Comments on: Limited Resources: M14 Draft #8

By: JohnJohn

JohnJohn — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:32:54 +0000

To the people talking about picking tenaciousD over mark. Mark is clearly the better card in your average deck, where tD is kinda unplayable. It is true that tD is stronger for the sac. deck, but at that point Marshall only had two sac outlets still and no way of knowing that the sac. deck would come together.

I’m not saying you can’t argue that tD was the pick. But that pick would be more of a “architect” style drafting, where you consciously take on a risk to force an archetype. Marshall is very much a “gardener” drafter as he tries to take cards that are simply generally good. That is what LR is all about – the spike way. To reiterate – picking tD at that point was at the risk of wasting a pick. Something spiky drafters are loath to do, when they haven’t got an abundance of playables already. To be honest, the deck was pretty shaky looking at that point.

By: frizzell66

frizzell66 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:11:11 +0000

Nice draft making a subobtimal BR sacrifice deck work – it was one of the best archetypes in M14.

I guess the good players have moved on from M14 (you weren’t playing this on a Monday when everyone else was in Modern Masters were you?) – these opponents were awful.

I much prefer seeing you in good matchups against worthy opponents – much tighter play is needed! Of course this is from someone who only plays Swiss because I don’t like one and done due to mana issues!

Congrats on meeting your Kickstarter goals so quickly. Looking forward to all 200 issues of your podcast!

John

By: Apricio

Apricio — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:25:23 +0000

No thats not what happened.

The opponent First main phased a plummet.
Marshall did not sac the target to up the regen shield.
Keep in mind that this is pre-combat on the opponents turn where he could have attacked.

By: DuckChicken

DuckChicken — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:11:58 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think the regen shield sequence was bad either, it just didn’t seem like it really mattered to sac the plummet target, but the flier was dead anyway. The only thing I disagree with (that others have already pointed out) is tusker was a better target for pitchburn devils 3 damage when advocate of the beast is a possibility.

Good video and thanks for posting these

By: Newbie

Newbie — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:26:50 +0000

after the first picks i thought ‘finally he’s gonna make a fun deck’ but you just couldn’t commit could you ? you could have had couldron and 2 newts, but no you had to pick something moronic like mark of the vampire over them… go figure. The worst thing is you get rewarded for this mispicks…

By: yessir

yessir — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:59 +0000

Nice draft man.

Your videos are so good for novice drafters, with the constant explanation of all your actions. You and Simon are the main reasons I check the site everyday. There’s other good content to be had, but you guys are the best at what you do. You might not always make the right plays, but then, who does? It’s certainly a higher percentage than most, I would argue.

It would’ve been nice to get a decent 3rd round in though. I really wanted to see that combo go off again. Mana-screw = bore^2.

By: Sceptile

Sceptile — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:35:29 +0000

I actually saw one relevant likely-misplay in R2; he attacked a Child of Night into a green deck with 4 mana up, saying there wasn’t anything to punish him for it. Briarpack Alpha’s not a card to mess around with in this format. Though he didn’t have it anyway.