Limited Resources: Magic Online CUBE Draft

Do not play cube. It should boycotted due to its awful prize structure.

Do not play on the beta. It should be boycotted due to its awfulness.

It seems like you never learn.

If nothing else, Kezzerdrix is dedicated to his craft. Acknowledge this dedication, and then just ignore him.

No point in giving feedback on the beta, alla feedback gets igonred utterly. I base this on the fact that the beta is still as terrible as it was a year ago.

Massive punts R3G3 Marshall. The misclick on the land turn 2 sucked but wasn’t back breaking. However, you let it tilt you the following turns any of which would have been a great time to play snuff out. It was sad to see you tilt like that, but heartwarming to know that it happens to the best of us.

Yeah, there were so many places where Snuff Out was the correct play and he didn’t even see it. It’s unfortunate, but it was going to be a really tough game to win regardless.

Can you IP ban Kezzerdrix? At least make it more difficult for him to bug people.

Though, now that I think about it, it’s kind of reassuring to see a Kdrix comment on a vid. Like someone I always know I can count on to be there.

I laugh every week at kezzerdrix. A wise man once told me, “repetition is humor.” He was right. Once you stop thinking about the comments as a meaningful discussion on beta and/or cube, you’ll start to see the genius involved. Just look at his second comment: deadpan brilliance. Every time someone rages at his posts, he tallies a mark on his bedpost. He probably has more notches on that sucker than most of us could ever hope and pray for.

If you’re going to be repetitive I will be to: As a new player (started during M14), the Beta is fine. The old interface I find completely unusable after using the beta. It looks like it was designed in the mid-90s.

Fun to see you crack open a cube, Marshall! Thanks as always for the top-notch content. I haven’t watched tons of cube, but in my limited experience, I haven’t seen anyone draft Dimir aggro. In fact, I almost invariably see people going big (stompy ramp, artifact tinker, control with upheaval and big finishers, etc.), so it’s both refreshing and enlightening to see someone build a quite capable deck whose mantra is to go small.

Indeed, Kezzerdrix has been around for at least 6 weeks on his anti-beta crusade. Kind of impressed he/she/shclee keeps watching things that cause distress.

Anyhow, I really like the cube videos. I’ve only been playing limited for a few months now and I appreciate these videos (along with Simon Says) immensely. I’m really terrible at the MTGO cube so I enjoy seeing what people who know what they’re doing can do.

Im just expressing opinions about the beta and awful price structure, don’t agree that warrants a ban, although thats obviously not for me to decide.

Anyways, seems like this site is overflowing of people bought by wizards.

As someone who is strictly a paper player. I greatly prefer the beta. V3 looks like it got made before the turn of the century.

If Wizards offered to pay me to play MTGO on a turnip I would do it in a heartbeat. I’m pretty sure anyone here would. Who cares?

The only difference between a “sellout” and any other person is opportunity. Getting paid to do something you enjoy should be everyone’s goal in life. Why begrudge anyone for it?

Marshal tweeted earlier that the beta was “full of bugs” but he states that he will continue to use it. Oh the irony.

this might sound counter intuitive but thoughtseize is still ok against mono red, while its dead late game a turn one thought seize can save you damage, taking a sulphuric vortex, shrine of burning rage, goblin guide or an ash zealot is awesome even turning fire blast in to shock is fine, messing up their curve saves you life long term, I use the same logic when thinking about snuff out, for example if you killed the hero the turn he played it, before he attacks with it you would have lost 4 life instead of loosing 6(4+battle cry) and there would have be one less creature to deal with next turn next turn leaving you alive at 4 life giving you another draw step. While it likely didn’t matter it was still the correct play (IMHO).
I think the worst card in your deck vs mono red was the gravebourn muse because it costs 4 and deals repeatable damage

I know this is not the right spot for this comment, but based on the discussion, I’ll post it anyway.

I have held out from using the beta for two reasons: 1) I become irate when I get screwed in a draft because of instability (read: crash) and 2) the horizontal layout of the turn phases is AWFUL. I know I will get “used” to 2) in the future, but I find it much less intuitive and when I’m thinking about game phases, triggers, and stops, it means I am not focusing on decisions as much as I should.

However, I decided to give the beta a shot again in the past week because everyone keeps claiming 1) has been remedied greatly. So I hop in a Cube draft, despite the horrid payouts because I’m looking for relatively easy QP. First draft I pop into at 7 players in the queue, the Beta crashes. I restart the game. I expect the Beta to be a much faster load. Instead, it sits on “loading your decks” for far too long. By the time I’m back in the game, it’s pick 5. I have four cards of different colors…I try to make the best of it. The kicker comes in pack two when I see a second copy of one of the first four cards autopicked for me. I pause, think, “this is singleton, but there is copy #2.” As fate would have it, that card fit into the deck I salvaged, so I snapped up copy #2. When I get to dekcbuilding, I go through my pile, submit with two copies of the card. I get an error that tells me that my deck cannot be submitted, restart and try again. Three minutes left with deckbuilding, I quickly get everything back in there, only to find I only have 1 copy of the card now. And no extra card in its slot. I am simply a card short, including this playable card.

Then I won the draft anyway.

Psyche. Lost quickly and submitted a reimbursement request.

Yes, I submitted feedback, so don’t tell me about how this is the wrong spot. I am into helping them out. I have noticed a lot of positives from the beta players on this site and I wanted to add my experience. All I seem to see is “V3 looks like it was coded in 1991″ and “Beta looks great.” Well, sure, the cards in the beta look nice, but I cannot play it at the moment thanks to incidents like this one. I mean, I like pretty as much as the next guy, but I’d prefer to have simple, uninterrupted gameplay. I still vehemently stick to the horizontal turn phase tracker as garbage, as well. Plus, the life total, hand count, library count area is abysmally small. That is simply bad design.

So to all the anti-anti-beta people around, it’s not all roses.