Comments on: LoadingReadyRun Draft #32: Mono Masters

By: Deimir

Deimir — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:25:24 +0000

Watching Graham try to figure out Arcane play orders is the only time I’ve yelled at my screen while watching these.

Love the videos guys, hoping to see more Return To Ravnica next month, maybe? I’ll try to think of fun stuff to do there between now and next fortnight, which I’m assuming will be M14.

By: Rubberbandninja

Rubberbandninja — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:34:35 +0000

I’d love to see a game where you draft each pack mono-color… but switch colors between packs. (For example, P1 Red, P2 Blue, P3 Green.)

Play two colors per round, and swap one out every sideboard to confuse the opponent.

By: LoadingReadyRun

LoadingReadyRun — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:44:08 +0000

BananaSub, thank you for the feedback.

We, uh… well we were trying to win. One does not always see the game perfectly as one is playing. I catch people making play mistakes in videos all the time, it’s different when you’re in the moment. Sorry we’re not that good, I guess

By: LoadingReadyRun

LoadingReadyRun — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:40:00 +0000

Apologies to a couple of you, usually I love your comments but this week I had to stop reading after the phrase, “I had to stop watching after…”

I guess I’ll never know how entertaining the rest of your comment could have been.

By: BananaSub

BananaSub — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:22:41 +0000

If I can just give a little constructive criticism without being a troll:

Drafts like these are funny, and they’re fun to watch. But I think what makes drafts like this really entertaining is if you take a wacky idea, and actually try to make it work.

Even if something is “just for fun”, when you do things that are considered outright bad, it’s frustrating to watch. It was hilarious to see you winning in R1G1 for example, but when you decided to kill two 1 power creatures (when you’re on 11 life!) instead of just putting him dead on board, I wanted to pull my hair out.

I think people, in general, can accept a restriction such as “only drafting monored” and go with the fun aspect of that, but people also want to see that strategy be the best it can be, to see it work. If you draft a pile of crap and lose every game, that’s not entertaining to watch, neither is bad play mistakes.

Just something to think about in future drafts – keep the fun tone, keep the fun restrictions, but also try and win, because that’s what makes these kinds of things really entertaining

By: Satyre

Satyre — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:16:57 +0000

Guys, you definitely need to do another story time draft soon. Those were some of the most entertaining games I have seen.
Can’t remember the last time MTG made me laugh as much as when I was listening to Graham and Kathleen’s the erotically charged sexventure between Fern, Iris and Cedric.

By: Pixi

Pixi — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:37:04 +0000

Without having seen the games yet, I have to say the Shrapnel Blast seems like the most dubious include ever.

Since your only artifacts are Pyrites, you’re giving up the 2 damage they already represent to do 5.
Which means that your Blast is doing an effective 3 damage, not 5.

And you already have a spell that does 3 to the face, and lets you splice on your Glacial Rays, and you weren’t even running all 4 of those.
What the hell?