Comments on: Simon Says #35: Power Struggles

By: Sokolva

Sokolva — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:12:09 +0000

Also, RedEyedSoul, he did notice that, he commented on it almost immediately. And then when the person went down to 40 cards the next round he proceeded to Brain Freeze them for game.

By: Sokolva

Sokolva — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:06:21 +0000

This is a really interesting draft format I haven’t seen much of. So many cards from so many different sets! Lol when you passed the Hero of Bladehold I was so sad. Probably not even the right choice for your deck but I’ve seen her command battlefields in standard have have quite a bit of nostalgia for SM block.

By: RedEyedSoul

RedEyedSoul — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:13:45 +0000

Amusing that you didn’t notice that your Match 2 opponent failed to submit his/her deck. You assumed he/she had a 40 card deck and were discussing Brain Freeze, but you really should have noticed that it was twice that…

By: Confi

Confi — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:26:22 +0000

It would be great if you record a modern daily while playing storm!

By: Dudeguy

Dudeguy — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:30:46 +0000

You really could have had something mean here, if you had wanted. Academy, Smokestack, Tangle Wire, Ethersworn Canonist and Lodestone Golem, Rishadan Port, Spectral Procession, The Abyss, Ravages of War, Opposition, Nether Void, maybe Grand Arbiter Augustin, and Awakening Zone, plus still get both monoliths and plenty of fixers and some mana rocks. Don’t get me wrong, you drafted a pretty cool storm deck and the prison/stax deck would really want another token maker (thelonite hermit was in there, but would be tough on the mana), but it’s an route I almost never see anyone take in this cube, and when were considering smokestack and tangle wire early on, I had really hoped you would go for it.

Still a sweet draft regardless, even if it didn’t quite work out to be as powerful/broken as you might have hoped. I’m definitely going to keep watching your videos, your competitive analysis is top notch.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:36:23 +0000

webcam seems very unnecessary (and unsynced). nice draft

By: EdwardGein

EdwardGein — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:23:48 +0000

Hi,

So many questions….
Webcam: Yes! I think it adds more personality to the whole thing.
What to do: I like limited a lot and I’m amazed what you do with the, well, limited possibilites you have there. Watching you draft a storm deck was a revelation. I did not see all of the combos but I liked them a lot. RtR is pretty used up by now, so maybe some of the other limited things going around at the moment would be fine. As someone else said above, old formats if they’re available.

All in all, great video. Thanks