Comments on: King of the Scrubs: G/R Ally Draft

By: Dan Esq

Dan Esq — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:06:01 +0000

I think you screwed up Pack 2, pick 3 taking the flyer. You were thinking he’s splashable and that’s fine, but look at the big mistake it ran you into the next pick. With that pick fresh in your mind it ran you into a bad decision, turning Pack 2, pick 4 into a really bad pick. The archer is out of control good if you’re playing allies. Yeah, he’s not a grower, but with the +1/+0 guy out of pack 3 he can turn into a weapon and he still triggers everybody else. Bad pick imo. As your draft showed, you had plenty of other opportunities to take land accel/fixing. Shouldn’t have done so at the expense of a very good ally.

And if you’re trying to run allies, why would you pass up the +1/+0 guy pack 3, pick 4. For cryin out loud, TRIGGERS! Allies like allies. I don’t know how much simpler I can make this OMA.

Pack 3, pick 6 I take the 0/1 forest. Chump blocker for free seems nice. It seems to address your tempo concerns. And do you really wanna play that tappy bitch in your two spot?

Overall, I think it was an ok draft. I mean, you opened two bombs and got passed a relative ally bomb late pack 3. 4/5 fatties for 3 seems nice too. You did well recognizing the underdrafting of green at your table and compensated appropriately, so that’s good. But I think you fell too in love with harrow in particular as fixing and it led you into a couple of bad picks later on. Still, pretty solid draft.

By: Plejades

Plejades — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:29:36 +0000

Hello Alex and welcome to the Academy! Thanks for your contribution. I hope to see more limited content from you in the future. Keep up the good work and good luck in the queues,

Marin

By: Zazaodh

Zazaodh — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:31:32 +0000

Really loving draft viewer!

It seems odd to me that you wouldn’t rare/hate draft Ob Nixilis – he sells for a bit online due to being used in Block.

You also picked up a Walking Atlas over Amulet of Vigor. While neither are game breaking cards, the Atlas is near worthless and the Amulet sells for a couple of tix I belive.

Thanks for the draft, looking forward to more in the future.

By: oma

oma — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Kuddos to Zwick for the awesome draft viewer. Check out Raredraft.com, it’s a great resource.

By: Zimbardo

Zimbardo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:43:31 +0000

Fun article, nicely done. I valued the brief conclusions at the end – if I ever decide to, like, do a draft of a new set, those types of concepts will be useful to a guy like me.

I must say, this is the first time I’ve read an article using this draft viewer, and it’s really slick.

By: Zwick

Zwick — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:07:29 +0000

Alex has a curse of getting flooded on a regular basis, he sometimes passes it onto me

By: Travis R. Chance

Travis R. Chance — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:16:56 +0000

Great article. Deck seemed like a blast, minus the inundation of mana