Comments on: Simon Says #33: Guild Cycles (RTR 8-4)

By: chris

chris — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:53:59 +0000

nice use of the word line

By: premiersoupir

premiersoupir — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:41:25 +0000

Fine videos as always, thanks!

By: bipto

bipto — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:09:14 +0000

I too undervalued daggerdrome imp and grim roustabout before I watched kenji egashira take down so many 8-4s going all in on 2-drops + enchantments.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:10:30 +0000

Simon, at the end of m1g2 you discuss pros/cons of longlegs vs racketeer. You didn’t mention that longlegs puts you dead to traitorous instinct whereas the racketeer did not (whether or not you loot into mountain). Do you think you should have tried to play around that? Love the videos. Thanks so much.

By: Carrot

Carrot — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:43:57 +0000

Just finished watching the videos and I agree with Joost, you kind of ignored the option of an all out assualt even though it would have been very effective. You didn’t attack because you feared that his racketeer would trade with your lizard but that eventuality was unavoidable anyway.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:56:53 +0000

in NO WAY is the lizard better than a land here. So much mana to spend, plus the splash.

By: Joost

Joost — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:29:11 +0000

in m1g1, on turn 5 you attack with only spawn of rix maadi and cast perilous shadow. The better play (I think) was to play land, animate keyrune, pump lizard, give lizard trample, attack with everything.
You are now attacking with a 6/4, a 5/2 trample, a 3/2 and a 3/1 first strike. He basically has to block jailbreaker on spawn, racketeer on lizard. he goes to 1, wipe his board and are left with 2 lethal creatures.