I knew this was gonna be an interesting one based on the video lenght. A perfect summary of Arena BO1 experience. The only thing I am surprised about is how surprised Kenji is to be playing vs such busted decks/draws. In diamond/mythic, cca 25% of drafts go like this in my experience.
Wow~~ Really solid deck. Mmm, thanks always for explaining your thoughts for each pick. And for uploading these rough drafts, they're still entertaining!
Watching you handle the flood is inspirational. We’ve all been there with the RNG and it is ROUGH. Thank you for sharing your content. I always learn so much from it.
5 of my last 6 drafts have been like this, drafted some absolutely insane decks that should have been super consistent and then just get actually shit on by the MTG shuffler.
@@woocls4973 Agreed. And it's become mostly accessible to very good players. I am just a casual player but playing online draft means going 1-3 and 0-3 95% of the time. And that's unfun too
Man, thank you for uploading this video. I had the exact same experience yesterday evening: I drafted a deck that I supposed to be very good and I went 1-3. But, I am a beginner, so I got a bit frustrated and I was thinking a lot about what was wrong. Now, I see that something similar can happen also to a very good player like you, and I learn that a bad result doesn't necessarily mean you drafted a bad deck. Again, thank you for this content. It is also incredible that this is the first absolute video that I see from your channel. Looking for more :)
Looks at video lengths* Me: What happened? Looks at draft* Me: Oh yes Watches the matches* Me: Oh no... In all seriousness, those draws were horrendous. But, regardless of the result, I will still be here eagerly awaiting your next vid.
I redact my previous comment on a different draft video. As much as it stinks for you to feel like you have a good deck and then perform poorly, it gives me hope. I feel like this all the time. It’s a comfort to know even someone at your level had poor luck and gets frustrated. Thanks for the vids. You help me to be a better drafter.
I'm not sure whether to cry or laugh. How..? Opponents playing constructed over here. I feel your pain. At the same time, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one getting battered by the RNGeesus.
Arena defies every logic on a daily basis. That's why I quit it and embraced more playtime in real games with real people and real shuffling/cutting of my Decks. Time of my life. Nonetheless I have to bow down to Kenji for his endless amount of energy not to quit his job
@@Typhus2 I mean you have to realize that the meaning of true randomness is sometimes that you will draw 15 lands in a row. Keep in mind that there's 40! (approx. 8.1 * 10^47) valid shufflings of a 40 card deck. At the end of the day the specific shuffling we saw in game 1 is just as likely as any other individual shuffling of the deck, so although it's extremely unlikely in a specific game that you'll get flooded out that badly, if you play enough games you are likely to play a game where your deck was stacked in the most miserable way possible. That's just life, randomness, and the fact that you're simply playing far more games on Arena than you likely ever have in real life.
The odds on magic arena are way off the shuffler is actuallyrigged to give players worse land draws especially when you run 16 lands for some reason youll flood more than with 17 lands defies all reason thats the problem its NOT random @@Aradalf
Hey man just wanted to say you are phenomenal player with minimal if any miss plays in all your videos. You do a great job at explaining what you are thinking during the draft and matches, I have learned a lot from you. You loose gracefully but you should concede less often and make you opponent go the distance, you never know what the next draw could be or if your playing a fan and they might want to play you longer. Been watching you for a few months but the fact you're willing to post this made want to sub and follow. Either way you're the man keep doing your thing.
when you play enough, you know when a game is a < 1% of winning, so to reduce the time you spend losing (which takes a toll on your mind), you should just concede. people think you need to eek out every %, but sometimes you will win more in the long run by conceding in these spots (playing better, less tilt, less tired). however, if you want to watch someone who never concedes, i can only think of reid duke
@@dudaseifert i agree with both of you But in the last game we only need a creature with axe and we re back in the game. Op having a lot of cards doesnt mean he has removal! I think Kenji was just frustriate which is understable!
@@SkulosGavlast game the opp had an infinite draw engine with gourmand + skelly + amulet that also burns He had only a land in hand, even if he drew a creature it could at most delay the inevitable for a turn
I'm sorry, but you saying Stroke of Midnight would be better than Make Your Move if the opponent had Krenko or something, then you ending up with Make vs Krenko game 3 is hilarious. That felt scripted. It's like the universe really wanted to mess with you.
I just imagine this happening on friday night draft at my lgs I would be so mad i would not come back for a few weeks Draft insane deck and then going 0/3
This did make me feel better. I've had some washouts like this recently with decks I thought were pretty good. Seeing that this happens to you occasionally makes me feel a little less horrible. haha
Man, kudos to you from Ukraine. Country at war, father of a two-year-old, I also spend my evenings sometimes 0-3ing with a perfectly good deck. So refreshing to see your ever positive vibe. Good beats, man, good beats.
I feel you. Really do. It's insane how great built decks are still getting ripped appart by bombs and you barely can do a thing about it. Maybe everyone should play control. How fun is that ?
Got my first trophy in this format with BW where I was picking the blue duals very highly. Got lucky/rewarded with two Empyreans and a Scavenger as my blue cards.
My uw flyer decks found all 16 lands in the first 22 cards of my deck, only saw 6 non lands, the fact my opponent wasn't able to kill me till then either is what really added to the salt, but that's magic ig
Same scenarios here, nothing you can do about wraths on two of those games as those decks are the winning decks most of the time if wrath hits the table.
They really need to do something about that shuffler i dont know what it is that they can do but something has to be done like drawing 7-8 lands in a row is just absurd i had the same issue for 2 days that i draw 6-7-8 lands in a row in my games back to back.
I drafted a birds deck the other night with 3 of the uncommon +1/+1 to other fliers cards, very tough to stop a legion of 3/4 owls for any length of time.. Sorry it didn't work out for you this time around :(
I’ve had 2 different nut UW decks and won 1 game combined. The 1 deck had 3 eagles and 4 mystics and went 1-3. Time to give the set a break for a little.
I went 1-3 with an amazing boros deck with 3 heroic reinforcements. Ending up playing 3 people who had drafted aetherise (and drew it). The point I am making is, I feel your pain.
So frustrating when you can only afford to draft once or twice per set, and shit like this happens. Makes me never want to draft; at least if I have a bad streak of luck in standard I'm not out $10-20. Feels like gambling sometimes which I absolutely despise.
That was an amazingly well maneuvered draft and yet I somehow managed to trophy with a very mediocre Black/White deck. There is truly no justice in this world.
When this happens to me, I literally just bust out laughing at the absurdity. 2 mana floods with 16 lands is diabolical work. Sorry fam, your deck was sweet. It was too bad all I saw were the lands in it 😭
Arena finally realized you were sad facing all of their games regardless. They decided that if you were going to say you weren't having fun they were going to make it true.
I've had multiple u/w fliers decks fail just as hard, and they were better lists. So I'd say it's a mid tier archetype and looking to draft other builds from now on.
I think the issue is that u/w fliers is a tempo deck that has no answers to non attacking creatures other than banishing light since most stay away from Stroke of Midnight
Is this situation common or rare with you my friend? It happens a lot in my account.. i build great decks, 7 wins decks for sure.. but some evil force (mtgashuffler/matchmaking) always jokes on me.. i wish we could play against the other 7 players that was in the same table.. but.. i dont know if this will be possible in mtga.. cuz i dont like the idea of a suspicious algorithm searching for my opponents.. always bad matches, the opponent having all the answers, great bombs and always in the right time.. very "weird"
Ive had a few of these types of drafts deck isnabove average to good and it jjst gets run over There are alot of powerful cards in this format magic happens
It's wierd, but I absolutely love watching the videos where you go 0-3 or 1-3. Just makes me feel so much better about my losing 10k gems over the past couple sets in limited. That's magic baby!
If you consider adding twenty dead minutes of video after a short length video, maybe you could make something like a review video in advance, and put it at the end of the video when something similar as this happens?
You are playing against Platinum/Mythic players who obviously have figured out Foundations draft at this point as well. While this might still be on the high end of opponent deck quality it somewhat expected. It is a different system than MTGO where you would actually get easy decks in the 0-2 bracket. That said I do not enjoy your pain but I do enjoy showing the bad results as well. Keeps in realistic. Still some entertainment.
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Post Draft: "I can see this getting 7 wins" goes 0-3. Welcome to my Arena experience
This content is relateable; draft a good deck, pilot it well, opponent has every perfect answer, flood + screw, 0:3
it's like if arena matchmaking worked different if you have a good deck
*Sees Video length*
*Visible concern*
U/W fliers takes no prisoners
Must be a speedrun
@@orisno1246 Turned out it was a speedflight.
I knew this was gonna be an interesting one based on the video lenght. A perfect summary of Arena BO1 experience. The only thing I am surprised about is how surprised Kenji is to be playing vs such busted decks/draws. In diamond/mythic, cca 25% of drafts go like this in my experience.
Wow~~ Really solid deck. Mmm, thanks always for explaining your thoughts for each pick. And for uploading these rough drafts, they're still entertaining!
"I hope my pain is your pleasure"
Let me tell you, I was howling when you said that 😂😂😂
Watching you handle the flood is inspirational. We’ve all been there with the RNG and it is ROUGH. Thank you for sharing your content. I always learn so much from it.
5 of my last 6 drafts have been like this, drafted some absolutely insane decks that should have been super consistent and then just get actually shit on by the MTG shuffler.
That’s the problem with magic lately. The game has become seriously unfun.
This is the problem of streamlined magic design. Any stumble on mana and it's curtains
@@woocls4973 Agreed. And it's become mostly accessible to very good players. I am just a casual player but playing online draft means going 1-3 and 0-3 95% of the time. And that's unfun too
I love that you didnt lose your sense of humour even after these rough games
Man, thank you for uploading this video.
I had the exact same experience yesterday evening: I drafted a deck that I supposed to be very good and I went 1-3. But, I am a beginner, so I got a bit frustrated and I was thinking a lot about what was wrong. Now, I see that something similar can happen also to a very good player like you, and I learn that a bad result doesn't necessarily mean you drafted a bad deck. Again, thank you for this content. It is also incredible that this is the first absolute video that I see from your channel. Looking for more :)
Looks at video lengths*
Me: What happened?
Looks at draft*
Me: Oh yes
Watches the matches*
Me: Oh no...
In all seriousness, those draws were horrendous. But, regardless of the result, I will still be here eagerly awaiting your next vid.
I redact my previous comment on a different draft video. As much as it stinks for you to feel like you have a good deck and then perform poorly, it gives me hope. I feel like this all the time. It’s a comfort to know even someone at your level had poor luck and gets frustrated.
Thanks for the vids. You help me to be a better drafter.
I'm not sure whether to cry or laugh. How..? Opponents playing constructed over here. I feel your pain. At the same time, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one getting battered by the RNGeesus.
yeah for real. I drafted two decks that I should have at least gotten to 5 wins with. 0-3, 1-3
Arena defies every logic on a daily basis. That's why I quit it and embraced more playtime in real games with real people and real shuffling/cutting of my Decks. Time of my life. Nonetheless I have to bow down to Kenji for his endless amount of energy not to quit his job
@@Typhus2 I mean you have to realize that the meaning of true randomness is sometimes that you will draw 15 lands in a row. Keep in mind that there's 40! (approx. 8.1 * 10^47) valid shufflings of a 40 card deck. At the end of the day the specific shuffling we saw in game 1 is just as likely as any other individual shuffling of the deck, so although it's extremely unlikely in a specific game that you'll get flooded out that badly, if you play enough games you are likely to play a game where your deck was stacked in the most miserable way possible. That's just life, randomness, and the fact that you're simply playing far more games on Arena than you likely ever have in real life.
The odds on magic arena are way off the shuffler is actuallyrigged to give players worse land draws especially when you run 16 lands for some reason youll flood more than with 17 lands defies all reason thats the problem its NOT random @@Aradalf
Hey man just wanted to say you are phenomenal player with minimal if any miss plays in all your videos. You do a great job at explaining what you are thinking during the draft and matches, I have learned a lot from you. You loose gracefully but you should concede less often and make you opponent go the distance, you never know what the next draw could be or if your playing a fan and they might want to play you longer. Been watching you for a few months but the fact you're willing to post this made want to sub and follow. Either way you're the man keep doing your thing.
when you play enough, you know when a game is a < 1% of winning, so to reduce the time you spend losing (which takes a toll on your mind), you should just concede. people think you need to eek out every %, but sometimes you will win more in the long run by conceding in these spots (playing better, less tilt, less tired). however, if you want to watch someone who never concedes, i can only think of reid duke
@@dudaseifert i agree with both of you But in the last game we only need a creature with axe and we re back in the game. Op having a lot of cards doesnt mean he has removal! I think Kenji was just frustriate which is understable!
@@SkulosGav you might be right, i saw the first games and gave up on the video :/
@@SkulosGavlast game the opp had an infinite draw engine with gourmand + skelly + amulet that also burns
He had only a land in hand, even if he drew a creature it could at most delay the inevitable for a turn
Wow I didn’t know you could trophy so quickly in this format. What an OP deck!
I'm sorry, but you saying Stroke of Midnight would be better than Make Your Move if the opponent had Krenko or something, then you ending up with Make vs Krenko game 3 is hilarious. That felt scripted. It's like the universe really wanted to mess with you.
wotc has listening devices everywhere just to make it rigged against me
So real @@NumotTheNummyYT
Paid actors 😂
The thing I like about stroke is that it hits planeswalkers but I see how they are similar in a deck with two banish.
@@NumotTheNummyYT🐷
When streamer forgets to renew their arena premium membership and gets thrown into the pleb experience.
Rigged and pigged, welcome to the block numot.
I was thinking the exact same thing haha
is there a really premioum somethong or is it just a joke? :P
@@SkulosGavit’s a joke lol
I just imagine this happening on friday night draft at my lgs
I would be so mad i would not come back for a few weeks
Draft insane deck and then going 0/3
"I hope my pain is your pleasure"... it s not but you got me largely smiling there :D
keep it up man
This is some real deal 100% organic farm raised That's Magic Baby shit right here.
This did make me feel better. I've had some washouts like this recently with decks I thought were pretty good. Seeing that this happens to you occasionally makes me feel a little less horrible. haha
There are 3 types of draft decks: the good, the bad and the unlucky. This was definitely the third one.
😂 going to steal that line
Man, kudos to you from Ukraine. Country at war, father of a two-year-old, I also spend my evenings sometimes 0-3ing with a perfectly good deck.
So refreshing to see your ever positive vibe. Good beats, man, good beats.
RIP Numot, but honestly, your pain and frustration here is so relatable
Going 0-3 with a good deck is the saddest thing you can do in magic.
This series of games would have tilted me beyond all measure.
No paid actors this time. Just paid assassins.
grind a week of dailies for a draft that goes well; starting with a dc'd opp
into 8/16 land 9/16 land games, and my 0-3 opp has a 5 rare draw
"I could easily see this deck getting to 7 wins". Oh buddy, you had to jinx it xD.
I feel you. Really do. It's insane how great built decks are still getting ripped appart by bombs and you barely can do a thing about it. Maybe everyone should play control. How fun is that ?
Dang.. that ending makes me glad I don't play arena as much anymore only drafting vicariously through you.
At least I'm not the only one having drafts like this.
your pain is not our pleasure but at least we can relate it to our 0-3s
That's arena baby. Algorithm has been so aggressive recently. This is a very normal magic experience on there
Love to see that this kind of draft don’t only happen to me
Had great WG deck. Great rares good draws. 3 opponents in row BG with tons of removal and monster draws. 3 zip. Never looked like winning
11:40
i do think wizards should rework arena shuffler
Got my first trophy in this format with BW where I was picking the blue duals very highly. Got lucky/rewarded with two Empyreans and a Scavenger as my blue cards.
My uw flyer decks found all 16 lands in the first 22 cards of my deck, only saw 6 non lands, the fact my opponent wasn't able to kill me till then either is what really added to the salt, but that's magic ig
31:33 No, it's not, I prefer Easy Baby GG times for you but as you say, thats Magic baby. Thanks for the great content either way.
I love stroke of midnight, great flexibility and better than banishing light since the set has several enchantment removers
i think in the blue white flying deck it's pretty good, because they can't use the 1/1 to chump block
The first match with many lands was painful to watch ahahah
During the draft you said incredible multiple times so I checked the video length and said oh no. My boys in trouble. Still watched till the end. 😂
Same scenarios here, nothing you can do about wraths on two of those games as those decks are the winning decks most of the time if wrath hits the table.
So this is the relatable content people talk about?
Sometimes, no matter how good you are, you just get unlucky.
They really need to do something about that shuffler i dont know what it is that they can do but something has to be done like drawing 7-8 lands in a row is just absurd i had the same issue for 2 days that i draw 6-7-8 lands in a row in my games back to back.
Remember when CFB use to release videos with like 30-60 minutes of dead air to stop spoilers? Simpler times.
I drafted a birds deck the other night with 3 of the uncommon +1/+1 to other fliers cards, very tough to stop a legion of 3/4 owls for any length of time.. Sorry it didn't work out for you this time around :(
If even the almighty Nummot con go 0-3 , I feel better with my games
I’ve had 2 different nut UW decks and won 1 game combined. The 1 deck had 3 eagles and 4 mystics and went 1-3. Time to give the set a break for a little.
It's not Luck.
It's Arena.
i didn't get spoiled haha, the title baited me ^^ and i was sure it would be easy 7 wins
I went 1-3 with an amazing boros deck with 3 heroic reinforcements. Ending up playing 3 people who had drafted aetherise (and drew it).
The point I am making is, I feel your pain.
So frustrating when you can only afford to draft once or twice per set, and shit like this happens. Makes me never want to draft; at least if I have a bad streak of luck in standard I'm not out $10-20. Feels like gambling sometimes which I absolutely despise.
Rune Sealed Wall is underrated
I had the most insane RG draft with ramp, top end, Chandra, Etali and I went 0-3. I was not nearly as graceful in defeat lol
All those lands in your first match and what was with those GOD hands for your opponents?? Dropping a like and subscribe. 😮💨😮💨😮💨🥲
This has been the last week of Foundations draft for me. I feel like I'm doing everything right but keep losing due to the worst variance possible
That was an amazingly well maneuvered draft and yet I somehow managed to trophy with a very mediocre Black/White deck. There is truly no justice in this world.
"would be good against krenko or something" lmao
Imagine not being subscribed to Nummy smh
Sorry for the pain but it was quite entertaining haha.
When this happens to me, I literally just bust out laughing at the absurdity. 2 mana floods with 16 lands is diabolical work. Sorry fam, your deck was sweet. It was too bad all I saw were the lands in it 😭
33 minute video...i know where this is going
fast 7-0 obviously
@@TheRoydener That was my hope! Always a believer
@@TheRoydener I really thought, until about halfway through game 1 when I started getting a sinking feeling...
Arena finally realized you were sad facing all of their games regardless. They decided that if you were going to say you weren't having fun they were going to make it true.
I've had multiple u/w fliers decks fail just as hard, and they were better lists. So I'd say it's a mid tier archetype and looking to draft other builds from now on.
I think the issue is that u/w fliers is a tempo deck that has no answers to non attacking creatures other than banishing light since most stay away from Stroke of Midnight
It's the best performing two color combination on 17lands
Arena is Arena!!
holy this is actually tragic
Is this situation common or rare with you my friend?
It happens a lot in my account.. i build great decks, 7 wins decks for sure.. but some evil force (mtgashuffler/matchmaking) always jokes on me.. i wish we could play against the other 7 players that was in the same table.. but.. i dont know if this will be possible in mtga.. cuz i dont like the idea of a suspicious algorithm searching for my opponents.. always bad matches, the opponent having all the answers, great bombs and always in the right time.. very "weird"
Ive had a few of these types of drafts deck isnabove average to good and it jjst gets run over
There are alot of powerful cards in this format magic happens
This deck was sick.
It’s nice to know everyone can go 0-3 it’s a game of luck sometimes
This format has been one of the more frustrating for me. It’s a good format, but man I feel a lot more tilt this set.
emotional damage
Jeez the shuffler has been really murdering you lately. Let's hope a day off gets the shuffler to turn its attention to someone else.
If it weren't for the 0-2 bracket I wouldn't have any 3-3 decks :)
This could be a 7 win deck. It isn't, but it could be.
refute is the best blue common you gotta draft it plz
sadness to many lands
painful but hilarious
White isn't too bad. I got forced into a mono white draft today and it got 7-0
It's wierd, but I absolutely love watching the videos where you go 0-3 or 1-3. Just makes me feel so much better about my losing 10k gems over the past couple sets in limited. That's magic baby!
This. Was. Disgusting. Legitimate deck insane. The rng....
been there done that heads up
It is not funny, but I am glad that even pro players have the same troubles. Good luck next time!
Condolences, this was painful to watch.
Quick 7-0! Nice
I want Amazon AWS Nextgen stats for this nonsense. Nummy you should reach out for sponsorship 😅
I think the concession was too early in the first game
Quality of life scoop 😆
If you consider adding twenty dead minutes of video after a short length video, maybe you could make something like a review video in advance, and put it at the end of the video when something similar as this happens?
Brutal luck 😂
your deck was good
Flood! Reason to always be UB looting.
You got so robbed of a good time!
Shuffler is rigged to balance win rates - mana pockets are deeper and placed to create non games. Keeps everyone spending.
Magic :D
aboba
If you saw my drafts youd cry. Some i dont even drop any of 5 rares. Its disgusting
You are playing against Platinum/Mythic players who obviously have figured out Foundations draft at this point as well. While this might still be on the high end of opponent deck quality it somewhat expected. It is a different system than MTGO where you would actually get easy decks in the 0-2 bracket. That said I do not enjoy your pain but I do enjoy showing the bad results as well. Keeps in realistic. Still some entertainment.