This is an awesome video. I love how Ben explains everything and highlights all of the interesting cards even when he knows he won't be picking them. This helps players learn.
Holly crap, I had to go back to 46:50 and stare at the board for 5 minutes to realize the lethal wasn't possible after playing the witch. Awesome calculation speed Ben!
at min 30 is it crazy to chump with the 3/2 so there is a value creature in bin to reanimate? Still get the 1/1 from the death trigger? Is this silly for a reason I am not thinking about?
It just wouldn't really accomplish anything. He'd still end up with a net loss of one saproling token. The main difference would be that your proposal would drain an extra point of life, but the match was so slow anyway that I don't think that would have made a gigantic difference in the end. (I honestly don't really want to put in the time to analyse the turn thoroughly, so if I have made a mistake in my analysis I'll own up to it).
I so do not get the boarding, the gorger basically made you survive by it continuously blocking big stuff, which they will still have G2, though you won't have any means to kill that big stuff anymore. Think it's just taking out the 2 Adventures and putting in to removal for the artifacts.
someone mentioned you in the comments of a Day9 video. great to see your explanations of everything, and seemed like a fun deck. any reason you haven't moved over to MTGA yet?
theXAKARI the main reason is the competition and prizes. Ben is one of the best players in the world and most people in Arena aren't close to his level. Plus, when he plays MODO he can actually win money and earn invites which he can't on Arena.
Hey Ben, thanks for the video! On pack 3, you passed two Tetsukos without comment, which have worked very well for me with saproling archetypes. Are there any circumstances that you would splash for Tetsuko?
Pack 3 Pick 1: too bad you didn't have any removal (outside Pierce the Sky for sideboard), because Forebear's Blade is so sweet on tokens. Also: MTGO should disable F6 on your first main phase if you haven't played anything IMO. Something like 1:12:30 shouldn't be allowed to happen, like it doesn't in paper MTG.
Only because in paper Magic the intent is easier to make clear. Not screwing up your commands on MTGO is part of MTGO. When you press the button that says you are done with your turn, then you are done with your turn. If they added a "are you sure" I would sure be pissed off about them eating my clock.
Dominaria is pretty good... then again, anything'd look good after IXA; remember how amazed we were at RIX? Then again, you say this, and then almost immediately (4th pack in) the packs end up being "just bad"... and that's been true of a lot of sets of late. ... Sylvan Awakening... it just wins games... you'll see another Soul Salvage... ... blade over removal, as it's a bomb in your deck. It's aggressive, but also great on the defense... ... Grunn > llanowar elves... when you only have 1 big creature thus far. Pounce 2.0 > Half Hell's Caretaker, especially when you have no big guys...
RIX was... at least 1/3rd bad (IXA was a really bad and unbalanced set, and I keep seeing similar mistakes in less quantity in DOM and M19... along with the return of feel-bad color hosers). I still think Ascend, qua mechanic, was handled poorly, the 4-tribes things was stifling, and the "borrowed" Harbinger and "reveal" cycles seemed to miss what was important from the block they originally appeared in (4/5 of the Silvergill Adept cycle saw play back then, but only Silvergill Adept sees serious play now; the Harbingers were fun back then, but these are just mediocre even for Commander/Brawl Tutors. Oh, and don't forget the uninspired, identical WB and UB "lords"... good in spite of themselves.) Explore - I like the mechanic, despite being clunky and confusing. Then again, Clash showed that anything Scry-esque is usually good. That said, no serious "When you explore" triggers, and very little support killed any Explore deck in the cradle. Ascend - Again, clunky (it's ALWYAS checking?), and there just isn't a deck out of the deal. Also, the flavor always seems off, as my common gets better when I ascend? Given Treasure, an ascend deck might be possible... if there was a payoff. Treasure - another wasted mechanic (and with Innovate in the same standard, this would be the one to shine with ANY SUPPORT). Flip lands - This is the thing that matters. Single, powerful cards that are fun and useful. But this highlights the flaw with RIX, and IXA block as a whole - individual cards are good, but EVERY THEME/MECHANIC was underpowered/under supported. In Onslaught and Lorwyn, there were always 3+ incidental tribal decks running around. Onslaught saw a Cycling deck. Lorwyn saw a Prowl deck. RIX/IXA... gave us good cards, but not decks built around much synergy. The solution? Stop making cards designed to be unplayable, and start making cards designed to be "pretty good" in some decks, but unplayable in others. When only 10% of the cards in a format are constructed playable (across all constructed formats), the set suffers. But you start knocking 1 mana off spells so they're not functionally worse than existing cards, and start doing competitive cycles? Now that's a set with less dead cards in limited, and more diversity in standard (though it's diversity that even a mistake like Chainwhirler can probably kill... that's what happens when you phone it is WOTC).
This is an awesome video. I love how Ben explains everything and highlights all of the interesting cards even when he knows he won't be picking them. This helps players learn.
Glad you keep making DOM content, Ben! Always a pleasure to watch.
Holly crap, I had to go back to 46:50 and stare at the board for 5 minutes to realize the lethal wasn't possible after playing the witch. Awesome calculation speed Ben!
"i assume that means they need to tend to their baby for a second..."
It is my dream as a limited specialist myself to one day have myself sit down at a draft pod with BenS on my left. Love your content keep it up dude!
Everything's always such a rush, thanks for taking the time for good content
Love your draft videos looking forward to your videos on M19
Pretty sure he said "Hold the BABY!" because he played an elf woman who is holding a baby.
Hold the baby is something Kenji says on his stream
Never realized there was a baby in the picture
match 1 game 1 is why this format is pretty sweet.
Such a sweet deck.
Phew, at the end of M1G1 I heard the Mario 100 seconds left warning go off in my head.
Love your draft videos, could you sometimes make quick draft videos for MTGA? (since no SB makes a difference i think)
Yay! Another Stark video :)
at min 30 is it crazy to chump with the 3/2 so there is a value creature in bin to reanimate? Still get the 1/1 from the death trigger? Is this silly for a reason I am not thinking about?
It just wouldn't really accomplish anything. He'd still end up with a net loss of one saproling token. The main difference would be that your proposal would drain an extra point of life, but the match was so slow anyway that I don't think that would have made a gigantic difference in the end. (I honestly don't really want to put in the time to analyse the turn thoroughly, so if I have made a mistake in my analysis I'll own up to it).
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I so do not get the boarding, the gorger basically made you survive by it continuously blocking big stuff, which they will still have G2, though you won't have any means to kill that big stuff anymore. Think it's just taking out the 2 Adventures and putting in to removal for the artifacts.
Everyone else: making M19 content
BenS: doesn't give a shit
BenS all alone in the DOM queues now
someone mentioned you in the comments of a Day9 video. great to see your explanations of everything, and seemed like a fun deck. any reason you haven't moved over to MTGA yet?
theXAKARI the main reason is the competition and prizes. Ben is one of the best players in the world and most people in Arena aren't close to his level. Plus, when he plays MODO he can actually win money and earn invites which he can't on Arena.
@@אמנוןטל also drafting on mtga against bots is not the same as drafting against other players
mediocre gaming skills true, although it wasn't that bad before Guilds
Hey Ben, thanks for the video! On pack 3, you passed two Tetsukos without comment, which have worked very well for me with saproling archetypes. Are there any circumstances that you would splash for Tetsuko?
'The good olle postcombat historic spell :D'
Pack 3 Pick 1: too bad you didn't have any removal (outside Pierce the Sky for sideboard), because Forebear's Blade is so sweet on tokens.
Also: MTGO should disable F6 on your first main phase if you haven't played anything IMO. Something like 1:12:30 shouldn't be allowed to happen, like it doesn't in paper MTG.
Only because in paper Magic the intent is easier to make clear. Not screwing up your commands on MTGO is part of MTGO. When you press the button that says you are done with your turn, then you are done with your turn. If they added a "are you sure" I would sure be pissed off about them eating my clock.
BenS. The best.
How's the laundry coming?
best DOM content
Watching Grunn and blackblade being left on the table hurt my soul.
Ben you're the best
Ben Stark is Casually Explained but for magic
Love your cat in the background
I LOVE YOU BEN
Dominaria is pretty good... then again, anything'd look good after IXA; remember how amazed we were at RIX?
Then again, you say this, and then almost immediately (4th pack in) the packs end up being "just bad"... and that's been true of a lot of sets of late.
... Sylvan Awakening... it just wins games... you'll see another Soul Salvage...
... blade over removal, as it's a bomb in your deck. It's aggressive, but also great on the defense...
... Grunn > llanowar elves... when you only have 1 big creature thus far.
Pounce 2.0 > Half Hell's Caretaker, especially when you have no big guys...
RIX was... at least 1/3rd bad (IXA was a really bad and unbalanced set, and I keep seeing similar mistakes in less quantity in DOM and M19... along with the return of feel-bad color hosers).
I still think Ascend, qua mechanic, was handled poorly, the 4-tribes things was stifling, and the "borrowed" Harbinger and "reveal" cycles seemed to miss what was important from the block they originally appeared in (4/5 of the Silvergill Adept cycle saw play back then, but only Silvergill Adept sees serious play now; the Harbingers were fun back then, but these are just mediocre even for Commander/Brawl Tutors. Oh, and don't forget the uninspired, identical WB and UB "lords"... good in spite of themselves.)
Explore - I like the mechanic, despite being clunky and confusing. Then again, Clash showed that anything Scry-esque is usually good. That said, no serious "When you explore" triggers, and very little support killed any Explore deck in the cradle.
Ascend - Again, clunky (it's ALWYAS checking?), and there just isn't a deck out of the deal. Also, the flavor always seems off, as my common gets better when I ascend? Given Treasure, an ascend deck might be possible... if there was a payoff.
Treasure - another wasted mechanic (and with Innovate in the same standard, this would be the one to shine with ANY SUPPORT).
Flip lands - This is the thing that matters. Single, powerful cards that are fun and useful. But this highlights the flaw with RIX, and IXA block as a whole - individual cards are good, but EVERY THEME/MECHANIC was underpowered/under supported. In Onslaught and Lorwyn, there were always 3+ incidental tribal decks running around. Onslaught saw a Cycling deck. Lorwyn saw a Prowl deck. RIX/IXA... gave us good cards, but not decks built around much synergy.
The solution? Stop making cards designed to be unplayable, and start making cards designed to be "pretty good" in some decks, but unplayable in others. When only 10% of the cards in a format are constructed playable (across all constructed formats), the set suffers. But you start knocking 1 mana off spells so they're not functionally worse than existing cards, and start doing competitive cycles? Now that's a set with less dead cards in limited, and more diversity in standard (though it's diversity that even a mistake like Chainwhirler can probably kill... that's what happens when you phone it is WOTC).
Lol, Hour of Devastation was infinitely better than Ixalan block. Don't know why people are overlooking it suddenly.
ONtamed kavu... ONkicked. IT'S UN. U.N. UN. NOT ON.
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