Comments on: Simon Says #68: Sustainability (BTT 8-4)

By: Kolazomai

Kolazomai — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:33:55 +0000

It seemed to me that green was not that open in the THS packs. When you saw the first Grey Merchant, I thought it would have been a good decision to take it and see if mono-black is doable. This would have meant giving up on the three Centaurs (which we did in the end anyway), but the powerlevel of your mono-black deck would have been so high with two merchants and maybe just splashing for the Menders.

I was surprised you didn’t consider this option during your draft more and remained with the mindset from your first few green picks.

By: JFA

JFA — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:17:42 +0000

Damn, you never got to abuse the spider. Still haven’t got to see it in action yet.

I liked the intro, but it seemed more like a plejades topic than a simon says?

By: Dan Murphy, narniabug

Dan Murphy, narniabug — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:21:02 +0000

Appreciate your deliberate, articulate videos. Do you find verbalizing your thought process has helped your game? Is it accurate to say that verbalizing your options has a slowing effect on decision making? I won’t say I don’t think before I play, but too often it seems I jump into a single, narrow line of play.

By: Dat_Nekosaka

Dat_Nekosaka — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:13:09 +0000

I couldn’t have first picked the spider p1p1. I do hate the fight for red white though.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:02:27 +0000

Black was insanely open O_o …

Really nice content, as always!

On sustainability/going infinite:

I personally hadn’t that hard time to basically going infinite. From a starting investment of ~30$ (I had luck with my first draft with winning + picking two Snapcasters, making the starting time much easier) and I drafted ~100 drafts (mostly 8-4 from the actual set) from Innistrad until Dragon’s Maze with I think ~100 tix left on my account. (I never played constructed.)

I’m not really sure what that says, but from what I experienced I think it is possible to draft with sustainability. (I don’t have my win% ready, but it was far from really amazing, though certainly not too shabby)

By: rone678

rone678 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:07:52 +0000

Amazing draft and games. Thank you, Simon, for the great content.

By: gditch

gditch — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:07:54 +0000

Awesome deck; *no one* must have been black green but you. ^_^

Also, loved the videos. I always feel like I learn a lot from your drafts.