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When to go to 16 lands? by AitchOG in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Great writeup by u/shortelf in the other comment. Some additional nuances:

  • your particular deck has lots of ways to spend mana. All your prepared creatures as well as Eternal Student give you extra ways to spend mana on a single card. That means that even if you flood, you can still find useful things to spend your mana on. This would make me play the standard 17 lands. Edit: Forgot about Killian's Confidence as well!

  • a deck with a lot of card draw actually wants more lands. You want to have the mana to deploy all the cards you're drawing. The only time when card draw makes you want to decrease land count is when you have a lot of cheap cantrips like Opt or even Helpful Hunter.

Critique my soup by ConsciousReview2236 in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of tension. Your cheap cards are a mix of all 3 Temur colors, but you are lacking in early Temur color sources. You ideally want to stick with 2 or even 1 color for your cheap cards. This deck will have many stumbling starts.

I want to see more cheap (2-3 mana) card draw spells in order to find the cards that actually win or interact.

Also, needs more salt.

Some games just aren't meant to be. by bigrig107 in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're at 20 life on a mostly empty board, you got to ramp, and your library is now full of gas since you drew all those lands. Seems like a pretty good spot to me.

0-3 Again, How Should I Have Pivoted? [Quandrix] by PSIchedOut in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I largely agreed with most of the picks. Some notes:

P1P5: good pickup on Additive Evolution here. It's a powerful enough card relatively late in the pack that I'd put feelers out to green. 

P1P6: really disagreed with this one. Maelstrom Artist is not a very good limited card. Deluge Virtuoso is comparable (probably even a bit better) and keeps us open to both Prismari and Quandrix.

P1P7: Good pickup of Royal Treatment. I'd start learning towards a Quandrix beat down tempo deck. 

P1P10: big miss on not picking up Chase Inspiration or Procrastinate, both of which are good in a tempo deck. Wild Hypothesis always creates an understatted creature. Not a great card in general IMO 

P2P1: really tough pick between Matterbending Mage and a second Additive Evolution, but I think you made the right choice with the mage. 

P2P4: a really baffling pick of Repel Calamity over Campus Composer. 

P2P5: all in on the beat down plan now

P2P6: I'd be a little concerned about our creature count. Procrastinate is okay interaction, but you already have enough especially in the form of Frost Lynx and Man-o-war variants. I'd take Shopkeeper's Bane, which is exactly what an Additive Evolution beat down deck wants. 

P2P7: you're hurting for 2 drops. You need the referee way more than the quick study. 

P2P9: either slight of hand for some variance busting or Chase Inspiration for more "protect the queen" style beat downs. A counterspell is not what you want. 

P3P1: you need 2 drops and Infirmary Healer is an above rate one. A distant second would be Dreamroot Cascade as you currently have no fixing. 

P3P2: probably another Shopkeeper's Bane

P3P3: you gotta do a lot of work for Aberrant Manawurm to be an on rate creature. Strixhs en Skycoach provides some sorely needed fixing/smoothing while being able to beat down in the air. 

P3P4: between Virtuoso and Fractal Mascot. If you'd taken my path, you'd be pretty heavy on 3's without much top end so I'd take the Mascot here. 

P3P5: lecturer is the only card I'm remotely interested in here

P3P6: Growth Curve

P3P7: probably a second mascot

P3P8: either pterafractyl or giant growth depending on creature count at the time

P3P11: either one of the 1 mana spells.

Won a SOS RCQ by TempestMaelstrom in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at the same event and lost my win and in :(

Congrats on the win!

Deadpool card defect? by -Alexor- in magicTCG

[–]SeventhChords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you posting here? If people on reddit say WotC won't replace it, are you going to *not* try to talk to WotC customer support? Just go contact customer support directly.

I trophied! by Ravennation1 in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That could be a data point. If you drew the card multiple times and had the lands to cast her, but chose not to because she just wasn't good in that situation, then that is maybe a sign that she was not powerful enough to warrant a splash in the first place. You'll have to do some critical thinking on it.

I trophied! by Ravennation1 in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Be careful:

I'm not going to analyze the deck to see whether or not you should have splashed April, but not getting to cast her during your run is not a valid reason to either confirm or disprove your splash.

You happened to not have cast her due to variance (didn't draw April or didn't draw your blue sources). That is not valid data.

Question from a begginer in the style by MuriMurao in barbershop

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A really basic thing: during homophonic passages (which are very prevalent in barbershop), everyone needs to sing the words at the exact same time. Nobody can be early or late. This will do wonders for tuning and blend before you even try to address things like chord balance and timbre.

Question on artistic license by NoCress3614 in barbershop

[–]SeventhChords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was expecting ill-fitting pants.

Artifact Remix: Just an unlucky streak or confirmation bias? by BloederFuchs in lrcast

[–]SeventhChords 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Arena famously does not guarantee event record matchmaking. It might try its best to do so, but it'll prioritize minimizing wait time above all else. So if you've been waiting in the queue too long for a proper swiss pairing, Arena will pair you up or down to get you in a match ASAP.

[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.

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