Comments on: Simon Says #30: RTR 64-player Release Event Draft

By: premiersoupir

premiersoupir — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:19:04 +0000

Wow, you gave us two drafts for the price of one this week — what a deal! Seriously fun stuff. I love having both the replay and live action formats as well. I think I tend to like the live action better so that I can “listen in” to your thought process in the moment, but I appreciate mixing it up with the replay commentary as well. Your work is much appreciated, Simon! And congrats on the back-to-back winning!

By: Hannes

Hannes — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:43:17 +0000

Why on earth would you play the guildgates?

Are you looking for a way to lose? there were so many scenarios in those matches where the guildgate severely would have weakened your curve or straight up lost the game for you. There is absolutely no need for the effect that the land gives you either mana. All it does is being a land which has a huge drawback and basically no upside.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:37:13 +0000

Will we see you in the Release Championship event on Saturday?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:16:17 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing such an entertaining and high quality tournament.
That last game was so very epic.

Contrary to some, I didn’t mind the first three games being only replays. It added variation, being a quick way to get us up to speed with the first few games and allowed you point out a few play mistakes/ different choices that you could have made. Also cutting the content length by an hour or so makes it less of a marathon to watch.

Congrats again and I hope your luck continues.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:51:33 +0000

Thanks for the videos. Great to watch!

To all the people having trouble with YouTube. I have the same problem sometimes, and after some research, have found that it’s a memory problem. Restarting your computer will prevent the problem from resurfacing for a while.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:26:09 +0000

@knx

Seriously, never seen the bomb Selesnya uncommons go later than pick 2. Seems like everyone knows it’s the best archetype, and value call of the conclave and the guildmage as though they were bomb mythics (they basically are). Guess that isn’t always true though!

@Simon
The deck was absolutely disgusting, in a good way. I was a little curious as to why you didn’t play the gatecreeper vine and two axebane guardians though. I will always play those cards in my selesnya decks, because they are almost always mana hungry with cards like coursers accord and, most importantly, the guildmage. You were even running horncaller’s chant, which is a card I generally only include when I have multiple axebanes. That said, I usually splash a little black so the fixing aspect has utility, and I can’t argue with results!

By: frizzell66

frizzell66 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:46:01 +0000

Top 8 out of a 64-player event are not what I would call idiots! Simon has even mentioned before that when playing with such high-caliber players they are very focused on what they are drafting and you end up with 8 of the best decks ever seen from one draft. By pack 3 everyone has settled on their decks and their guilds, so unless they are going to hate draft good cards from other guilds, you are going to get passed preemo stuff if you read and made the right signalling in packs 1 and 2!

Simon, what a difference between your RTR draft from last week and this week! Wow, just wow! Would you mind sharing how much RTR you played inbetween these two RTR drafts for which you have videos up? If you play these for someone with the sound off, there is no way anyone would guess they are the same player.

I can’t wait to see Marshall’s next RTR video! He also had a pretty sketchy first outing in his first RTR draft video! Can’t wait to see how much he has improved.

Hats off to you, Simon. I can see why you have the ranking you have and are the one to be teaching the rest of us!