Comments on: Limited Resources: BTT Draft #5

By: Badgerphiliac

Badgerphiliac — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:52:41 +0000

The round 3 guy had a sweet deck. I wish more Theros limited had control match-ups, rather than just having a race between broken starts with heroic and friends. Someone above complained about letting opponents play their cards – I feel with control, you are actually interacting way more than with heroic decks. Some uber aggro decks in this format can just goldfish you with unblockable dudes if you stumble a little, and it feels totally uninteractive, and I say this as someone who drafts aggro a lot.

By: tobbeanderberg

tobbeanderberg — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:04:55 +0000

It felt like Bruce hit you hard in M3… the most obvious being the thing Daracaex pointed out. You should have asphyxiated the oak to stop the servant. Wouldn’t have stopped the Overloard, but at least he would have gotten one less harpy. I guess in your head you had scooped the last game a few turns ago?

Great deck! Fun to watch!

By: Olhado

Olhado — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:30:51 +0000

M2G1 you drew the Ashen Rider with Rescue in hand and were at seven cards and had Gary in play. Would a reasonable line of play have been to do nothing for two turns to discard the Ashen Rider to having eight cards in hand. Then on your opponents turn rescue the rider with Gary for a six point drain and a Rider in Play.

Or does this simply reek of fancy play syndrome. Would love to hear peoples thoughts?

By: JM

JM — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:38:41 +0000

In M3G2, wouldn’t a divine verdict in response to the ordeal trigger made the discard 2 cards not happen? If so why didn’t you fire off the verdict back then?

By: Sam Roads

Sam Roads — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:43:58 +0000

The last match, last game there were a few misplays, which would probably have turned it around. The Dark betrayal was spent on nothing much, and could have been used to kill the regenerator. Then, voltronning up a dude would have got past the tree, and the game was basically yours.

Maybe the G2 speedkill gave you to think that this deck is superfast, but against a fast deck, it’s still OK to just voltron with vigilance, and hold back the kill.

By: nwalker

nwalker — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:36:29 +0000

Marshall, this deck was awesome. One of the times we get to go deep in the set.

M2G1 – You were deciding what to bestow with observant alseid. Your opponent is at 7 and the flyers are the only relevant part of the board (your ashen rider vs his prescient chimera). If you bestow on the rider you threaten lethal, force a chump block with chimera, and kill him next turn. I think that’s the play.

By: frizzell66

frizzell66 — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:45:58 +0000

Great content as always, Marshall!

But talk about boring decks – Round 3 was excruciating to watch. Being pinged away for 1 a turn by a control deck who has an answer for every card you play – blah!

Just kidding, though, I understand how R/W U/W heroic aggro decks do get boring and they are susceptible to not having enough cards if too many others are heading that way. Nice that you found a way to make B/W a winning deck in BTT.

Just glad we don’t have as long to wait until the final release is here – just hope it is not as disappointing as Dragon’s Maze was! Wasn’t it fortuitous that
Modern Masters came along when it did to allow us to move on from DM so quickly?