As soon as you said that I thought it was a mistake. My instinct was that he had 0 outs to an alpha strike and after thinking about it a little bit more I feel like I’m right. I would amend it to say that the Collar should be played and equipped to the Guard before attacks.

I won’t bore you with all the other possible lines of play but let’s just say no other combination of plays short of Briarpack Alpha leaves him with anything but 0 outs.

If he does have Briarpack Alpha the odds are still greatly against him. When he plays it he goes to 6, he would then pump his 4/4 to a 6/6 and block all 3 of your creatures. You would then fling your 5/5 putting him to 1 and losing your board but gaining 2 1/1 fliers. He then must deal with your 2 fliers with his 2 cards (Spider, which you haven’t seen, and removal), and also deal with your potential to make more fliers with the must block humans of Gather + Collar in the future.

I guess what I’m saying is I will take those odds any day.

@Dude – Yes I did. I think it was a close pick, could have gone either way. In my experience in triple DKA, you get as many Burden of Guilts as you want. And I typically want 2, or maybe 3. At the time I had only 6 creatures. 2 of which were non-human 1/1s. With Hellrider in my deck I am putting a premium on picking creatures, (I want ~17 playable guys by the end of the draft) and with a Heavy Mattock potentially in the deck I also am putting a premium on Humans. Ironwright fits into both of these ideals quite well. I think it’s a close pick, but I wanted to start building up my creature base so I went with the Ironwright.

I really think that it’s incorrect to stop watching a video after the pilot makes one decision you disagree with by the way. Every pick one makes in a draft is debatable, but there is usually something to be learned from each one regardless of if you disagree with the pick or not. Thanks for normally watching the videos though

@Zach – I’ll check that game out, I haven’t had a chance to review it yet but it sounds right what you are saying. I just didn’t see the ping myself play, still getting used to Fateful Hour I guess. I explained my logic on the Ironwright pick, and I think Fling is a pretty easy choice over the Torch Fiend. I can get as many Torch Fiends as I want in the draft, but not true of Fling.

@Carrotus – Ya it pretty much did end up being that hahah. Clunky, but effective!

@biosxenikos – I’ll have to review that portion to see what I was thinking. Sometimes what I was thinking at the time doesn’t jive with what I should have been thinking, but I’ll figure it out either way. I think that equipping and pinging is unblockable and leaves up the ping where attacking means that I can get my guy removed and not get the damage in? I’ll have to look but I think that was my reasoning. I had nothing else to do with my mana anyway.

@UGH – Ya, I can’t please everyone. I like to mix it up a bit so I jumped into one of these for the people wanting it. I’ll be doing a regular one next week though!

@also – huh?

@Carrotus – This has been covered twice in the comments already

@azortex – Thanks! Ya I am always looking to improve my game, and have a way to go before I feel like I am really where I want to be. Also, noted about the 2 commentator thing. A group of my viewers really enjoy them so I’ll probably do them again in the future, but it won’t be too often.

@Malthes – Thanks. Appreciate the kind comment (I get a lot of “You should have done X” comments so a nice one is welcomed every once in a while ) I think the mentality about complaining on luck holds a lot of players back. I explained the Ironwright pick above too if you want to check it out. It was close, maybe not even the correct pick but I think it was.

@dasMetzger – Good feedback, thanks for taking the time. It’s tough because the window that we have for these is so short, and there is a delay in getting the video up so it can be processed and such. I wasn’t planning on doing one of these, but got a considerable amount of requests for one, so I went with it. Your points are all valid though and I’ll take them into consideration in the future. The good thing is that we’ll be doing DII drafts for a nice stretch here.

Am I missing something here?

And yeah, I’m not being coy when I say it’s suspect (or highly suspect). It’s not the pick I would have made but I’m not sure it’s right. I value flings less than that and would expect to be able to get one later. He’s dude light (sorta. Not as light as he seems cuz he has sorceries that count as dudes) but the torch fiend seems better with the hellrider at this point.

since DDD is only available during the release window of the new set, it doesn’t really make sense to record a video of that format so late in the release window (or in this case, posted 3 days after the DDD drafts closed).

as with most people i’m sure, we use these videos to help gauge the the draft format, evaluate cards, and especially in DII, help navigate what to pick in the first DKA pack, and gain expectations for what’s possible in the next two ISD packs.

its still a great resource for general limited drafting and gameplay, but it doesn’t help in the same way that another DII draft could have.

I also questioned the Ironwright pick, but maybe 1/4s for three are better than I thought in this format.