Dominaria United Limited Review: The Archetype Guide | Magic: the Gathering

[@shotgunshelz7987]

You don’t get half what you deserve for all the work you put into your videos. Thank you for the great content as always

[@LadyBernkastel92]

I love how they used kicker to effectively triple the number of signpost cards without making the set an unpayable mess. Off color kicker is one of my favorite additions to draft, along side stuff like Artifact/Enchantment creatures and just about anything they do with sagas. Set looks super fun, very excited to do some drafts in it! Great video as always!

[@nickalasmontano1496]

Thank you for all the work you put in to get all this analysis out so quick!

[@jodypschaeffer]

So happy they're taking Defender in a Shrine direction

[@andrewtaylor3167]

It feels weird calling the ten pairs archetypes in this set. It's more like each color has a focused archetype (W: Go Wide/Enlist; U:Instant/Sorcery; B:Graveyard/Artistocrats; R: Go Tall/Enlist and G:Domain). The signpost uncommons are more for how to merge the the two mono-color strategies. The CD ones are generally proper mergers. The CDD ones are more focused on the D strategy, and can work as the only C card in the D deck, but would probably have a hard time being the only D card in a C deck.

[@csudab]

Why do people say "C" and "D"? Is this a convention borne from "C" for "Colour" and then "D" because it's the next letter?

[@htspencer9084]

@@csudab Maybe D for devotion and C for colorless? Honestly not heard this terminology much before.

[@Loki-]

Yes, for the newbs, please define terms. Thank you for your input, regardless, OP

[@2424Lars]

The red archetype was described as Aggro/Burn in the official article about it, but other than that you are correct!

[@andrewtaylor3167]

@@csudab "CD" used to be the way Wizards used to describe the mana costs in generic multicolor costs before the colorless mana was added to the game (CDEF were the first batch of adjacent letters not corresponding to anything at the time). For example, a cycle of cards with cost WWU, UUB, BBR, RRG, and GGW would be described as CCD. After colorless was added, they switched to MN. I wrote this rather late at night, so I swapped back to the old terminology.

[@FringedRecord]

These are always my favorite videos. You are an amazing creator and help me be a better player. I appreciate the heck outta you Nizzahon!

[@FlyByFry]

Best video I was able to find with very well structured information. You did a great job here. Thank you!

[@wolf_8026]

Was having a bit of trouble locking in what each color pair wanted to be doing in this set. This video answered 100% of my questions lol. Ty

[@littlemrdoom5997]

I don't even play sealed and I love this series

[@AmongUsAcademy]

Great video as always. Thanks for putting time to put the slides together 😇

[@patricksullivan6988]

Thematically ironic for the "defender" archetype to work best as WUB when Phyrexians seem to mostly be WB & UB in this set.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

I’m playing a straight up black deck that sets up domain for Jodah’s Codex in standard ranked. It’s a bit difficult to survive til I’m completely in control. But when I’m in control, I’m in control.

[@Doct0rLekter]

It looks like the domain decks are less focused overall by design. I think the idea is that they can easily stick their hands in the off-color cookie jar for the effects they want, so letting them also have super focused signposts could make them too consistently powerful.

[@AMageOldAsDirt]

Yeah it looks like they made the esper defenders as a way to compensate for green being overrepresented in 3 color decks in the format due to the way the domain archetypes work.

[@lachlank.8270]

Thank you Nizz - could you please timestamp the archetypes?

[@NUMSKUL_TX]

In your opinion what's the strongest "archetype" I've seen red/white really well in arena when playing against them. Mainly because I was running 5c and ended up mana screwed

[@NUMSKUL_TX]

That blue creature lier would be super good in red/blue spells because your spells can't be countered don't you think?

[@NizzahonMagic]

That kind of effect barely matters in Limited.

[@taylorolson6228]

seems like there are a few cards that would also make green a good splash for uw

[@dyne313]

Wow, I drafted both nael and tatyova. Nael has hit the board 3 times and she's great. I am splashing black, so sometimes she looks at 3 and that's even better.

[@martinrovere7937]

Time to revisit

[@wayfaringstranger5808]

Can a kind wizard list the archetypes:

[@_jordaank_4970]

I wonder why they put vigilance on that 2 mana blue creature ? Seems out of the colour pie IMO

[@sallomon2357]

I've read on the wiki that starting with 2022 they want to put more combat-oriented keywords in blue, and they apparently chose Vigilance as the one. So far we only have the paper Vhal and the Figment, but we'll probably see more monoblue cards with the keyword.

[@vanblod9338]

@@sallomon2357 that's fair. Blue could use some creature love...specially for limited environments.

[@2424Lars]

@@sallomon2357 Yup, it's officially been added to blue's part of the color pie and this is the first time we're seeing it in a standard set

[@sallomon2357]

​@@2424Lars technically no, because we have several cards from Future Sight :V but yeah, when you think about it out of all the mechanics vigilance fits kinda well into blue. A keyword which makes sure you have blockers after attacking with a creature? Yeah, that will probably help the most defensive color in mtg.

[@2424Lars]

@@sallomon2357 I meant the first time since they updated the color pie, but yeah!

[@alexmacgregor5265]

Such a flavor fail that Najal doesn't have haste. I get why, but still, it bothers me an unreasonable amount, lol.

[@vanblod9338]

Seriously, man has lightning feet

[@csudab]

I'm campaigning to call off-colour kicker "Chromakick"

[@johannesisaksson7842]

I think that most sets are only going to have a demand for one guide for how to draft it, and you don't have to go over the other colors. I think if you went over the things you were very passionate about instead of covering each color every set, you'd find more success. I'm not a youtuber, though, and I know that every one of your color set reviews gets some viewership, so I'm not /really/ a great source. In reality, I'm simple basing it off what I'd like to see. Either way I'll keep being a viewer.

[@TheeBuddylee]

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