💎 Bronze To Mythic: Episode 23 - Starting Rank: Diamond 2 - MTG Arena: 👻 Duskmourn: House Of Horror👻

[@slowlearner46]

I think Jim's biggest blind spot is how he thinks MTG:A players will draft. It seems like he expects them to draft like the pros would in worlds, but the truth is that casuals, like myself, will get one bomb rare and force a color. In his mind, Jim is pathing a clear lane for his deck while half the pod are drolling in front of their monitors and picking the shiniest card in the pack.

[@slowlearner46]

Ahh and he does address it in the video. It's why I have a tough time playing draft on arena myself

[@atypewriter]

@@slowlearner46 yeah arena players definitely self-optimize, but that's also because you don't play in pod and if you neuter your deck to draft intelligently and flexibly, you can just get run over by rares from a self-optimizer from a different pod

[@atypewriter]

dive into an early signal, then splash a bomb or two if they come by in the later packs

[@thelifedragon2156]

i think hes biggest blind spot is actually that he makes his card evaluations the day the set comes and thats it. he also never seems looks at the other data like 17lands. only every checking draftsmith's data, (which i personally find a little wonky in my exp. some of the cards rates on DS just seem kinda off, not all but enough for me to have trust issues). but he should look at other data too regardless but he doesnt seem to. and he basically never adjust hes evaluation unless he plays with it himself, which is just results orientated thinking, and is not a good why to evaluate cards. hes also just a lttle too much of a constructed player at heart. the art of drafting seems to elude him alittle bit. hes great at playing the games well (outside of oversight, which we all make from time to time) but during the draft, is kinda hit or miss imo. not saying he sucks at it. but when you look at someone like kenji or LSV draft, hes just not on the same level

[@williamoreilly6650]

I love to pick the shiniest card in the pack, that's me 😂

[@moocowp4970]

It was generous of Jim to intentionally kill his 3/3 rather than his 2/2 to demonstrate what the new combat rule would be :P

[@Arcadio_Castellanoz]

NONBELIEVER. The boros deck was there and we were undisciplined

[@slowlearner46]

Algorithm fodder comment for this Jim Davis guy

[@charleygordonFFA]

Karn cam so cute

[@rahmharlaus1880]

Truly first; Feeling a 3-3 Drop

[@lordrumfishsmagicarena271]

That 2nd game where you ran out of cards is a common enough situation in limited that I greatly question the wisdom in always running the 40 card minimum. If your deck is slow and you are light on win conditions, it can make a lot of sense to pad it out with a couple more big dumb playables and lands. I realize there's nothing I can say to convince the reader otherwise, but sometimes you should question conventional wisdom.

[@StaleBranflakes]

B2M crunch is real!!! LETS GET IT

[@mattconw]

The gruul deck that could have been

[@aroadtorome7683]

A humble offering for the almighty algorithm.

[@moocowp4970]

Almost lost the unloseable game in game 1 haha. I feel like it is almost always incorrect to try to wait any number of turns for Valgavoths Onslaught once youre at X=3 (even 2 is pretty powerful, but 3 5/5s which can potentially scale up is backbreaking, waiting for 4 6/6s is kinda crazy imo). If you just played it immediately for x=3 that game becomes trivially easy.

[@tychoMX]

Believer for this one. C'mon, bookworms!

[@thelifedragon2156]

44:50 yeah, no kidding. i think valgavoths onslought is your only wincon and you wasted it to try and stay alive when you could have just cast twins to stay alive too. so yeah, when its your only way to really win the game, you need to be greedy with it

[@jeffl1325]

There was a really sick RG Delirium deck in that draft.

[@Arcadio_Castellanoz]

1:16:45 I think we used the shardmage’s rescue on the wrong creature and yup chat caught it

[@TheJusticeCluster]

Non-believer. I cant believe you picked onslaught over midnight mayhem o.O how many times this season has jim pivoted in pack 2 to a completely different archerype because of a good rare? The biggest thing ive learned watching b2m is to draft a deck, not just good cards, and i feel over and over again jim just doesn't take his own advice. Well, best of luck.

[@TalenLee]

during deckbuilding Jim seemed really stressed so he's trying to make the best guesses with the hard choices so y'know what Believer

[@jvsimic]

Nonbeliever. Jim noticed early on that blue wasn't open at all, then proceeds to pivot there when given plenty of playable red cards over and over in the packs that he ignored for mediocre to-be-builtarounds.

[@rickbaer112]

Yes! And in your scenario even onslaught was the wrong choice

[@Executorkronos]

Believer, get the 7 wins!

[@JonReid01]

What is up my friends?!

[@RetroMTG]

Hi Jim, IMHO you’d finish B2M seasons faster if you dropped bad drafts. Good or bad, drafts cost $4 to fire but cost hundreds of dollars in time to play out.

[@aye515]

Nonbeliever, the lack of discipline in this draft jesus

[@thelifedragon2156]

59:00 did anyone else notice that the 5/4 lost both stun counters on uptap phase. thats a bug for sure

[@AgentConundrum1]

No bug. The creature had two +1/+1 counters and only one Stun counter .

[@PatrickStahlitrm]

I wonder if the average quality of play on Arena has simply increased over time.

[@smartkaboose3806]

I wish we did red white :(

[@robertmorris4163]

It seems maybe arena needs a ranked draft lolz

[@emorkTLK]

really hard draft

[@MainTopmastStaysail]

80% of this deck looks awful but Tamer, Innocence and Onslaught forgives a LOT.

[@tomsmith4698]

This is one of my favourite TV shows. This deck zugged though. Onslaught is super overrated. People splash it over great cards in their own colours.

[@samuelbeal101]

Believer, deck has power level just bad mana.

[@moocowp4970]

I disagree with your analysis that its better to play Peeper over Bookworm, Bookworms arent even a bad draw late in the game because you can loot a land into a proper card (obviously your deck was lacking a bit of push through so you were constantly battling decking yourself, but in general bookworm is just too good i think). I do think you lost of a few wins from having a mediocre deck though. I think you had a lot of good options for a good deck and chose one of the worst ones. Could have been: -Red/Green (the most open colour pair it seemed) and given up on the induring innocence -Green/White good stuff (sure, no synergy, but you just play powerful spells) -Red/White by just sticking with your first picks. -Bant or Temur , these are less preferable obviously and you essentially ended up bant. Out of those options i think you would have preferred any of the other 3 right? (And you can still splash the Onslaught in the other ones)