Modern Masters presents one of the most complex and challenging limited environments of all time. With dedicated archetypes available for each two-color combination as well as ample support for greedier manabases, the possibilities are almost endless. Check out this episode of Simon Says to see how I did in this phantom MMA draft!
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I feel like this draft perfectly represents my experience with this format. You draft a sweet deck, then just get beat. Somehow it feels shallow, but maybe i just suck at It.
The opponent’s deck was really good and highly synergistic, but would also get completely hosed by a different archetype. I think your deck ended up on par, but you got the worse matchup.
After two weeks of drafting this format, I still can’t tell whether it’s better to force an archetype or stay open. Now I guess I’ll never know.
SG losing to Saprolings. The end is near.
I drafted thallids twice so far, both times after opening Doubling Season. Both decks seemed to be sick, just well oiled machines with every key card present, and proceeded to get completely trounced R1, once by fairies and once by rebels.
He drafted saporlings with no one else at the table taking them, not much you can do about that. Some of the cards that could get you out of it in your colors you just didn’t see. Path to Exile was great in case Pallid Mycoderm hit, the only other thing I can think of you didn’t have. Sudden Shock would have allowed you to 2 for one yourself to stay alive.
Anyway, thanks for the content, look forward to the next one.
I have to agree with the first commenter Sfen. The format seems a little too rock/paper/scissors-y for my taste. It’s still skill intensive and fun, but in the end you still end up with a couple drafters at the table with “the nuts” x, y, and z deck and which one comes out on top is completely determined by matchups.
In any event, keep bringing us great drafts and commentary. Look forward to these every 2 weeks (wish it were weekly, but can’t be too greedy). Thanks!
Simon,
I think you provide the best limited content on the web, and I am grateful for that. Please pardon a few complaints this week, however. It was a big let down to see a 1 round video, particularly when you do not release content every week. Also, you seemed uncharacteristically flippant and resigned about the games, halfheartedly computing survival math, and even putting yourself dead on board in an elimination game.
I too think that you consistently make the highest quality limited content.
This time however, the content was nowhere near that level. You should learn as much as possible from this; go through the videos and have someone discuss them with you because your early elimination was only your fault. There were so many questionable picks from the very start and the gameplay wasn’t on the level. Quite uncharacteristic for you.
Make the most of it, though.
Detect your errors and come back stronger than ever.
Despite being critical, the last few comments are quite respectful, so I don’t want to be understood to be claiming otherwise. But… I’m pretty sure this is Simon’s only Round 1-loss out of the total 49 installments of Simon Says.
Can i ask the collective intelligence here about the choice of running the Tromp instead of keeping it more simple and running Stir The Pride
I don’t claim to know much about the format but splashing a card requiring multiple basics seems counter intuitive when there is a similar option in colour. In the end you took some black cards to further help the colour issue but i felt like that was a bit forced too.
I’m due to draft this set with my buddies soon and im keen to know what people think.
Like most MMA drafts, you should go back and see just how open storm was. Obviously with hindsight it’s super open but almost all MMA drafts I watch storm is just wide open because storm cards tend to ONLY be good in storm decks.