Comments on: Standard Spike: MTGO Cube Draft #3

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:01:19 +0000

@GZA729: Gah! That probably cost me, haha. I think I was so used to playing with the two split up versions of Cavalier (from my cube) that I forgot it could do that.

@Helpful Stranger: I wasn’t sure how deep into red I would be, though if I had more time to consider I probably would have taken the Vortex. I just don’t know how Rude Awakening always comes back. xP

@Bachster: It being a Clifftop might have something to do with my play. I don’t think I even considered that line.

@chris: I opted to play “fewer” because of the Land Tax.

By: @Bachster

@Bachster — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:04:10 +0000

Stopped reading after “Bachster”

By: chris

chris — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:46:30 +0000

after seeing it in action i would play 17 land on the play and 16 on the draw

By: chris

chris — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:04:48 +0000

also, armageddon makes card advantage way less relevant

By: chris

chris — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:02:30 +0000

before i watched the games

seriously consider this advise:
Play more lands for so many reasons:
-horrible colors
-colorless lands
-mox diamond
-not too low curve, want to play multiple creatures in one turn
-ARMAGEDDONS.. so often the game is not over after and 2 lands in hand wins the game
-EQUIPMENT also big deal here, equipment costs so much in limited,
also the big reason why theyre so good, they are mana sinks.
-other late game sinks like a shade, 8.5, echo, mikeus
-thalia into armageddon costs 5
-horrible colors

i would not mind playing 17 or even consider 18 lands + mox

also for these reasons i would have picked the p-myr the first time around the table.

By: Booyah

Booyah — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:54:52 +0000

@Bachster

The land in his opener was clifftop retreat, so he couldn’t have played land tax on turn one if he had played his land. Also, since he only had 1 land in his opener, he wouldn’t have been able to have 2 lands and a mox on turn 2.

@ XTREME

Could you at least explain what you didn’t like about his first pick? How is your comment constructive?

By: Bachster

Bachster — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:17:51 +0000

I believe it was a mistake to use Mox Diamond play the Land Tax in the last game.

If you had used your land he could either not play a land, which is good for you or he could play his land anyway. (In hindsight seeing he has Sakura Tribe Elder and Somberwald Sage, this is what he would have done) You got way behind not having your first land.

If you played your land on turn one, you would have had 2 lands and a Mox Diamond on your second turn.

@ XTREME: Stopped reading after you wrote “Stopped watching”…