Limited Resources: Return to Modern Masters Draft (Swiss)

Dat Rebels…….. Hey! Thanks for the vids! I have had a great run with Modern Masters Drafting R/U faeries. A bonesplitter or 2(we can dream right?) with the 1/1 evasive Changling and any burn I can pick up with all the normal Sprites and latchkeys you can find. Probably my favorite draft archetype ever, its really fun to play with all the tempo advantage in the set. Hope to see the cube drafts on the 19th! Thanks as always!

@maarten yeah, in a vacuum the pick is ryusei for sure. However, marshall makes some good points w.r.t. flickerwisp fitting into more archetypes than ryusei, and if he believes them then the pick is justifiable. In my opinion ryusei’s overt power level and splashability trump archetype concerns; aside from the most streamlined, focused, clearly 3-0 pools I will always throw in 3 mountains and a ryusei (hyperbole, but only a little). The fact that he is passed a bunch of red later doesn’t matter for the ryusei pick, but maybe there was a signal for switching later.

To me the bigger issue is the glaring inconsistency of later taking the Kokusho p2p1. If marshall is willing to take kokusho here as his first black card under the assumption that he is ditching white (including flickerwisp) then, the possibility of white being cut aside, he certainly should have taken the ryusei p1p1. I can see how someone who wasn’t around for kamigawa block could have kokusho higher up on their pick order since it was the better constructed card (read more publicized), but ryusei was a much better limited bomb. In short: in limited ryusei>kokusho, and if kokusho>flickerwisp then ryusei>flickerwisp.

Wow, that really was a “pile of cards” rather than a deck. I’m not good enough to know what you should have done instead, since most of the packs seemed weak. I was really surprised to see 2-1 after the draft video – good for you! It’s more fun to watch you win, so I sure wish this was a loss from which we could draw clear lessons…

Thanks for the vids. I started listening to you guys about a month and a half ago and havent missed anything since, sorry i missed out on the kickstarter, you guys have made drafting my new obsession.

Holy cow that Rebel deck.

I think that since you saw 2x bound in silence game 1 of that match, keeping 2 bouncers to deal with 2x bound game 2 for your kukusho was a better line of play (especially since you ended up drawing 2 land in a row and would have hit all your land drops – you could have at least “saved” the spellbomb to see if you missed the land drop?)

That said, pretty sure you would have lost game 3 anyway.

I did really like the drafting process – a great display of the strength of staying open and I understand not committing to something like the black-red required Avatar early. while your Faerie deck wasn’t “amazing” it was certainly solid and if that Rebel deck wasn’t as completely bonkers as it was I think you would have 3-0′d easily.