@mihail-iuliancarabulea7483 I appreciate your comment! I am still playing Arena, though - I just don't record my drafts anymore.

@andreyo1518 I appreciate the request, but as I explained in this video, I lost the motivation to record my drafts when the view counts dropped to just a few per video. It takes quite a bit of time to record a draft and set up the video on YT. It's discouraging to use up that time when only a couple of people watch the entire draft and all the matches.

@narkfly I probably won't be making any one-off videos either. Completing foundations requires mostly just using wildcards because you can't get all the cards from drafts/prize packs.

@@Padishar7 I was thinking - looking at the set mastery on profile that there were a bunch missing. Thank you for letting me know I'm not crazy!

@narkfly The completion screen under the profile view in Arena cares only about the pack-openable cards, so the orange glow for Foundations will be as doable as for other sets. I.e., full completion doesn't require crafting the starter collection and other cards that won't open from FDN packs.

@@Alekov_ Thank you, Alekov! I really appreciate your comment and I am pleased to know you found useful content from the channel.

@@Late_Night_Mega-MTG I'm going to do a few of those as well. It's such a great draft set.

After starting from scratch, it was motivating to see all the progess. However, when things went to the opposite direction, the interest to keep up waned as well.

I am happy to hear I was able to help you along your drafting journey! I don't discuss limited much. It's mostly about checking the lrcast subreddit regularly and chiming in every once in a while.

Thank you, and take care!

@@KarlHertz Thank you, Karl! Take care 😊

@macaudio Greetings, Zdenek! I was fully on board with continuing to make these videos as part of my Magic Arena playing, but the channel didn't seem to catch a wider audience. After almost 4 years of doing this, there is not much motivation for me to keep posting drafts when most of them get less than 100 views and less than 20 viewers watching them until the end of match 3. There are plenty of successful drafters posting YT content and streaming, so my channel going inactive shouldn't matter in the big picture. I am sure you'll find a new favorite, good luck! 👍

@FluffySpikeM I appreciate the nice comment. Thank you!

@@derbenrather8827 Thank you :) I wish all the best to you, too!

@bengtsson2307 Thank you for the kind words! It was not a quickly made decision, but one that I made after long consideration after figuring out my options. I knew I had a core audience who would have to look for options elsewhere, but thankfully, there's no shortage of draft tubers.

@@olliviljami That sounds easy and effortless 😀

@roytomlinson1448 I'm happy to see these comments that people found the videos they watched worth watching. Thank you! As for future endeavors, nothing really changes for me since this was a hobby project. I suppose I'll now have more time to do even more drafts by myself and/or play other games 😀

@@BenEwingPlus Thank you, I am glad to hear that!

@timloesch8341 Thank you, Tim. I certainly remember you as someone who engaged a lot in the comments sections in the videos. That was very nice. During these past months, when the idea of ending this project started brewing in my mind, I thought about ways to get turn the viewership trend up. I did some of those top 10 videos during the spring, for example, because they were easy and not so time-consuming, and the topic was interesting to me. When that didn't work, I seriously considered doing BO1 videos again because they can get more views. The problem is, I have been draining gems lately, and I have always drained them even faster in BO1, so I didn't want to go there because the channel doesn't bring in money to purchase more gems in case I run out of them. I also thought about constructed content. I have all the cards on Magic Arena, after all. It wouldn't necessarily please the existing audience, but some could watch both drafts and constructed, and then others would opt for either of them while the constructed videos could give more visibility on the platform. I even had an ambitious project idea of themed weeks, like "Boros week," when I play RW decks in, e.g., Standard, Historic, and Timeless. Repeating that for other color pairs, triplets, monocolor decks, and so on, and I'd have months of content ideas. All while still making draft videos, of course. However, that would have taken a significant amount of time to brew the decks and produce the videos. I didn't want to start the project and them abandon it midway. In the end, I thought if I continued as is, what am I achieving. Three years from now, I post a weekly draft video with 50-100 views? It just seems... almost pathetic. So, unfortunately, with all these considerations, I decided to pull the plug from making steady content. On the other hand, I've been enjoying BLB despite some of its flaws. With 20+ drafts in, I have almost 40% trophy rate, and many of them are with UR decks of all things. It's a bit shame I didn't get to show them, but I'll get used to it. Thanks again, Tim, for your active participation, and take care!

@@Padishar7 You are welcome! Also a big thanks for your personal responses throughout, that is something other content creators don't/can't do. Glad to read that you are still enjoying playing!

@OliveBranchMRC Thank you very much, and take care!

@TricksyTricksyBovises It might show up because the video got views faster than the drafts do. But yes, I'm down for passive income that allows me to buy a beer per year :)

@@Padishar7 What a shame indeed. The drafts are great, if under appreciated. Enjoy life! Consider posting a video every now and then if you ever just feel like it without the pressure of feeling a responsibility to do it. If not - enjoy life and the extra beers!

@@TricksyTricksyBovises I'll keep that in mind 😀

@@briannocheeze3502 Thank you, and see you!

There's certainly no shortage of quality draft content to pick from, but I appreciate what you are saying! Even though all this has taken a lot of time, I would never go back back in time and change my activity to something else.

I had some longer breaks during the last couple of years, but I had a good run all things considered. I published over 1000 drafts in a bit under 4 years as a hobby, alongside dealing with all normal "life commitments". I can't say I quit early :) I wish you the best as well!

One of the reasons I started making the videos was to share my point of view and maybe help people newer to drafting to start doing better. I am very pleased to hear it worked for you. Best of luck!

I'm happy to hear that :) Take care, James!

Thank you very much, and all the best to you, too!

My pleasure :) It was fun while it lasted!

Yeah, things died down, but I am happy to hear the videos were useful to you!

@@brofst Thank you, and take care!

There's no reason at all to erase the videos/channel. If nothing else, it's something I can look back to with fondness in future :)

@@Padishar7 Well, I meant I am not sure what is the policy of Google about inactive channels. May be they delete them after say 10 years or something. I hope it will be preserved for generations :)

@@Loki23b Me too!

There hasn't really been an ace set in a while, so that's understandable :)

I'll keep that in mind, thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you for the nice comment! Viewers come and go - that's normal. There are only a handful of channels that I have followed somewhat actively for more than 5 years, for instance. However, looking at some other booster draft focused channels, there is no shortage of potential viewers. Maybe if I was streaming regularly, that might boost the visibility of the channel. However, as this channel was always a hobby project, I couldn't really bother studying how to game KZbin's algorithms - especially during the time period when I naturally got increased sub counts and video views. Something has happened since that made acquiring new viewers more difficult, and I just figured that so be it.

I stopped playing magic for roughly 2 years and this year I started to occasionally play again. Thanks for always kindly responding to my comments and good luck in future endeavors.

@@johnnymartir8283 Thank you Johnny!

I appreciate the kind words, thank you very much! I haven't got any social media presence apart from this channel. I always was a "discussion forum" guy when they were the norm, and nowadays I mostly just participate in reddit's Arena and booster draft related subs. I'll definitely "be there" in the gaming scene, even if not publicly. I've been a gamer since me and my brother got a Commodore 64 in the 80's, and a lot of my spare time goes to gaming/following game content. I'll also continue drafting on Arena. Maybe some day I'll ace a qualifier weekend and I get to the bigger stage :) This channel will remain "archived", and of course nothing stops me from posting there. If I get some idea or an itch to make a video... who knows. But it would have to happen naturally - I'm not going to force myself to think about content to make. The chances are pretty low, I'm afraid.

I like how Paul Cheon talks through his thought process, so I absolutely recommend checking out his channel in case you haven't already. As for quitting the content making, I have felt a bit unenthusiastic about recording my drafts for about 6 months already. I just didn't want to call it quits right away. I wanted to see if there was just some short-term decrease of views, and when that didn't seem to be the case, I went to posting only one video per week. That didn't help with the views-per-video stat either. In the end, I thought that if that's how it's going to go (no increase in views to be expected), it unfortunately just doesn't feel worth the time and effort to continue with the recordings. I appreciate your very long time as a viewer of my videos and participation in the comment sections of the videos. Thank you for all that!

@@Padishar7 I haven't heard of him before. I'll check him out. I've been watching Gomlet X as a substitute for you, he does good explanations too, also Jim Davis, but he's more on the entertainment side of things. You have gotten me reinterested in drafting on multiple occasions, with Crimson Vow, and Streets of New Capenna. For that, I thank you. I'll probably still pop back and watch some of your old content from time to time.

@@Late_Night_Mega-MTG I am happy to hear that. Take care, Late Night Mega 😀

If I feel like I've got something to offer I don't see other draft channels do, maybe then, but that seems unlikely. Thank you Pazuriel for all the discussion we've had!

@@jestemtomkiem Thank you! And no, I haven't stopped playing. I have 21 BLB events done :)

@@Padishar7 <3

@ryanmangus No prob, Ryan :) I did horribly in the AO this last time. My first three attempts ate 75k gold, and all went 0-1 (BO3). I did a few attempts with gems after that, but I ended up losing around 10-15k gems with no day 2 ticket. I could record some AO runs in the future, but to be honest, I am thinking about retiring the channel. The view counts have dropped for good compared to what I used to have, it seems. While I have a few people watching almost the entire duration of the videos, it seems I'm mostly talking to a void, making the recording sessions feel a bit pointless. I'll make some Bloomburrow content because new releases attract viewers, but I'll be monitoring how the viewing stats evolve after the release and make a decision about the continuation after a few weeks.

@@Padishar7 I would so highly appreciate it, if you do not leave us completly. :(

@felixalleweldt7538 It takes time and effort to record+set up the videos, and if they continue getting 50-something views (and less than 10 watching match 3), it eats up motivation to go through the extra effort :( No promises for now, one way or the other.

@timloesch8341 Initially, I was very fond of it. MDFC spell/lands are great, and there are a lot of archetypes that play very differently. Bomb rares aren't that prevalent. However, Writhing Chryssalis started to annoy me quite quickly. I wouldn't have imagined a single common can have such a detrimental effect on the entire format. On a lesser note, despite having archetypes that played very differently, there could have been a bit more support for GW, BW, and BR to give the format more longevity.

@timloesch8341 No prob :) I had my last OTJ draft just before MH3 release, but my last MH3 draft also happened a few weeks ago, so these videos were recorded a while ago. Have a nice weekend!

16 land deck? That's pretty brave considering no hand smoothing algorithm in bo3

​@johnnymartir8283 Sometimes, 16 lands is fine regardless of the starting hand algorithm. Here, the mana curve is pretty low, and the Armadillo can function as the 17th land.

That card has such potential to win a game because energy-generating cards are so common. It was a desperate situation! 😅

@@chowdernugget8779 Thank you!

R1 G3, I think you mean, but yes :) It was a classic example of winning only if they drew blanks, and that happened.

@@Padishar7 oops yes, my bad.

Dang it, you are absolutely right. Maybe I just forgot the thing becomes unblockable, or more likely, I didn't realize two swings would be lethal with the +2 power added to one of them.

@Padishar7 sometimes the game state gets very complicated but, that doesn't make you a bad player. There's definitely a flaw with the timer and I've fallen victim to it myself a handful of times. I'm sure with more time and your play style you would've won the match.

@@timloesch8341 Thank you, Tim :)

@Late_Night_Mega-MTG In this set, it's not so hard. I have found it to be unnecessary most of the time, but given how the draft went, it was the correct choice this time.

That was pretty sweet 😊