Comments on: Limited Resources: VMA Draft #2

By: dogdick

dogdick — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:25:55 +0000

as usual, an unenjoyable watch, forces goblins for no reason, ignoring green signal from the right

By: Tony Bicycle

Tony Bicycle — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:30:46 +0000

Marshall, I think you should have given more consideration to playing Smokestack in your deck, and then also Battle Screech. I would have played those two cards over both Fireblasts. Fireblast is obviously insane in a dedicated aggressive deck, but I don’t think your deck was as aggressive as it seemed. Most games where you drew Fireblast, it did nothing, just occupied a spot in your hand for multiple turns. The line your deck kept forcing your toward was Matron for Matron for Matron, which is about the most durdley, grindiest thing I can imagine. 1/1s for 3 make poor aggro cards (unless you miraculously draw Rites of Initiation every game), but they make great fodder for a Smokestack.

Just a different interpretation on what your deck seemed to be wanting to do.

Thanks, as always, for the content.

- Tony

By: frizzell66

frizzell66 — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:16:27 +0000

VMA in a nutshell!

VMA Draft #1 – draft a great deck that doesn’t include white or red – lose to Rites of Initiation and Goblins!

VMA Draft #2 – draft goblins and win every time you cast Rites!

It is a skill card to play in knowing when NOT to play it (into counterspell or tangle mana), but it sort of summarizes Brian Wong’s attitude toward VMA – whomever draws the nut draw with their deck wins.

Aftershock has risen in my opinion – best way to deal with certain cards otherwise hard to deal with – Wild Mongrel, etc. You just have to be willing to play it early and not wait on it!

I also am not that impressed with Brilliant Halo as a card, but every time I run up against white weenie aggro, it seems to over perform for just a +1 power card!

By: HyzerFlip

HyzerFlip — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 01:32:33 +0000

is there a reason for thinning out all of your goblins with matron before using ringleader? Use ringleader ASAP, then use Matron to find the rest.

By: Mandrew

Mandrew — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:29:05 +0000

commando not being able to target a player match 3 was super painful. ggs

By: Hokage

Hokage — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:33:44 +0000

That was the best astral slide deck I ever made, straight up, game two couldn’t find bolt. It was so sad.

By: rite

rite — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:07:38 +0000

-Forces Goblins arbitrarily, uses 0 draft skills
-thinks Battle Screech in a Goblin deck is good
-picks Fireblast over Slither, Spark Spray over Aftershock, etc.

another case for Marshall Sutcliffe’s poor understanding of Magic

this dude sees hundreds of pro drafts, learns nothing, thinks like a new player -_-

pretty sure even Rich Hagon is 10x better