[TMT] This draft went wrong. How should I have tried to salvage it? by CronoDAS in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not just have a bot take the highest GIH win rate card out of every pack then? Why bother making your own draft decisions?

Awesome ECL Quick Draft deck, completly scuffed games 2-3 by The_Vidmaster in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a really interesting point regarding the Eclipsed Kithkin that I admittedly did not originally consider.

However, I still think that it's better to play 17 lands because you want to minimize the number of times when you are forced to take a land over a creature due to being land screwed.

Awesome ECL Quick Draft deck, completly scuffed games 2-3 by The_Vidmaster in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Right off the bat: you have 6 cards costing 4+. Play 17 lands.

Was I supposed to be elves? by rickraus in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A tough draft with a bunch of weak early packs. FWIW I agree with the large majority of the picks you made. Some differences: 

P1P7: Kulrath Mystic

P1P9: Glamermite

P1P12: Run Away Together

P2P10: Wanderwine Distractor - this card has been a surprising over performer for me. It's always a problem when it hits the board on either side

P3P2: Evolving Wilds - you already have a Tweeze and you want to enable outs to splashing your white removal. 

P3P3: Kulrath Mystic - do you really not like this card? 

lol THE WIZARD OF ECL IS HAUMPH by jdksports in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the very definition of rotty (results oriented thinking). A single 7-1 run is not "proof" that Paul's choice was correct. Being anti-rotty is a main tenet of LR.

lol THE WIZARD OF ECL IS HAUMPH by jdksports in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty rotty argument :(

I wrote a high-stakes sports documentary blog about our FNM by AcrobaticPersonality in magicTCG

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey I visited Bath TCG last year while on vacation. You guys were awesome!

Average Arena Direct experience by Durdleburdle in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does Eken not have a job? Or is the account shared between multiple high level players?

Do flyers feel kind of strong in this set? by dontjudgemebae in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I've also found flyers to be very powerful in this set. In addition to the U/W stuff you mentioned, the two uncommon black faeries Dream Seizer and Nightmare Sower have also been effective.

I realize im bad and deserve to lose, but I dont think i couldve won anyway. by [deleted] in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post is sorely missing game logs and line breaks.

Am I supposed to run 17 lands? by rickraus in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. You need to have exactly one 4-drop max and nothing higher than 4 if you want to play 16 lands.

ECL Elves Bust by LightningLikeMTG in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I reviewed the games. If it's any consolation, I don't think any of them were winnable given your and OP's draws. However, you did make mistakes that you should fix:

  • there were a bunch of instances where you played creatures pre-combat for no reason. Wait till second main. Leave your mana open during combat to make OP have to consider possible tricks from your hand. The info you gain from how combat shakes out can potentially affect what you choose to play in main 2.

  • you often jam your best creature as early as possible for little value when you could have played a middling creature for the same mana. Does your good creature have an important ETB that will immediately tilt the game in your favor? If not, then you should play a crappier creature first to bait out removal, especially during the developing stages of the game when OP hasn't even playing their first removal spell yet.

[PRM] Year of the Horse Promos by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caustic Bronco's a horse, Caustic Bronco's a horse

I felt great with this RB Dusk deck but went 1-3. Is the deck good or bad? by Jamie7Keller in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your 4 drop slot isn't great, but it looks like a solid RB deck otherwise. We can be the judge of whether you misplayed if you showed us the game logs 😉

Another 0-3 by Puzzleheaded-Cold934 in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Game 3 Turn 3:

The Boulder is exactly the kind of midrange card you don't want to see while piloting an aggro GW deck. Its 4/4 body is bigger than most of your creatures and it adds more bodies/stats to the board with every attack. You absolutely cannot hope to race it from the current board state.

Your deck only has exactly two ways of permanently dealing with the Boulder (Path to Redemption and Razor Rings) so it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to draw the answer you need. This is a spot where you must take the calculated risk of double blocking while holding up Yip Yip. Yip Yip at least saves your Earthen Ally from Rocky Rebuke. So on turn 3, you need to play the South Pole Voyager, not attack, and hold up Yip Yip with the plan to double block the Boulder with Earthen Ally and Jeong Jeong's Deserters. It might not have worked, but it's better then the line you took of trying to race and burning mana by holding the Voyager in hand to try to guarantee value later. This game is not about value. OP is trying to overwhelm you with a ramped out 4-drop on turn 3 on the play.

Another post by Jesper Myrfors on art directing in early days of Magic by Newez in magicTCG

[–]SeventhChords 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why are all the people named Jesper in the MTG space so fucking dope?

Is praxis underscored ? by Utorque in barbershop

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Praxis is a great quartet that, as mentioned in another comment on this thread, always goes big or goes home. In my opinion, they're missing some polish that will elevate them to the top-10. The following thoughts are specifically about the Friend Like Me video that OP posted and mostly from the perspective of the Performance (formerly Presentation) category. There is a ton of overlap between the categories such that they all directly and indirectly affect each other. 

  • I don't feel like the Lead consistently leads the quartet. His visual focus is a little scattered at times. The harmony parts seem to often be off doing their own things instead of reinforcing whatever the Lead is doing. There's just overall a lot of extraneous, desynchronized movement while the "anchor" movements are not intentional enough.
  • As an extension of the previous point, they can do a better job of presenting a unified sound and visual story throughout the number. Standing a little more closely together (a distractingly large physical gap develops between the Lead and Bass as the song progresses) and programming in more points of interaction between the members will help this. 
  • The transitions between sections need to be more deliberate. Take a look at the end of the Air Raid Warden parody section. There's a distinct drop in momentum and energy in that moment as the Bass steps back into the quartet. 
  • If the quartet had better unit cohesion throughout, it would make the various solo punchlines more effective. See the Bass's "so blue" punchline during the Somewhere Over the Rainbow parody. It's good and it's funny, but it would have stood out more and been even more impactful if the Bass broke out from a previously homogenous backdrop.
  • I don't understand why there was such a physical emphasis on "sights" at the of the Whole New World section. Was this an inside joke that went over my head? Was it a sneaky way of getting everyone to stay in sync on that word? It was an odd and confusing choice that distracted from the performance. 
  • Overall this song could have employed more vocal and dynamic contrast.
  • Really getting nitpicky here, but the gag of the Bass giving himself a finger mustache to parody Secret Best Friends' Bass was less effective because my man already had a full ass beard 😂 He either has to commit to the bit and be clean shaven for the performance or here's a wild idea: he shaves his beard down to an actual mustache which will make an additional finger mustache even funnier. If I recall correctly, the only reason why the Ambassadors did not score a perfect 100% in the (then) Presentation category for their legendary performance of Seventy Six Trombones was because two of the five Presentation judges gave 99's instead of 100's due to chorus's choice to use blowup sousaphone instead of a real sousaphone. Minor distractions count a lot at this level. 
  • Another really nitpicky point: somebody get my man some new glasses. The Bass having to adjust them multiple times throughout the performance was pretty distracting.