I think you drafted just about the strongest Orzhov deck that your draft pod gave you access to. As you suspected, there was one Wither and Bloom... but it was Pack 1 Pick 1 when it was competing with Ajani. XD Unsurprisingly, that did not wheel.
20:41 huh. i never thought about using them like that when i saw the previews. just figured you would just cut lands 1 for 1 and really help with the flood. helping with flood and screw really ups the value of those cards. i was thinking they would be mostly just ok cards at best. never played with modal lands before so that is good info
35:27 why didn't you have priority to use Ajani before they could use removal? The stack was empty and you were the active player. Bugged? EDIT: cause he entered at the end of combat not during your second main phase. That's going to be a tricky trigger.
Have to wonder if you could get 16 or 17 of those land/spell cards in draft. What a crazy 5 color deck that would be. Edit: Ok after discussion, the goal is to get 22 of these in a deck!
Jeez this is stressful to watch! I'm always worried you're not going to make the pick in time. I like your content and style, but I will say the viewing experience would be better with a little bit of prep beforehand so you have some idea what the cards do and don't have to make rushed picks (which is tense... at least for this viewer). Also, I think you might have missed what creation of avacyn does. It's more of a delayed entomb + reanimate (which is considerably better than a delayed tutor, although it can be that too). Might not have been worth it (you're usually just tutoring up a 5/7 flyer most likely in this deck, which is a hefty life cost) but seems potentially very powerful if you have some bombs to search up and get into play ahead of schedule. You do have to pay the life-cost before getting the creature into play, so you can get blown out by enchant removal, but if not disrupted, it's essentially 3 mana to entomb + reanimate your best creature in two turns. And if you're low on life, you at least get to tutor a spell w/o taking damage (although it's really slow, but still nice to have the alternate mode). Either way, good job on getting this out and it was fun to watch... just a little bit anxiety-inducing at times ;).
I feel exactly the opposite about the prep. For me the most entertaining drafts are the blind ones. Numot used to do them a lot, but not anymore. At least Reid still does it from time to time. Usually Gomlet knows all the cards in a set in the very first draft and I feel very sad about it. This is great, figuring out how things work on the fly. For me that is the spirit of drafting. Improvise, adapt, overcome.
@@MartialCardist To each their own. I like watching these to get an informed look at the format so I have a bit of an edge as much as the entertainment value. I can understand why you'd enjoy that though. I used to be the same way, although in the last few years I decided it was more fun if I wasn't rushing all my picks w/o reading the cards. Personally when I'm drafting a new set I do like to discover and improvise a ton. But I also looked at the spoiler ahead of time. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive and given the text boxes on modern magic cards, I think a look at the spoiler beforehand goes a long way (you don't really have time anymore to read all the cards). Even if you know what all the cards do, there's a lot of experimentation and improvisation in how to play them, which go together, how highly to take different cards, thinking up new archetypes, etc.
@@brianh5844 Fair enough. Thanks for the polite and in-depth reply. Quite rare on the internet sadly. People like what they like, and that is a-okay. If I had money on the line, I would 100% study the format and even have the card list next to me, so I would know exactly what instants are available to my opponent for example. This is stressful for ME so I don't do it anymore, which might explain why I like more casual approaches these days. But I am a weirdo who loves chaos draft formats the most, because you have no idea what you get. =)
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I think you drafted just about the strongest Orzhov deck that your draft pod gave you access to. As you suspected, there was one Wither and Bloom... but it was Pack 1 Pick 1 when it was competing with Ajani. XD Unsurprisingly, that did not wheel.
20:41 huh. i never thought about using them like that when i saw the previews. just figured you would just cut lands 1 for 1 and really help with the flood. helping with flood and screw really ups the value of those cards. i was thinking they would be mostly just ok cards at best. never played with modal lands before so that is good info
35:27 why didn't you have priority to use Ajani before they could use removal? The stack was empty and you were the active player. Bugged?
EDIT: cause he entered at the end of combat not during your second main phase. That's going to be a tricky trigger.
Have to wonder if you could get 16 or 17 of those land/spell cards in draft. What a crazy 5 color deck that would be.
Edit: Ok after discussion, the goal is to get 22 of these in a deck!
Lets go!
Jeez this is stressful to watch! I'm always worried you're not going to make the pick in time. I like your content and style, but I will say the viewing experience would be better with a little bit of prep beforehand so you have some idea what the cards do and don't have to make rushed picks (which is tense... at least for this viewer).
Also, I think you might have missed what creation of avacyn does. It's more of a delayed entomb + reanimate (which is considerably better than a delayed tutor, although it can be that too). Might not have been worth it (you're usually just tutoring up a 5/7 flyer most likely in this deck, which is a hefty life cost) but seems potentially very powerful if you have some bombs to search up and get into play ahead of schedule. You do have to pay the life-cost before getting the creature into play, so you can get blown out by enchant removal, but if not disrupted, it's essentially 3 mana to entomb + reanimate your best creature in two turns. And if you're low on life, you at least get to tutor a spell w/o taking damage (although it's really slow, but still nice to have the alternate mode).
Either way, good job on getting this out and it was fun to watch... just a little bit anxiety-inducing at times ;).
I feel exactly the opposite about the prep. For me the most entertaining drafts are the blind ones. Numot used to do them a lot, but not anymore. At least Reid still does it from time to time. Usually Gomlet knows all the cards in a set in the very first draft and I feel very sad about it. This is great, figuring out how things work on the fly. For me that is the spirit of drafting. Improvise, adapt, overcome.
@@MartialCardist To each their own. I like watching these to get an informed look at the format so I have a bit of an edge as much as the entertainment value. I can understand why you'd enjoy that though. I used to be the same way, although in the last few years I decided it was more fun if I wasn't rushing all my picks w/o reading the cards.
Personally when I'm drafting a new set I do like to discover and improvise a ton. But I also looked at the spoiler ahead of time. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive and given the text boxes on modern magic cards, I think a look at the spoiler beforehand goes a long way (you don't really have time anymore to read all the cards).
Even if you know what all the cards do, there's a lot of experimentation and improvisation in how to play them, which go together, how highly to take different cards, thinking up new archetypes, etc.
@@brianh5844 Fair enough. Thanks for the polite and in-depth reply. Quite rare on the internet sadly. People like what they like, and that is a-okay. If I had money on the line, I would 100% study the format and even have the card list next to me, so I would know exactly what instants are available to my opponent for example. This is stressful for ME so I don't do it anymore, which might explain why I like more casual approaches these days. But I am a weirdo who loves chaos draft formats the most, because you have no idea what you get. =)