One thing to consider in this limited format is if you have only one card which cares about the day/night cycle, it may be wise not to play it at all. Once the cycle starts it keeps going for the rest of the game, so if you start it and your mediocre werewolf gets killed, any opponent who can use that cycle better than you may just get it to be night for free.
I've been smoking jerky and storing it in the chest freezer to eventually be shipped as Christmas presents to the distant family members. Closer ones get ribs, pulled pork, brisket and smoked salmon care packages.
If your sludge monster is bounced and returns, or dies and you cast another one, the slime tokens are still on characters right? So the things you slimes before get turned back to 2/2s?
Yeah, MTGA is not like MTGO. It won't let you respond to your own triggers/spells unless you put a stop or do full control. I've punted a lot of plays because of this.
@@joaomarcosdeaquino1598 not necessarily learning for standard, just learning what others think of certain cards overall. LSV is pretty good at explaining a card value in general, not just for one format. And zombies got a lot of fun toys in innistrad, plus they had some decent things in forgotten realms and a few in.. uh... Vikings set. I forgot the name lol.
@@joaomarcosdeaquino1598 competitive? What's that? I'm building it purely out of love for the archetype, and also I usually play jank or more....shall we say creative builds. I've been playing for over ten years, I'm past the point of caring about anything more than fun, and bringing joy to others in the community. Zombies are just one of those decks I love to build and play.
@@sebastianthomas2113 I've been playing for more than 20 years and I'm still a Spike. Magic is not a colaborative game and "bringing joy to the community" is in no way incompatible with building good decks and winning (case in point, LSV). But if you are building for fun, all power to you, just not my thing.
I had a game where I had 2 near back-to-back Day/Night Triggers off of Celestus Sanctifier where I saw 2 plains, drew it, and then saw another 2 plains when I had forest and ANOTHER plains in hand. Some games you just can't win, lol
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Why is it when I watch the streamers draft I rarely see the kind of mana flood / screw that I always get? Tonight I drafted three times. Each time I got to three wins and either had around 75% - 80% lands or approx15% lands in first 15 cards. This is why I quite arena, before. People will argue this but when you're consistently drawing 8 lands in a row in a 40 card deck, always at around 2 or 3 wins..... something is super fishy.
I understand. But to be fair, even in this stream, the opponent got so mana screwed that they just quit and similarly, LSV too bricked hard. I think it happens to everyone but sometimes maybe on avg. it might happen to you more.
Thats just how rng is supposed to work. Sometimes you have bad luck sometimes good luck. People tend to misremember how much luck or bad luck they receive
@@slungellife I think people do tend to only remember the bad, and ignore the good. However, when I quit playing about a year ago, I had compiled a record of land draws using an excel sheet and used that data to calculate the probability of getting these kinds of hands, repeatedly - the probability was in the billions or trillions, I don't recall exactly. I sorta decided that I would just ignore it - it is what it is - the shuffler is being rigged against some/all people for some reason, likely to limit profitability of drafts or to increase sales, or both. However, it's still super frustrating and it dawned on me, last night, that when I watch the big streamers like LSV or CGB, what I experience is with mana screw and the regularity and predictable timing of it is not something I often see with those streamers - makes me wonder. Really makes me wonder.
@@RCTricking That could be the case with ranked or something, but not with draft. Plotting land draws and the predictability of draws isn't superstition. Drawing 11 lands in 15 cards, or 2 in 15, with predictable regularity after 3 or 4 wins isn't superstition. I'm not a statistics expert, but I did find a site that allows for you to input the number of cards, the numbers of unique cards and their quantity, and calculate the probability of drawing the sequence of lands or total absence of lands. The probability was so astronomically improbable, one can only conclude it's being manipulated. This isn't a small sample size, either. And, this occurrence can also be compared to hand shuffling paper. I think if it happened once in a while, like it does when playing paper, it'd be easy to dismiss it. However, with Arena, it happens most of the time after three or four wins in draft. That's highly suspicious due to both the regularity and the timing. Superstitious? No suspicious.
Black has been unimpressive to me in this format so far. There are many good Disturb creatures running around that black just doesnt handle very well. Blue and green have so far stood out to me as best colours. Shadowbeast sighting is such a house
I played two drafts in total. One with black as a primary colour, other with black as secondary. Both decks went 7-2 and black was a powerhouse when it came to removals. Defenestrate, eaten alive and the 1B lose two life kill spells all performed very well for me.
@@olinkaspar9711 maybe it's just me and a preference for UG, but it's like the combination of flashback, disturb and self-mill just outvalues any number of 1-for-1s
So annoying when people use twitch content to make RUclips videos. I don’t want to hear someone thanking subs for the first ten minutes and saying random things to his subs throughout the video. It’s unprofessional and makes for horrible content for people on RUclips. Step your game up man….
It's part of the charm for me. Also I can't access Twich for reasons I don't want to disscuss here so this is the only way for me to get this content. For RUclips dedicated content I'd recommend CGB.
@@nalceD1 without getting too wordy…. I don’t like having a countdown timer on every action. I much prefer the in game currency and trading on mtgo. I find the visual effects to be extraneous and distracting. If you hadn’t added your caveat, I would also say that mtgo offers way better formats to draft.
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One thing to consider in this limited format is if you have only one card which cares about the day/night cycle, it may be wise not to play it at all. Once the cycle starts it keeps going for the rest of the game, so if you start it and your mediocre werewolf gets killed, any opponent who can use that cycle better than you may just get it to be night for free.
I've been smoking jerky and storing it in the chest freezer to eventually be shipped as Christmas presents to the distant family members. Closer ones get ribs, pulled pork, brisket and smoked salmon care packages.
Do I count as a (very) distant family member?
If your sludge monster is bounced and returns, or dies and you cast another one, the slime tokens are still on characters right? So the things you slimes before get turned back to 2/2s?
Yes, slime counters stays at creatures until they leave BF
Oh, wonderful, I get to have me getting my ass kicked by LSV immortalized in a CFB video.
now you have new buds!
Much better timing with this draft. Wonderful stuff.
You do need to go on full control or set a stop. MTGA won't stop to let you sac a decayed zombie when your own decayed trigger is on the stack.
Yeah, MTGA is not like MTGO. It won't let you respond to your own triggers/spells unless you put a stop or do full control. I've punted a lot of plays because of this.
I’m so used to MTGA on my phone I keep tapping the bottom of the RUclips video trying to see what’s in your hand.
I do this when streaming with friends all the time
Ahh the coincidence...I was working on UB zombies for standard right before watching this. Nice to get some insight on specific cards
Not sure draft is a sound way to learn lessons for standard.
(Also, not sure zombies has enough support, but I could be wrong.)
@@joaomarcosdeaquino1598 not necessarily learning for standard, just learning what others think of certain cards overall. LSV is pretty good at explaining a card value in general, not just for one format. And zombies got a lot of fun toys in innistrad, plus they had some decent things in forgotten realms and a few in.. uh... Vikings set. I forgot the name lol.
@@sebastianthomas2113 That would be Kaldheim, but I still think it's far from seriously competitive standard. But again, could be wrong.
@@joaomarcosdeaquino1598 competitive? What's that? I'm building it purely out of love for the archetype, and also I usually play jank or more....shall we say creative builds. I've been playing for over ten years, I'm past the point of caring about anything more than fun, and bringing joy to others in the community. Zombies are just one of those decks I love to build and play.
@@sebastianthomas2113 I've been playing for more than 20 years and I'm still a Spike. Magic is not a colaborative game and "bringing joy to the community" is in no way incompatible with building good decks and winning (case in point, LSV). But if you are building for fun, all power to you, just not my thing.
This draft format has been the best I've seen in years rg wolves, rb aggro, ub zombies, gb big stuff, ur spellslinger are all valid and viable
UW disturb has also been really good for me
Maybe
@@ezralee297 no kidding got beat by Ominous Roost and U/W disturb
I mean it Ll seems exciting, but it's a little early to say it is all viable. We have to play it out and find out which is super fun!
I can confirm that triskadecaphile combo is NOT viable :{
where can i watch more of him playing drafts?
Does this draft format trump Og innistrad I wonder?
No. Thats near impossible
I had a game where I had 2 near back-to-back Day/Night Triggers off of Celestus Sanctifier where I saw 2 plains, drew it, and then saw another 2 plains when I had forest and ANOTHER plains in hand. Some games you just can't win, lol
Thanks. I got stomped my first draft, I need help for the second😂🤣
if youre looking for more content, my channel has several MID drafts up and ready for consumption! here is my latest: ruclips.net/video/NP4GsklGLQk/видео.html
Did my prerelease at my local card shop and won didn't even pull a high dollar card either lol won a custom prerelease wolf matt sultai won it for me
Ren and stimpy all day.
lol 2021 when a 3/3 flying flash creature for 5 isn't playable in limited.
It was printed in SOI already and wasn't playable there, so...
3 red removals and 1 green in pack1 pick 6 was too much for me
Why is it when I watch the streamers draft I rarely see the kind of mana flood / screw that I always get? Tonight I drafted three times. Each time I got to three wins and either had around 75% - 80% lands or approx15% lands in first 15 cards. This is why I quite arena, before. People will argue this but when you're consistently drawing 8 lands in a row in a 40 card deck, always at around 2 or 3 wins..... something is super fishy.
I understand. But to be fair, even in this stream, the opponent got so mana screwed that they just quit and similarly, LSV too bricked hard. I think it happens to everyone but sometimes maybe on avg. it might happen to you more.
Thats just how rng is supposed to work. Sometimes you have bad luck sometimes good luck. People tend to misremember how much luck or bad luck they receive
@@slungellife I think people do tend to only remember the bad, and ignore the good. However, when I quit playing about a year ago, I had compiled a record of land draws using an excel sheet and used that data to calculate the probability of getting these kinds of hands, repeatedly - the probability was in the billions or trillions, I don't recall exactly. I sorta decided that I would just ignore it - it is what it is - the shuffler is being rigged against some/all people for some reason, likely to limit profitability of drafts or to increase sales, or both. However, it's still super frustrating and it dawned on me, last night, that when I watch the big streamers like LSV or CGB, what I experience is with mana screw and the regularity and predictable timing of it is not something I often see with those streamers - makes me wonder. Really makes me wonder.
@@treasurehunt7812 it’s almost like people show their highlights and don’t post the mana screw games. But RNG does make people superstitious
@@RCTricking That could be the case with ranked or something, but not with draft. Plotting land draws and the predictability of draws isn't superstition. Drawing 11 lands in 15 cards, or 2 in 15, with predictable regularity after 3 or 4 wins isn't superstition. I'm not a statistics expert, but I did find a site that allows for you to input the number of cards, the numbers of unique cards and their quantity, and calculate the probability of drawing the sequence of lands or total absence of lands. The probability was so astronomically improbable, one can only conclude it's being manipulated. This isn't a small sample size, either. And, this occurrence can also be compared to hand shuffling paper. I think if it happened once in a while, like it does when playing paper, it'd be easy to dismiss it. However, with Arena, it happens most of the time after three or four wins in draft. That's highly suspicious due to both the regularity and the timing. Superstitious? No suspicious.
Black has been unimpressive to me in this format so far. There are many good Disturb creatures running around that black just doesnt handle very well. Blue and green have so far stood out to me as best colours. Shadowbeast sighting is such a house
I played two drafts in total. One with black as a primary colour, other with black as secondary. Both decks went 7-2 and black was a powerhouse when it came to removals. Defenestrate, eaten alive and the 1B lose two life kill spells all performed very well for me.
@@olinkaspar9711 maybe it's just me and a preference for UG, but it's like the combination of flashback, disturb and self-mill just outvalues any number of 1-for-1s
@@bjarkov12 well, there's a literal one mana spell, with flashback for 2, and creates a 2/2 zombie - to fix that exact problem.
ggs
It would have been cool if decayed zombies could block, but only at night. Also, if the animation for said blocking zombies was a parody on Thriller.
Es tut mir leid ich musste ein paar dine mit meinem schüler klären. Ich wollte nicht, dass sie da hineingezogen werden.
Here is my latest MID draft: ruclips.net/video/NP4GsklGLQk/видео.html ..7 wins, not too shabby!!! thanks for helping me grow my channel!!
So annoying when people use twitch content to make RUclips videos. I don’t want to hear someone thanking subs for the first ten minutes and saying random things to his subs throughout the video. It’s unprofessional and makes for horrible content for people on RUclips. Step your game up man….
It's part of the charm for me. Also I can't access Twich for reasons I don't want to disscuss here so this is the only way for me to get this content. For RUclips dedicated content I'd recommend CGB.
Ugh….. arena. Never mind.
Honest question, what don't you like about it? I've always thought it was a better overall experience for the formats that are implemented.
@@nalceD1 without getting too wordy….
I don’t like having a countdown timer on every action.
I much prefer the in game currency and trading on mtgo.
I find the visual effects to be extraneous and distracting.
If you hadn’t added your caveat, I would also say that mtgo offers way better formats to draft.
Dunno I think mtg arena provides a lot of value to casual players.
@@TerranEarth I agree that it’s much easier to get into for new players, which is probably better for magic. Just not my kind of game.