Limited Resources: Theros Draft #7

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Limited Resources

There won’t be any black-green this time. Marshall starts off this draft with a Daxos, but will it make his final deck?




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  1. It’s cool to see some where it doesn’t go to round 3. Sometimes when I watch these and they all go to round 3 it seems like they never lose or only post videos where they get all this great stuff passed to them. Nice to see that even Marshall drafts janky decks sometimes and loses. Just like me.

  2. Funny that you liked the Black Green deck more than the one you were playing.
    Seems to be your deck of choice this set. :P

  3. Daxos, glad Marshall posted this as well. Check out his Wednesday one also – actually did a bit better there!

    I have noticed watching a lot of these video drafts the “so and so has won the tournament” messages that come up indicating previous lack of successes.

    Even watching Kenji (NumottheNummy) he goes on heaters and coolers – fun to watch!

  5. Amazing after all these drafts you still have no clue about how to play a no-MB, what cards are important and which are not. Just a small example : preferring the 2/1 over the battle priest… that just shows you never played with them the way they are supposed to be played. Perhaps you should watch some videos from pro’s…
    (and this gets real ugly when we know you wrote a daily mtg article on the ordeals… manmanman)

  6. no-MB?

    Also, Sentesen Battle Priest is bad. It might as well be a Bane Alley Blackguard (from RTR). A 1/3 with no relevant abilities isn’t good enough to do much of anything.

    It is for that reasons that people are also starting to lower their personal opinion of Omenspeaker. While a decent card, Scry 2 isn’t draw 1. All it does is leave this 1/3 body behind.

  7. Gold cards first pick can be bad, but, as you noted throughout the draft, the packs were weak. Some gold cards are first pick worthy – Underworld Cerebus and Xenagos for example. I have 1st pack, 1st pick, chosen Xenagos and won 3-0 b/c of Xenagos. Unlike your rd 2 opp, you didn’t see an Arbor Colossus or any of his other powerful cards. It was a tough draft.

  8. Marshall, you are a masterful drafter.

    That being said, p1p7~ picking a very narrowly useful Aqueous Form over a Spearpoint Oread seems questionable. You didn’t know yet (a) which direction you were taking the deck, or even (b) which colors you were in. Aqueous Form would have only been a good pick if you could solidly answer both those questions.

    And the answers would have needed to be specifically (a) direction: aggressive-ish heroic deck; (b) colors: blue and another color that isn’t red, because Spearpoint is better in a heroic deck anyway. In every single other possible deck, the efficiently costed red bestow creature is better. Better = impacts the board when you have no creatures, does damage faster in a racing board state, has variable cost helping you in a wider array of boardstates, and, put simply, actually provides power/toughness + first strike.

    Draft wise, you had noticed blue being cut and had seen 2 Ill-tempered cyclopes (cyclopseye?), which is usually a must kill trampler in a format with a lot of really good power/toughness boosters. I’m not saying you should have taken those cyclops, but red was open and blue wasn’t.

    In conclusion of this time-wasting (still not sure why I’m writing this much), but really enjoyable (for me) analysis, a better card in an open color should be picked higher than a worse card in a non-open color. P.S. I <3 Marshall.

  9. I personally didn’t see anything wrong with this draft, Marshall did a fantastic job and I believe the packs were just weak. To be fair, he was beaten by a green rare deck, and his R2 opponent’s black was meh at best.

    Still, great draft, and while it just reinforces the fact that BG is arguably the strongest archetype, it was still a great change of pace!

  12. Someone really should stop Sutcliffe from publishing videos in any place where people are led to believe he has the slightest clue about Limited. I mean it.

  13. “I really dont like these ordeal-decks, I think that they’re not very good. I’m gonna take this aqueous form.”

  15. Marshall, I really appreciate and enjoy your videos, but you have to realize that no one likes watching you rare draft. When you are talking about how bad your deck is and you take two inexpensive rares over relevant cards, you’re only sabotaging the deck and making the watching experience that much worse for all of us. It’s one thing if it’s a foil plainswalker worth 20+ tickets or if you rare draft when you’re not recording, but please don’t do it in the videos you post here.

  16. Marshall always tries to keep things real in his advice to drafters. His “slow the bleeding” approach rather than “go infinite” is much more realistic and attainable for most players. Taking a $4 rare is a 100% chance of getting a free pack for the next draft. Taking a good, but worthless, card that makes the deck stronger but you might not even draw contributes a much lower percentage to getting a free pack next draft. His threshold for money is high enough that it mirrors most players’ behavior. He’s handicapping his deck the same way I would and I’m fine with seeing how he gets through the draft like that.

  17. I’m amazed that Marshall bothers to post free content for some of you whiny, know-it-all, hindsight-reliant ingrates at all.

  18. Interesting to see that during pack 1 the people to your right were completely non committal thus affecting you’re perception of what is open.

    Regardless of other commentators taking a Gold colored card in this set is not a trap with travelers amulets, unicorns, and shimmering grotto.

    That being said late in pack one the pick was definitely not aqueous form and definitely not Vulpix or ordeal (having only 1 other green card).
    IT should have been the amulet.

    One thing that scarred me though in pack 2 was the fact that you were not considering the repercussions of taking u and w cards considering that it was probably unlikely you wouldn’t see any pack 3

  19. Interesting P1P1. Daxos is certainly the best card but I do not know whether its power offsets tha fact he is multicolored. Usually I do not care much to what I pass. But passing Wingsteed rider is such a strong signal that makes picking Daxos even less attractive. Thus I would rather take the Asp and try to stay out of white.

  20. Marshall shouldn’t stop rare drafting if that’s how he drafts normally. He also shouldn’t shy away from color combos because of whiners in his comments section. I consider these just as educational as they are entertaining and want him to do whatever he would do normally.

  21. Oh also, in R2G2, if he’d played the Fate Foretold on the Wingsteed Rider after combat he would have gotten an extra counter from the ordeal. Of course he might have been playing around Sip or Winds and considered 10 life more important than one +1/+1 counter.

  22. I think Marshall was too married to his first pick, and was already scraping for playables by the 4-6th picks in the first pack. So many great aggressive red cards in there…