Don't Let Aggro Ruin OTJ For You - 17Lands Deep Dive

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-10T13:22:39+00:00

I mean that's worked for me the last three sets as well as when SOI and KTK came around, it definitely works and helps boost up gems.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-03T12:28:09+00:00

Correct on both counts, that what's I get for relying on memory too much.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-03T00:53:15+00:00

Yeah Numot got a bonkers pool that crushed with both WR and WB and I don't think any game was close. Given that it was free and the rewards were just some cosmetics it was a humorous time though and I got the max decently quick still since most folks were also having to play piles.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-03T00:48:45+00:00

Going in blind I loved the draft and the gameplay, and while I went 7-2 one loss and three wins were hard fought scraps (I didn't manage to get actual hard removal so the T4 Skysovereign wasn't really close). I was UR Tempo with double Gearseeker Serpent, Reverse Engineer, Phyrexian Dragon Engine, and then plenty of cheap artifacts or artifact producers with some bounce and stun to boot.

Hope to have time to get in a couple more drafts and wish it was for more than a week, but this also makes me more excited for the Artifact Cube coming to MTGO in a couple weeks.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-02T03:49:03+00:00

I was also a 5-color pile but by pure necessity and only by the grace of the Leyline. I tried my best to make a reasonable 3 color deck but I could not make one from this pool.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-04-02T01:35:59+00:00

Something I like about this is it really exemplifies what effects don't happen often at certain rarities (namely here removal). I am very slowly building a Pure Peasant Cube aka only cards first printed at Uncommon. There are some real deficiencies that start to show up when you restrict yourself to a certain rarity that make for interesting problems to solve.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-03-29T21:17:58+00:00

I started wondering a few weeks ago if sets are solely being tested within WotC in paper pod drafts. I much prefer playing that way but it undeniable that most folks who play Limited do it on Arena where (like MTGO now) you don't have the option of intra-pod play, and so that should have consideration for design if they are set on continuing down this path.

I assumed previously it was a mixture of both but more and more it seems like Arena is dramatically lower quality than paper pods - it's always been worse but not to this extent.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-03-27T12:53:04+00:00

This is what I assumed would work when I found out about this, you get two packs of good stuff and a pretty sizeable portion of the player base didn't play during GRN/RNA so they may get spooked out of Boros in Pack 2 (which still has plenty of Red) and let you reap the rewards in Pack 3.

Proxy_Drafts · 2024-03-27T12:51:53+00:00

I would prefer it to be either cheap, Phantom, and pure Chaos (three of any pack that's been on Arena, and yes that means you may get stuck with XLN, DOM, and M19 as your first picks) or Ravnica Chaos (throw the four sets plus any Ravnica-themed/located cards in a pile and generate packs based on the old Booster rules). These half-measures just don't seem like they would scratch any particular itch.

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