What kind of draft awards a QP and 4 packs? Interesting.

I’m also not sure that you can run that many delve cards in a deck, without running a lot more Bitter Revelations and without decking yourself.

Question: how good is Hooting Mandrels in this format? I’m seeing a 4/4 getting stuck across from some 2/5s or 2/8s way too often, but my sample size is small. Right now, though, I’m liking a 3/3 flier better than a 4/4 trampler.

Also, Incremental Growth was insane last time, but the range of P/T was smaller back then. With all the really high power and toughness commons, is Inc. Growth only good if you have evasive creatures?

Finally, Missed Chance, either make some constructive comments or shut up. “Marshall is bad” is not constructive or even vaguely useful. Please keep your vitriolic diatribes (look it up) to yourself. Marshal has the ability to simultaneously talk coherently, teach, play Magic – and not time out. Not all that easy. If you can do better, then create your own videos. That would be an infinitely better use of your time than trashing people in forums.

I agree Marshall is not perfect. He tends to overvalue small aggressive creatures and bounce spells, including playing bounce over true removal in control decks, but saying he “lacks any deper (sic) understanding of limited strategy” is hyperbole. I consider Marshall to be the Craig Wescoe of limited – the person who plays aggro no matter what. To get a balance, you should also watch LSV, who drafts 4 and 5 color slow decks in Tempest block. That covers the extremes – draft somewhere in the middle and you will be okay.

Is Marshall the be-all and end-all on limited strategy? No – for that *read* stuff like Frank Karsten’s pick orders and various stat breakdowns. Draft videos are, in the end, part education and part entertainment. I find Marshall’s videos entertaining, even when I am mentally yelling at him for missing a pick or trick. If you don’t like the mix, you have every right to watch other videos or read other articles. But dumping on people without offering anything constructive violates the “Don’t Be a Dick” rule big time. Please stop. If you cannot do that, go away.

And to everyone else – sorry for my diatribe, but idiots like him piss me off.

I can also not spot any “learning curve” here – Marshall’s still every bit as terrible as he was a year before. Aping some easily digestible advice from better players may allow him to win a couple more matches than other clueless players, and write some stuff which seems to make sense at the surface, but he lacks any deper understanding of limited strategy at all, which would be exactly the thing a teacher needs.

The difference of course is that I still think Ocho was trolling us for a year because he silently kept being a platinum pro while mr Sutcliffe might not know any better. But that’s ok, he has many other talents. Keep on truckin Marshall!

Going first is never better. Format is too slow to matter, you need the extra card.
Mulligans loose you the game.
18 lands are needed in all except very niche fast aggro decks, and those decks get completely wrecked by Abzan.
Always pick mana fixing (but not those stupid banners) over any card you aren’t absolutely certain to run.
The winner of your tournament will win only because he opened or was passed the absolute nut.
Best KTK card in limited: Duneblast. I’ve been passed it a couple times and always pick it, even if I have to splash for it. I’ve never lost after resolving it.