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0:01you guys marshall from limited resources and we’re doing
0:05little draft here
0:08in theory high every other the safest
0:12took a little weird uh…
0:14yeltsin magic online selecting a bit here but click right now alright
0:18who some stuff right so we got a stomping grounds
0:23in our uh…
0:24in our pack your which is it’s replacing the gate in this case is see how much
0:28it’s going for
0:30usually just take any
0:32any of those yeah we’re gonna have to take it so it’s worth a over for sick
0:36it’s it’s over
0:37it’s a big chunk of entry fee for the event
0:40there’s some good cards here though borrows battleship resume pretty much is
0:43the bomb
0:44houser two hundred increases incubation are both really get to bed
0:48return to forge a career and uh… you know mickey mildly anyway
0:52writer sunny summer they consider that a full bomb
0:55i really do you think that
0:57he does everything that i want a bomb to do it it finishes a game that i’m
1:00uh… that i’m winning it gets me back into a game with that uh… i’m behind
1:05in and prevents me from behind
1:07and on top of it
1:09it uh…
1:10it usually will take a game or omit parity and to put me ahead on some
1:14levels so
1:15that’s pretty much exactly what i want out of a bomb and uh… so i’m gonna go
1:18and take it
1:21you know i i don’t take seven mana cards lately
1:25were easily
1:26but when they do this they’re worth it
1:31toughest packs that kind of a lot going on
1:35spike gestures pretty darn good warped physique is good
1:39uh… bravo bought mockup
1:41win drake an armored wolf writer
1:44are all cards i like quite a bit uh… unfortunately gate isn’t off
1:48color tina i mean it’s it’s unlikely that will play uh… this is basically
1:52basically be concession to playing five colors if we took it
1:56uh… and i’m not really quite ready to go down that path yet
2:02doubt so my decision is kind of
2:05i think somewhere along so vocal lines like i can take us all if i drop in my
2:09colors but i think that will both rollo mark and windbreaker better cards
2:13same with spike gesture but that once again to different colors and i’m in
2:17uh… robo marked as one color different than men
2:20and this is none of these pics really make me particularly happy to be honest
2:24russia is gonna take the works physique and kind of see where i go
2:28uh… you know i i really don’t know where this tax is going to go yet and
2:31uh… i want to stay open for the time being
2:35part will notice there’s already a gilded missing from this package
2:39doesn’t like uh… the delegates leaving a ready
2:42and i guess we should start just expecting that at this point
2:45uh… and respect sucks that’s why there’s delegates article on the steeple
2:49rock is probably our best option
2:51who was i can take a slice the aclu stone or even like it has a clue stone
2:56transmit a concise thus less new clues star
3:00careers in physical dat
3:01while deal for mate
3:05that should not be there
3:07uh… i’m gonna take it
3:10and we’ll see where we go from here
3:12uh… if we end up in
3:15in benton blue light green
3:17that’s fine
3:20yet i’d like to be fine melodic loose done already
3:24four physique doesn’t help with that but
3:30generally sure uh… a lot of my drafts of started off this way usually sell
3:34into something that
3:36this that’s weird
3:37it’s definitely not your your average set in that way
3:40umpires gonna take a steeple rockier
3:43there’s really nothing amazing
3:45there is a clue stone catches my eye i don’t like right thank you very much
3:49certainly not like we have decreed police commanders just ok
3:52no need to go into another color for a place command i think steeple rock spray
3:55a little better anyway
3:57so we’ll take a steeple rock
4:01and uh… you know what’s going to keep filling it out here
4:04beena dances is pretty decent i’d be fine
4:07in those colors
4:15i’m skeptical per second clue stone here at looks like it’s going to be
4:19will have uh… both colors of clue stones for us here
4:22and uh… pretty happy about that
4:25uh… not much here think maze abomination spry the desk are going to
4:28take this hopefully gatekeepers over this third co-starred
4:33uh… if we get lucky and pick up some dates you know you never know when i run
4:36it
4:36uh… sure we wield a wind ray commencing collectors cravin their route
4:40on par with each other but
4:41were will prolly gonna be in in blue
4:45in blue green white so
4:46when drake subtly fine pickup
4:48naturally willow and prone to use this happens pretty often at least for me
4:52coming out of the uh… negate uh… the dragons maze pack
4:56and some that i pay attention to but yeah it’s annoying by cream prefer to
5:00take as many good to use as i can
5:03sometimes you don’t get ‘em
5:06uh… nothing this all taxes a bunch of nothing
5:09uh… vietnamese cards to anything
5:13i guess that’s when we can potentially castle ticket whatever like that
5:18alike the clues to did to clues tones he remains a it we can pick up a six tropic
5:22up another five and thirty percent in dropping so feel like we can cast them
5:26in a reasonable time frame
5:28uh… things we need to pick up well just more cards i mean we just need more
5:31to use
5:32four stories moran’s removal
5:36gates all of it cell
5:39sorely
5:42all right well here’s a guilty coming to take it
5:45it’s a off-color kind of
5:47but i mean they’re maybe was flashes at some point you never know
5:51you’ve got some splash option options if we want fervor gates and probably
5:55wanting marijuana and uh… coups don’t stress plastered
5:59minimum this coastal
6:02and this one too
6:03i’m looking around them but i’m gonna pick them and it would be still is they
6:06open up the door
6:08if we want to splash read at this point
6:10uh… we would have uh…
6:13we cannot we could play the off-color klooster heard don color croissants we
6:17could ditch in we can play visit in gruel clue stone along with the stomping
6:20ground have three sources of red to go along with our normal colors
6:26okay alms pieces awesome man really nowhere near were at here
6:31cynical times definitely catches my eye so it was cracking around
6:35and so is corrosive justice
6:40i think rockin aristocrat i’d like the most but i i want to take a
6:44either the to drop or the removal spell here over the crocodile
6:49them when i actually to be true
6:51i might just take the crocker here
6:55cuz i’m not gonna i’m only me playing to these clues don’t i don’t know which
6:58ones yet but only to yahoo cities across your hair
7:04signal to cleanse members from reserve toss one another crock an era
7:10these are interesting choices uh… members from berserk house one in
7:14crafting a all-powerful sweet spells uh…
7:17utah’s winds really good
7:20mimis farmers a corner like a lot of specially if it was a couple who stones
7:23but i was gonna take another crocodile just kind of feel like
7:26as many of those as i can get this is how many i want
7:29uh… this pack doesn’t have a time for us to nasa road metropolis bright
7:35angelic edict
7:36politically he ticked
7:39its removal
7:40that’s not the best removal you can get that it works
7:43aman forcefully a bunch of three drops coming to us but the good news is
7:46they’re good
7:47now there’s a general hoar here if these were the black versions of these and we
7:51can consider splashing that ’cause we’ve also got to do your job gave but
7:55they’re not too risky to take a slaughter horn here
7:58aka now i can pick up the syndicate ties i mean i can take a drake wink racist
8:02uh… we can take this uh… support wrote primordial unfortunately because
8:06we’re just nowhere near black
8:08but i was gonna take syndicator
8:09we need to draft a really bad
8:11and i’d love to play that decreases here a bit
8:14they also don’t want to do nothing until turned three every game sound
8:19that’s a consideration
8:22work physique unlikely to make the cut at this point bottoms leaving it up in
8:26case we do pick up more fixing or more
8:29cars we want to go out
8:33where there’s a phantom age yeah i think the fathom age uh… card i really like
8:38to begin in a gate crash didn’t really like it near the end even though i love
8:41simic
8:42uh… canal like it again because i think the formats low enough that i can
8:45actually kasam some creatures and get some value correct this is an ice pick
8:49up
8:50prophetic prism mimics every deck better just panel of that card
8:55uh… while i was a depression
8:58full block i love it
9:00although much markets really record
9:03uh… beautiful throw laura carlson i could just take a burst of strength you
9:07have a stake it we might make them actually make the cut so i should take
9:10it
9:11gargoyle accord st dot is and we don’t have too many white cartooning is rather
9:14have them another flyer here
9:18it’s also easy cast which is nice
9:21um… companies
9:27so that’s what our deck looks like right now it’s not too bad but it’s also not
9:30too great
9:34a camera in the last time i had like a really sweetback
9:38in this format i’ve done some sweet things but like
9:42just whenever i’m building my decade’s never feel like i have all my bases
9:45covered like i feel like eating the fig seems really difficult
9:51right now mean people just a gate so early
9:54that it’s just like you don’t really get to have been fixing and then if you go
9:58against that
9:59can you go for like a solid to color bills
10:02you power levels it’s not really there i mean i i would prefer to play that back
10:06but still carol’s not create on the list
10:12more nothing
10:13i could take a spell rupture
10:16yeah to kiss paul rupture
10:17that’s more likely to make the cut
10:20than those other cards
10:21uh… who’s gonna take a demure q renee could take a rome right but i card
10:25artists i think is worth of card slot in the back
10:27critic is kunin hired but for i will remember that we do have
10:31have that sitting there
10:37yeah i’ll take that to you
10:39we can decide between the clues dominici rude
10:42ted it depends on our creature count and and what we feel like we need
10:48we’re just looking around the school stuff because it gets us to this man a
10:51and it also has both that scholars intensive
10:54khanum except easier
10:56her
10:58non-stick seems a little late for a percent disagree card but slowly
11:03canard that for now but we’re not ’cause this is what we’re gonna play one of the
11:06other apart
11:07marketed by both
11:10two men on sun three seems fine to me
11:13uh… i’d like to double crocodile
11:15loosing so the triumphs and avoid wilder
11:18there’s also a frost when we’re in this pack
11:22handle misery strategy could provide services like ship rear very staff to
11:26pack i think we just need to take the bomb here though
11:30five-six flying return early things to include stoner something that’s pretty
11:33impressive
11:34uh… i’ve avoid realtors
11:36my sentimental pick your butt
11:39critic of the bombing six drop-in
11:40and it’s kind of all with that
11:43uh…
11:44explain guardian caning apparitions centaur healer
11:49normally if you could just take that keen apparition because i want more to
11:52use
11:53but center he was a really sweet
11:55three a kind of makes up for not casting it to you sometimes and im gonna take it
11:59here
12:02i think it’s powerful enough
12:04took to warrant the impact
12:07well selected it’s three
12:09so he can
12:10if you get these crocodiles
12:13involved even a bit further you know something without damage
12:19yet we gotta figure out how we’re gonna stay alive and horgan affix armando once
12:22we do
12:24watch out
12:29there’s a mythic rare in acropolis region but unfortunately it’s just too
12:32far away from our colors can enter firstly again for us as packets just
12:36they’re very miserable you can read it doesn’t work for us
12:40utica judges familiar a swift justice here i think i was gonna take the swift
12:44justice in the end
12:46pretty miserable to be honest i mean that is not an ideal pickup he respects
12:51have been a little bit weird
12:55and hope to get better than that
12:57trade this is a good pack
12:59there’s a go-go reedy corey there
13:01attack how renamed recur courses according to dr militant there’s also a
13:06missouri a skilled game which we could really really use
13:09he happens to take a guild gave he passing a bunch of decent cards but i
13:13just are still occur fixing isn’t pretty dire straits here and we really needed
13:17to make up some ground there
13:20uh… espiritu skylar seems fine here otherwise were taken in a row predation
13:23for the board
13:25move quickly disco watch
13:27too good card
13:29um… there’s a is it guild gave but were not in the colors that really needs
13:33that there’s a roast passage but i don’t think we want that i meet all this is an
13:36art history which is what i want but
13:39cast it’s understood take the syncope here like it better than falling down
13:42lol
13:45and i think i like it better than are we going to hear legal work will play in a
13:48play that
13:50another swift justice she stayed around were her as a steeler those who will
13:54take the steeler we’re still trying to make labels here
13:59barely any fixing again
14:01the last few decks that have been like this just like super mediocre
14:06crappy fifteen-month-old ought to want on mike tyson’s
14:10slain
14:12reborn defenses can be a total blow out that we probably just one centers hector
14:17herald here
14:20account like having something to do on their returns
14:23mhm paralyzing grass for inspiration
14:27havel of inspiration but i’m gonna take the grass fear because it does
14:30approximate removal and we need that
14:35but they were going to play elmer’s sticker trickery
14:41you know he’s really do anything
14:44mistress literals kind of annoying
14:47she’s
14:47pursued
14:51right well we made a magic tech and i don’t think it’s very
14:55good per se but
14:57it is a deck
15:00we do have some fixing at least thinks is presuming killed in the two clue
15:03still suffering
15:04diverter are present
15:06amanda should be pretty golden
15:09this might be in eighteen wind deck as well
15:12uh… we’ve got a lot of things to do with amanda
15:17in-home
15:18melbourne uni there yes
15:20and i think i just want to queenstown over there
15:22kieran though i may have to rethink that
15:26missus clinton attack uh… none of the uh… yeah
15:30crank
15:39i don’t think we want steeler secrets
15:51frazier weird curve dot looks like a gun
15:55tiny teacup cut a couple of cards here
16:05at least one
16:10i could see cutting swift justice here
16:12how about the seventeen wins to humans a bunch of three drops in the michael
16:16flager about
16:18spray correct
16:19display this
16:26so you say six four four
16:29uh… strive so that’s going to give us
16:36six seven
16:38the resources which is planning
16:44seven
16:46be blue
16:47rule which is again play
16:51and six white does actually not too bad
16:53production at a little better than i thought
17:04welcome let’s give it a shot to the sink and a
In m1g1 I would have traded off the Fathom Mage for one of the centaur tokens and kept the Crocanura. Normally Fathom Mage is better to keep around against another Bant deck that get it off the board easily, but the Summoner would have evolved to Croc up to 4/6, which at least blanks all his potential attackers other than the Keymaster Rogue. I guess you really had no good options, since your deck lacks answers to the Rogue. In a vacuum, I’m not sure whether having a 4/4 evolver on board and drawing a card is better than having a 4/6 evolver with reach on board. It depends on what cards remain in the deck to draw. Once you have the Summoner out, your deck doesn’t have much gas left other than the Sphinx or Angelic Edict. Unfortunately, the Edict is blanked in that game by the Deputy of Acquittals he has in hand. Given that he had the Deputy, I might have attacked early with the 2/2 Fathom Mage in the hopes he’d flash the Deputy and trade, just because the Rogue is going to kill you and the Deputy makes it very hard to kill the Rogue. Ugh, such horrible choices. I also might have tried to board in Warped Physique and splash it off the Dimir Keyrune and Prophetic Prism (or just maindeck it). But again, that’s a bad option among bad options.
Bant deck that can’t get the Fathom Mage off the board easily, obv.
You passed deputy and took a second cluestone, did you just miss the deputy cause 2 picks later you stated you were light on 2 drops
In p1p9 you saw that two decent Orzhov cards, (profit/loss and sin collector), had both wheeled, giving you a pretty good signal that Orzhov was open. They were followed by a Debt to the deathless a couple of picks later. If you’d considered them, pack 2 was full of solid Orzhov cards (alms beast, sepulchral primordial, syndic of tithes, screecher, dutiful thrall, holy mantle), and there were the makings of a solid GWB deck in pack 3, since you saw decent golgari and selesnya cards as well as some fixing in the forms of guild gates and gatecreeper vines.
In my opinion the signals had been mixed for most of pack one, and you seemed to fall into Bant based on a weak premise. Focusing on keeping yourself open for longer may have really paid off in this draft.
Thanks for the draft, enjoyed it as always.
A couple of thoughts on the draft before I watch the games: getting passed both warped physique and the 2 mana 3/1 haste pick 3 is a pretty clear indication that black is going to flow from your right and I think at that point its correct to take the warped physique followed by the beetleform mage and try to be bug instead of bant. Signals can be confusing in pack 1. (My working theory) 10 guilds and lots of cluestones can throw off the color distribution a lot. So I think its important to respond to the ones you do get especially if its for a pack 3 guild.
I think you take cluestones too early.
I think passing those rakdos drakes in the first pack was a mistake. Black was clearly open
It’s an academy so what did we learn today ?
- if your first pick costs more then 2 tic, grab it ! Do NOT even look at the other cards ! Who cares about winning 4 or 8 boosters ?
- then if your second pick is 2 colors, ignore the good card in those colors next pick and take a 2 different colored pick.
- If 2 strong orzhov cards wheel, do NOT take this as a signal ! Stay blind and just pick every card that you feel is the strongest, no mather what color it is.
- And wind drake is ‘on par’ with Sin Collector. In what universe was that, Marshall ?
I’m so glad you give us the opportunity to learn from your wisdom. I can’t understand how you don’t win every draft you play.
I guess it wasn’t the deck that performed poorly…
This is what makes you an awesome content producer. Instead of just posting an Ochoa Special you add some standard to it. Draft deck wasn’t great, but the draws were horrendous. Screw these nay-sayers.
i have no clue how you are “IN GREEN” after pack one.
It clearly got cut…..
also passing axebane guardian is a Huge!! mistake
From an EV standpoint, slamming a four ticket rare is definitely correct… lay off guys.
i have exactly 0 experience actually drafting myselft, so is the rare land that much better of a pick than the battleshaper for pick 1? from what ive seen (which i admit isnt much, but enough to form an opinion), that battleshaper is a royal pain to deal with.
If you’re going to rare draft it would be nice not to do it on a video you are making for a limited column. The standard was good after, but i dont agree with rare drafting in a video.
I think a few people went overboard with their comments, but I agree with Dillon that it’s a bit off-putting to rare-draft anything not insane in a video. If the card is worth 40 tix then it becomes a bit harder to fault you for rare-drafting, but it makes me feel like you’re not taking seriously the content you’re producing to see a rare-draft on a 4-ticket card.
man I 100% agree with marsh. one of the reasons i like his vids so much is cause he does a lot of stuff i would do like taking the shock and then (normally) still wins. If you are really here for the content, almost every time he says what he would pick up which gives you all the help in the draft and then in playing it is moot because it is all about playing the best you can with the cards in hand and what you could draw, not what could be in the deck. So really the only argument is in the deck building but if it was a first or second pick it WILL make the cut. So i really dont see the issue. Unless im in some PTQ or GP you darn right im taking the shockland. I do think picking the cluestone over the deputy was a mistake but its way easier to watch the video and say that and being in a “losing fog” can have something to do with that. Seriously tho guys are you really getting all butt hurt about him picking up the shock? idk im not trying to offend anyone but like i said, its a freaking 8-4, not a PTQ. relax.
Lastly, I think people are not realizing how hard it is to find a really good stabilizing bomb like the summoner which is why i might have tried to force those colors a little. after seeing some of the late drakes i might have tried BUG and maaaayyyybe tried to splash the white but i really hate doing 3+ splash in this format especially with cluestones as you only fixing (aside from the late prism) so I probably would have been BWG. Again However, a lot easier for me to scream on the benches instead of actually being up to bat.
Awesome stuff as always marshall! IDK if you play alot of EDH but if you have another bad draft i would love to see what you play!:)
Also, @HogLatte. I agree however do not see Debt as a signal at all. Marshall explains it on the coverage and basically says its a bad wind drake lol. Look it up if your interested! It is worth the watch:)
no love for the deputy. just no love for the deputy of synergy! (possible targets: summoner, healer, voidwielder, skywatch) which makes him one of the best 2 drops lategame. his presence makeskeymaster rogues drawback an actual ability in your favour. additionally: karma gotcha for passing these cards cuz you were loosing to the guy you passed the rogue and the deputies