Reid Duke and Ken Takahama playing Round 8 Game 2 is a really great game to watch. It starts at around 1:24 of the Day 2 stream, with Ken up 1-0. Ken is playing a crazy strong BR rats deck with a lot of good removal and Reid is playing a UG splash B ramp deck with a lot of [[Hamlet Glutton]] and [[Up the Beanstalk]] spells.
Ken Takahama's Day 2 draft deck is just insane. This is what I aspire to play and never come close:
I've used tappedout.net since as far as I can remember. I don't think it's better than the alternatives, I use it mostly just out of habit.
I like scryfall.com's deckbuilder too.
Match 6 coverage of Gab Nassif vs. Anthony Lee is awesome! Starts at around 6:30 in the stream I think.
I personally would have also been playing Esper Midrange. I don't see why anyone plays anything else tbh in this current meta.
Back up for me now
Still nothing! I can't believe it's still offline
still down at 5pm! wtf is going on here
I agree, not everyone has even close to the time needed to fully understand all the cards/mechanics/metagame for a new set. I think that's a great idea.
One thing I want to add that I don't this has been mentioned, is that there are some misconceptions during drafting about which "lane" to be in. Certainly one of the primary skills in draft is to read the picks coming upstream to see which colors or "lanes" are open to draft in. By picking cards of a certain color you can signal that the color is being picked and for others to go elsewhere.
The misconceptions I think are that you have to always adapt to what you see every draft, but really you have much more control over the colors you play than you might think. There is much more control in a Cube draft where the overall card quality is high -- every card is pretty good so you end up with playables no matter what color pair you select. However, if the set has a high amount of playable commons or if every color is viable then you can usually play whatever color pair you feel most comfortable in. This is called "forcing" a color or pair or deck archetype.
In short, I think it's easier to force a color pair in a normal set draft than people think. And by extension, if you have a color pair or archetype that you particularly enjoy playing or are good at, then my recommendation is to force that as much as possible and get good at it and building that type of deck in the draft environment. I personally think that will help a player become better at drafting more than anything else, outside of the basics.
So far it's been my favorite set since Zendikar Rising. I absolutely love it and I'm planning to draft as much as possible. Some of the things I love a lot:
- Role tokens -- these are so versatile and add a really fun element to the game
- Bargain -- combos with roles and food tokens really well and this is another great mechanic
- All of the colors are playable and each has advantages
- Nearly every color pair has a good strategy and has a shot against any deck
- There aren't too many bombs that run away with the game, everything seems like you can beat it or play around it
Things that killed me in LTR limited were cards like [[Witch-king of Angmar]] being unanswerable, or the fact that Izzet turbo tempt was obviously the strongest deck, or grixis being the only real viable colors to play. I think green was flat out unplayable.
WOE to me feels like every game is a great game of magic. I'm interested to see how sealed is but so far for me the format has been a lot of fun. Both to play and watch streamers play. I think there are still lots of new things to discover too.
Saheeli and Dinobots are giving me some serious Dinotopia nostalgia