Limited Resources: Theros Draft #6

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Limited Resources

Now that the DEs are gone, Theros draft is one of the most awesome things you can do on MTGO, so check out Mr. Sutcliffe’s vids!




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  3. First video: 4 minutes. Man, I guess I’ll finish watching this draft in no time.

    Second video: 52 minutes. Damn, I’m going to be up until 5 AM.

  4. Fun games to watch.
    That final game mistake is pretty sucky, but I guess it’s one thing to learn about MTGO? click carefully! haha
    Always enjoy your videos. Keep them coming!

  5. I think it would have been cool to pick up a late Commune With The Gods instead of the Nylea’s Presences to help search for the Whip. Usually that’s a crappy card, so its easy to pass over, but I think it would have been nice in this deck.

    Thanks for making all of the videos – I love watching them and the podcasts!

  6. Oh, the ole’ B/G, G/W dragged out Theros beats!

    I have had this experience everytime I go with the Whip – long drawn out games that end up being more clock play than Magic play.

    And the mis-clicks for this video. The opponent in Round 2 Game 1 actually had several mis-plays that cost him the game on top of the one missed activation of the Bow. He was way too conservative with his 10/10 and 9/9 – they are meant for attacking and killing things, even if they die in the process. Unless he knew he had a Nylea’s Emissary coming soon, he needed to get busy with them. Once you have a Scorpion out, one of them is going to die – sooner or later – if you make it sooner, then you can get busy with your other big guy rather than just having them sit their turn after turn.

    And then he should have NEVER killed your Gorgon once you had enough mana to whip it back and monstrosity it again! He should have been content to just keep taking 3 from it thereafter!

    Good games, Marshall. Never knew clicking on the shadow part of the card when it is shown as a blocker on the other person’s side would be the same as clicking on it on your side. One of the few pitfalls of the old client over the new client.

    Can’t wait to listen to your podcast today and your thoughts about the MTGO changes from this past week!

  7. Looked like you were getting cut from black in pack 1, I would’ve taken playables in other colors to hedge a little bit instead of picking up weak black cards for the sideboard. Then when you opened purphoros, I would have taken it with the intention of splashing it and looking to possibly switch into red altogether.
    I’m kind of indifferent about the rare drafting in general. In this particular case, grey merchant wasn’t even that good. You were heavy green at that point and didn’t have anything double black except for the whip. Not anywhere near the optimal deck for the grey merchant.

  8. Your opponent in Epic: the Gamening also forgot his Decorated Griffin activations. He punted a couple ways.

    Great vids, love your style!

  10. My vote is for Purphoros…he’d be an acceptable splash in a creature-heavy deck, free Shock every time you activate the Whip. Feel free to raredraft, because most of your audience is doing so, and it teaches how to play even after raredrafting.

  11. So very many GB Theros draft vids on mtgoacademy lately -_-
    Still, it was a solid draft and Marshall’s a great drafter, and green was deep, and had he taken the Revenge it would have been dead anyway cause blue was cut hard.
    I honestly would have loved to see him grab the titan’s strength and make a nice BR deck. :)

  12. I feel like 75% of draft videos I watch are black/green decks these days. Here’s one vote for changing it up a little bit!

  13. Given that you were kind of sitting back every turn and had the board stalled in Match 2, Game 1 I am kind of surprised that you weren’t swinging with an unblockable agent of Horizons (since you had blue mana available through Presence.

  14. R2G1 when he plays the 9/9 hunter you had Lash mana open, could have responded to the ETB trigger by killing it.

  15. @Asmodan – I thought I saw that, too, but I’m pretty sure Marshall had only 4 mana rather than the required 5. The Nylea’s Presence might’ve made it look like 5.

  18. Great vids, as always! Still think you ought to go back to beta! ;)

    It’s tough that MTGO is so unforgiving when it comes to miss clicks like that. Funnily enough I had a similar thing in the finals of a draft last night where i accidentally savage surged his guy to take out my own! It’ sooooo frustrating!

  21. The call with Purphoros is fine EITHER way that you make the call, so long as your explaining WHY you’re doing it.

    What I mean is that you’re saying “look, i understand that X card is better, but I’m taking it because it’s the value of a booster pack and the entry fee for a draft” or whatever.

    I have only recently started taking money cards, mostly because I’ve learned to better splash and make a coherent deck :)

    in person, when we’re doing casual drafts, I rarely take money cards. I don’t care about trading too much unless it’s something for my commander deck because I keep my collection online mostly. If I could make it to shops more often or something I might care more.

  22. Personally I don’t think you should have taken the Gray Merchant, he really wasn’t very good in your Green heavy deck anyway. Later in the draft you were talking about how you could splash via the Presence’s – Purphoros is an easy splash.
    Shame to see you lose to a misclick – I think he probably had one of the Voyage’s Ends anyway, so you MIGHT have lost, but the misclick meant you would definitely lose, IMO.

  23. So many draftcasts with Whip of Erebos, it’s numbing me out! Simon had 1 or 2 with Whip, and the Channel Fireball guys have had several Whip drafts too. It’s crazy how it just completely warps the game, and you end up with one side with crazy 30-40+ life and the other guy just trying to hold on and usually losing. It’s gotten to the point where I always root against the player with the Whip, because I’m sick of it (and in any games I play with or against it too!). It’s a slow, miserable death, unlike something like Fabled Hero, which usually just kills you in 2 attack steps, and sometimes just 1.