Comments on: Simon Says #14: Good, Better, Lingering Souls

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:32:46 +0000

@Tarpshack : Spidery grasp resolves, untaps the wolf. Then Simon pays 1 to tap it again using burden of guilt activated ability. Letting one spell resolves doesn’t necessary mean you give up doing anything until the next step/phase, if that’s what confuses you (or maybe I didn’t get what you were asking…)

By: Tarpshack

Tarpshack — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:59:37 +0000

I am really confused about why Spidery Grasp did not work as his opponent expected near the end of game 2 of round 1. See video “DII Draft, Round 1″ about the 19:30 minute mark. How was Simon able to activate the ability for Burden of Guilt *after* the stack resolved with Spidery Grasp?

By: Simon Goertzen

Simon Goertzen — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:24:01 +0000

@Posterchild: If you are on twitter, you can just send me a message and get an answer immediately. I don’t regularly check my videos for comments after they have disappeared from the front page.
As Chris noted I do in fact use Camstudio, which is an open source alternative to Camtasia. You can easily find both on the web. For streaming I have xsplit, which can also be used for local recordings. The licensed version gives you a better audio/voice codec but that should not matter for your purpose. As long as you don’t plan to publish your videos, you don’t really have to worry about video quality and codecs. If you want to analyze your drafting in particular, you should have draft recording turned on in-client, and there are quite a few places to publish and discuss drafts with other players. For the games and sideboarding, recording might be a good way to analyze your decisions, as MTGO replay functionality is severely lacking. However, you should get a media player with adjustable playback speed. This is not only good for your own videos, but also a way to watch (downloadable) video content or listen to podcasts without using a lot of spare time.

By: ChrisKool

ChrisKool — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:45:40 +0000

Camstudio is a freeware alternative to camtasia. I am pretty sure Simon uses Camstudio. You might need to download codecs to get good output from it (IIRC).

By: Posterchild

Posterchild — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:11:09 +0000

Wasn’t sure he would either but didn’t want to wait a week to ask and figured someone might know. Thanks for the answer!

By: MMogg

MMogg — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:39:41 +0000

Posterchild: I don’t know if Simon will answer, but to let you know, most people who make videos use Camtasia.

By: Posterchild

Posterchild — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:25:44 +0000

What video program do you use for making your draft videos? I want to start recording my drafts so I can see where I made play mistakes and what I could have drafted instead to fix these mistakes. After trying an 8-4 the other day I realized I had missed a couple key plays and rewatching the videos would help me learn from the past. Yes I know you can rewatch games in mtgo but I would like to put it in a format I can take with me.