Comments on: Kool Runnings: Triple Born of the Gods Draft

By: El Camino

El Camino — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:12:51 +0000

I can understand your desire to let people (WotC) see what it’s like for a new person using the beta, but your lack of any working knowledge on how to use the client made this unwatchable for me. I finally gave up after R1G1. Just far too many moments of “Uh, what do I do here….” It was unbearably frustrating to watch. It was a bad call, but hopefully, should you decide to do another draft vid, you will be more experienced in the next one.

Glad to see more drafting happening here. I just hope that in the future you prepare ahead of time, rather than making us watch you learn on the job. It’s not entertaining and I certainly didn’t learn anything new, which are the two main reasons I watch the MTGOA draft videos.

By: kezzerdrix

kezzerdrix — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:48:31 +0000

The beta is disgustingly awful and should be boycotted

By: me

me — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 04:39:20 +0000

a) beta is a nice interface but more demanding on your cpu. we don’t all have state of the art machines out here. i like beta interface alot but crashes kills it vs stable v3.
b) i agree, draft was painful to watch too many crazy pix. man what are you thinking? learn the format its not that hard to get a read. Watch the marshal stucliff draft and then come back to show us what you can do. not his best showing but at least some reasonable logic.
c)Keep it rolling Chris, this is my first time watching you draft and props for trying new client live, just work on your craft. It can only get better from here.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:07:48 +0000

I’m a new MTGO player. I used the beta client first. When it was having stability issues a while back I tried the old client and found it completely unusable (fwiw I am an interface designer and usability researcher by profession). Not to say that the beta client is without it’s flaws, but from a new player perspective it’s just so far ahead that it’s not even funny. It reminded me of trying to go back and play the old SSI D&D games I loved so much in high school (Pool of Radiance, et al).

Yeah, I’m old.

By: Carrot

Carrot — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:31:48 +0000

@Martin,

in most formats the Lyer is not all that good. However, in this format, filled with bestow creatures, you often get to lock away a significant parts of your opponent’s board with just a single tap.

I recommend that you give the card a try – you’ll just see how it play out for yourself

By: ChrisKool

ChrisKool — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:27:06 +0000

Hello everyone! Thanks for the comments good & bad. I’ll defend some points and concede some others (Note, this is mostly copied from a youtube comment. Sorry, getting late here, so I won’t respond to a lot of play-specific comments.)

Triple BNG: In context of a triple set versus BTT, it’s hard to judge a card’s efficacy.

Red cards: I played a match against a quite good aggro BR deck and thought that this might be the way to go with the Inspire, Intimidate Zombie-generator. I should have read signals in late-pack 1 and early-pack 2 better, but hindsight is 20/20.

Double-clicking to add cards: Thanks for the tip! I used it today

Beta client: As a long-time MTGO player, I have stayed away from using the beta client for a while (as it feels inferior to the old, ugly client in many non-draft usability areas). But seeing as the wide beta client should become the normal client this year, I thought it would be more valuable to learn the client as I played on video than exploring a ton by myself to master it so Wizards could see what it might be like for a newer user to experience this piece of software. Wizards has also communicated that there have been major improvements to the framework recently, so it seemed timely to produce content like this again.

Machine specs & programs running: I had MTGO, iTunes, Firefox, Skype and Camtasia running while I recorded. (These are the programs, beyond Camtasia, that I would expect to quite regularly have in operation while playing.) I have a … less than desirable Acer laptop with 4GB ram, Intel Core i5 2.66ghz, AMD Radeon 6550M. Not top-of-the-line, but it isn’t a pile either.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:36:14 +0000

@Carrot, I have actually not seen it in play. I can see how it can be an Opposition-like effect with enough creatures and mana. I shouldn’t write it off, 6 mana and a creature to tap one guy just seems like a huge investment in a rather tempo oriented format. I’ll take your input into consideration when I see it in a draft next time, though!