Limited Resources: Holiday Power Cube, Winter 2013 #3

Too bad you didn’t make the third match though!

Thinning by one card out of < 53 isn't always better than losing 5% of your life.

“Null rod doesn’t do anything against us”
or
It does Nothing against you?

Do not play the disgusting cube. It should be boycotted due to its slimebally prize strcuture. Semms like you never learn.

You almost played some kind of big red deck. You should have started with the black red build, because the black cards are very good. Anyway good draft, keep up the good work!

@oraymw “…but it’s not that difficult to go infinite in the Holiday Cube queues”

Unless you suck at Limited, like me (and maybe kezzertroll). >_<

Nice draft, Marshall. It looks like you were out to punish broken decks but got 1-uped in the fair department with Obiwongkanobi's favourite draft strategy.

Hey there,
really enjoy the series!
I was kinda sad though seeing you pass that Wasteland early. If you sticked to the mono red ld theme, your deck would have been insane imo. A little splash only for ravages and your opponents have no chance

check.

Excellent. So tired of watching everyone draft ramp decks. In fact I want to see someone drafting naya artifact hate.

Hi Marshall,

I really love your videos and like your style of drafting and playing. This time you got into an archetype which I really loved to play during this cube season. The red black aggressiv deck can be really strong with cards like Bob and Aristocrats. I personally like the red green a little bit more in this cube, because Tin-Street Hooligans and Ancient Grudge can do a lot of work and with moltan rain, Avalanche Riders and some moxes it is a good resource denial deck. Because of consistency I stay monored often. As an aggressiv deck nothing is more worse than having dead cards in the early game. Because of that I pick Fetch- and Duallands very high. You wheel most of the stuff anyways, so you can mostly focus the first pick on fixing.

P1P2: If you really wantto force MonoRed you could just take Wasteland. It is a really powerfull card in monorot and it also goes well with other decks. But Demonic Tutor is also a very powerfull card, especially with wheel of fortune and in a possible stormdeck.

P1P6: The Arena is really fine and a great card in a more controlish or stormish deck. Since you are looking like that, your pick is probably fine. But since there were many cards you want from this pack, you mightbe able to wheel something. So I would have taken the Badlands. I goes really well with the Bloodstained Mire and is good in every kind of deck you want to draft.

P2P2: Ajani is a good card. But your manabase is allready awkward. The legionaire is a fine card to play in a red aggressive deck. It is not stopped so easy and it has a lot of power. But potentially you will just wheel it. So Ajani may be a good pick, otherwise it would just be a Fetchland for the splash. As you sad the pack is bad for us.

After P2P6: You sad you need to pick some cheap stuff.

P2P10: May be you did not recognize the legionaire as a red card? As sad above, it is a good two drop. And you sad you need twodrops.

P3P3: Don’t know why you have no love for dismember. There were many decks where I played it in a monored deck. Just because it is a really cheap removel spell and it can kill things like baneslayer angel and Exalted Angel. So you should be glad to take it.

P3P4: This is the reason why I responce to your video. You really need one drops. The satyr is a one drop. And since you passed the boneslplitter allready it is way better than the elder.It may be stopped by a three drop easily, but until than u can 4 – 6 damage. And if you have a way to get through the blocker, e.g. with the chandra, it will do another 2 damage. So in an aggressive strategie it is doing a lot. As you sad before, you need some cheap stuff. Also Sulferi Vortex can get really ugly if you have not many plays before and not a lot burn. And the one drops are really good with the Hellrider.

P3P5: There was another cheap spell with the Jackel Pup. But I guess you don’t want to be aggressive anymore?

Without the fixing you are right that a monored deck is way more consistent than the possible decks. That is the reason why I take the fixing really early. But I would have played the dismember, since u have even no burn spell for four thoughness like the Archangel of Thune.

Maybe try stringing a sentence together coherently.

You split the infinitive. You should have written, “You should try stringing coherent sentences together.”

“Also, you mentioned Ink-Eyes, but he keeps disappointing me, which is sad because it’s one of my favorite cards. Has it been disappointing you too?”

She. Can’t be that much a favorite card of yours, since you somehow missed the gigantic boobs.

Monored has definitely gotten weaker in the powered cube. The advantage of monored in the old cube was that they could pump out a bunch of damage before the slower decks had time to respond. With Mox, Lotus, Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Ancient Tomb, etc., slower decks have tons of options to pump out stuff that monored just cannot beat, before monored can put them far enough behind to seal up the game.

Also, switching to monored as late as halfway through Pack 2 definitely weakened the deck. Between that and the bad matchup, this deck was facing an uphill battle against the round 2 opponent.

Ok, so in P3(the pick with the Chandra’s Phoenix) we could have taken Bayou and wheeled the Kird Ape. In that case, we’d have our Black splash that randomly makes out Kird Ape better. It would mean going SUPER deep, though.