Comments on: Limited Resources: AVR Draft #1

By: dangevn

dangevn — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:05:37 +0000

^ Marshall has a great attitude about mistakes. He has spoken about the learning power of analyzing mistakes at length on his podcast. Once a player can surrender pride and analyze a bad beat from an objective perspective, a lot of progress can be made.

He publishes not out of selfish pride, but to elevate the game by cultivating better players at all levels. I don’t get the impression that he considers himself to be an authority…in all of his communications he comes across as more of a teammate. His desire to promote the game comes from a vested interest in seeing everyone do better.

By: Paul7926

Paul7926 — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:11:37 +0000

I love the way some people are reacting to Marshall’s mistakes. Even while watching you can hear he is aware of making the errors. You have to give the guy some credit for publishing and not just trashing the draft and recording a different one.

Maybe my standard is vastly inferior to others but I still learn just as much from watching a non perfect draft as I do a flawless one.

By: frogmaster82

frogmaster82 — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:35:37 +0000

I don’t think vis is a dick either. A bit harsh, but not a dick. It was painful to watch Marshall not straight up notice the interaction with Cathar’s Crusade and the Herald and for him to go into Combat before examining everything, but we do make mistakes sometimes and it is even harsher on MTGO when you don’t notice something before you click on through.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 May 2012 11:01:23 +0000

I was calling out Vis, hadn’t refreshed my browser for hours lololol.

By: oraymw

oraymw — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:08:59 +0000

I don’t think that “vis is a dick” at all. He made a completely polite criticism that was intended to help Marshall improve. I think that Marshall would be the first to admit that he has a weakness of going to attackers before thinking through his whole turn, especially when he is drafting tired,

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:05:21 +0000

^ vis is a dick lol

By: vis

vis — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:53:50 +0000

Good vids, amazing deck. Missing the easy on board win in M2G1 was kinda painful but I think it stems from a mistake I’ve seen you make before in the past, and that is that you go to combat before thinking through your turn.

I suspect you don’t do this as much IRL and for that matter when you’re not recording, but still… there’s just no reason to ever be in a situation where you’re thinking about what to do and MODO is sitting at the ‘Choose attackers’ step. You should know exactly what you plan to do for the whole turn before going to attacks and then you adjust if they play instants or make unexpected blocks.