Limited Resources 772 - Duskmourn Draft Walkthrough

[@robertstraughan6194]

I get that you are busy and don't have much time to properly record playing these decks, but it would be nice to get some kind of summary of their performance in the subsequent episode

[@alltheorynopractice5467]

Excellent timing for those of us studying for Vegas!

[@bartoffer]

That random frame of waving at 11:36

[@Pottering12]

They got me with the alchemy trick too. I realised too late 😮

[@xxPICKnFLICKxx]

Spice bags are top tier! Did not expect that shout-out on this episode 😂

[@jegerikkeenfanafidverifika2304]

That first draft was so interesting.

[@ogolthorp]

Sealed is becoming a bigger and bigger joke of a format with smaller packs and bigger variance of the rares.

[@Pavton]

They really should remove the basic land and put a dual land/ common in its slot. I sometime get more uncommon than common duplicate in my draft and it should rarely be the case.

[@ogolthorp]

@@Pavton I agree. And it could give them an excuse to make some sort of specialty art basic kind bundle pack every year or so.

[@benjaminhaas8133]

😊😅

[@Neon-chan2015]

Most Games on Arena are just coinflips anyway

[@josephnix2333]

Why is sealed the format we play in competitive formats on arena? It’s not a balanced or competitive format.

[@hermodnitter3902]

5:50 Mijae Djinn should actually be pronounced "MI-JAY" and the reason is it's just this person Jamie that Garfield made and anagram of, just as with several other friends (like Herman = Erhnam, Ydwen = Wendy, Wyluli = Lily Wu) so the Jamie sound should be kept, but just shuffled around. I think I even heard Garfield mention this somewhere, sometime.

[@PopcornBunni]

The Me-iest card is Aetherling. Every set that comes out I look for the creature that gets back a spell and any spells that make for powerful interactions when recurred. Sometimes it's Into the Roil or Blur to make a durdly infinite chump blocker that draws cards, sometimes it's Run Away Together to lock out their biggest threat, sometimes it's a clone spell that turns into 1UU make a 2/2 token with free buyback.

[@regina282428]

Wish we could see how these drafts play out

[@Sidnv]

Super interesting first draft. I think it would have been a really tight blue green splash black deck if they'd picked up the broodspinner pack 1 and followed up with a bit more green fixing/manifest early. As is, I think the deck ends up being quite good anyways. Lots of fixing and lots of power. Figuring out the right way and right time to splash has been one of the most interesting parts of this format. I do think a lot of decks gain value from splashing, but it's so easy to splash badly,

[@Tamiss]

People splash way too eagerly on raw power level and completely throw synergy out the window this set. Like you see bant piles with tamers and scavengers but no enchantments to trigger them.

[@Sidnv]

@@Tamiss Yeah, synergy is ultimately super important. There are some rares powerful enough that it doesn't matter (cough: Valgavoth's Onslaught), but in many cases, splashing out of synergy rares will lower win percentage by a lot. Also, I don't think every color triple is a good splash. You can sort of make anything work with the right rares, but Temur, Jund, Sultai, Esper and Jeskai seem like more common splashes. There's a lot of archetype bleed in those color triples.

[@Tamiss]

Agree on temur jund sultai but esper and jeskai are just greed piles from experience, nothing is gained from the third color in those instances.

[@Sidnv]

@@Tamiss I think for Jeskai, aside from busted rares like an Overlord, it's usually a removal light blue white deck that ends up splashing some scorching dragonfires for removal, or a heavy enchantment synergy deck splashing a Smoky Lounge or two. Sometimes your lane in the draft isn't fully open and the easiest way to splash is to pickup a few good cards in a third color.

[@ryanbarrett5355]

Any way Luis could make a few notes you can read out loud during the Duskmourn sunset episode after he goes on paternity? Love his commentary during those episodes and he clearly loves Duskmourn.

[@DavidBaker42]

Would love to see the game play of the decks!

[@bclar081]

Where will we see Marshall play the games with these decks?

[@MCKejml]

Would love to see that too.

[@NUMSKUL_TX]

Curious to know how these decks did

[@nickyoung7508]

As someone who likes Alchemy, I think WotC missed the opportunity to build a format that everyone could be a little excited about. If I was in charge I would have started by including commons and making all the uncommon cards Pioneer/Modern legal paper cards. I would have done the rares as half new digital designs and the other half as rebalanced paper cards and included their paper printings on the client. I think that would have better met the demand that was there, had non-alchemy players buying packs for Historic/Pioneer cards, and in general made more players feel as though there was something in those releases they should be excited for.

[@joaovitorjoaovitor]

I love you Marshall!

[@Bftotheg]

Playing black in the second draft was completely unavoidable, it was an Unstoppable Splasher.

[@ninjastealth101]

Let’s watch the pros draft where they get passed on color rares and bombs all the time haha (actually though, love the video guys!)

[@caeles5212]

Why is this recorded with fridge camera? It looks lq even at 1080p :S

[@bojuka_bob]

Jundelirioum is funny to me

[@kolr2873]

The second deck drafted is mean

[@jdeaconl]

11:36 😳😆

[@Neon-chan2015]

Opponent having the perfect topdeck right after stabilizing? Sounds like every game ever. Why even try at this point?

[@Neon-chan2015]

Yay another draft with all 4 games losing the die roll and dying to crazy flood and perfect topdecks. So much fun... And in the one win opponent Buttson McButtface the buttfaced buttfacer ropes the living shit out of me... Yay Arena

[@luisluks5774]

why does the arena open have to be Sealed day 1? Sealed is such a horrible format, why not just straight up draft for day 1???

[@nikmidclayton5933]

Alchemy was doomed from the beginning, low tier idea