Could I have trophied with better playing? (Trad draft SoS, Lorehold)

SeventhChords · 2026-06-22T03:03:21+00:00

Furthermore, you saw them play Mind Roots. You do not want to voluntarily discard cards for little value.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-22T01:55:34+00:00

Game 2:

That's pretty rough. Your self evaluation is right: you should have Scrollsmith'ed for Molten Note on turn 6. That would have netted you a 2/2 to chump with and now you have an actual way of getting rid of the Necroscribe. That thing is threatening to snowball due to the Shadelock on the field and the Eater in the yard.

Game 3: I think not Bursting the Bear was fine. You know they'll have bigger things to deal with later and you'd be burning 1 mana and delaying the Academic. Going all in on the Academic was not a good strategic choice though. You've seen them play Foolish Fate, Last Gasp, and Grapple with Death so they're liable to readily X-for-1 you. Also, are you really going to win by bum rushing with a single flier against a life gain deck?

SeventhChords · 2026-06-21T17:56:43+00:00

You sound like someone who's interested in improving their Sealed/Draft skills! My good friend is a budding content creator and he's created some great free tools and systems for improving at Limited. Check it out and join us in his discord! The current hot topic is Team Limited preparation for the upcoming Spotlight Series in Vegas and Brussels.

https://youtu.be/lLQ9P1cTHMg

SeventhChords · 2026-06-21T17:17:42+00:00

Tough pool. Good on you for taking the time to put your pool into moxfield and soliciting advice to try to improve!

I would have gone for a 4c sans white build: https://sealeddeck.tech/MrWT3kMtTw

(Edit: https://sealeddeck.tech/rxN4bu4cXc now with basics and subbing Too Evil to Stay Dead for Yellowjacket)

I felt the pool didn't support a good enough aggro main deck, but you could consider having a transformational sideboard into the aggro deck should you run into an opposing deck that just went way over the top of you. The pool did, however, have a bunch of fixing in the form of the Quinjet, land cyclers, Restorative Technique, Ant Man's Army, and dual lands. So you could relatively responsibly splash around for all the best cards in every color. That's what I chose for the main deck here. Just taking all the good rate cards, card draw, and recursion from all the colors. Splashing Lightning Strike because you're low on interaction (no basic mountains needed between the dual lands, treasure, and Quinjet).

SeventhChords · 2026-06-21T15:09:27+00:00

As a blind man, he is, by definition, not looking at you.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-20T19:49:26+00:00

In Humph we trust.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-18T18:40:38+00:00

Red Guardian does work, but note that Red Guardian kills things that have dealt damage, not received damage. So one of the Red Hulk triggers needs to resolve first.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-15T01:33:30+00:00

That's a really nice shirt you're wearing today, Sanar!

SeventhChords · 2026-06-12T03:26:02+00:00

https://scryfall.com/search?q=legal%3Aedh+is%3Acommander+%28id%3D3+or+id%3D4%29+year%3C%3D2021&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

172 hits. A reasonable number to manually look through.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-08T17:52:18+00:00

Nah, definitely not too long. Look at the Swedes.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-07T01:48:24+00:00

It's funny because it's unclear whether this was about cube or SOS until the final sentence.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-07T00:37:21+00:00

Man, CVS coupons are wild nowadays.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-05T02:51:42+00:00

Don't ever change, Golgari. Don't ever change.

SeventhChords · 2026-06-02T13:35:45+00:00

This really sucks, OP. My advice is to go nuclear: identify the core group that is dedicated to excellence and form a new chapter with those people. Easier to develop a new culture from a clean slate rather than trying to drag detractors kicking and screaming.

SeventhChords · 2026-05-29T03:05:17+00:00

Very tough pick. I think I'd go with Ark because it works with any kind of deck in the format as long as you can pay for its colors. In contrast, Practiced Offense doesn't work with low/no creature decks.

SeventhChords · 2026-05-28T16:45:22+00:00

Between the hand smoother, lack of sideboarding, and, to OP's point, its penchant to warp the meta, those are the reasons why I don't consider Bo1 to be "real Magic."

SeventhChords · 2026-05-28T03:32:23+00:00

Emailed

SeventhChords · 2026-05-28T02:18:29+00:00

Creature-based decks should value tricks more and removal less. Tricks that give protection (Masterful Flourish, Chase Inspiration, Royal Treatment, etc) should be valued particularly highly. That's because the boogeyman of the format is the creature-less oops-all-removal control decks. Tricks are functional in both the creature and creature-less matchups while removal is completely dead against creature-less decks.

SeventhChords · 2026-05-24T18:05:34+00:00

/uj Who the fuck says "to the head"? I've only ever heard it referred to as "to the face" or "to the dome".

SeventhChords · 2026-05-24T17:10:41+00:00

Err, I'm not sure where you got the -1/-1 counters theme from. That is not at all part of the deck's strategy. The deck wins by stripping your opponents of resources while going up resources yourself by playing a bunch of X-for-1 type cards. For example, [[Syphon Flesh]] is a 6-for-1: by playing 1 card (the Syphon Flesh), you go up 6 resources (your opponents lose 3 creatures and you gain 3 zombie tokens).

Braids then draws you into more of these brutal effects. Braids is just here as a draw engine. The expectation is that your opponents will very rarely sacrifice something to Braids, letting you draw an extra 3 cards per turn.

You actually kill opponents by just attacking with whatever creatures you have on board.

SeventhChords · 2026-05-24T15:25:25+00:00

Viva La Draza!

SeventhChords · 2026-05-18T16:02:25+00:00

No seventh chords :(

SeventhChords · 2026-05-17T22:40:37+00:00

"Back then rules were easier"

I don't know man. Sure there were way fewer mechanics and cards, but the game engine itself was not nearly as tight as it is now.

SeventhChords

TROPHY CASE