Comments on: Limited Resources: Magic 2015 Draft #2

By: Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:23:48 +0000

How do you pass Boonweaver Giant 3 times drafting an aura deck, with Burning Anger — the second best Giant target — already in your board? Yes, 7 is a lot of mana. But I’ll pay 7 for a creature that basically taps to kill any reasonably sized creature or to deal 4 to my opponent’s face!

By: hascow

hascow — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:59:44 +0000

There may be an element of hindsight in it, but I was shocked when he went for the Plate Mail in the first place. I was expecting an Into the Void or just tapping down the opponent’s creatures. Equipping and swinging didn’t even occur to me, because there was just way too much that could go wrong.

By: Sam Roads

Sam Roads — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:32:06 +0000

There’s an element of hindsight in all the posters who call Marshall on the naturalised armour. Marshall took a view that a gamble with a big upside was preferable to a cautious, safer choice.

Plenty of football pundits blame the headcoach who goes for it on 4th down. Even when it fails, that doesn’t make it a mistake.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:40:18 +0000

*weak*

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:39:27 +0000

I saw a green deck with 7 possible hunt the wreaks

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:58:51 +0000

The Sanctified Charges were really bad for this deck, with only 12 creatures it doesn’t do much good. This deck was going to get beat by a better deck and showed that.

Running into Naturalize really was a bad move, like said before. Any other play would have been better in that case. But, sometimes it is good to learn from others (and our own) mistakes.

By: ricky

ricky — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:19:53 +0000

@magikado, if you get an awkward draw with a deck like this, it isn’t JUST luck. This is a really awkward deck, with low power/low toughness guys, and very little way to finish the game.
Marshall, haven’t I heard you talk about ‘using two bad cards to make one good card’ on the podcast? IMO 2x Heliod’s Pilgrim and Opressive Rays/Divine Favor is exactly that^2. You get a 1/2 on the board for 3 mana, and a marginal aura in your hand. That combination doesn’t win games.
You’d have been much better with the Coral Barriers and the Seraph. Multiple bodies = more power for the Seraph, more convokers to get it on the board with.