Comments on: Limited Resources: Time Spiral Block Draft #1

By: Ro

Ro — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:46:29 +0000

Agree with Daniel. When drafting a new format eg. Innistrad, it’s understandable to be ignorant of the cards…but an old format like TPF has plenty of material available for strategy beforehand, be it which cards are strong to mechanics and archetypes. Though, you have proven that Magic is designed well, enough so that even if you have 0 experience with the format you still can draft an aggressive Boros deck and win games.

By: Limited Resources

Limited Resources — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:59:48 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys, hopefully this was somewhat entertaining as it was obviously not educational in any way

I had fun with it but ya, this perhaps is not the all time best set to draft cold lol. I’ll give it another shot if it comes up on nix tix again in the future though, as I could see it being really fun to draft.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:09:26 +0000

This was pretty painful to watch Marsh, but entertaining none-the-less. Please keep switching it up.

Despite a huge number of mistakes (since you didn’t know anything about this complicated set going in) Marshall did what you should do in an unknown format: stick to known interactions, draft removal (though recognizing removal in this set is tougher than normal *cough* flowstone embrance *cough*) and put together an aggressive curve. The resulting process and outcome were reasonable based on the limitations MArsh was working with.

By: Lukesten

Lukesten — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:22:17 +0000

I havent ever drafted this set, but how can you ever pass a 1cc 3dmg spell in your colors? :>

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:14:48 +0000

In order to draft this block you reaaallly need to know the cards ahead of time. 1 minute is definitely not enough to process what these cards can actually do, especially if you are commentating.
Its always fun to watch retro drafts, but I found myself cringing a lot during this one. That being said, I’d love to watch you do another with a bit more knowledge of the cards!

By: Joff

Joff — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:39:39 +0000

Trivial concerns such as “reading cards” probably fall by the wayside when you’re in an unfamiliar environment, trying to commentate, *and* watching the cards. Yes, it’s a bit (okay, a lot) cringeworthy to watch things like P2P1 happen, with the “Pestilence? seems bad” and the simply not reading the awesome white removal, but hey, learning a new environment is bad enough. Doing it while committing a large portion of your headspace to talking through what you’re doing must be torture.

By: orvn

orvn — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:55:08 +0000

Reading cards is tech, new mechanics are one thing, but just not reading the cards in your hand or in play is pretty bad ev.

Its like the only thing you bothered to read on knight of the holy nimbus was flanking, you forgot shade has suspend.

I like the content, but certain plays like not blocking 6/6 with knight of holy nimbus when he tapped out for a creature before attacks are hard to watch.

-orvn