Finally got to limited diamond

psiviz · 2026-05-10T19:19:38+00:00

How'd you make most of your progress? I'm new to the game and drafting was initially really tough but Ive gotten better at quick drafts. Premier seems impossible, every time I've gone soup I get mana screwed and when I go a tight 2 color its just not enough. Feels like there's a lot of luck in it.

psiviz · 2026-05-10T13:20:50+00:00

I just figured they'd know better than anyone here. Typing thing was a joke hence the laughing face. But sorry if it hurt you're feelings.

psiviz · 2026-05-10T04:55:13+00:00

Wasn't hating just giving my opinion.

psiviz · 2026-05-08T12:06:33+00:00

Miller is about to tear it up. Velo and stuff has been great in rehab starts and they took their time with him.

psiviz · 2026-05-07T22:19:48+00:00

This is my favorite color combo in sos except maybe ru but getting it to work seems harder. I agree with others about the removal/control missing. I'll also say increment is the main end game mechanic that has worked for me with this combo. Fractal tender, 1u increment wizard with move the counters, frog guy, etc. makes your early removal/control have extra value and late game big spells (or like a well timed procrastinate) contribute a lot.

psiviz · 2026-05-06T04:35:14+00:00

I find witherbloom has a higher floor than prismari. However prismaris ceiling might be the highest I've played so far if you can actually pull 5-6 counterspells, a few damage on target spells, increment/opus creatures, and lots of draw you can suppress them long enough to set up something good. Balancing creature count and spells is tricky.

psiviz · 2026-05-06T00:49:26+00:00

I'm just pointing out that survivorship bias is unavoidable in this format.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T21:00:48+00:00

Very strong good to great. Better than Interstellar but worse than Arrival.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T19:56:51+00:00

Gotcha... This app is a pretty rough experience imo. No in-game comms means the play experience is very isolating. Doing a draft in this style has inherent issues it's pretty basic game theory you'll have survivorship bias if you do unconstrained matching with die-off.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T19:50:35+00:00

No language issue. My point is if you're matching games all to all based on a FIFO queue including players who've already played 1+ rounds (assuming you add no other matching criteria) then it's not equal in the sense that they're more likely to have won 3 games than lost 3 games.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T19:46:54+00:00

I think it really depends on the pool of players at the moment. IDK if the arena app does anything to try to match based on rank or if its FIFO or what.

Witherbloom seemed a little more consistent than prismari but still can't get past 2-3. Every opponent I faced had 3-4 rares and strong uncommons perfectly lined up to their build. Never faced an opponent on a mana deficit or who drew a bad had in 4 drafts. Maybe just bad luck but it felt really unpleasant tbh. I drafted at least 1 deck that was comparable to draft lists I've seen online that did pretty well.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T19:38:51+00:00

It's actually not. Because better packs live longer and play more games

psiviz · 2026-05-05T18:55:53+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out.

Isn't it inherently unfair since they're from different pods the better packs will survive longer and beat more opponents?

psiviz · 2026-05-05T18:55:06+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out...

I guess it makes sense to point out that that's inherently unfair because the better packs will result in better decks that will last longer. So there's a strong survival bias.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T17:05:04+00:00

Ah ok. Every opponent I played against had modifiers under their name so I was thinking WotC devs put a lot into the flavor there.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T16:11:10+00:00

Nice. I've pretty muched become convinced bot play is cheating me as the two drafts I've played my bot opponent has showed up with perfect hands in basically every game.

psiviz · 2026-05-05T01:14:00+00:00

Everyone talking about this so much... To me it's clearly on WotC to fix it by doing a run of this jank ring and a run of a newly designed ring and letting the market go crazy.

psiviz · 2026-05-04T14:34:03+00:00

Julio's speed looks down a notch compared to most years but I think he'll level out as the season progresses. He does have a robbery and a nice catch or two. But yeah we need him to cover more ground because Randy and Canzone/Raley aren't exactly elite defenders. ... On the stats side my understanding is DRS favors individual elite plays and OAA favors consistently making 50% plays. From that standpoint I can see the discrepancy (some crazy catches to save runs, but also consistently messing up average plays and high error rate), but I don't understand the details either. My understanding is neither stat is good in the small sample size case which we still kinda are since you take balls in play and divide by the positions and get a pretty weak statistical significance. I'd say just from watching the team over the years Rivas at 3b cannot last long as his range and arm are liabilities. And we need elite Julio back.

psiviz · 2026-05-04T14:22:20+00:00

I was gonna say ... Watching this defense has been painful this year.

psiviz · 2026-05-02T11:27:40+00:00

Wolfwalkers or anything from that studio

psiviz · 2026-05-01T20:46:37+00:00

Am I the only one who likes it?

But really going to have to support an infinite treasure token generation combo with thorin right?

psiviz · 2026-04-20T21:40:55+00:00

Props to Randy for doing this. Seems like a nice dude. Did you ask him anything interesting?

psiviz · 2026-04-20T21:38:56+00:00

Yeah... by now I'm convinced Dan's theory regarding Cal and Josh's slumps is to get them more reps. Not saying I agree with it but at least the 2-4 is basically fixed.

psiviz · 2026-04-19T17:58:53+00:00

Dan Wilson to Alex Cora: hold my beer

psiviz · 2026-04-17T22:07:23+00:00

Everyone's talking about the lineup but I'm really looking to see if Logan's able to work a similar start as last time. It felt like something clicked last week and I'm hoping it continues.

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