Limited Resources 711 - Weatherlight Revisited with TBS!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis welcome TBS back on the show for another blast from the past as the guys revisit Weatherlight! Weatherlight was the third expansion of the Mirage block and left its mark not so much for the cards but for the concept of expanding the lore over multiple blocks. Enjoy!
You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: / limitedresources
Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas
Marshall’s Twitter: / marshall_lr
Luis’s Twitter: / lsv
LR Community Subreddit: / lrcast
I'm not a longtime player, I just fell in love with Arena limited mid pandemic. I wrote the first couple of these revisited shows off as "not for me", but I eventually watched the Ice Age show some time ago and I was surprised to find myself utterly fascinated! Now these instalments are among my favorite MtG content. Highly recommend watching if you're also like me and thinking "this doesn't apply to me." Thank you for the perspective and insight into a bygone era I'd have never understood otherwise.
I *am* a longtime player (started around 2000) and also love these! They help me "catch up" on the couple years I missed.
I love these episodes! Once I get bored with the current set, this kind of stuff gets me watching! THANK YOU!!
I love this series! Already looking forward to the next installment. 😁
The Resleevables’ Ice Age and LR’s Weatherlight review in the same day? Us old timers are not worthy!
Love the old set reviews!
The thrill of thinking about cards, inspiring cards with their own identities! This is a huge part of magic, and something I miss a lot just playing arena these days.
Respeavables and LR talking about old sets uploaded on the same day? Best thing that can happen.
Love it! Also, at 5:10, shoutout to Marshall for recognizing banding as actually a powerful mechanic. Most players (erroneously) think it is bad.
I have most of the cards in the pack at the start of the video... what a nostalgia
Good review! You hit most of the cards I remembered noteworthy and hoped for.
For limited I would have mentioned Heavy Ballista, which was quite strong and another reason on top of Empyrial Armor why white was so strong.
For constructed, I remember Steel Golem being quite played as win con for decs that didn't play other creatures (just stalking stones etc).
It would be great if we could have all of these retro reviews in one playlist here on RUclips!
As a mechanic that appeared in Alpha, landwalk was the primitive equivalent of evergreen at the time. Banding too, but maybe closer to the equivalent of decidious since it's overcomplexity was already well known by then.
I don't get where the meme that banding is complicated comes from, nor why people bother to repeat it. It's a dead simple mechanic: creatures attacking as a band is treated as a single creature and you get to decide how combat damage is distributed among them, not the defender. You can also bring one extra non banding creature to the band, which makes sense.
That's all there is to it. It was taught to me this way thirty years ago as a child, and I got it instantly. I don't see how anyone can have trouble with this concept.
My first full booster box was weatherlight and I had the whole set at one time. It started magics longest running story. "It does nothing" ha
As a 37 yr old, I appreciate the throwback!
36 y.o. here, and I concur!
41 here, and yeah, it's a great throwback. You guys must have really young during Weatherlight.
AEther Flash was the catalyst for me making my first “proper” deck. Rather than just tweaking precon theme decks or just chucking a bunch of goblins together. I’d have pulled it from a 6th Edition booster. My friends played weenies. I thought I’d I put this in a deck with big green creatures that could be good. Vine trellis ramped me but had high toughness. Shock and Incinerate to deal with anything that got past the enchantment. Spidersilk Armour so I could still play Yavimaya Wurm if I had two enchantments out, and also help me deal with a Storm Crow if it’d snuck past me early. Still have the deck together now, pulled back to a Saga/Masques era set of cards. A bit more optimised than it would have been at the time, while still trying to keep that schoolyard vibe.
If anyone's wondering, the sole swampwalk card was Odylic Wraith (the anti-Ophidian).
LSV, if you want to play some competitive Premodern, come join our online monthly webcam tournament. We usually have around 100 players and play 6 rounds before cutting to elimination rounds.
Someone just needs needs to drag him out to the next Misty event. Sam Black can’t just chuck tax rack into another archetype this time around so it’s anyone’s game.
I'm sure he can't wait
Man I hope Arena someday brings back these old sets for phantom drafts... From someone who started in Mercadian Masques, I really only saw some of the Tempest block cards and rarely anything prior to that, so feel like I missed out.
The only magic series I still watch. Aside from Rhystic Studies.
I got 2nd place at the weatherlight prerelease using abeyance and tariffs 😅
Dang I was hoping they would talk about Mix-Up draft. This one is not as interesting to me
Cards and sets used to be so bad. It’s a miracle magic lasted as long as it has
This is only in hindsight. The cards then were exactly as powerful as they are expected to be, compared to cards that existed back then. Sets would have cards that were bombs and others that were junkers, just like sets now. The main change is that the variance between amazing and awful isn't as big now in each set, and there's better themes.
Also, counterpoint: Power 9.
They were great, not bad, as the three hosts for this show also recognize. They were thrilled back then. Only in hingsight, 20 years of development later, they see that things could have been done a bit better.
I love how you guys think that things are better now that they "figured out the formula." Especially how Luis dismisses nostalgia for a simpler time. You and I have very different definitions of successful apparently. Yes, card design may have been awkward back then, but at least it allowed for imaginative gameplay. And do you really think standard is better now? Standard has been stagnant for YEARS. It's a boring, repetative scene of midrange value decks that lead to endless mirror feeling matchups. Even Rosewater himself has conceded that Commander is now as high a priority as standard. So yes, they figured out the formula but the game's most prominent mode is on life support. There's a reason people play more commander, cubes and pre-modern. They're yearning for that time of card design. Perfect, balanced card design and fun gameplay are two very different things.
Didn’t know Bobby Lee played magic
is there a playlist for these?? fantastic!