Comments on: Limited Resources: Magic 2015 Draft #3

By: RR

RR — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:21:15 +0000

Thanks for doing these videos. I really appreciate your insight into your picks and plays. I especially enjoyed disagreeing with some of your plays to later realize that I would have played into a trap or that the combat math was more favorable with your play.

By: Limited Resources

Limited Resources — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:31:14 +0000

Hey guys,

Moving into white wasn’t an option, even for the best rare in the set. But passing it isn’t a huge deal as I’m not likely to play against the person I’m passing it to, and often someone with less resilience than me will hate draft it anyway.

I overlooked the Paragon ability, I’m not sure why though. I had a sweet play in a draft where my opponent made a stormtide leviathan with flyers up, and I jumped my Pathmage with the blue Paragon and then made it unblockable for lethal. I must have been more focused on which 6-drop to play or something

Thanks as always for the feedback and comments!

- Marshall

By: JV

JV — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:40:03 +0000

BTW I think it would have been sweet had you been able to play the Fugitive Wizards and make them work. I wonder what would make that worth it, 3 blue paragons and lots of convoke?

By: JV

JV — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:23:12 +0000

As someone else mentioned, it looks like you forgot about the Blue Paragon’s ability to make other blue creatures fly.

By: ZV1001

ZV1001 — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:11:02 +0000

In M2 G1, why not give the Frost Lynx flying, declare it as a blocker for the Geist of Moors and then use Peel from Reality to bounce it and the Griffin to your hand? That would have avoided taking 3 damage after all….

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:12:06 +0000

Moving into white after seeing the soul would clearly be the wrong play. Having just picked up a black soul, with the additional upside of having already picked up a flesh to dust and a murk lurker, and especially considering said soul pack contained a 2nd lurker which Marshall correctly snapped up…yeah the incentive to play black is too great here to be tempted by double white cards in pack 3, even if it is potentially the best limited card in the set.

By: Professor

Professor — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:49:03 +0000

I’m surprised you kept talking about this deck as a “beatdown” deck, decks full of research assistants and divinations are generally not considered to be the aggressors. I would have treated this deck as the slow, grindy control deck it was, that holds the ground with 1/3s and ultimately wins with cards like caustic tar, soul, or pathmage. A few less void snares and some more statutes of denial seemed in order.