Comments on: Let’s Play Modern Constructed: Esper Hate and Doran

By: Inneutral

Inneutral — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:26:07 +0000

Leyline of Sanctity prevents Thoughtseize…

By: Shawn Hudson

Shawn Hudson — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:54:46 +0000

In that last game of Doran, I can’t for the life of my figure out why you shipped the turn without Thoughtseizing him. If he Wrathed his own win-condition, you should’ve guessed he had something in hand to replace it with …

By: shrip

shrip — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:44:30 +0000

funny how you mention the mulligan system isn’t intuitive. it seems in every magic vid i’ve ever seen players say “do you want to mulligan?” out loud. i wish instead of having “yes” or “no”, they just had one button that said “MULLIGAN” on it, with a cancel button off to the side if you don’t want to.

By: Cock Horse

Cock Horse — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:03:26 +0000

“I feel like lagging a bit”
christ you guys are funny. fantastic set, keep up the almost-tier 2 brews.
/me starts the doran set

By: PlanetWalls

PlanetWalls — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:01:01 +0000

God, I hope not. I wish there were a Time of Need deck.

By: apricio

apricio — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:56:39 +0000

Im not sure if youd agree with me or not, but if control rises due to the “”"”slowed down”"”"” format, I think this deck becomes worse, especially since gsz cant find teeg to fend of doj/wrath/damnation/ consume the meek/cryptic command/bsz, or whatever wrath effect your opponent is playing.

HAHA what if polymorph becomes viable.

By: PlanetWalls

PlanetWalls — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:56:15 +0000

Theory is that it gets better because it doesn’t lose anything, but now all its hate is worse against an unknown field, so…

I guess I think it’s weird that they banned a bunch of cards before the format had a chance to adapt to a bunch of UR combo and inconsistent one-turn kill decks. Sure, it’s lame getting killed on Turn 0 by a red Chancellor Goblin token, but that happens so rarely that decks like that punish themselves. Too bad. I feel like this Doran build was well-positioned against the field because all of its efficient guys do something disruptive vs. those combo decks. No GSZ means more room for other cards, I guess, but you can still run seven or eight Dorans with Harbinger. And GSZ couldn’t find Spellskite or Sculler anyway.

Maybe Mono-White Iona will have a place in the field. Or not, since it was running Cloudpost.