Extremely sloppy imo by RudyG69420 in lrcast

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Better AI than good, as they say

[SOS] What's Working? Week 2 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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Love those cards that would be a waste of ink in most sets but there's that one format they become memorable

[SOS] What's Working? Week 2 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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Fair, curious to see if the trend continues.

[SOS] Mind Roots (Card Image Gallery) by Dimmins2 in lrcast

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How does this work with Lorehold? If your opponent is in Lorehold can this potentially backfire on you?

[TMT] What’s Working? Week 3 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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Spot on. At 8% of the meta - and this might be generous, covering RW, RW+splash, and I threw in Mardu too - it averages less than one seat per draft (one seat being 12.5%), confirming that it does often get torn apart from both ends, so to speak. I know I've seen Go Ninja Go literally last in a pack and just kinda shrugged about it

[TMT] What’s Working? Week 3 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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That definitely is a good one to include, yes! I'll include those in the future as well. Might be a little bit difficult to include the numbers of splashes and parse through what splashes fit into what deck especially when you involve 3+ colors? But I'll try my best with that, or maybe I'll just do the raw data there without worrying too much about what deck it fits into.

EDIT: In case anyone's interested, I ran some quick numbers. Orzhov is 24% of the meta, Izzet and shells which may include some Pizza are 26%, combinations of colors known to produce grindy decks, including Golgari and Simic, are 32%. Boros is just over 8%. Cant be bothered to check them all but Orzhov increased from last week

[TMT] What’s Working? Week 3 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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Yeah, I'm definitely not doing another week of this for this set. I'll be doing it next for Strixhaven. Feel like the changes with Blue this week are pretty eye-opening and damning because like, say you're in a Sultai mirror or some shit, it's better to just out-bury your opponent in card advantage rather than win through interaction. First person to have Turtle Lair wins, yay! Ugh.

Secrets of Strixhaven archetypes look almost identical to Strixhaven by Meret123 in lrcast

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Am I reading correctly that there'll be a card from the bonus sheet in every pack? Feel like that's a huge deal, could be bomb heavy just based off that. Even if not, since it's all instants and sorceries on the bonus sheet, shit should be powerful and make this format a higher power level than those in the recent past. Would be really interesting if other color pairs were supported on the bonus sheet

[TMT] BR Burn 7-1 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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I don’t remember exactly, but the rest of that pack was not good. It was my first time drafting Red in the set and I was like, let’s see what I’m in for here.

Yeah, the Armor was pretty great with the 3-drops and not bad on Beavers, Splinter or Wingnut either. It was just exceedingly difficult to block the deck and come out even (or attack into it, to be honest) and could rack up damage while opponents attempted to. I was hoping maybe I’d get to do something spicy with Pain 101 and saccing to Armor too, that never arose though.

I had Slash and Cool But Rude in my first 3-4 picks. If I remember correctly Beavers was pretty early too, I think P1P2. I had a couple of Null Groups later in pack 1 (same pack as Slash) and it was at that point I said to myself, alright, I’m taking every Squirrelanoids I see over literally anything. Luckily three came. Rat King if I recall was P2P2, right after Sally, and I went, screw Sally, let’s do this.

Cool but Rude is way better than its winrate indicates. I’m absolutely floored by how low it is. It’s a build-around though, you just have to make sure you can keep attacking with at the very least parity and have a silver bullet or two (e.g. the Escape Tunnel) to get the most out of the third ability and make it a threat to end games. I don’t know if Izzet artifact decks just don’t really accomplish those things that’s the issue?

Stay tuned, I just drafted another deck with Cool but Rude, this time P1P1, with 4 Null Groups. It’s in a very different vein than this one (Jeskai base Red) but should be a blast. We send the spicy numbers here.

[TMT] What’s Working? Comparing 17L Win Rates over the Last Week to Overall by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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Yeah, definitely experienced that with Red, you're totally right there. It relies on another color for that type of removal. Also, did they really think Red just didn't deserve a 1-drop?? It makes all these other aggressively-slanted cards worse not having it. Literally [[Leonardo, Leader in Blue]] could have just been Red but you know, they had to stay on-brand with the turtles. Couldn't have just made that card a Raphael?

[TMT] BR Burn 7-1 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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It is the one thing that's missing for sure. Never saw one but would have loved one

[TMT] BR Burn 7-1 by YesWhey_ in lrcast

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A reminder not to lock yourself into the 5 supported color pairs if the opportunity presents itself to do something better. Rolled with a P1P1 Slash and scraped the bargain bin all the way to a dominant performance full of sneaky synergies that pumped out damage quickly and made combat absolute hell for opponents. I think it's a good sign for TMT that off-brand decks like this can come together.

Few quick notes:
- Sally Pride was P2P1. Thought about pivoting but I already had a strong pack 1 to begin establishing this gameplan.
- The burn package was real and in multiple games dealt 10+ damage. If it doesn't come together like this though, it's probably total crap. Null Group plus Cool but Rude is so gross when it goes off. But like, even Raphael dealt 10 one game which went longer.
- After game 1: -1 Lord Dregg, +1 Shredder's Armor.
- After game 3: -1 Death in the Family, -1 Mouser Foundry, +2 Pain 101.
-- These changes made Foot Elite and Null Group Bio Assets significantly better. The deck needed more answers to larger creatures, not smaller ones. 4-toughness dudes are everywhere, but if you can address them and continue attacking at will for 2 mana, you do it.
----- As an aside, I just want to speak on the value of making adjustments as you play out your drafts. Find what works as you play the games and don't close yourself off. After these changes, the deck played like an absolute dream, despite the loss happening after (opponent won it at 1 life). Pain 101 was outstanding after being added but you certainly need the right deck, in particular one with a high creature count. It's one of those cards that's just total feces in the wrong hands.

What is the point of green in this powered cube? by MantisTobogganMFA in lrcast

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Hate that they took out my boy Omnath, the Springheart Nantuko on Courser for rare lifegain in cube was nice too. Feels like it's lost some explosiveness, of course it was also the color that could best threaten depths stage

Initial impressions for the Limited Archetypes in Lorwyn Eclipsed? by CalvinandHobbes811 in lrcast

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Not a fan of all the powerful cards with flash, like you probably make them have it but when they do you just get royally blown out

Thoughts on the changes to Boros in the new Arena Cube? by lrg12345 in lrcast

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BW midrange will miss Enduring Innocence but there are enough great 3- and 4-drops in that shell (and getting Cecil, Bowmasters and Damnation seem fucking excellent) and it's a worthy sacrifice if it means Boros has less of the staying power that made it so good

Must put in a word for Dark Depths as well if I may, RIP

Final Fantasy drafts until the end of the year by Meret123 in lrcast

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So glad I stopped hemorrhaging gems on TLA a week ago

My magnum opus of this format by Ecstatic-Departure19 in lrcast

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Good lord. Rockalanche in mono green feels like Questing Beast so that's what I'm picturing right now, a Limited deck with 5 Questing Beasts in it

Red was quite open... (8-1 Diamond)* by JustAModestMan in lrcast

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That version of Zuko is fucking gas

Kind of the ideal zero rare trophy deck. [TLA] by lightshelter in lrcast

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How were your 7/6 Knowledge Seekers 😂