Limited Resources: MSS #4

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Limited Resources

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  2. Again, with a pet card of mine:
    In the middle of Pack 2 you face picking a Grafted Exoskeleton. Try it one time.
    At that time, you are semi-infect. This cards is soooo sweet in semi-infect. Look at your pool at that point. Put it on Oculus or Emissary and you got a deal.
    Later, put it on Serum Raker and build a two-turn-clock.

    It does have the two-for-one-risk, but do you really care when someone blows up Oculus oder Viridian Emissary? And the power level is certainly there.

  3. The blue splash was greedy, since your core black/green was quite strong. (I felt this way before seeing the games play out.)

    You had so many two-for-ones that you were only going to lose to bombs like Massacre Wurm or to mana issues. I mean, when was the last time you beat the double Corpse Cur, Hand of the Praetors, Putrefax deck? And if it was recently, was it because they weren’t running two Islands and Disperse? :p

    If I *had* to splash, I would have splashed just Vivisection and one Island, plus Darkslick.

    As always, love the videos and podcast (can’t wait for today’s set review!), but running the blue was pretty sketchy.

  4. Also, not playing Untamed Might in round 3 when you had the (potential) kill seemed loose. If he had Dispense Justice or Disperse, yeah, it sucks. But by holding Might when he had 3 poison, you were basically willing to give him 7 (!) more draw steps to find an answer to a 1/1 flier.

  6. i would i have gone for the kill in match 3 game 1 as soon as i had it. you may have been ahead on board but by very little and there were so many guys on board that if he ever did something to get board control back there would not have been enough time for you too recover.

  7. You were brave enough to switch during the draft and forgot the blue flyers, and got rewarded by late pick bombs. But really, splashing blue as a third color for Vivisection and Disperse? You had only one creature which you would be happy to sacrifice under certain circumstances (to proliferate. Additionally sometimes you need an infecter in your graveyard before playing Core Prowler, but it also should be rare). This means Vivisection is usually worse than drawing two cards. And you have a lot of cards with two black or two green in the mana cost. Of course you had less good black and green cards because of the switching during draft, but still they would have been enough.

  8. You guys are clearly more classy than I. The “yeah, that’s it.” comment at the end would immediately have been met by “obv” in my world :)

  9. Nice draft gentlemen. The blue was too greedy and it could have cost you if you didn’t draw like champs. You did. I would have snapped up that 1st Rat and let blue go because it wasn’t happening and I am a bigger fan of blue than most.

    Keep them coming and I wish I got to play nubs like that in my 8-4′s. :)

  10. The M2G1 “Wow…alright… Voltron is assembled…” line was so true; I was thinking almost the same thing and almost lol’d off my chair. My girlfriend was looking at me like a crazy person for some time after that.

  11. Late in P3, Nihil Spellbomb vs. Tel Jilad: I think it deserved some mention here that you had passed the Phoenix, dunno if it changes the pick though.

    Keep up the good work, guys :).

  12. I was the “spine obv guy”; it was nothing personal, I was just on a binge of losing to absurd infect decks in every draft. I really dig your videos.

  13. Quote:

    Tim says:
    April 29, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    Also, not playing Untamed Might in round 3 when you had the (potential) kill seemed loose. If he had Dispense Justice or Disperse, yeah, it sucks. But by holding Might when he had 3 poison, you were basically willing to give him 7 (!) more draw steps to find an answer to a 1/1 flier.

    I agree with Tim, but I also think this would be a good scenario to discuss on the podcast because these kinds of situations happen a lot in limited.

  14. Haven’t watched the matches yet, but I don’t like the blue splash. The cards you’re splashing for are not filling needs that your deck has. One of your reasonings for playing the blue cards is so that you can cut your Unnatural Perdation, citing the weak power of your creatures, but it’s actually pretty awesome with Ichorclaw Myr, and I think it would have been plenty strong enough in your deck.

  15. M3, G3 – Why do you not Angle both the Wall and Sire, then bounce Wall at EOT? He’s forced to use his mana to replay the wall or get Putrefaxed.

  16. Yeah I agree that in Match 3 when you had an Untamed Might for the win you should have gone for it, it seemed like a much better play than playing around a card that he might not have had and giving him 7 turns to remove a 1/1.