Comments on: Limited Resources: Gatecrash Draft #1

By: mark

mark — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:28:47 +0000

screecher > charm
screecher > primordial
screecher > shade

By: JFA

JFA — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:37:01 +0000

Um… dude, maybe you shouldn’t post things you cannot possibly back up… and try to add something to the discussion instead of being a generic internet poser… …

Marshall assuming you read this – would you run the vizkopa confessor again? Is the slow card advantage + extort still worth running?

By: @turei

@turei — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:52:44 +0000

Um… dude, you know people don’t draft or play in a particular way because of … Wizards promotional articles.

By: Turei

Turei — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:02:03 +0000

I really liked the draft and M2G3. I think it highlights how wizards promotional articles can often lead us astray. Everybody went big with Orzhov at first because the term getting thrown around was ‘grinding’, which makes us think ‘late game’. I’m guessing you would draft this way differently now. M2G3 shows the same thing in the penultimate turn, overvaluing obzedat because of all the hype, when in reality, you could bash, he trades 2 guys, you go to 18 and he goes to 1, then you have the win with double guildmage activation next turn. If he removes the guildmage during his turn while you’re tapped out he loses to millenial gargoyle extort instead, since he can’t keep his extort on the table AND kill obzedat. I doubt he had outs either way but I don’t see that you gained more value by going to 5 on the slowroll, since it really doesn’t matter what he has when he’s at 1 vs 18 looking at guildmage, extort, and 6 mana. I’m probably missing something but I definitely would have bashed.

By: Mistrblank

Mistrblank — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:30:13 +0000

Seeing it a couple times here, Smite when you don’t have one yet in an Orzhov deck is the right pick over keyrune. Keyrune typically ends as a do nothing turn three. Against many decks that means you’re dead and you likely should have played another Basilica or even Corpse Blockade in that slot.

By: Cartwheelnurd

Cartwheelnurd — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:39:41 +0000

Its very Ironic that you never cast your luminate primordial. Besides, in orzhov even with that kind of spell, if you have no keyrunes for acceleration, you shouldn’t be playing seven drops, as we saw. You want as many cheap creatures as possible, which is why kingpin;s pet is one of the best commons in the set. You should try to play as many 2 and 3 drops as you can, to get better extort triggers. Overall a good draft, but you prioritized a few cards that were not the best pick. You did have a good deck givn you saw so much other black, and the one guy with like 10 bats.

By: ugh

ugh — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:49:30 +0000

Wow Marshall you massively slow rolled your g1 opponent at the end when you had Obzedat.

There were several ways to win, and no way he could prevent all of them with one card in hand.

Completely over thinking things when you have a totally overpowered $$ mythic in play, AND have the game locked up…