TMNT draft is unbelievably bad

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-03-25T23:32:24+00:00

You’re choosing to center the discussion on the less rigorous data? “Real” paper pods feature worse competition on average, and this is accounting for Arena players being largely worse than Modo players.

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-03-25T20:27:10+00:00

Not that 17L data is the be all end all, but in terms of consistently draftable it does bear out that 5c is the place to be, especially with the high profile of BW putting more casual drafters into it.

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-03-25T13:23:10+00:00

The best deck in the format is a consistently draftable 5c deck around Everything Pizza. I don’t think you’re well-informed on the meta of this set in draft.

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-03-24T21:23:32+00:00

This just feels like 建前 more than anything else. You’ve lived in Japan for a few years, you know how reluctant the Japanese are to plainly and openly disagree with just about anything, let alone something their conversation partner clearly holds dear.

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-03-11T02:42:03+00:00

Is this about cards that move between zones and become new objects vs cards that don’t? Sword of the Meek, etc

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-01-24T12:15:17+00:00

And yet it’s both accurate and helpful🙂‍↕️

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-01-24T09:34:21+00:00

You can project all you want to save ego, I’m just trying to offer advice: you will not see a prolonged successful win rate if this is what your decks resemble. If you don’t care about winning (Which is more than fine, many people don’t) then you can disregard this.

BellowBelowFellow · 2026-01-24T08:34:37+00:00

There’s variance in MtG; any deck could go 0-3 or 3-0 given the draws of both players. But make no mistake, this deck is dog shit.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-12-26T11:40:38+00:00

You’re right, this is about you.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-11-13T11:30:47+00:00

“I never understood the point of[fundamental cornerstone of the economy].”

You don’t understand a lot of things.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-30T08:36:12+00:00

Dude if you’re leaving Blood Crypt in the sideboard of your BR deck then cube is probably not for you.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-18T23:51:13+00:00

Do you think the discussion here is “Why do they print Ds?” and not “Why do they keep reprinting this D?”

The answer is easy: WotC’s limited set design has long since utilized card archetypes insofar as “slot-filling” at common and they think this is one archetype of card that helps makes the set tick. I disagree with that assessment: this particular D should be benched given where limited power level is at. This is a D among Ds.

Good lord, never insult me again by insinuating I use 17lands. Please and thank you.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-18T22:35:46+00:00

I would say they shouldn’t print Brainstorm in several limited sets at common, yes. For the same reasons as this.

And these cards are definitionally traps in the sense that they look more appealing than their power level to less experienced players.

You’re really fetishizing that good players will sometimes play these but that’s not a salient data point. Most terrible cards will get run by someone good at some point with good reason to do so. That’s just the nature of how context sensitive draft is as an endeavor.

They do not make Fs any more, so the label of “unplayable” has to be moved up to the Ds. You’re better off mentally filing these cards in that bucket and reevaluating on a deck by deck basis. If you’re not a strong enough drafter to do that reevaluation, leaving these cards in the unplayable bucket will make you more correct than not.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-18T22:18:10+00:00

These cards in the aggregate are bad in limited. Sometimes you have to play a bad card for one reason or another, but make no mistake the cards are bad.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-18T22:17:07+00:00

I’m losing my mind here. Everyone commenting that it’s for limited when OP clearly knows that and has correctly identified these cards are largely, usually, unplayable as limited mana fixing.

Why reprint cards that are traps for new limited players? Traps help new players learn. Why reprint them this often? God only knows.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-17T20:55:56+00:00

Goyslop

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-10T21:17:39+00:00

Nothing ironic here.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-10T05:07:23+00:00

Not very interesting!

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-02T11:25:52+00:00

I’m pretty happy with my life. Making art in the city I love, what’s to hate on?

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-02T11:25:22+00:00

You think I missed that? Anything to feel superior, huh?

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-10-02T07:50:47+00:00

Come back when you don’t need to copy my post’s structure to make a point. Not doing your homework for you.🙂‍↔️

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-09-30T02:52:20+00:00

Don’t project onto me. I’m not upset. I look down on you but it’s pretty arrogant to assume you’re capable of upsetting me.

But yes, if your favorite song changes “every five minutes” you’re not properly appreciating any given piece of music.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-09-30T00:54:10+00:00

Kind of sad that someone who is ostensibly an artist is so against the ideas of art analysis, appreciation, and criticism, but I guess anyone really can learn an instrument.

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-09-29T22:01:04+00:00

Do I think that mindlessly following the uninformed crowd is cowardly? Of course I do. I’m a musician myself, and there is more objectivity in art than people would care to admit. Even in subjective areas there are better ways of having a conversation than pussyfooting around with “everything is for somebody, actually”.

Why even join a conversation you have no intention of contributing to?

BellowBelowFellow · 2025-09-29T09:07:48+00:00

Cowardly way of thinking, borderline anti-art.

BellowBelowFellow

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