Comments on: Limited Resources: Innistrad Draft #5

By: penix

penix — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:01:20 +0000

The game durdleburdle is referring to is M1G1. He is being unnecessarily douchey about it, but the fact that you made a suboptimal play due to missing an onboard trick and then came very close to making an even worse version of the same mistake seems kind of bad! You also seemed to (judging from your lack of hesitation or discussion of this point) miss the possibility of him activating and flipping his looter (even though he had zero cards in his hand) in order to block and kill your Geist-Honored Monk the turn before your alpha attack.

I think that game might be interesting to go back and review, as there seemed to be a couple of opportunities to eke out a few more win percentage points in the game, and judging from your comments after the GP/PTQ this is what you’re trying to focus on (although some of the misses might have just been from the distraction of commentating).

By: Piplodocus

Piplodocus — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:02:47 +0000

In fact, he doesn’t even need to use the Priest to tap anything – he could attack with it too, same result.

By: Piplodocus

Piplodocus — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:00:56 +0000

Ooops, got the time wrong – it’s 27:40.

By: Piplodocus

Piplodocus — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:59:03 +0000

Is it me or does your opponent (and yourself I think!) miss an onboard kill in the last game, at 31:30? If he just uses the Priest to tap the Snake and then attack with everyone he wins – you’re on 6, you can’t do anything about the 5 from Orchard Spirit, leaving just the Slayer to block Fiend Hunter and the Wolf, so 1 damage has to get through, he wouldn’t even die on the backswingand you are even tapped out!!

This means that you were RIGHT to not attack with the Interloper on the previous turn, despite beating yourself up about it a little. As you are dead on board either way (since he can’t block, as you correctly point out), your only shot is to hope your opponent *forgets* that Interloper can’t block and holds something back, fearing a backswing.

The fact that you didn’t mention this, your opponent missed it and that noobe has mentioned it in the comments makes me think I missed something but I keep looking at it and I can’t see what.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:44:26 +0000

@Mannequin – just realized that…. :(. I think he should have left open a plains regardless. Rep moment of heroism, etc.

By: Mannequin

Mannequin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:42:07 +0000

Great video overall. Not much I disagreed with in the drafting. I couldn’t help yelling at my monitor when you weren’t equipping the vamp with the dagger in the last game, but with the way you were drawing it wouldn’t have helped your cause anyway, so the point’s moot.

@Zach: The fox only hits enchantments.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:32:54 +0000

Marshall – a little uncertain why R2M1 at 7:28 you didn’t consider attacking with all 3, casting the voiceless spirit and then on his turn foxing his creepy doll. (It exiles! So you can do that).

Then next turn tapping both plains instead of leaving one open? Can’t fox anymore :’(.