Comments on: Limited Resources: May 2013 MTGO Cube Draft

By: smolensk

smolensk — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:39 +0000

Doesnt work since bouncelands doesnt target.

By: miko

miko — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:23:24 +0000

dunno if you read this marshall… Use bounce lands along with fetch lands, to further your land drops!

By: deathjavu

deathjavu — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:26:05 +0000

R3G3, since you needed to damnation your own Graveborn Muse relatively soon, wouldn’t it have been better to untap grim monolith, then play out boilerworks (instead of playing the cloudskate)? At that point it was casting for almost negative value (you wanted him to commit creatures with the vial). The only upside I saw to playing it then was having another blocker ready in case he killed your muse.

Maybe it’s just hindsight talking, but this would have allowed you to hardcast griselbrand instead of the sphinx, and the lifegain would have made those last few turns (potentially) less risky.

But I suppose it didn’t matter anyways. Cube is always entertaining to watch.

By: kezzerdrix

kezzerdrix — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:04:37 +0000

Sheep will be sheep. Seems like you never learn. Boycott it.

By: Cartwheelnurd

Cartwheelnurd — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:40:53 +0000

Looks like Lili really put in work this time around! I was really scared he would draw boros charm in M3G3 to kill you outright but luckily for you he never did! Sad that Griselbrand never got the chance to blow open the game like he can. Great job winning another Cube draft, they’re a good way to pass the time before you can start with RtR block.

By: ChrisKool

ChrisKool — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:35:46 +0000

@kezzerdrix: I know you hate the EV of cube drafts (since you always like to share that opinion), but you need to take note that a lot of players that join them are paying for entertainment. An $8 draft with Magic's most powerful cards is alluring (even more so with Power 9 is involved); not many players can easily coordinate cube drafts, and the cost in time and money to build a cube is quite high. Couple the entry fee with the ability to subsidize future drafts AND the number of hours of entertainment (usually about two and a half for a Swiss), and you should see why cube is so popular in terms of cost-to-entertainment ratio. (The movie analogy is quite apt.) If you don't, then let us know how all of the sand tastes, because you're sure avoiding the reality of the situation. (Edit: You're right about the EV, though. It's horrid.)

By: kezzerdrix

kezzerdrix — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:22:40 +0000

Boycott cube drafts. Sheep like you never learn.