Comments on: Simon Says #40: Catching Up on Gatecrash

By: manfred

manfred — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:21:40 +0000

M2G2: I do not think that your reasoning behind sideboarding black cards out was correct. You said that since you are one game ahead you don’t need to splash those cards and risk being color screewed. However, your percentual chance to win a game is always the same, no matter whether you are game ahead or not, right? In fact, when you are on draw you can afford being a little bit more greedy than on play.

Also in games you sided second Verdant Haven in, I think it would be better to exchange one swamp for forest.

Nevertheless, this was a great video, keep them coming

By: Machinae

Machinae — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:51:43 +0000

Wauw I’ve been playing mtgo for a while now and i did not know about that death-touch / trample interaction (i assumed all the damage had to be resolved on the creature first regardless). – what happens if the creature is indestructible? do you then need to apply all the trample damage to its toughness or is 1 still enough??

Good stuff Simon!

By: cascademenace

cascademenace — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:38:09 +0000

I have been really struggling in this format. However following the advice from these videos I managed to make it to a finals for the first time in this format. I actually drafted a similar build: Simic splash Dimir. Lost to hyper aggressive Boros when I had to mulligan to 5. Not too bad for me I look forward to more lessons from your videos.

By: Michiel

Michiel — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:11:15 +0000

oh man, there was his incredible Boros deck going around….even with the Avenger to go with it. Guess it was to late to let the UG go, right?

By: Dan Murphy, narniabug

Dan Murphy, narniabug — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:46:49 +0000

Great content as always. Ironic that the game you sided into “safe” mana was the one you got hosed on color. Such is magic….

By: Athos

Athos — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:41:34 +0000

Absolutely fantastic Simon! You are by far the very best drafter online these days. Keep up the great work.

By: EdwardGein

EdwardGein — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:57:04 +0000

@Simon comment: I see what you did there!

All in all great vids, while drafting I was sometimes confused because you didn’t follow a guild all they way through, but drafted power level instead far longer than I would have… And then you came out with a really strong deck that had some nice tactics. Amazing.
I think you showed us that cipher is maybe even stronger in simic decks instead of dimir, because simic has more flying/evasive than being commited to the black part instead.