Comments on: LoadingReadyRun Draft #5: Zombpocalypse

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:15:57 +0000

My apologies – you wouldn’t actually get to ping him for 1 with the Captain if he blocked. It’s still the right decision regardless.

Also, I would run Stitcher’s Apprentice over Village Cannibals in your deck anyday. Yes, The cannibals works with Chosen of Markov, but you have such a small amount of humans that it’s basically useless. Apprentice has a few nice synergies between Stitched Drake and Ghoulraiser.

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:13:13 +0000

M3G2 – Definitely should have attacked with the Diregraf Captain when you played your Undead Alchemist. If he blocks, you get to eat his Stromkirk Noble and ping him for 1. If he chooses to take it, he mills 2, and if you hit a creature in his RW deck (which you probably would have, but there’s no saying for sure), then you get a zombie token which can easily chump his Stromkirk Noble. You need to think about the board state and how it will affect your choices before jumping to a decision blindly- it’s painful to watch.

By: BrainStew

BrainStew — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:33:01 +0000

I don’t even really play magic or know much about it, but I really enjoy these drafts. I think the people saying that they aren’t funny are a bit too involved in the game itself. From an outsiders viewpoint these drafts are fun to watch because of the pain you guys go through passing over cards that would be perfect and just having to pick and set up ridiculous situations.

I also find I’m picking up the thought patterns of the game interestingly from these drafts in ways I would not if I intended to just watch drafts to learn. Because you guys screw up and have to work with poor decks and mess around, it lets me see how to work with the imperfect knowledge I no doubt would show if I were playing.

I second the idea of doing draft based on the prettiness of the cards or even the enjoyment of the flavor text (if its well written or funny). I’d also like to see some sort of dynamic restriction that works with the cards you are seeing but makes choosing harder towards the end. Perhaps something like drafting mono-color in each pack? Something that allows you to have more range in your choices, but is still restrictive.

Keep doing what you are doing, guys. Love all of your content.

By: LoadingReadyRun

LoadingReadyRun — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:54:24 +0000

@oraymw – We have a plan for something similar.

@Sean – Yeah, we know. We got caught up in the moment.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:55:39 +0000

M2G1 You go to 0 at the same time that Falkenrath Noble triggers would go onto the stack. Then, state based actions are checked before you get to put the triggers on the stack and you are dead.

By: oraymw

oraymw — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:12:57 +0000

Just for another suggestion:

One of my favorite types of comedy drafts are when you have someone pick the cards who doesn’t play Magic!! Typically this is called the “Girlfriend” draft, but that seems a little bit sexist, I guess. So you could call it something else. Typically super awesome, btw.

By: PMJ

PMJ — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:48:56 +0000

Late to the show, but really wanted to express how much I enjoyed this draft, and the fact that the archetype actually managed to do decently. I think you’re really onto something.

If you are still taking suggestions for future themes, I’ve been thinking a bit as to what would make a fun, and possibly competitive draft, and came up with a couple of ideas.

1. Prettiness: The more pretty the card (not better art, but actually prettiness of the scene/creature) the higher it gets picked

2. Focus on Flavour Text: Pretty self explanatory

3. Perfect mana base: Take all mana fixers when they come up so that you know you’ll be able to cast all the cards that you end up passing.