Comments on: Limited Resources: Theros Draft #7

By: Yaravi

Yaravi — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:47:27 +0000

I think Marshall was too married to his first pick, and was already scraping for playables by the 4-6th picks in the first pack. So many great aggressive red cards in there…

By: kajillion

kajillion — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:01:23 +0000

Oh also, in R2G2, if he’d played the Fate Foretold on the Wingsteed Rider after combat he would have gotten an extra counter from the ordeal. Of course he might have been playing around Sip or Winds and considered 10 life more important than one +1/+1 counter.

By: kajillion

kajillion — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:57:15 +0000

Marshall shouldn’t stop rare drafting if that’s how he drafts normally. He also shouldn’t shy away from color combos because of whiners in his comments section. I consider these just as educational as they are entertaining and want him to do whatever he would do normally.

By: manfred

manfred — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:35:40 +0000

Interesting P1P1. Daxos is certainly the best card but I do not know whether its power offsets tha fact he is multicolored. Usually I do not care much to what I pass. But passing Wingsteed rider is such a strong signal that makes picking Daxos even less attractive. Thus I would rather take the Asp and try to stay out of white.

By: Apricio

Apricio — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:43:42 +0000

Interesting to see that during pack 1 the people to your right were completely non committal thus affecting you’re perception of what is open.

Regardless of other commentators taking a Gold colored card in this set is not a trap with travelers amulets, unicorns, and shimmering grotto.

That being said late in pack one the pick was definitely not aqueous form and definitely not Vulpix or ordeal (having only 1 other green card).
IT should have been the amulet.

One thing that scarred me though in pack 2 was the fact that you were not considering the repercussions of taking u and w cards considering that it was probably unlikely you wouldn’t see any pack 3

By: Borra

Borra — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:43:43 +0000

I’m amazed that Marshall bothers to post free content for some of you whiny, know-it-all, hindsight-reliant ingrates at all.

By: GainsBanding

GainsBanding — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:58:20 +0000

Marshall always tries to keep things real in his advice to drafters. His “slow the bleeding” approach rather than “go infinite” is much more realistic and attainable for most players. Taking a $4 rare is a 100% chance of getting a free pack for the next draft. Taking a good, but worthless, card that makes the deck stronger but you might not even draw contributes a much lower percentage to getting a free pack next draft. His threshold for money is high enough that it mirrors most players’ behavior. He’s handicapping his deck the same way I would and I’m fine with seeing how he gets through the draft like that.