Comments on: Simon Says #48: Which side are you on? (DGR 8-4)

By: Shayne

Shayne — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:01:45 +0000

Thank’s for all the laughs I got out of hearing “Pootrify” a hundred times!

“Poot”! HAH! XD

By: BigBOneLachi

BigBOneLachi — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:17:42 +0000

In the last game of match 1 (19:35), i would’ve played Armed/Dangerous when you knew his hand to wipe most of his board. This way you don’t risk loosing to a topdecked trick.

By: Sinkh0le

Sinkh0le — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:03:07 +0000

Great draft, thanks for the video! However I cringed when you played armed on that swine during that board stall…. That was brutal.

By: kokakolia

kokakolia — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:01:01 +0000

Sorry for the long double post, but I would like to add that guild mages are absolutely insane in 5 color decks. Especially the Boros Guildmage which can produce multicolor tokens (hello Maze Glider). On a side note, don’t be worried about having few playables after pack 1 if you have a large number of gates (5+). You will more than make up for it with packs 2 and 3. In addition, it’s a mistake to get more than 9 gates after the draft, because it shows that you neglected powerful cards for gates.

By: kokakolia

kokakolia — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:48:02 +0000

Personally, I like to draft 5 colors all the time. So I prioritize gates more than anything else. You want 7+ gates in your deck. In DGM I would still pick cards like maze glider and maze abomination over gates in addition to bomb rares and putrefy. A Maze glider on your side suddenly makes mediocre cards like: Feral Animist, Bronzebeak Moa, Fortress Cyclops, Ruination Wurm become insane. Maze abomination has a similar effect with weak multi-color creatures like Judge’s Familiar or Goblin Electromancer etc… Without Maze Glider the 5 color deck is hard to work with.
The green (7 life is a huge deal, especially against extort decks that completely destroy slow control decks) and white (having 2 bodies is good, especially when you can populate the token) gatekeepers are also very high picks. The black gatekeeper can be a little bit underwhelming. The blue one is just OK. The red one is trash. Overall, don’t go crazy on the gatekeepers.Then I like to pick up 1~3 cluestones/keyrunes. Mana fixing like Verdant Haven or Prophetic Prism help with mana immensely. Then I like to pick a ton of creatures with toughness 3+ for defense, flyers, removal and BOMBS…by bombs I mean some of the split cards like give//take which are tricky to cast in 2 color decks but shine in 5 color decks and also fatties of course. After pack 1, you should have 4+ gates and some sweet cards. In gatecrash, pick: Hold the Gates, Crackling Perimeter and Guardian of the Gateless over anything.

By: Chah

Chah — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:32:57 +0000

I was wondering why you didn’t play the Wurm. Is it that bad? It seems much better than it was in gatecrash. In this matchup, it could hold off a Trostani’s Summoner team.

By: Bjoern Schmidt

Bjoern Schmidt — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:20:23 +0000

In your first game against the second opponent, you could have won if you waited for enough mana to cast armed and dangerous and bloodrush the scorchwalker. I found that line of play reasonable regarding that your opponent was giving you time to do so with his hesitant play,