There are very few ‘unplayable’ cards. There are just times when cards don’t want to be played. Take for instance the second mauler in your deck. He is clearly a better card than neonate but does not want to be played in a deck with so few creatures. But here Neonate really wants to be played! Yes, neonate is a bad late draw, but mauler is an awful early draw if nothing is in the bin. And the potential upside of the neonate in this build is insane.

I feel like lately you’ve really grown in your podcasting because you seem to be talking to more pros who tell you to keep an open mind. So I’m just commenting to tell you to keep it up, and don’t just rule out cards. I cringe every time you say something is unplayable.

the way you managed that game and played to your own outs was quite inspiring.

sucks that you had to face kenji in the semi’s. i hate facing fellow clan members in drafts. even in the finals (tho we usually are cordial and take the split).

good vid as always… cant wait to see the DA drafts in a few more weeks

P2P3 – I think the pick here was dead weight. At this point I think Dead weight + Curse is better than Into the Maw + burnign vengeance + harvest pyre + ironsmith. Naturally, I haven’t watched the rest of the draft yet… so I have no idea if black starts to come around or not. By making this pick you solidify yourself into UR, which I guess is what you had said you wanted to do from the beginning.
P2P6 – You pick your second fortress crab over a first scarecrow, which seems wrong to me.
P3P1 – Opening Devil’s play clearly makes my previous analysis wrong. B-)

Deckbuilding: I do think that cutting the Harvest Pyre over the into the maw seems wrong… I think you’re not going to be wanting to get things out of your graveyard, so it’s a little non-bo-y.

M1G3 – Attacking at minute 39 or so was extemely risky because putting the last card in his hand as PREY UPON was not unreasonable at that point. If it had been, you would have been just dead.
M2G1 – You made a serious tactical error by letting Kenji maindeck Daybreak AND Garruk. This game would have been easier if he didn’t have those cards.
M2G3 – Marshall, here on T 4 or 5, whenever you played kessig wolf. I think the play here is to play Burning Vengeance and PRAY that you hit a dreamtwist or Desperate Ravings. It’s the only way to kill a garruk and gives you the best shot of winning this game. (EDIT – I wrote this down BEFORE seeing you topdeck the Desperate Ravings next turn).

Huge fan of the cast and the vids.