkle_stille
Wood Elemental dominates every game. Even when he isn’t legal or played. Such an awesome card.
It’s kind of unfortunate that we don’t have autocard working for ME4 yet, since it’s too difficult to read a draft review without knowing the cards on-demand.
Also, the colourless link isn’t working.
Fixed colorless link, I think. Autocard works for me, except on a few occasions, it seems to mess up with Portal-only releases. Is this the same issue you are having, Arthur?
Yeah it is, didn’t realise it was just Portal since I started with white commons and I guess there were a lot of Portal-only releases there. Will reread it now. Colourless link now works.
So now that you are a published author on a site, are you going to quit being a total douchebag and berate people in chat when you lose?
thanks dunkle. this is the only guide about me4 i could find, very valuable
That hasn’t reformed every author here whitemeat.
Nice review but I think some of the ratings are a bit spotty. The elephants are much better than you suggest, for example.
Of course I will work on me not to look like a total douchebag… I have no idea when it started, but it somehow is exclusive to legacy events only.
Some of the ratings might a bit spotty or off, but don’t forget that I wrote about the set without ever playing it. Some things are obviously wrong, like that I overrated serra bestiary a lot and probably underrated ze elephants ( but I still think green is the worst color to go ).
Just so everyone knows, Overwhelming Forces the black rare is the biggest beating you’ll ever receive in limited. Turns out the format, at least so far, is slow enough that its just about the nastiest bomb I’ve ever run into.
You surely are Mr. Dark. You gave Black rares high marks. Terror is definitely not so great in this format but you underestimate Word of Command in constructed. Word can be put on a stick for some lolz.
Ze Elephants would be great in draft if you can pick yourself an Elephant Graveyard. Green should have gotten Norwood Riders instead of Ironhoof Ox IMO.
Overall a very commendable set review. Its very difficult to assess 150+ cards unplayed.
Serra Bestiary, Ali From Cairo, and Bee Sting are overrated.
WW is a lot to pay every turn.
Ali has the same problem as the Archivist. Plus it doesn’t win you the game, it just stops you from losing temporarily.
Bee Sting is a sorcery not an instant and it still costs 4x more than Shock.
fyi, just fate cannot stop howl from beyond. Just fate works only in the declare attackers phase (I lost a game because 2 turns in a row I was too happy fingers and clicked ok into declare blockers phase). You wont even know which creature will be unblocked to use howl on until the declare blockers phase, and its to late to use just fate by then (so only sword to plowsheres or on the board power can save defender by then).