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Limited Resources: Time Spiral Block Draft #1
Posted on October 14, 2011 by Limited Resources
Limited Resources Limited Resources podcast co-host Marshall Sutcliffe provides coverage on North American Magic events and writes for DailyMTG. He educates listeners about limited and heads the highest-prizing clan on MTGO.
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You can’t pass Pyrohemia, it’s the stone cold nuts. Like, Pestilence -_-
Pthissis!!!!
Passes 2 sunlances… “Wheres all the lightning bolts in this set?”
11:40. Block with the knight.
I think you drafted well, minus the sunlances. SO GOOD in WW! Red pestilence is good btw, esp with your pro red guy.
flowstone embrace is +2/-2! You probably misread it :p aaand you should have given a look to the morph drakes! you could play them even without playing blue! (I’ve never drafted the set, but noted these two things… oh, and the sunlances!)
Besides the above, Those 3/3 morph drakes would have been good in your deck and might also qualify as “tricks”. You didn’t even look at them cause they are blue, but they morph for white, so they would totally work for you. The weird morph enchantment was playable back when damage stacked cause you could deal 2 and then flip your enchantment so you kill a guy and are left with your enchantment (since damage on an enchantment doesn’t do anything).
Passing Pyrohemia seemed pretty awful just as the first commenter said.
Indeed, match 1 game 2 you can block the 6/6 wurm with the regenerating knight because he can not undo the regenerate (tapped out), like you prove the next turn.
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You kow you sound real old when you say “I don’t get it, this is all so confusing’
I played 3 of these drafts this week, first one i was just as confused as you, third one went a lot better and i won it with a sliverdeck. Allthough i did play the cards on my comeback to mtgo, they were all very far away in my memories…
Green was so, so open in this draft. I cried a little when you went red.
Reading cards is tech, new mechanics are one thing, but just not reading the cards in your hand or in play is pretty bad ev.
Its like the only thing you bothered to read on knight of the holy nimbus was flanking, you forgot shade has suspend.
I like the content, but certain plays like not blocking 6/6 with knight of holy nimbus when he tapped out for a creature before attacks are hard to watch.
-orvn
Trivial concerns such as “reading cards” probably fall by the wayside when you’re in an unfamiliar environment, trying to commentate, *and* watching the cards. Yes, it’s a bit (okay, a lot) cringeworthy to watch things like P2P1 happen, with the “Pestilence? seems bad” and the simply not reading the awesome white removal, but hey, learning a new environment is bad enough. Doing it while committing a large portion of your headspace to talking through what you’re doing must be torture.
In order to draft this block you reaaallly need to know the cards ahead of time. 1 minute is definitely not enough to process what these cards can actually do, especially if you are commentating.
Its always fun to watch retro drafts, but I found myself cringing a lot during this one. That being said, I’d love to watch you do another with a bit more knowledge of the cards!
I havent ever drafted this set, but how can you ever pass a 1cc 3dmg spell in your colors? :>
This was pretty painful to watch Marsh, but entertaining none-the-less. Please keep switching it up.
Despite a huge number of mistakes (since you didn’t know anything about this complicated set going in) Marshall did what you should do in an unknown format: stick to known interactions, draft removal (though recognizing removal in this set is tougher than normal *cough* flowstone embrance *cough*) and put together an aggressive curve. The resulting process and outcome were reasonable based on the limitations MArsh was working with.
Thanks for the comments guys, hopefully this was somewhat entertaining as it was obviously not educational in any way
I had fun with it but ya, this perhaps is not the all time best set to draft cold lol. I’ll give it another shot if it comes up on nix tix again in the future though, as I could see it being really fun to draft.
Agree with Daniel. When drafting a new format eg. Innistrad, it’s understandable to be ignorant of the cards…but an old format like TPF has plenty of material available for strategy beforehand, be it which cards are strong to mechanics and archetypes. Though, you have proven that Magic is designed well, enough so that even if you have 0 experience with the format you still can draft an aggressive Boros deck and win games.